4 Months

MaKenna at 4 months you are still the sweetest most adorable little girl. You weigh 14lbs 3 oz and are 24 1/4ins long. You are becoming mobile!! In your on little way of course. You learned to roll over a couple of weeks ago and now mommy can't keep you on a blanket. I told Daddy he needed to send us a rug So that when you do roll off at least you want be directly on the hard floor.
 I may be a bad mommy but we don't have a schedule you eat when you are humgry and go to sleep when you are sleepy. But you have pretty much formed your on schedule. When mommy is home,You usually wake up around 0800, and it is the sweetest thing. When I go in to get you out of bed you turn and look at me with the sweetest grin and those beautiful (still blue) eyes. It melts mommys heart every morning. After that we of course change your diaper and then we mark off another day on our calendar. I give you an update on the countdown, and we do a little dance/cheer. We do not count the day that we are in the number of days till daddy comes home b/c that is just a rule mommy goes by.  Then we  play until around 0900 or so and you decide to eat. you are still usually take  a 5 oz bottle when you take a bottle but now you often times go longer between eating, usually 2 1/2 to 3 hrs.  Sometime aroung lunch you usually take about a 2 hour nap this is when Mommy gets housework done. Then between 1:00 and 3:00 we turn on the computer and hope we get to talk to Daddy that day of course we play while we are waiting on him to call. After that we usually go to town if Mommy needs to and then about 6:00 you, Ellie and I usually take a walk. You absolutely love to be out side and when we go walking you love watching Ellie run ahead of us and usually close to the end you decide to take a cat nap.
    Then around 7:30 we start settling down for bed. We read one of Daddys books sometime a couple of times and then Mommy usually reads you a book or two. You nurse and then we rock and mommy usually puts you to bed aroung 8:30. These days you usually just wake up one time a night around 0400 which mommy appreciates greatly.
  You are growing so much and learning so many new tricks and discovering new things. Mommy can't believe it and she and Daddy love you very much!!

Wild Animal Safari

A couple of Saturdays ago the children's group from Barfield went to the Wild Animal Safari in Georgia, so MaKenna and I tagged along b/c I just knew that she would love it and it would be a childhood memory she would never forget at the age of 3 months. Ok well I wanted to go, but MaKenna did enjoy watching the animals, even if I did see the same amount of excitement in her eyes as I do when she is watching the Fan.

On the way she sat b/w her two Favorite cousins Braden and Andrew who took really good care of her. They helped give her a bottle and when they found out that she only drank milk they were really concerned she wasn't getting enough so they pretended like each bottle was something different to add little variety to her life. I do not see how anyone cannot listen to a conversation with children and it not make their heart smile. On the way up there Andrew was really stressed and wanted to know how long it was going to take to get to South Africa. (I was very impressed he knew safari's were in Africa.) We explained to him that we were only going to Georgia and South Africa was all the way on the other side of the world, and it was on the same side of the world that Zach was on. Andrew said. "Well then I want to go to South Africa so I can go see Zach" Braden then said in a very serious voice trying to look out for his little brother, "Oh no you don't Andrew, Bad Guys." Without missing a beat Andrew said"I don't care I got my bebe gun!!" I thought it was adorable.
Any way we had a great time and can't wait to go back. Here are a few pictures

WE were exhausted from the animal watching

We're Rolling over!!

We had a busy couple of days this past week. MaKenna learned lots of new things!! On Tuesday June 21 she rolled over for the first time!!! She has been very close to rolling over for a couple of weeks now, she would get over but her left arm would be stuck under her and she couldn't figure out what to do with it. Then on Tuesday I was folding laundry and she was playing in the floor. I took a load to the back of the house when I left she was on her back when I came back she was all the way on her stomach.

 So Now not long after you lay her down she is rolling over every time!! And then she gets mad b/c she cant get back over And she can scoot off her blanket in a heartbeat. We haven't figured out the arms with that though just our legs.

She can pull the toy on her car seat so that it makes music now.

She also has started grabbing the toys on her activity mat and get furious when she can't get them to her mouth.
Also on Wednesday the 22 we took Nana out to eat for her Birthday and while we were there. She held her on Bottle! Thankfully we haven't mastered this yet and still needs mommy to help out. Us mommies need to be needed you know.
So MaKenna that was way to much growing and learning for one week you have got to take it easy on your momma.

This past week we were pretty busy. MaKenna attended her first Bible School, Pandamania. She received a certificate and everything. We had a great time, MaKenna melted the ladies' hearts in the nursery while I chased around 4-5 year olds.

Speaking of bible school will someone please tell me what happened to toting the Flags and Bible in and saying the pledge, or learning about missionaries and taking up an offering for them during bible school. These were all sought after positions the week of Bible school and now we don't even have them??? Oh and what about commencement service were you show your parents everything you learn.?

First Day of Bible School

All ready for another day of Bible School

On Friday night we headed to CC for  a night with the Girls and a baby shower for Emmalee. We used to be the ones screaming and talking 90 to nothing but this time it was the children. At one time I believe they were having a competition of who could be the loudest.

Addison and MaKenna

It seems like every time we get together we have added another one.

Andrew had to get him some loving, How adorable.

Just b/c this is adorable. Andrews "telescope" that he and Poppa put on his gun.

MaKenna is now 1 for 3 at weddings, We have attended 3 and she has had to be escorted out of 2. This weekend we went to my cousin Anna's Wedding. It was beautiful!! But T-10 to the ceremony starting. I had been feeling a  few vibrations on my hand which was in the "diaper area" And deep down I was praying they wouldn't stink or be loud once the service started (she has been known to disrupt a worship service with her bodily functions, that would be why she now stays in the nursery) Then I feel something run out onto my hand. And yes there was poop all over my hand, her dress and her blanket. We ran downstairs quickly clean up and put on new attire and rushed back up. Whew the wedding hadn't started.

Then the noise ceased and the music started and so did MaKenna's restlessness. the longer it took the louder she got. So once again she was escorted out.

One day Maybe just Maybe we will learn to keep our mouth closed.