Say Cheese

There was a point where McKaila never wanted to have her picture taken. Now, it seems like she always wants a picture taken of her or she wants to run around with our phones or iPad taking pictures.

After lunch, until close to nap time, McKaila had my phone in hand taking picture after picture. After she was through taking pictures, she handed me my phone and told me to take pictures of her with me. Of coarse it didn't last long and she was back to taking pictures on her own.
Even if it's McKaila taking the picture or Courtney and I, she always has to say aloud, "say cheese". Taking picture after picture and having to see each picture after she takes it, you just want to say "that's enough". But, with every "say cheese" you can't help but to smile because she's so cute saying it.







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Surgery

This weekend was a pretty busy weekend for us, for the fact that we had a lot of stuff that we wanted to get done before Wednesday gets here. On Wednesday, Courtney is going into surgery for a high ankle sprain. He's been having lots of pain in his leg for about a year now and has seen many doctors at Andrews and here at Kessler, and not until about a month ago, did this doctor order and MRI and truly figure out what has been going on. He ordered that he have surgery soon, so here it is, now only a couple days away. The doctor ordered that he be off from work for 2 weeks and after that he'll be able to go back to work and have physical therapy.

I will try and keep you all up to date as much as possible about the surgery and how he's feeling, but with 2 kids and Courtney to take of, it may be a little difficult, but I'm going to try the best I can.

Of coarse on our trip out, we had to stop at Target and McKaila found this for her Halloween costume

I was craving some of Buffalo Wild Wings so we headed there for lunch. Lately, McKaila will take our phones or iPads and tell us to say cheese so she can take a picture. These are some of the pictures she took while at lunch. The pictures don't always turn out the best, but she is always so eager to show us the picture she took, either it be a picture of us, the pumpkins around the house (I decorated the house for fall, of coarse) or the food she's eating. She's so silly

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With The Good And The Bad

Potty training has been going really well with McKaila lately. The only accidents have been with her going poop in her panties, but little by little she is getting the hang of going on her potty. She has even been wanting to use Mommy and Daddy's potty, so we have a potty in about every bathroom right now. The one thing I was really worried about is how it would go when we were out for the day, but McKaila told me when she needed to go and we headed straight to the restroom. She was so happy for herself and I was so excited for her.

 

This is her happy face after she goes potty

McKenna has been keeping us busy that's for sure. She is loving getting to one place to another by rolling across the living room. She is also loving the solid foods and eats so well. We usually give her some oatmeal cereal in the mornings and in the evenings we have been feeding her pears and peaches. She really loved the peaches and took down a whole container like nothing.

Face after tasting pears for the first time

But even though these girls are the happiest little girls, there are some tough days for sure. Days where I don't think they are going to end. But then I look at their beautiful smiles and I can't help but to smile and realize that these struggles are only going to last a moment and it's not worth dwelling over.

I'm just incredibly blessed to have these two little girls that fill up my heart day after day with lots of love. I say it over and over again, but it's never enough, but I love them so much. I love the cuddles, the "I Love You's", the screams, the laughs, the everything. Yes, the screams. The screams are hard, but when they are over, all your child wants is the comfort of your arms.




 
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Potty Training and Solids

We really haven't been up to a whole lot lately. Just chilling at home and doing some potty training.

Yes, we are getting a late start on it, but McKaila never seemed ready and eager to do it until this past weekend. One day, McKaila just came up to Courtney and I and told us she wanted to potty and wanted to wear her Doc McStuffins panties. Since then, McKaila has been doing really well with going potty on her potty. Of coarse, she's had some accidents, but not as many as I thought there was going to be. Each day there are less and less panties for me to wash, so that's good. I just love the face that she gets when she comes to tell me that she potties. She is so excited about it and can't wait to help flush the "big toilet" as she calls it. She's becoming such a big girl right in front of our eyes

McKaila loves getting on Daddy's scooter

McKenna is growing so fast too. We've been feeding her oatmeal cereal for a couple weeks now and she's loving it. And in the last few days we've been feeding her cereal twice a day. Next we start trying fruits and veggies, so I'm interested to see how well she'll do with that. McKenna is still rolling around a lot and keeping me busy. She's been getting her legs under herself so I'm sure we'll have a crawler on our hands soon. McKaila never wanted to crawl, she went straight to walking, so it will be interesting to have a crawler roaming around the house. Which also means that we have to start baby proofing the house.

Can never resist a sleeping baby

This girl and her Taggies blankets. She loves them

 

And last but not least. GO BLUE

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4 Months

Our little snuggle bug is 4 months old

 

McKenna Grace

Weight: 12.7 lbs

Height: 25 inches

 

McKenna had her 4 month appointment today. She is just like her sister, skinny, tall, and healthy. She is a little small for her age, but nothing to be concerned about. The doctor says its because she's tall and very active. I mean even when the doctor was trying to lay her down to look at her, so was trying to sit up and kicking away. He was pretty impressed with all her activity.

McKenna defiantly has been eager to do everything. She still loves standing up, but her new things is rolling over. She has been rolling over for a few weeks now, but in the last week or so she's been roiling from her back to her tummy. We used to call McKaila a roly poly because she would rather roll to where she needed to go instead of crawl. We have another roly poly on our heads, but we both feel she'll be a crawler, unlike her sister.

 

We were given the okay to start feeding her rice cereal. We actually started a couple days ago with giving her some because she was constantly reaching for our food, so we thought it was time to introduce some cereal. She loves it. She's been doing so well with it.


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