Lily's Baptism

My niece, Lily, was baptized last weekend. Kenzie was intrigued when Lily stepped into the baptismal font. After Lily's dad submerged her under the water and lifted her back up, Kenzie excitedly exclaimed, "My turn!!!"       Only 6 more years, Kenzie-girl!

I taught Kenzie the primary song "When I Am Baptized" to sing with her cousins after the baptism. Sadly, we forgot to get a video of them all singing together.

This little girl loves to sing and she breaks out in music all day long every day. She sure fills our lives with so much joy!

Here are the words to the song, in case you want to understand what she is singing :)

I like to look for rainbows whenever there is rain
and ponder on the beauty of an earth made clean again.

I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain.
I want to be the best I can and live with God again.

I know when I am baptized my wrongs are washed away,
and I can be forgiven and improve myself each day.

I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain.
I want to be the best I can and live with God again.

Out of the Mouth of Babes

Makenzie is at the age now where everything that comes out of her mouth is hilarious. I thought that I'd share a few of our conversations with you.

Makenzie: pointing to a bottle of Tums, "What's that, Mommy?"
Me: "That is medicine for when your belly hurts."
Makenzie: "Oh... Mommy, my beddy hets (belly hurts). My beddy so so  SO so het."

Makenzie was angry at me for taking Henry's binki away from her. I picked her up and sat her on my lap. I pressed my cheek to hers and she pushed my face away saying "get my dinner ready, mommy."

Every time I sweep the kitchen floor, Makenzie asks "Mommy, what are you doing?"
"I'm sweeping," I reply.
"You seeping, Mommy?"
"Yup!"
With a big grin on her face, "Nooooo, you not seeping! You AWAKE!"
I can't find it in me to explain to her that "sweeping" and "sleeping" are two different things because I love it so much when she says that!

Mackenzie and her cousin, Mallory really do love each other but sometimes (okay, most times) they don't act like it. A couple of weeks ago we were at her house and they were fighting over something when Mallory squealed "Go away, Kenzie! Go away!"
Makenzie shouted back, "No! I won't go away... Ever!"

A few days ago I scolded Makenzie for being naughty. She just looked at me with a sweet smile and said "Mommy is funny and cute." I have no idea where she learned that diversion tactic from, but I have to admit that it worked.

Just out of nowhere "You are the best mommy ever seen!"

Right after my shower
"I love your hair, mommy! It's so pretty and soaped (that's how she says soaked). I LOVE your walo ("water") hair!"

Oh how I love this girl!!!!

Sibling love

I was letting Kenzie eat her rice while she watched a show one day while I was cleaning the kitchen. I heard Henry and Kenzie laughing hysterically. I went in the room to see what was so funny and this is what I found. Kenzie was throwing her rice and Henry and he thought it was just the funniest thing ever! I couldn't even get mad at them for getting rice everywhere!

 

 

Kenzie's underwear is on inside-out and backwards.

Bath time!

My children were being very quiet and when I went to see what trouble they were getting into, I found this sweet sister reading to her little brother. I love it when they play together!

This is a sight that I see often. Kenzie loves to crawl into her brothers crib to play when they wake up... and sometimes before they actually fall to sleep...

Backwards underwear again. I love her little wedgies!

And how I love this sweet face!

Kenzie taking her knee's temperature. She said "My knee is sick." She had a little scrape on it. 

Someone loves to get into her mommy's makeup!

After her trip to the potty, Kenzie strutted into the kitchen, where I was, very proud of her "scarf" which was still connected to the toilet paper roll in the bathroom.

I LIKE your party hat!

These two are best buddies. She sure loves her daddy... and he loves her quite a bit too :)

I hate to brag (not really) but isn't he the CUTEST baby boy?!!!

They both had crayons sticking out of their mouths while they were playing with the doll house.

Sharing yogurt with her brother.

                                                                 How I love these babies!!!

The Rest of Christmas

Since I am now in possession of my camera, I am finally able to share the rest of our Christmas break with you. After we spent Christmas with Shane's parents, we went to Independence to spend the new year with my parents. We played games, went on walks and ate our traditional new year dinner: pork, sauerkraut, and mashed potatoes. YUM! I love family and we are so blessed to have the wonderful families that we do!

Henry loved snuggling with Grandpa.

Auntie Em!

Arthur. Makenzie can't really say her "R" yet so she sounds like she has a British accent whenever she say's his name.



Superman! Or maybe I should say Superwoman!

I guess her feet were cold :)

We wen't on a walk to the park and by time we finally got there Makenzie had fallen to sleep. I felt kind of bad, but look how cute she is with that monkey!

I sure love this girl!

Aren't they sweet?!

Don't I have such a beautiful sister?

Emma dropped her spoon in the sink and it hit and broke this bowl. Isn't is the  prettiest broken bowl you have ever seen? The spoon landed so nicely too!

Katie, made me a really great neck warmer that Makenzie decided to wear as a hat. She is such a cutie!

 

Nine Months Old

  My little Henry turned nine months old on the 16th. I can't believe how fast his first year is going by. Here are a few things about Henry.
  Henry started scooting about a week before Christmas break and by time we got home from break he was crawling exclusively. He is also pulling himself up onto furniture and getting down pretty smoothly now too. Henry LOVES cords (I think most babies do)! Whenever we go into Daddy's office, he makes a beeline to the computer cords. He also loves to go into the bathroom, pull himself up to the side of the tub and push down every bottle of shampoo, body wash, exec. one at a time to hear the unique crash that each one produces. He loves to squawk and squeal and make cute little baby sounds all day long.
  Henry has had a really hard time eating food. I was sure that this little boy would just love the stuff, I mean, look at him!!! Doesn't he LOOK like he would inhale food? Well, my 22-pound baby hated everything but mommy's milk until about a week ago. I tried TONS of different foods, baby cereals, and baby snacks. The result: sever gagging and spitting out of food. I was lucky if I could get a teaspoon down to his belly. But that would eventually be spit up along with whatever breast milk was in his tummy an hour or two after he had eaten. I decided to crack down and be diligent about giving him food every day. The first three days were just as productive as any other time I had fed him, but then I gave him bananas. And he LOVED them. FINALLY, something I don't have to force down his throat, and to make a long story short, he has been eating food much better for about a week now. He has been so much happier lately with his nicely full belly. And a happy baby means a happy mommy!

These kids really love each other.

I think he looks a lot like my little brother, Andrew (when he was a baby), in this picture.

I forgot to mention that Henry got his four top teeth during the Christmas break. Aren't they adorable?

I sure love this little boy. He brings so much joy to this family. He has a smile that can brighten the gloomiest day and his eyes! Oh his eyes! He inherited the same sincere, beautiful eyes that his dad posesses. They are seriously what made me fall in love with Shane. I'm so glad that Henry has them too.