For the last couple weeks McKenna has become much better at holding herself up and we just knew we she was almost ready to sit up all by herself. Tonight when we were on iChat with Aunt Blair, John set McKenna on the bed and she sat up all by herself for the first time. Of course we immediately grabbed the camera to document it. Without further adieu ... here is McKenna sitting up all by herself!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Video Evidence...
Hi Everyone,
I know it's been several weeks since my last post, my mom reminded me of this fact earlier today. So I thought I would make this an especially fun post, filled with videos and the stories that go along with them. We have been making an effort lately to use the video camera to document McKenna's "tricks," since she may only do them for a short while. So here they are, for your viewing pleasure...
Video #1:
McKenna thinks it's hilarious when John makes the 'b' sound. She doesn't think it's funny at all when I make the same noise. She's strange. She tries so hard to make the same sound, but instead her tongue squirts out and she makes a 'pffftttt' sound. Pretty funny in my opinion... again, it's only my opinion, you can disagree if you want to, but you'll be wrong.
Video #2:
I taught McKenna a skill every young woman should know... the art of blowing raspberries. Don't mess with her, she'll stick her tongue out at you. Seriously.
Video #3:
Because of the popularity of the video entitled, "McKenna Eats Rice Cereal," we chose to capture the moment when she tried sweet peas mixed with rice cereal. I give you, "McKenna Eats Peas"* (*Disclaimer: The Director of the afore mentioned video makes no claim that the sequel is anywhere near as entertaining as the original... which is a good thing if you're the person eating the peas, it means that you don't hate them. Sorry it's not that exciting)
Video #4:
McKenna plays in her ExerSaucer. I really don't have anything clever to say about this one. She likes the little spinny-thing. I'm hoping that she'll start to like sitting in it without me pointing out the toys and helping her push the buttons soon. I have finally mastered all of the different pully-things, and pushy-things, and soon I hope to conquer the spinny-thing. Supposedly it will help us both with 10 stages of development, I fear McKenna will reach them before I do. She's already passed the spinny-thing level.
And finally... some photos. See I told you this was going to be an especially entertaining post.
McKenna has recently discovered her feet. They are the best toy she's ever received... She now promptly rips off her socks at every available opportunity, and puts her feet in her mouth. I wonder if this is how 'hoof & mouth' disease is spread?
I recently bought McKenna this cute outfit. As you can tell from this photo, she's pretending not to like it.
Here she is professing her love for her cute plaid skirt... I mean, seriously, how could she not love this outfit? 
That's all for now, I'm done being clever for tonight. More some other time.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Merry (Belated) Christmas
Merry Christmas all! I didn't have my act together enough to actually get cleaned up, take pictures as a family, find everyone's address, make Christmas cards, go to the post office and send them. Maybe I'll be more organized next year. In the mean time, I thought I'd share a bunch of pictures I took to commemorate McKenna's first Christmas. I tortured her the way my mom used to torture me... "Just 500 more pictures McKenna, hold still...smile pretty..."
This is the best one I think:
Here is a small excerpt of the photos I took to get the one good one:
We also went to about 734 Christmas parties over the course of the last week, not that I'm saying they weren't fun, I'm just saying there were a lot of them... we started with the Church staff Christmas party, moved on to Jim & Lynn's, Stambaugh Family Christmas, and on and on and on and on... did I mention we weren't done yet? We still have my office 'Holiday' party on the 9th. It's like the gift that keeps on giving. Here are some pictures from Stambaugh Family Christmas, notice McKenna's Christmas dress... courtesy of Lynn... I've heard that it looks remarkably like something her daughters would have worn when they were McKenna's age; old habits die hard ;-).
And, finally just for fun, McKenna's witness protection photos:
I noticed that she covered her own face with a sock while she was playing on her play mat. Just hanging out there with a sock over her eyes, for who knows how long. She's a strange child. It's a pretty soft sock, maybe she liked the combination of soft and dark?
That's all for now. I hope this post finds you happy and healthy and ready for the new year. Talk to you next year!
This is the best one I think:
Here is a small excerpt of the photos I took to get the one good one:
We also went to about 734 Christmas parties over the course of the last week, not that I'm saying they weren't fun, I'm just saying there were a lot of them... we started with the Church staff Christmas party, moved on to Jim & Lynn's, Stambaugh Family Christmas, and on and on and on and on... did I mention we weren't done yet? We still have my office 'Holiday' party on the 9th. It's like the gift that keeps on giving. Here are some pictures from Stambaugh Family Christmas, notice McKenna's Christmas dress... courtesy of Lynn... I've heard that it looks remarkably like something her daughters would have worn when they were McKenna's age; old habits die hard ;-).
And, finally just for fun, McKenna's witness protection photos:
I noticed that she covered her own face with a sock while she was playing on her play mat. Just hanging out there with a sock over her eyes, for who knows how long. She's a strange child. It's a pretty soft sock, maybe she liked the combination of soft and dark?
That's all for now. I hope this post finds you happy and healthy and ready for the new year. Talk to you next year!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Who do you think she looks like?
For the Church Christmas party last week, Deb asked me for some photos of John and I when we were little at Christmas time, and some photos of the three of us. As I was going through our photo albums, I found some pictures of John and some of me from when we were babies... I'll let you decide who she looks like. I still think it's open to debate.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Family Christmas!
Hi All, I know it's been a long time since my last post... we've been busy around here, and are about to get busier with Christmas coming soon. We have been in California for the last week visiting family and going to our annual "Tomblin Family Christmas" party, and then having an early Christmas with my Mom, Step-Dan, Sister and Brother-in-law.
I wanted to post some pictures of McKenna getting a bath in Grandma's kitchen sink, I thought they were pretty cute. I removed the x-rated ones out of consideration for our younger viewers.
Tomblin Family Christmas was an interesting experience as usual, it's fun to see every one even if it is only once a year. It's a little weird to see all of my cousins that are around my same age (most are much, much older) with their own careers and kids.
Then we went to my sister and Jared's house for our gift exchange, it was great spending time with everyone.
I would like to make a small complaint regarding my flight home... beyond the fact that we had to get into our car when it was -8. McKenna had a devil child behind her on the flight home. She was sleeping, minding her own business when 'Chucky' decided that it would be an awesome idea to kick her seat 5,000,000 times and scream at the top of his lungs to get his parent's attention. I think the armrests at my seat have permanent finger marks from me gripping them so hard to avoid choking the kid first, and the parents second. My favorite part of their dicipline for the little jerk was when they said, "I'm mad at you, so I'm going to pretend that you're not here" which made him screech at the top of his lungs until they decided to pay attention to him again, thus (in my opinion) reinforcing his horrible behavior. I also appreciated the "I'm going to take away your shoes if you keep kicking that chair..." So he just kicked it without shoes, SUCH and improvement. My poor little Mac was wide eyed and shaking because he was screaming so loudly, she was scared to death. What a way to be woken up from a Tylenol induced coma... Anyway... I had a screaming baby on the plane, so people were staring at me (she was inconsolable, because everytime she quieted down, that awful kid started in again with the screeching and kicking) which could have been entirely avoided had these parents been able to control their kid. I should have chose my seat more wisely... I saw him pulling on his 'leash' in the airport and they couldn't control him there either.
I realize I've been a parent for about 10 minutes, so maybe I don' t know what it's like, but c'mon, seriously...
Enough ranting for one post I think.
I wanted to post some pictures of McKenna getting a bath in Grandma's kitchen sink, I thought they were pretty cute. I removed the x-rated ones out of consideration for our younger viewers.
Tomblin Family Christmas was an interesting experience as usual, it's fun to see every one even if it is only once a year. It's a little weird to see all of my cousins that are around my same age (most are much, much older) with their own careers and kids.
Then we went to my sister and Jared's house for our gift exchange, it was great spending time with everyone.
I would like to make a small complaint regarding my flight home... beyond the fact that we had to get into our car when it was -8. McKenna had a devil child behind her on the flight home. She was sleeping, minding her own business when 'Chucky' decided that it would be an awesome idea to kick her seat 5,000,000 times and scream at the top of his lungs to get his parent's attention. I think the armrests at my seat have permanent finger marks from me gripping them so hard to avoid choking the kid first, and the parents second. My favorite part of their dicipline for the little jerk was when they said, "I'm mad at you, so I'm going to pretend that you're not here" which made him screech at the top of his lungs until they decided to pay attention to him again, thus (in my opinion) reinforcing his horrible behavior. I also appreciated the "I'm going to take away your shoes if you keep kicking that chair..." So he just kicked it without shoes, SUCH and improvement. My poor little Mac was wide eyed and shaking because he was screaming so loudly, she was scared to death. What a way to be woken up from a Tylenol induced coma... Anyway... I had a screaming baby on the plane, so people were staring at me (she was inconsolable, because everytime she quieted down, that awful kid started in again with the screeching and kicking) which could have been entirely avoided had these parents been able to control their kid. I should have chose my seat more wisely... I saw him pulling on his 'leash' in the airport and they couldn't control him there either.
I realize I've been a parent for about 10 minutes, so maybe I don' t know what it's like, but c'mon, seriously...
Enough ranting for one post I think.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Our First Experience with Rice Cereal...
Thought you all would like to see how much McKenna enjoyed her first experience with rice cereal. She loved it so much that she stopped me while I was feeding her to thank me for sharing such a delicious treat with her. I captured the precious moment on video for your viewing pleasure:
Turkey Weekend & Laura's Visit
We had a busy Thanksgiving weekend, filled with lots and lots of snow, which was a nice change of pace from the 70 degree weather we had for most of November. We rented a condo at the base of the Super Bee lift at Copper Mountain for the weekend, and headed up the mountain after work on Wednesday. You can see from these pictures how McKenna feels about John's driving... notice the white knuckles:
McKenna basically was never put down for the entire weekend, and is going through 'being held' withdrawals now that we're home, here she is sitting on the table with her great-grandpa:
We went to the Stalders(family friends) for Thanksgiving dinner, ate a huge dinner and took some family photos in front of their fireplace:
On Friday we decided to go for a walk around Copper Mountain, since we didn't bring our skis (there were only 6 runs out of 120 open) so McKenna was able to don her new snow suit:
Had to take a picture in this giant Adirondack chair:
When we came home on Saturday my friend Laura came over with her son Josh, her Mom Nancy, and her sister Sarah and Sarah's boys Mason and Riley... it was so fun to see them. Here's a picture of Laura, Josh, McKenna and Me:
McKenna basically was never put down for the entire weekend, and is going through 'being held' withdrawals now that we're home, here she is sitting on the table with her great-grandpa:
We went to the Stalders(family friends) for Thanksgiving dinner, ate a huge dinner and took some family photos in front of their fireplace:
On Friday we decided to go for a walk around Copper Mountain, since we didn't bring our skis (there were only 6 runs out of 120 open) so McKenna was able to don her new snow suit:
Had to take a picture in this giant Adirondack chair:
When we came home on Saturday my friend Laura came over with her son Josh, her Mom Nancy, and her sister Sarah and Sarah's boys Mason and Riley... it was so fun to see them. Here's a picture of Laura, Josh, McKenna and Me:
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