At Home as a Family

Here are some pictures of us hanging out at home one afternoon/evening.

Makenna loves to play under her activity gym and plays with the toys more and more everyday instead of just looking at them

Denver and Mommy

Makenna and Mommy

Denver and Makenna all ready for bed

Denver in his new truck race jammies

Daddy and his boy!

Denver LOVES his Daddy!

Makenna is Three Months Old!

Makenna turned 3 months old yesterday! Time continues to fly by for us. I'm trying to not compare Makenna to Denver too much as it seems they are going to achieve their milestones at different times. We finally got Makenna to give us a good giggle on July 27, but of course she wouldn't do it once we got the video camera out. If we ever get her to do it again and get it on camera we will share it with all of you!

Every day Makenna gets more and more content with playing on the floor. She loves laying under her activity gym and will play with the toys and talk to them. She even is happy laying on the floor with no toys hanging over her for quite some time now. It's been nice that she's a little more "self entertainable" so I have more time to get stuff done or play with Denver. Otherwise she continues to talk and smile lots.

She is definitely a "Mommy's Girl" which is nice since Denver is a "Daddy's Boy". Oh...not sure if I ever really said anything on the blog or not about who Makenna looks like! ME!!!!! Yes, I got my baby girl that looks like me! I think my Mom feels like she's looking at me when I was a baby. Hopefully I'll get a blog done on that, but for now you just have to trust me. We've been working on the paci again as she started rejecting it awhile back and now she seems to like it when she's tired and it helps her fall asleep.

Something Makenna hates, and I mean HATES is her car seat and riding in the car. I put a new toy bar on her car seat and that has helped some, but more times than not she cries most of the car ride and until she can get out of her car seat.

Makenna has improved on her bottling skills. We switched nipples and bottles again and are back to using the ones we used in the beginning with Denver. I don't care what she uses, just so she takes it when I'm gone and that she doesn't fight it! Makenna has adjusted well to me being back at work. My mom said she does study her for quite some time before she'll give her a smile and she's probably not ever real excited about the bottle, but she does it. She did good the other night for Evan too when she had to take a bottle before bed and go to sleep without her Mommy.

I will try and get some videos of both the kids uploaded soon, but Makenna's 3 month pictures are going to have to do for now. If only she'd smile when I get the camera out! Enjoy!

(Thank you Susan for the beautiful bracelet you made Makenna!)

Mowing the Lawn

Denver LOVES to go out with Daddy to mow the lawn. He follows him all over and then he runs around and plays. I ran out the other night and took pictures of him. I keep telling Evan we need to get him the bubble lawn mower, but of course Daddy is no fun and says he doesn't need it! :) Enjoy the fun pictures!

Garage Fun

We have spent many hours out in the garage this summer. Denver has lots of outside toys and he loves to be outside. The garage is nice so Makenna isn't in direct sunlight and it's usually a little cooler in there unless there's no breeze. Here are some pictures of the kids enjoying the garage! :)

One of Makenna's first times in Denver's swing.

She really seems to enjoy it, but why not...she loves her baby swing inside.

Denver and his 4 wheeler!

Denver could spend hours on his 4 wheeler and one of these times if we're not careful he's going to be down at Abby's house with it!

Denver LOVES to swing!

"I love my sister!"

Just hanging out!

Having a morning snack. A seat just my size!

And on to the wagon...

and now one of my many John Deere tractors...

Spray Park

2 weeks before I went back to work (yes, I'm back at work...that's why there haven't been any blogs!) I took Denver and Makenna to the free spray park in town along with some friends, Aimee, Abby, and Mason, and Dawn and Olivia. Unfortunately Olivia didn't have as much fun as Denver and Abby so I didn't end up getting any pictures of her, but I hope it doesn't scare them off for another play date! :) It was a nice day, but the breeze was a little cool which made the water part not so much fun so the kids spent the majority of the time on the playground equipment. After the kids were done playing (or so we told them because it was close to nap time) we had a little picnic and then loaded up the kids and went home for naps.

Look Mom!

Denver, Mommy, and Makenna having fun!

"I think I'm big enough to run this thing"

"Are you having as much fun as me Abby?"

Scoopin' sand

Denver's 1st true picnic!

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