These Boots Are Made For Walking....

...and hopefully she'll walk soon! I got these new boots for her today, and they are so cute! We'll be going out to the hunting ranch in a couple weeks, and I thought she needed some cowboy boots. They are so sweet! She'll be able to wear them all winter, but they'll be so cute at the ranch.





And just because she was being so cute and smiley, here's another one. :)

Earlier this morning, she was playing in her jammies and first used one of Rylan's trucks for a chair...

...then started losing her bottoms
Then she threw a fit when breakfast was over. She gets so mad when I take the bowl away, and it's so funny because she never gets mad unless it's over food. And all I got was this one picture and then she started smiling again, so it was clearly not a big deal. :)

Glasses Are Here

We got Mackenzie's glasses this afternoon and so far, she's not a big fan. I think it's getting better though. I was at gymnastics with Rylan when Nick went to pick them up, so he spent the first hour with her and her new specs. Apparently she wouldn't keep them on for any length of time if her hands were free, but as the evening went on, as long as she was engaged in something, she left them. I think right now, she's just more curious about them. She will take them off, play with them, turn them all around, try to eat them, and then occasionally she'll try to put them back on, so at least she knows what they're for. Here are the first pictures of our little beauty in glasses!




Trying out her new glasses and new carseat all at once!

Camping

I realized I have forgotten to post about our camping trip over Labor Day! We went down to visit my family and we went camping with my grandparents. And by camping, I mean we had a tent and grandma and grandpa supplied all the awesome meals. Even in the campground, no course is overlooked! We had such a wonderful time just hanging out, watching the kids, playing some frisbee golf, and just visiting. The plan was for Nick, Rylan and I to sleep in the tent while my parents took Mackenzie back to the farm so she could sleep in a real crib, but things never go as planned do they? My poor baby girl developed a fever Saturday afternoon, so I stayed with her overnight at the farm. By Sunday morning, her fever was gone, but she was having diarrhea which resulted in bad diaper rash. She was still in good spirits, but you could tell she just didn't feel 100%. She was such a trooper though, sweet girl. Her little 'sickness' can be blamed on the 3 top teeth that were all coming in. But in the past week, 2 more have begun working through, so she's got 5 teeth coming in all at once! No wonder she was out of sorts! Seriously though, other than that little "spell" over Labor Day, she's been exactly the same, happy and sweet all the time. I guess she's been sleeping a bit more lately, but obviously I'm not complaining about that! I can only hope she always remains this easy! Here are pictures from our trip. I'm sad that I don't have any of my grandma, she's so awesome!

Kenzie and Grandma, just chillin'. She has a lego person in her mouth, what you're seeing is the top of a cowboy hat on the thing. I wish I had captured her face, she would put it in her mouth and just grin like she knew she was funny. It was great!

Grandma and the kids

The guys, doing 'guy' stuff. (Great Grandpa, Grandpa, Rylan, and Daddy)

Rylan wanted them all to blow on the fire at the same time.

My sweet, sweet boy!

Trying to jump rope, but getting tangled instead.

Mackenzie was fascinated with the lights.

Corn Harvest

We've been busy picking and freezing sweet corn this week, and it's so yummy! I took both kids out to the field yesterday afternoon to pick a bunch and after filling one bag, I realized Mackenzie had lost a shoe somewhere in the field. She was in the backpack carrier so I had no idea where it had fallen off. And I was letting Rylan be the leader, so the path we had taken had no rhyme or reason. It's not a small field either, about 5 acres with long grass all over. It took me 10 minutes, and I had almost given up, but I found the shoe! I also found a binky that I didn't even know we''d lost! We got home and Rylan helped me clean all the corn in the front yard while Nick started cooking, cutting, and bagging it. The weather was perfect, the kids were happy, and we're excited to have so much corn in our freezer!

Me and my corn pickers - Mackenzie kept pulling the tassels off the stalks, little bugger! We joke that she has 20 foot arms, she finds a way to reach EVERYTHING!

My sweet, sweet babies!
The field - not small

Lake & House

I've forgotten to update on the progress of our house, so here it is! I should take more pictures tomorrow because there is a lot more done since these. The roof trusses started going up today, so it's awesome!

Mackenzie and I standing in the front door

Mackenzie and Ace waiting patiently below while we were on the second floor.

The living room

The garage

The whole thing!


We also had our last weekend at the lake.

Rach and Rylan tubing.

Nick and Rylan sailing

While out skiing and wakeboarding, we ran out of gas in the middle of the lake. We flagged someone down and got towed to our place. In this picture, Nick and Rylan were just dragging us the rest of the way to the dock.

Funny Things...

Rylan says lots of funny things, but here are my 2 favorite recent ones. Last weekend when we were camping with my grandparents, my grandma had picked Rylan up and he said, "oh mine gotch, I'm heaby. *sigh*" So cute!

Yesterday, after we had gotten home, the kids were playing in the living room while I was in the bathroom. I could hear Rylan say, "Did you have a good day at daycare? Tell me about daycare. Tell me what happened at daycare." I was thinking how sweet it was that he was asking Mackenzie about her day. (even though they are at the same place all day) So I came into the living room and asked Rylan if he had been talking to Mackenzie. He looked at me funny and said, "No, I was talking to my trucks. My trucks went to daycare." Not as sweet as I thought, but still hilarious!

Mackenzie's New Eyes

First of all, thank you to everyone who left me comments, I still read through them. It's just nice to know that so many people look forward to my updates. It also makes me feel bad that I haven't been updating much lately! So maybe if you keep commenting, it will guilt me enough to keep the updates coming! :)

Our biggest update is that Mackenzie is getting glasses. Shortly after she turned one, we noticed when she was drinking from her sippy cup, her left eye would go cross-eyed. At first, I didn't think anything of it, chalking it up that she was just looking at her cup right in front of her face. But it didn't go away and I started noticing other times when she would be slightly cross-eyed. So I made an appointment with an eye Dr since there are lazy eyes in our family history. It turns out that she doesn't have a lazy eye, but is quite farsighted. (The Dr actually used the word 'severely') On their little scale, a 2.5 and below is nothing to worry about and he found Mackenzie to be a 10-12. We were referred to a specialist to get another opinion and he found the same thing. So yesterday, we got her glasses ordered and they should be here in about a week.

I can't begin to tell you how shocked(and sad) I was to hear all this. Neither Nick or I wear glasses or contacts, so I never even thought our kids would have vision problems. At our first appointment, I honestly figured that he'd tell us that it was no big deal. Obviously no parent wants to hear that their child isn't perfect, so I was crushed. But after a few tears, I decided that we can only move forward and we need to be thankful that it's not something more serious. We can handle glasses. The Dr. told us she will probably grow out of it by the end of high school, so at least it should be fixable. We're told that surprisingly, babies this young usually adjust to their glasses quite easily because their eyes don't have to strain as much so they like to wear them, so hopefully that's the case for us.

So, I'd like to ask you to pray that Mackenzie's eyes respond well to the glasses and that we don't run into any other issues. Thank you in advance! When her glasses come in next week, I will post pictures of my adorable baby girl!