This month officially marks McKinley's last month as a 1-year old! We love her so much and are so happy to have her in our lives! She is so much fun and doing so many new, fun things! She loves to play and be active! Here she is playing at the Children's Museums and an indoor playground (it's been too hot to play outside as of late!)
Another thing she has really taken to lately is stickers! She loves putting stickers everywhere, especially all over me & Travis :) Another thing she has really gotten into lately is coloring. She always asks to color and can spend a good 10-15 minutes just coloring in her coloring books (which is quite a while for one activity for a toddler!)
We did have a few cooler days in July, so we took advantage of those days and headed to the park. McKinley decided she was too big for the baby swing and would only swing on the big-kid swings. She did a good job hanging on and loved it!
Another fun, new activity for McKinley that we were able to do this month is go see a movie! She loves Madagascar, so I thought it'd be fun to take her to see Madagascar 3 at the movies. She did good and loved it! We were the only ones in the theater, which was good because she decided she wanted to walk up and down the stairs after watching the movie for a bit. She loved the movie though, and everytime she sees this pictures she says, "show, animas!" I think she wants to go back and see another movie there!
McKinley loves to get out and go places during the day. One of her favorite places to go is to the grocery store! Especially HyVee! At HyVee they have a car shopping cart that she gets to sit in and drive while I push the cart around. They also have free cookies there, that she loves and asks for every time we go! She also gets to ride on this horsey at the end of our shopping trip! She knows what HyVee looks like and every time we pull up she gets to excited and squeals, "HyVee" and asks to go there when I tell her we're going to the store. She also knows what many other places around town look like and whenever we pass by them she says what's there. She knows where we get ice cream and donuts of course! She knows the park, the library, the Y, the children's museums, and the McDonald's play place. She also knows she gets stickers at Target and they have the big balls outside which she thinks are great! She also knows where Home Depot is and always says, "Dada, work!" when we see it.
Another thing McKinley has really started enjoying even more lately is dressing up! She loves to put on hats, jewelery, sunglasses and still loves to wear mine and Travis's shoes around the house. She's even gotten pretty good at walking around in my heels! I'm pretty impressed, she's definitely a girly girl! She even has a princess dress she likes to put on and says, "princess" when she has it on. She has really started to love princesses and even knows who Belle and Ariel are.
McKinley still loves kids and has a few friends/cousins that she loves to see and talk about all the time! Of course she still loves Mya and Madison. She still calls Mya, "MyMy" but recently started calling Madison her full name, "Maisen" instead of just "Ma", like she used to call her. We got to go to Madison's first birthday party which was a blast for McKinley. There were so many kids there and her 2 best friends, how could that not be a great time for McKinley! McKinley had fun helping me pick out Madison's birthday present. And when she saw the bag she knew it was for Madison and would let me know who the present was for! Her other friends that she likes to talk about are Dane, Evyn and Trey. She knows them from Nursery and we also sometimes see them at the Y in the child watch which McKinley loves! She always asks me if there going to be there when we go to church or go to the Y. She's always so excited to see them when they are there!
We've still just been enjoying the summer time around here. We've been swimming to keep cool and playing outside when we can beat the heat. McKinley likes to pick flowers outside and picked one for me, it was sweet :)
I can't believe this little girl has already been in our life almost 2-years! Expect a fun 2-year old post and fun 2-year old Zoo Animal birthday party pictures next month!
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