All About Our Lives (Mackenzie and Tanner's Lives)

Thursday, April 30, 2009

I can't believe how old she is! It is really crazy how fast they grow. It was difficult to get a picture of Mackenzie with her bunny. She wouldn't stretch out for me so I had to do it myself (as you see in the picture).

Her stats:
We went to the doctor for Mackenzie's "6 month" appointment a week ago. The doc had a baby a couple months ago so it messed up our 4 month appointment. Then, I was gone to NC for what should have been the 6 month appointment, so we got exact numbers a week ago.

Weight- 15 lbs 2 oz. (yeah she gained 2 oz in a month, but the doc isn't worried so oh well).- 30%
Height- 27 inches- 90%

She is LONG AND LEAN!

At 7 months Mackenzie is talking all the time.

She is rolling over both ways and moving all over the floor.

She turns in circles to see everything around her.

She can feed herself little gerber puffs.

She reaches out for mommy and daddy when she wants us.

She gets so excited when one of us walks in the door when we haven't been around for a little while. By excited I mean she flaps her arms and giggles.

She loves food. But isn't extremely interested in nursing anymore.

She likes being tickled, sit on daddy's shoulders, and be thrown in the air.

She is now getting on her knees and rocking back and forth.

She scoots backwards and gets frustrated when she gets stuck against a wall or other object.

She is spoiled rotten by Daddy, but is ready for Mommy to stay with her all day. (only 1 more month!!!)

She has started undoing her diaper while we are trying to put her pants back on.

She is opening the wipe container and taking wipes out.

She loves to go on walks in her stroller. Daddy took her on a little trip to the river and she loved sitting by it and watching the running water. She actually cried when they left.

She rolls onto her tummy while we are trying to change her diaper.

Today I found her sitting up in her crib after her nap. She was crying so I went to get her and was so confused.

Daddy is teaching her how to clap and say YAY!!!

She loves singing the wheels on the bus, itsy bitsy spider, patty cake, etc.

She gets very mad when we leave the room when she isn't coming with us.

She still isn't sleeping very well at night, but we are doing all we can. Maybe one day it will get better!

That is all I can think of at the moment.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Feeding

Today Mackenzie learned a new trick. I was just giving her something to play with, but she decided to show that she is more developed than I thought.

Pretty impressive huh?!?

This is Mackenzie's First Blog

I let Mackenzie play on the computer because she was very interested. This is what she had to say!

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And here she is...

My New Haircut

When I was home in NC, I got my hair cut. I was sick of my hair so it went from looking like...

to looking like...

So this must be a Rankin wife thing. My 2 sister-in-laws have both had babies (one is 9 months and the other is 3 months). I guess all of us had the same idea after we had babies. The only thing I don't love is that some days that I feel like being lazy I can't. I have to do my hair everyday.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Catch up

First, I need to go back almost a month! Yeah, it has been forever. Well at 6 months this is what Mackenzie looked like. She is soooo big. I actually forgot to measure how long she was, but I did weigh her at the doctor and she was 15 pounds exactly.

At 6 months old, she is a VERY happy little girl.
She has been sitting up on her own for almost a month.
She like to talk and is saying things like mamama all the time.
She squeals and smiles tons.
She still hasn't rolled from her back to her front.
She also started eating food (as you saw in the video) and she LOVES it.

The next big thing that has happened is that I went home to North Carolina for my Spring Break. I had a break from school and Adam had a TON to catch up on and to finish since his semester was at the very end.

So Mackenzie and I went home to NC and has a wonderful time. She loved hanging out with Papa (my grandfather). He is so good with kids. Mackenzie laughed at him basically the whole time he was around. In this picture Uncle Booba (Cameron) let Mackenzie try on his beany. She thought it was funny.

Mackenzie also LOVED watching Papa.

Mackenzie is having a little bit of a hard time going to the bathroom now that she has started solids, so she has been getting a bottle of apple juice/water everyday. She wants to do it all by herself and a lot of the time wants to use her feet to hold the bottle.

While we were at home, my mom and I had fun painting Mackenzie's toe nails. She is such a wiggly worm. It took both of us to get the nails painted. I entertained and held her while Mom painted. None of the pictures really turned out, but this is the best one for now.

She loves her high chair. I love it when Mackenzie finishes eating and just hangs out and throws her feet up.

Isn't she precious!

Mackenzie wanted Daddy's apple when he was done, so she played with it for about 20 minutes.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Our first REAL food!

Last night was such an eventful evening. We had our FIRST real food! We have been feeding Mackenzie rice cereal once a day since she was about 4 months old. Well yesterday she officially turned 6 months old. I can't believe she is half a year old. Time is just flying by SOOOO fast! We went to the doctors office to weigh Mackenzie because he actual appointment isn't for another 3 weeks. So while we were there I asked some questions and also asked about starting real solids. They gave me the go ahead so here we go!

Here she is with her first REAL food.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Such a CUTE Sunday Dress

Isn't this the cutest dress?!?! I love it! I just wish it was warm enough that we didn't have to put her in a long sleeve onesie and then a sweater and tights also! WHEN WILL SPRING/SUMMER GET HERE!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

One more thing I forgot

I forgot to mention we officially are starting to have a thumb sucker. She isn't really "sucking" on her thumb right now, but she sure sticks it in her mouth. She used to suck her fist often, but that little thumb has started to stick out now. She chews on it a lot and I caught her doing it on camera tonight.

Catch up

So I haven't been around the blogging world much lately. I haven't even been able to keep up with most of you. I will have to work on that a little more I guess.

It is just that I have been working a lot and haven't felt well. I was sick for a week or so, then little Mackenzie got sick. Last week she had a really bad cold and it went to her chest after a few days.

Two Sundays ago she started getting sick. On Thursday it really moved to her chest, so I called the doctor to see if we need to bring her in. They told me it sounded just like a cold and don't worry unless she has trouble breathing. On Saturday morning she woke up and her chest was REALLY congested. So we called the on call doctor and he told us to go to the emergency room. So this was our first trip to the hospital and I hope it is our last, at least for a long time.

Well, the doctors there checked all her vitals and listened to her chest. The good news is that she didn't have RSV, which is what I was really worried about, but she did have acute bronchitis. They gave her a breathing treatment at the hospital and gave us a round of antibiotics, an inhaler, and told us to give her benadryl also. Poor little girl had so much medication going into her body. She still isn't 100% and she still has congestion in her chest, but she is so much better than she was.

This past week has been really busy for me also. I usually get off work at around 2:40 and race home to be with Mackenzie so Adam can run to school and work for the rest of the night. We had parent-teacher conferences at school, so on Wednesday I had to stay until around 3:30. Thursday was a REALLY long day. I was at the elementary school until 8:00 PM. It was so hard to be away from my family that long. Adam took Mackenzie with him to school and to a study group. Luckily I got home right before Adam had to go to work. I am so glad I have a husband who is willing to do stuff like deal with my work when it keeps me late.

The last thing I want to blog about now is how awesome the weather was for a couple of days. It might not sound REALLY warm, but for here it is. It was high 60s all the way to 70 or so the end of the week and into this weekend. Mackenzie and I had a great time spending a little of time outside.