Another boating trip...

We took the boat out again a couple times this week!  The kids are always excited to get in the boat, but then it doesn't take long and they're both "ready to go back home" as Denver says.  I've been trying to come up with some good little toys for them on the boat so if anyone has any suggestions I'd love them (especially for Makenna!).

Sitting with Daddy

Playing with her Puppy

Fishing

And then...he dropped his pole in the water...thank goodness he had realized his "tire" (no hook allowed in the boat for him) too early so I quickly grabbed that and we were able to pull it up after some confusion and loss of a lot of line, but Denver was happy to have his pole back. 

Playing in the Boat

Concentrating...where are those fish?

Having a Snack

The joy of potty training around the clock.

A fish!

Watching the fish in the live well.  The kids love this part...Makenna gets mad when I don't let her stick her hand in to touch it.

Daddy and Denver with their 2 walleye from our evening excursion.

Watching Dad clean fish.

"Maybe if I hit my hand on the table the fish will jump again!"

A Boat!

And the latest purchase in our household was a boat.  Evan was very pleased that it came on his birthday, but not so pleased it rained all day!

Bringing the boat home in the rain.

Making room for a boat in an already overflowing 2 stall garage!

Of course this couldn't have been done before the boat arrived!

Finally a nice day to take the boat out!

Makenna exploring the boat while we got it ready to put in the water.

Driving with Dad!

Makenna: "This looks like fun!"

Enjoying her first ever boat ride!

Denver: "Finally fishing from my boat!"

Lucky enough to catch a fish on Wall Lake!

Our Beautiful 1 Year Old!

May 5, 2010 at 4:28 p.m. our beautiful baby girl turned 1!

Makenna's new list of information:

-weighs 20 lbs 4 oz (~50%)

-29.5 inches tall (~60%)

-love to: read books, talk, be on the go, and play with her brother

-says lots of words: ma ma, da da, pa pa, ba (ball, balloon), hi, ocassionally we thinks he says Denver, moo

-LOVES animals!  ...and wants to touch them, ...she gets so excited when she sees any kind of animal

-walks every where and is getting pretty fast

-loves her babies

-our little garbage disposal (as long as she's feeling good); her favorite foods are probably pizza, yogurt, grapes, scrambled eggs with cheese, and anything sweet!

-5 teeth (3 on top, 2 on the bottom)

-diagnosed with her first ear infection at her 1 year appointment

-1st stomach flu the Tuesday after Mother's Day (no worries, Denver got it on Mother's Day in the car, after Church....hey, at least he let us get through Church, right?!)

1 year pictures in no special order as blogger did not like me!  Notice the different outfits, backgrounds....she wouldn't cooperate with me.  What a surprise?!  I tried and tried to get that special picture with a smile, but no such luck!

I couldn't resist; our cheesy girl!  She makes us laugh so much!

Look at those eyes!

I LOVE watching them interact!

Circus!

I realized with all of our craziness I forgot to post our pictures from the circus!  I have a wonderful childhood memory of going to the circus with my Grandpa Melvin and Grandma Betty.  Last year Evan and I took Denver (along with our good friends) and I said to Evan that it would be fun to bring along my Grandpa to give the kids some of the same childhood memories.  This year Evan didn't care to go to the cirecus and there was no way I was braving it by myself with the 2 kids, but my mom and grandpa said they'd go with us and thanks to my cousin Tom we got free tickets too!  The kids had a blast. 

Makenna was exhausted by intermission time and so I took her out in the lobby and some how worked my magic (that has basically disappeared) and got her to go to sleep for about 30 minutes.  Denver made it the whole way through.  His favorite part was the tigers!  We went pretty early to ensure good seats and plenty of time to get situated and the whole time Denver kept asking where the tigers were.  After the tigers were done he continued to ask where they went and wanted to see them some more.  He did get quite intrigued with the elephants and some other acts as well. 

It was fun to watch Denver's face in awe of things and trying to understand how they just did what they did (during the "magic tricks").  There were also times we saw these faces on Makenna.  I'm so glad we went and hope that Grandma Verni and Great Grandpa Melvin will be up for the circus again next year!

Makenna kept insisting upon having some of my mom's pop so she finally gave in and let her try it....it came right back out!  She didn't care for it!  About the only thing she doesn't like! :)