8 months old

McKenna turned 8 months old last week. She is growing so fast. She is starting to get more active. Moves around like crazy. She wants to crawl and can get up on all fours and tries her best to move. Probably soon enough she will be on the move. But she can move around pretty good for not crawling. She loves to eat! I have been trying some other foods lately. She loves all food. We went to the doctor last week. She weighted 18.4lbs. She gained less than a lb in the last 2 months. However, she grew almost 3 inches. She was 26 1/4 and is now 29 inches. I think she is gonna be a tall girl. Her head is still small according to the scales. But I think it looks fine. She has come to love smalls rawhide bones. I'm not sure why she sucks on them, makes me wonder what they taste like. But she doesn't get to chew on them for very long before I take it out and throw it far away. She is also starting to get very vocial with what she wants. It used to be cute, but not anymore.

My sister-in-law, Kristin, took this picture and the first one. She does a wonderful job. Thank Kristin!

McKenna, boxes, and other pictures

McKenna is learning that she can scoot around on the floor. I really haven't seen it, but I will leave and when I come back she is in a different place. Anyway, she loves boxes, as most kids do, and she continued to scoot her way into this box. She started farther than the picture on the right.

Yeah! I made it in the box.....now what? She started getting upset soon after because she couldn't figure out how to get out.

Since McKenna has been a rolling over like a champ, she rolls around her bed all night long. This is currently her new sleeping position. I think its cute with her little bum in the air. (The picture isn't very good because I didn't want to use the flash and wake her up. So I had to lighten it up alot) If you are wondering where she is sleeping in this picture, she is on the floor in her homemade bed at Grandma Sandy's house.

My mother finally sold her house. We went up on Saturday and packed it up. What a project! Just wanted to have one last picture of the house before it is no longer ours. I can't really say that I will miss the house, but there are some good memories in that house that I will miss. It was a good house and it was good to us throughout the years. Good Bye house!

Smalls likes to find odd places to sleep. This is our laundry basket with our clean neatly folded clothes in it. She is a funny little dog.

Easter pictures

We had a nice easter this year. It was a beautiful day. We spent the weekend with Tucker's moms and had a little photo shot on Sunday. I've learned that sun and pictures don't always get long, but for the most part they turned out good.

The Family

Miss McKenna

McKenna

McKenna..again

McKenna and Smalls. I thought McKenna's face was funny.

Jumping and snot

We got McKenna this jumper and she loves it! She will stay in there for about an hour before she wants to get out.

After about a week of having this, Mckenna was jumping, Smalls and I were sitting on the couch. Suddenly Smalls jumps off the couch and goes over to McKenna and starts licking the floor. I go over and take a look and guess what?? McKenna had pooped out of her diaper on to the floor and Smalls was licking it off the floor!!

Tucker quickly grabbed smalls and washed her mouth out with water(I thought that was pretty funny) and I grabbed the camera! McKenna didn't know what was going on and was quite happy to be jumping. The poo was all in between her toes and all over her feet. It was quite the experience. She did end up getting a bath after that one!!

McKenna experienced her first cold. I don't think she liked it very much. It is still going on, but has gotten much better. She hates it when I pull out the greenish blue sucker to suck out her nose and she hates it when I wipe her nose. She also hasn't been sleeping well because she couldn't breath at night. It was just a fun and joyful experience ;) I'm glad she is getting better day by day.

McKenna is 7 Months..... 2 weeks ago

Another month has gone by, 7 Months old. I didn't really take any pictures in March. I will have to work on that. This is all I could dig up.

At 7 months McKenna can:
-Sit up like a champ
-Rolls all over in her crib at night
-love to play with her toys
-Is generally happy.
-Laughs more
-She can not say any words yet and has no teeth.
-wants to start crawling around.
-loves to eat. We have found that her favorite is sweet corn casserole. It actually smells pretty good. I havn't tried tasting it, and won't be trying.
-Love to jump
-She is a very sweet little girl
-Is trying to pull herself up on things.

Her little personality is starting to come out. Although she is very sweet and loving, she gets a little temper when her food is not there when she wants it. She also hates it when I wipe her face after eating. She will scream. It was cute, but now, not so much. I can't wait until she is a little older and can participate in holidays and fun activities, such as an Easter egg hunt. Its not fun when you can't walk. Her second year should be fun with Halloween, Christmas, and all the other fun holidays and activities.

A long a crazy road trip.

For Tuckers work he gets to travel at times. Probably once a month or so. This time I went with him and I will never go with him again. This was one crazy and long 2 days of driving. We left on a Thursday morning about 7ish and drove to Lower lake. Then to Ukiah, Willits, Fort Bragg, and Mendicino. By this time it was about noonish. I really don't remember. But I hate the drive to Ft. Bragg now. It just isn't any fun. After driving North of Mendicino on Hwy 1(which I hate) we went to this little town called Leggett. Where they have a redwood that you can drive thru. We were gonna do it but they charge 5 bucks to drive thru a tree. I thought that was pretty stupid, so we took a picture of the sign instead. (see below)

After driving to Leggett and attemping to go thru the tree, we went to this place that I hope no one will ever have to experience. Its called Alderpoint. Go ahead, look it up on the map. Its in the middle of no where and I'm not kiddin. It was 20 miles off the hwy on a 2 laned road that went winding thru the mountains. There wasn't even a town limit sign. After that "Gosh forsaken" place, we drove to Eureka were we stayed the night. We got there at about 7-8pm. A nice 12 hr day.
So that was day one! It makes me tired just thinking about it. On Friday, Tucker does 3 local jobs in Eureka, then we pack up and head North around 11:00. Our next stop is Bayside. A nice, small, cute town. If it wasn't such a long ways up to Eureka and north of there I would visit more often, do a little camping. Anyway, after Bayside we drove up what was left of the california coast to Crescant City. We drove all the way up the state of California so Tucker could inspect a pron shop! I'm not kidding! I didn't go it, but from what Tucker said there was movies and magazines, toys. Probably anything and everything you could ever want, if you were into that sort of thing. After Crescant City we had to drive South back to Eureka, then east to a small campground north of Hoopa. Another "gosh forshaken" place that I will never go back to!! As we drove the the 299 (i think) we passed quite a few towns that had less than 300 people. I don't know how anyone could live like that. Crazy! Our second to last stop was in weaverville. Not a bad little place. Had dinner there. A good touristy place. Then it was off to redding to stay at my grandmas place. We got to Redding at 10:00, another almost 12 hour day. Can I say that I never want to drive up north again!! It is pretty, but it is just way to long. Not worth the drive!

We stoped here on the way back to Eureka. Took a few pictures with Paul Bunyan. We didn't stay long because we were behind schedule. As we were the day before as well. It was like driving with our heads cut off, a long day of racing with the clock.

If you can't tell, Tucker wanted McKenna to touch this big blue bulls balls. I guess this makes him a guy.

This was taken at Patricks point. Where we paided 6 dollars to get into this park because we thought it would be better than this. and Tucker thought the "tree in the rock" was here. Needless to say, after we payed the 6 dollars I told him that the tree in the rock was in Monterey. I would have rather waited my money on the drive thru tree!

Anyway, that was our very crazy road trip. I have had my fair share of windy roads. I can say that I do not like them! Glad you could all share in my misery!! On the other hand, McKenna did wonderful. Not a cry came out of her. It probably helped that I sat in the back with her the whole time, but she was a wonderful traveler.

The End!