Daniel and Kiera: September 2013

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

All things round!


Built a fort with dad to watch 101 Dalmatians.

Time flies, this little girl has already turned 11 months old - where did the past eleven months go? In a little less than a month our baby will be one! She continues to make us laugh and smile every day. She is becoming more and more vocal and starting to point and gesture for things that she wants or is looking for. I have a cow in part of my decoration in my kitchen and everyday she points to it and says "moo!" She can now easily identify and remember which of her books have balls and dogs in them, and every time she sees a picture of a flower she now smells it :) She is so smart and learning so quickly.

Our newest project - tearing into the old fireplace to see what we need to do to get it ready for a wood burning stove - Daniel is sure excited to have to chop wood and build a fire (he seriously is though! even though this picture says otherwise)

Her favorite treats are the freeze dried yogurt treats - she would eat a whole bag in a day if we let her I'm sure. She has started a cute inhale sound when she gets excited about something. She loves anything that is round that seems to be a ball - the first thing we do when we wake up in the morning is go and find the balls and play with them - she loves to have daddy hold her and she will hit them out of his hand to be bounced on the floor back up.

McKenna helping dad with the demolition

This little diva has started to acquire quite the little dance moves. At first it was just shaking her head, not it has progressed to waving her arms and her torso - and she now bounces at the knees and does a better body roll then her mama could have ever hoped to accomplish! I hope she continues to love music and dance - because we would like to start her in it in about two years.

Sorry about the orientation - the shoes she is wearing are size 1 - starting to get tight finally - just a little girl!

She is still just a little thing - I tried putting a Carters 9 month outfit on her the other day - and the leggings were all bunched up around her knees and ankles... and the 6-12 month onesie outfits that they recently updated in Walmart (which are such cute colors of blues, greys, and pinks) swamp her to the point I have to roll the pant legs up almost an inch - the onesies are a little better. We sure do start to fade our clothes pretty well before we grow out of them!

It is so hard to get her to hold still and smile for pictures - but she sure had a lot of personality! I love it!!

Loves her balls!

Lots of kisses for daddy!

She has started getting really good at giving loves (hugs) but usually only kisses for mom and dad. She sure doesn't act like she has only been walking barely a month- she is so quick on her feet it is unreal, and you have to keep her in sight at all times, there is no telling where she will go or what she will get into. Daniel and I comment all the time how much joy she brings - she truly has changed our world so much for the better, she is our little sweetheart that we waited so long for.

Our Uncle Chantz enters the MTC today, and stopped by for a parting hug.

We are sure going to miss him a lot - this was by the far the hardest one to send off, Chantz has always been there! Poland will be receiving a great missionary - we are excited for the things he will learn, the good he will do and the people with serve.

See you in two years Elder Richens! Loves from McKenna Mae

Walking......running!

I can say it is getting harder and harder to update these on time it seems. We are three weeks past being ten months so I will recap.

Two days shy of being ten months McKenna just took off, started letting go of things and just walking! Crazy girl! She just grabbed the fridge magnets and took off, I caught her first longer jaunts on camera and video, so glad I was there to see it. She is a little daredevil, it didn't take her long to get it down and now we cannot crawl behind her fast enough to keep up, she is getting pretty quick!

Cheeser grin while sharing popcorn with dad, I love my dad so much!

In the last few weeks she has become obsessed with balls, we have a big green one for her, and at grandmas house she knows exactly where the big balls are and heads straight to go downstairs when we arrive. She loves dogs, every time we hear one in the neighborhood barking we have to stop, say "da" and the it is followed by her little barks which are more like a "braah" sound, love it! She can recognize balls, ba, kitty's, kit, dogs, da, cows, moo, and fish, pop pop pop. She is such a smart little girl.

Entering the huggies rewards codes with mom.. I got a little bored, so we played with the stickers all over (love her face!)

Since she has started walking we have to hide her special blanket on top of our bed so she cannot see it or she want to walk all over the house with it, which would be fine if she didn't say "oh" and collapse onto it numerous times not caring where her head would land, or tries to walk and it gets tangled up around her feet and she bonks her head on the table- yes we have already had some nice bruises, with many more to come I know.

One of my favorite places to play... under the table!

She is obsessed with all cords, and will pull them out of the sockets, just to swing them around and jabber at them, crazy girl. She has just started understanding that we don't put rocks incur much, and will copy me when I say yuck, cah! But it got her to not out them in her mouth :). Flowers are a different story still. Se has also mastered the art of climbing the stairs, I still don't dare let her do it alone, sometimes halfway through she gets bored and decides to turn around and fly into our arms to be carried.

Love playing with the magnets on the fridge!

Still just two bottom teeth, those darn top ones just won't break through, and now her eye teeth are floating down too, we may do all six at once at this rate!

Shortly after I got walking down, I decided to see how big of objects I could carry while walking.

This past weekend we took her to the living planet aquarium, and she loved it! I'm sure her mouth was exhausted from all the fish noises she kept making, but it was so much fun, for all of us. Her favorites were the river otters, the fish, and the penguins that kept zooming on by.

I LOVE SHOES! They are one of my favorite things to play with!

We love having this little doll around, she makes us laugh everyday, she will play peekaboo and hide under her blanket and stare at us through the holes and just giggle, she is such a happy baby! Crazy to think she is almost a year! I've loved not having to go back to work, but being able to be with her, such a blessing to be able to!