Mother's Day!

I had a great first mother's day! More of a mother's weekend thanks to my sweet husband. We went out to eat, my choice of restaurant, on Saturday and went and did some fun things I enjoy! Sunday I woke up to breakfast in bed and then got to go back to sleep while Travis took care of McKinley! Travis and McKinley got me an edible arrangement fruit basket with some yummy fruit, some were even chocolate covered! They also gave me some money to go shopping, one of my favorite past times, which I saved for the following weekend I was with my sisters and my mom in Dallas, one of their favorite past times as well :) It was an enjoyable first Mother's Day! In honor of Mother's Day, I found some pictures that document my journey as a mother so far! (In case you haven't noticed I love to show a progression of things in pictures :)

Here I am, almost ready to embark on the journey of Motherhood!

The moment I became a Mother :)

Showing off my precious baby girl! A proud Mamma :)

One of the best things about being a Mother, all the snuggles!

I have way too much fun dressing my baby girl up :)

See what I mean?

I love reading books to my sweetheart!

Celebrating McKinley's half birthday, the first of many celebrations to come with my precious girl!

Smiling at each other in the mirror, one of our favorite past times!

I love my sweet baby girl! I love being a Mom!

9 months!

McKinley is 9 months old! Boy, time sure has flown! She's getting so big and is not quite such a baby anymore! At 9 months McKinley is:

• Crawling like a crazy person! She crawls any and everywhere! She is getting faster and can maneuver on almost any terrain. She can pull herself up to sitting and standing. She's getting to be quite mobile and is always on the go! We can't keep her still for very long!

• Loves to talk and make noise! Her favorite noise to make right now is "BaBaBaBa". She can make other noises too, that's just the one she makes the most often. I love hearing her talk, it's the cutest thing to walk in and hear her jabbering!

• She is a little social butterfly! She loves smiling and waving at people everywhere we go! She smiles then hides her head in my shoulder pretending like she's shy! She loves seeing people and getting out! Here she is getting out on one of our walks on a warm spring day :)

• She still loves to eat! She's started eating table food and loves almost everything we've given her. She's still getting used to the new textures and new tastes, but is doing so well eating and chewing up new foods. She loves the Gerber puffs, yogurt bites, and pinwheel cookies.

• Waving to everyone! She loves to wave and waves at random people we see when we're out. Her wave isn't a traditional wave, but more of her just moving her fingers in her face. Here's a picture of her cute little wave!

I took McKinley to the doctor today. Her new Doctor here in Lincoln is Dr. Swisher. McKinley really seemed to like him and gave him a lot of smiles and waves! He even gave her a tongue depressor to play with, which made her very happy! He said she looks perfect and is developing perfectly, just what a momma wants to hear :) Here she is at the doctor crawling around in her diaper.

Her 9 month stats are:

Weight: 20 lbs. 4 oz. (75%)
Height: 28 1/4in. (74%)
Head: 18 3/4 in. (99%...hehe)

Cute Cousins!

This past weekend, and the first part of this week we were able to head to Texas for a visit! It was so fun to get to see all of my sisters, their families, my mom & dad and my grandma! One fun thing about getting together with everyone is getting to see the 2 youngest babies, Melia and McKinley together. They're only 2 months apart, so its been fun to see them grow up together. They're finally at an age where they can interact with each other a little bit, so that was so much fun to see. They'd get so happy and smiley when they would see each other! We took some really cute pictures of these two girlies together!

Bath Time!

Crawling cuties!

Playing outside!

Names on their booties!

In matching dresses that I made for them :)

After going through these fun pictures, I went back through and found all of the cute pictures of these 2 cuties together throughout their lives so far! I am sure there are plenty more to come! I'm so excited to watch them grow-up together!

Their first meeting when McKinley was just a week old! (Melia-2 mos. Mck-1 week)

Mommies and our new babies!

Mommies and our babies 2 months later! (Melia-4 mos. Mck-2 mos.)

Christmas cuties! (Melia-6 mos. Mck-4 mos.)

Both crawling now! (Melia- 10 mos., Mck- 8 mos.)

I couldn't leave out this sweet picture of all of the cousins on my side together! I'm so glad McKinley gets to have so many fun cousins to play with on both sides of our family! Oli and Gabby are so sweet with McKinley and love to play with her, just like they do with Melia! They're great big cousins to McKinley and I'm sure she'll love having them around as they all grow-up together!

8 months!

Our sweet little McKinley is 8 months old! She's been changing so much and is getting so big! The biggest change that has happened recently is she has started crawling!! She can make it all the way across the room! She's getting to be quite the little crawler and is getting into everything :)


She still loves to be outside! We like to take her swinging at the park, and she seems to really enjoy it!




Lately she has become such a Momma's girl! If she ever sees me, she starts panting and reaching for me. It's kinda cute, but drives me a little crazy at times too! If I'm ever sitting beside her on the floor she crawls over and pulls herself up in my lap, no question about what she wants!! She loves to smile for me and loves to for me to hold her! I have to sneak around sometimes so she won't see me and want me, so I can get a little break :) Regardless, I'm still glad that she loves her momma, and I love all the snuggles I get in! I love my little momma's girl!!


McKinley is also quite the little eater! She eats cereal for breakfast, a jar of fruit baby food for lunch, a jar of meat and a jar of vegetable baby food for dinner! She likes almost all kinds of baby food too. The only baby food she doesn't like is spinach and green beans... other than that she'll eat the whole jar of everything else! We've also just recently started feeding her non-pureed food. She can eat Gerber puffs and likes them. She also eats the Gerber yogurt bites and likes those too. She's getting better at chewing them up. I've also given her a little bread and bites of different fruits which she loves too. She's quite the eater!

Like Mother Like Daughter

Everyone has said that McKinley looks like her Daddy since the day she was born! I'm fine with that, but I recently found this picture of me as a baby, and I'm thinking she doesn't only look like her Daddy. What do you think...