She's a big kid now!..Kinda

Mackenzie saw a package of Elmo underwear that I have been saving for her and asked if she could wear them! While she kept them dry for about an hour and a half, she's still just exploring the idea of giving up diapers. She does tell us every time she needs to be changed now, though, which tells me it won't be long before Mackenzie's potty trained!

Cousin Leif

Mike's cousin, Leif , was in town for a short trip and we were very glad to be able to see him, most of all, Mackenzie!

Aunt Meg and Leif brought pork roast and Grammy made the "fixins" and we had an enjoyable meal. Grammy brought Mackenzie this "toddler sized" banana that she found at work. Cute, huh?


It didn't take very long for Mackenzie to warm up to Leif.
After the initial shyness wore off, she showed Leif and Aunt Meg her playroom where the gang played with Legos, danced and drew on the chalk board:
Mackenzie asked Leif to draw her latest favorite : A sad pickle.
Playing " lion kisses" was probably her favorite part:
Leif even read Mackenzie her favorite " Smell books" so that means he's on her list of favorites!

Merry Christmas Reindeer

By now, you are all well aware of my strange love of hand print art. Nerdy as it may be, I was doubly excited to try a hand and foot print reindeer. While the end result was cute, I count myself lucky to have completed the project with no unintended items having been painted! (Samantha, does this remind you of my " brilliant" idea to make foot print wrapping paper with our day care class of 12 two year olds? Apparently, I'm a slow learner). I was going to make several of these to mail out to family and friends but have since nixed that idea for a mass blog posting:

Merry Christmas!

Away in a manger

Here's what I could catch of Mack singing "Away in a manger"

I am sure ABC's are getting kinda old but it seems to be the only video I can capture of Mackenzie! Blog spot is a bit picky about the length of videos it allows and Mackenzie is very easily distracted- it's a bad combo! I hope you enjoy this video anyway! BTW- that's her " stage" she's standing on.

Long awaited arrival

Most of you know that my cell phone has been on it's last, crippled legs since October but we wanted to try to make it work until December because I was then eligible for a free upgrade! The day has finally come and I am back in business! Bring on the text message!

Santa!

We headed to The Henry Ford Museum to see Santa!

Checkin' out the big tree!

We stopped to send a letter to Santa:
And here she is with the Santa! See if you notice anything special about this years picture and a last:
Yep! Same Santa! How neat is that?

Since HFM is still hosting the Lego exhibit, this years train layout was done in all Legos!