March 5th....10 months!

On March 5th our beautiful little girl turned 10 months old.  We didn't have a lot of time to focus on this "monthday" though because we had to say goodbye to an amazing man, Evan's dad, Keith.  I will have another post, some time, that will be a tribute to Keith, but I'm not ready emotionally or physically to do it now.  I felt I had to mention it so the rest of our friends and family were aware that Keith has been healed and is with our Lord!  Until then you may view Keith's obituary at www.hartquistfuneral.com/.  We appreciate all your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

Now, on to the happy stuff....our Makenna is growing up to be such a big girl!  New things in the past month include:

-tooth #3 (top, right...just poking through)
-pulling herself up (she had done this a couple times before, but has more consistently now)
-sitting up by herself from a laying position
-a couple crawl motions, but still pretty much refuses to crawl
-can bend over and pick something up while standing hanging on to something
-really improved her walking skills (she can now push the little push toy that Denver had by herself...but is still mastering that)
-Evan claims she says "da da" and associates it with him (I'm not so sure on that); otherwise she continues her other words, but I don't think she's made an association with them
-loves to share
-more hair! (can now do little pigtails as you saw in her late 9 month pics and has continued to fill in)

This post has been written since March 11th, but I've been waiting on pictures.  We just haven't been home to get the 10 month photo shoot done and now that 11 months is approaching in days I decided to just give you a couple snap shots that I took of Makenna in her adorable hat that she got as a gift.  There is also 1 picture from our family photo (pictures done by Schoolmeester Photography) shoot a couple days before she turned 10 months.