With warmer weather arriving, Mack and I headed to Grammy's to look for new plants and flowers. While there weren't any just yet, Mack did climb " Under a shady tree" to hunt for pine cones. She found more than she could carry!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Under a shady tree!
The title of this blog is the title of one of Laurie Berkner's songs. Laurie is Mack's favorite artist so we listen to her all day long. One or more of her songs is constantly running through my head. Today , it's "Under a shady tree" and it's the perfect title for this post!
With warmer weather arriving, Mack and I headed to Grammy's to look for new plants and flowers. While there weren't any just yet, Mack did climb " Under a shady tree" to hunt for pine cones. She found more than she could carry!
With warmer weather arriving, Mack and I headed to Grammy's to look for new plants and flowers. While there weren't any just yet, Mack did climb " Under a shady tree" to hunt for pine cones. She found more than she could carry!
Duck! Duck! GOOSE! ( and a heron, too!)
Before we moved to South Lyon, Mike and I ( and eventually, a very tiny Mackenzie) lived in a townhouse in Ann Arbor. The townhouse was near a wild life reserve and I used to take Mack on walks there every day- sometimes twice a day. Last Thursday Mack was sick and we couldn't go to music class so we went to feed the ducks at the nature reserve instead. What a fun experience. I had just as much fun as Mack. Here are some photos from our outing.
We stopped at Kroger on our way out of town to grab a loaf of their almost out of date bread. 49 cents a loaf- what a steal! As soon as we showed up, the ducks paddled over to us. Next came the geese and lastly, a lanky gray heron-all a very captive audience.
Mack winged full pieces of bread as far as her little arm could.
While most of it made it to the water to the attentive crew below, some didn't make it past the bridge supports.
Mack stopped half way for a snack of her own:
And the trip wasn't all work. We left room for play, too:
After soaking up the sun and some fresh air, we munched on crackers and cheese before heading home for Mackenzie's nap. Now that Mackenzie is older, it's so much fun to take her on these little trips. She was truly interested in the animals and the surrounding trees and water. At one point she said " A ducks like the water, eating grass!" I look forward to lots more days spent exploring the world with my little side kick.
We stopped at Kroger on our way out of town to grab a loaf of their almost out of date bread. 49 cents a loaf- what a steal! As soon as we showed up, the ducks paddled over to us. Next came the geese and lastly, a lanky gray heron-all a very captive audience.
Mack winged full pieces of bread as far as her little arm could.
While most of it made it to the water to the attentive crew below, some didn't make it past the bridge supports.
Mack stopped half way for a snack of her own:
And the trip wasn't all work. We left room for play, too:
After soaking up the sun and some fresh air, we munched on crackers and cheese before heading home for Mackenzie's nap. Now that Mackenzie is older, it's so much fun to take her on these little trips. She was truly interested in the animals and the surrounding trees and water. At one point she said " A ducks like the water, eating grass!" I look forward to lots more days spent exploring the world with my little side kick.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Mack's 2 year well child exam
Mackenzie saw Doctor Baker for the first time in 6 months yesterday. As much as we love visiting my old work place, we are thankful that we've only had to visit for well child exams over the last year.
Having said that, Mack had gotten sick last week and we would have ended up seeing Dr. Baker that day if we hadn't already had the appointment. Dr. Baker said that she was getting over bronchitis or RSV and also a double ear infection. He didn't think she needed to be treated so we are watching her for now.
Aside from that, she's a very healthy two year old girl! I asked him whether we should be checking her for Celiac disease and he said that he will usually only check kids for it who's parent has it or who have symptoms. He gave us several options on how to proceed with testing and Mike and I are still tossing ideas around.
She was 28 lbs ( 75%) and 35.5 inches ( 85%) . She was measured standing up for the first time so she's probably actually a bit taller than that but she's still tall and thin!
Having said that, Mack had gotten sick last week and we would have ended up seeing Dr. Baker that day if we hadn't already had the appointment. Dr. Baker said that she was getting over bronchitis or RSV and also a double ear infection. He didn't think she needed to be treated so we are watching her for now.
Aside from that, she's a very healthy two year old girl! I asked him whether we should be checking her for Celiac disease and he said that he will usually only check kids for it who's parent has it or who have symptoms. He gave us several options on how to proceed with testing and Mike and I are still tossing ideas around.
She was 28 lbs ( 75%) and 35.5 inches ( 85%) . She was measured standing up for the first time so she's probably actually a bit taller than that but she's still tall and thin!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Great big birthday post!
Here's a big post of all the birthday happenings!
My sister sent a really cool portable drawing board that works with water instead of crayons! Mackenzie carried it around for hours. At one point, she was pretending the little water pens were people and I heard her say " C'mon, Grams!" Taylor sent along one of her drawings as well. Mack hugged it when she saw it. ( check out her kitty shoes)
Grams sent a hand drawn wooden box. As soon as Mackenzie saw it she said " Hexagon!" and she was right! Grams also sent a few outfits, one of which Mack wore on her birthday. We miss our Colorado family even more on such happy days!
We placed these flowers on the alter at church in honor of Mack's birthday. She was still under the weather enough that we kept our germs at home. We were bummed to miss church.
In an early birthday gift, Mary gave me a Cricket paper cutter. I LOVE it! I used it to make name tags for the kids good bags at the party:
Good morning, Birthday Girl! Mack's gifts from Mike and me were waiting for her at the breakfast table. It was hard for her to focus on her chocolate chip pancakes with the distraction of the presents so when it's your birthday, you can break the rules- toys THEN breakfast.
We had a quiet morning since we stayed home from church. We stayed in our P.J.'s until mid morning and then took Mack for her favorite lunch- Mac n' cheese!
Here's the birthday girl standing on our front steps. Mack no longer needs assistance with the stairs. She can do it " allll by self!" and she even cheers herself on along the way. ( Mom does this pic give you flashbacks? I think you have a picture of me making this exact same face!)
How old are you Mack?
Does this face spell trouble?
Here's the birthday girl, where's the party?
There were far too many great gifts so I won't post pictures of them all. Here's Mack opening one of them.
Aunt Janet did a story time/puppet show. I cannot believe that she got all three preschoolers to sit still for the stories! And she says that preschool age isn't her forte...I don't buy it! Here's a pic of her putting on the show!
Ben wearing the hat he made during Aunt Janet's story time!
To compliment the puppet theme, Mary made this puppet theater cake. It's it awesome! And tasty, too. She wanted to use chocolate gluten free cake but since I gave up chocolate for Lent, she used yellow cake mix- still very yummy! It's nearly impossible to feed me these days..hehe
Blow out those candles, Mack! She's been talking about doing this for at least week!
The party was so much fun. While I always miss my family and friends back in Colorado ( and Arizona), I know they were thinking of us and celebrating from afar. We are blessed beyond measure to have family and close friends to celebrate our little Mack with and the memories are so dear to me.
We ended the day having pizza with Will, Erin, Olivia and Griffin. They treated us in honor of their Goddaughters second birthday!
As I type this it is 8:45p.m. and I can still hear my sweet girl hopped up on sugar and singing "Happy Birthday" to herself from her crib. Life is good....
My sister sent a really cool portable drawing board that works with water instead of crayons! Mackenzie carried it around for hours. At one point, she was pretending the little water pens were people and I heard her say " C'mon, Grams!" Taylor sent along one of her drawings as well. Mack hugged it when she saw it. ( check out her kitty shoes)
Grams sent a hand drawn wooden box. As soon as Mackenzie saw it she said " Hexagon!" and she was right! Grams also sent a few outfits, one of which Mack wore on her birthday. We miss our Colorado family even more on such happy days!
We placed these flowers on the alter at church in honor of Mack's birthday. She was still under the weather enough that we kept our germs at home. We were bummed to miss church.
In an early birthday gift, Mary gave me a Cricket paper cutter. I LOVE it! I used it to make name tags for the kids good bags at the party:
Good morning, Birthday Girl! Mack's gifts from Mike and me were waiting for her at the breakfast table. It was hard for her to focus on her chocolate chip pancakes with the distraction of the presents so when it's your birthday, you can break the rules- toys THEN breakfast.
We had a quiet morning since we stayed home from church. We stayed in our P.J.'s until mid morning and then took Mack for her favorite lunch- Mac n' cheese!Here's the birthday girl standing on our front steps. Mack no longer needs assistance with the stairs. She can do it " allll by self!" and she even cheers herself on along the way. ( Mom does this pic give you flashbacks? I think you have a picture of me making this exact same face!)
How old are you Mack?
Does this face spell trouble?
Here's the birthday girl, where's the party?
There were far too many great gifts so I won't post pictures of them all. Here's Mack opening one of them.
Aunt Janet did a story time/puppet show. I cannot believe that she got all three preschoolers to sit still for the stories! And she says that preschool age isn't her forte...I don't buy it! Here's a pic of her putting on the show!
Ben wearing the hat he made during Aunt Janet's story time!
To compliment the puppet theme, Mary made this puppet theater cake. It's it awesome! And tasty, too. She wanted to use chocolate gluten free cake but since I gave up chocolate for Lent, she used yellow cake mix- still very yummy! It's nearly impossible to feed me these days..hehe
Blow out those candles, Mack! She's been talking about doing this for at least week!
The party was so much fun. While I always miss my family and friends back in Colorado ( and Arizona), I know they were thinking of us and celebrating from afar. We are blessed beyond measure to have family and close friends to celebrate our little Mack with and the memories are so dear to me.We ended the day having pizza with Will, Erin, Olivia and Griffin. They treated us in honor of their Goddaughters second birthday!
As I type this it is 8:45p.m. and I can still hear my sweet girl hopped up on sugar and singing "Happy Birthday" to herself from her crib. Life is good....
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Poor Duncan
Duncan really has grown to love Mackenzie. So much so that he even sat still while she strapped her bib onto him.
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