Piedmont Park – Feeding the Ducks

We went with the Lakes family to Piedmont Park on March 18th.  The almost three year olds enjoyed throwing bread to the geese and ducks.  The closer to one year olds enjoyed eating the bread….

 

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There was one fairly aggressive goose who kept coming right up to whomever had bread and honking and hissing at them and all the other aviary-kind to make sure he got all the bread – even hissed at Kara to try to intimidate her to give up the bread she was eating…she laughed in his face!   McKenna spent a lot of time saying “get back in the water Goose!  Go away!

Kara is growing up

     After two long months of fevers, hospital stays, multiple tests, many doctors, and scary nights, Kara seems to have settled into a healthy phase we hope lasts a while! 

She is growing so fast!  She is bigger than McKenna in both height and weight at the same age; she is wearing clothes McKenna wore when she was 17 months old!  Crazy. 

BIG NEWS: Kara has 4 teeth!  She is sitting in a booster seat and eating all table foods!  She graduated to a real car seat (so cute to see the girls face to face in the car holding hands and sharing toys)!  And…she’s CRAWLING!!!!!   YEAH!  It all goes by so fast!

At her most recent doctor’s appointment – to check her out since her hospital stays, she was pronounced happy and healthy.  She is growing well and now weighs a whopping 18Lbs 4oz.

St. Patty’s Day 2010

  We all worked on this Holiday – all wearing our green and making sure we got kisses.  The best part of our day was dinner with our friends, the Lakes.  They have Irish blood in ‘em, so they were ready to party.  We enjoyed a “not so Irish” dinner at Taco Mac.  Heather had fun accessories to make the day more special and we caught a couple of pics of the girls looking cute bedecked in green and accessorizing. 

One of the First Warm Days

  

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March 16th was finally a warm day where we were able to enjoy playing outside after work and school.  Kara just started crawling, McKenna planted flowers and took pictures, Daddy played golf, and Mommy ran between playing and cooking dinner.

These are pictures shot by McKenna all by herself  -- we think maybe she should start doing the photos for the Blog….but then I might have to pay her…

Zoo With The Boys

The girl’s stayed home from school on the 8th of March and we met up with all the local guys at the zoo.  Davis, Finn, and McKenna ran loose through the zoo.  Their favorite part: the very wild and rarely seen construction guys!  What child can resist staring at big machine, dirty sweaty men, and piles of dirt and dust flying high?

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My Grown Up McKenna

    She is my funny, sweet, silly, energetic, artistic, articulate, gentle, fussy, whiney, crazy two year old! 

How is it that she can make me so angry and so happy in the same moment?!  How is she so cute at the exact right moment 90% of the time?

Right now, she is into “when I grow big” and “I’m trying to grow big big big momma”. 

She loves to read and be read to.  She will sit quietly for a time and read books and her new favorite: the Highlights magazine her Great Aunt Lindy gave her for Christmas.

She’s becoming quite girly – loves dresses and skirts and wanted to have her brushed and done.  (What I love is she will still get really dirty too – even all dressed up.)  She put on a dress my grandmother made for me one night after bath time – it is actually going to be her Easter dress (with help from Heather to add length to it) and twirled, danced, ran, and hopped in her “pretty dress”.

Blog--apalooza

So, it’s been some time since we added news to the blog – so I am catching up on lost time and adding in March in the next couple of days. 

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas – so much fun to have two little ones opening presents.

We celebrated New Years with the Ethridge family in Social Circle.

The girls have grown up so much since we last posted…more on that in the posts to come!

We spent January and February worried about Kara (in the hospital twice with high fevers and tons of tests that yielded no real answers) and McKenna enjoyed lots of spoiling with the Grandparents.  She spent the first 3 day tour with GramB and split the second 3 day tour between GramB and Grandma/Poppa.  We missed the circus (except McKenna) and Mommy slept on a cement makeshift bed for several nights.  But, we are all home, healthy, and having FUN in March!!