YEA for Jammie Friday and boy is that piggy HUNGRY!!

Makenna and I have had a busy, busy summer between all of our activities, playgroup and classes. It has been a lot of fun but I can't even think of the last day we just stayed home all day and lounged. Well, kinda anyways, since I have been cleaning and doing laundry throughout the day. It still has been nice and quite a treat! We have called it Jammie Friday and celebrated the day! And yes we are still in our jams, and it's 4pm...:)!!

Makenna spotted my wallet and guess who was hungry? Yep, without hesitation Piggy made immediate appearance and all my change quickly went into his belly.

And that made for one happy little girl!

When my wallet was empty, she said to me..

"Mommy, need to go shopping for more coins please. Kenna needs more"

Out of the mouth of babes, and if it was only that easy, right?

Little Fish, little fish...

Makenna Claire finished up her second set of swimming lessons today and she has become quite the little fish! With our first class, she loved being in the pool but was very hesitant to put her face in the water and cried with great fright when she was dunked. When she knew she had to go under water, she would cry, "no, mommy no under wager (water)!! " and look at me with such great anticipation with those baby blue eyes of hers. I have to tell you, it broke my heart. However, the teacher recognized what a strong willed child MC is (who, MC.....Yep, she had her number!!) and told me to just stick with it and she will get better. And boy has she!
Now she is jumping into the water, splashing Mommy with great gusto.
She is paddling and kicking short distances to the wall..
She is putting her face under water to blow bubbles..
And showing her bravery by putting her head back in the water by herself.
Even successfully torpedoing under water (!!!!!) to the side of the pool. All done with smiles, a sense of accomplishment and proudness. MC, all you need in life is your confidence and you will go soo far!

Thanks Nana for the great pictures! MC was lucky to have Gaga, Auntie Kellie and Nana at her last swim class today to see her perform all her skills. She was so excited to show off at the end of class and demonstrate all her new talents. We are all proud of you Makenna Claire! Way to go!!! xoxo

Time is flying by..

I have been busy working on projects that I would like to finish before baby arrives. Home projects {painting the dining room...it's done and beautiful!}, hobbie catch up's {sewing, photography, photoshoping, scrapping...I have too many hobbies!!!} and spending as much time being a mommy of one with Makenna Claire. We have had so much fun together this summer..spending lots of time at the pool where she has certainly turned into quite the fish, picnic lunches at the park, weekly playdates and our daily painting time (she loves all my glitter glue!). She is such a sweet little girl but at the same time is at that age where she is testing Mommy and Daddy on a daily basis. With that, I just try and remind myself that this too shall pass!

Makenna Claire is getting ready to be a big sister and depending on the moment, she is excited or saids, "not ready yet!" :) Baby Case will make his or her debut on Aug 20th, a mere 3 weeks away!! We are all excited with anticipation and Scott and I can't wait to find out if we have another daughter or a son. Right now, we have different opinions but we both truely don't care one way or the other! Either way, we will be sooo thrilled!

Nana has been busy decorating MC's big girl room. She did a tryptic canvas painting and painted her name on canvas as well. It so makes Makenna's room the special place that it is! She is doing great sleeping in her bed and loves to hang out in her room as well. It's really too cute! Oh, and when she wakes up or when she leaves her room from playing, she always has to close the door behind her! Not sure where that habit came from, but it gives us all a chuckle. And upon your visit to the house, she might frisk you for your spare change because her piggy is always hungry!!

Enough type, here's some pictures of her bedroom artwork. Thank you Nana!! Sweet Pea admires it every day!! xoxo ( Ok, so the formatting didn't work...the pictures are above!)

Joys of Parenting: Part XVII

There are just some moments that cannot be explained, duplicated, mimeographed, copied...you get the idea.

I've pretty much become the de facto "put Makenna to bed at night" parent; that suits me just fine because Kelly is with her all day and our time is limited to a little in the morning before I head off to work and a couple of hours at night when I get home. It's really part of the reason I've been getting late to work; I just can't stand to leave the house without saying good morning to her and having a few minutes after she wakes up.

Like every kid, they've got a routine. Hers is that we put her pajamas on and get into mommy and daddy's bed and watch an episode of The Berenstain Bears. After that, it's off to her big girl bed for usually two books, two songs (that inevitably turns into three or four or more) and then night-night time. Sometimes she doesn't get up, sometimes she's up once or twice. It was a twice night tonight.

But tonight I was laying in bed reading her book and when we finished I put the book on the nightstand and put my pillow back against the wall and laid down on her pillow and she put her arms around me and gave me a kiss and looked at me, smiled and said:

"Best friend."

Goddamn right, kid. From now until the end of time. It was a Mastercard moment: priceless.

Next Month....

*Our household will expand.

*We will become a family of 4.

*Scott and I will be the lucky parents of 2 children.

*Makenna Claire will be a {great} big sister.

*Bailey and Cassiday will have another child in the house that will love on them.

*Our love will expand.

Wow!!!

Yes, Next Month!

Hard to believe, but we couldn't be more excited!!!

Father's Day and Mommy's Birthday

We were fortunate to celebrate two events on Sunday, Kelly's birthday and Father's Day. We had everybody over and had a grand time. Below is a slideshow from yesterday.

Happy Father's Day

There are more pictures to follow, but this one we just HAD to get up. Pop-Pop was busy showing Makenna Claire the best way to get in and out of her car.

If you've ever been to the circus and seen what clown cars look like, I think it went something like this. (Mute the music at the bottom of the screen)