Oh to be One Year old...

After dinner tonight we...

-Did the dishes. Mckenna helped...
-I swept up the rice and goldfish she spilled. She helped...
-Finally I gave her a Lysol wipe to wipe down the chairs, cupboards and doors. That is her job while I am cleaning. And, as you can see, she was happy as could be (please excuse the crazy hair. Like most one year olds she took her ponytail out during nap time).



In other news... I forgot to mention Mckenna's new pets in my last post! She is now a proud owner of a..............
FISH TANK and 6 fish! She LOVES her fish. She feeds them everyday. We tried to get her to name them and she named them all "name". I think we will have to wait awhile to give them real names. We started out with 7, but one died. Ewww... Good thing Petsmart takes them back!
A couple funny/gross fish tank stories--- Mckenna heard me tell Jeff something about the algae-eater. A couple of days later we were in the car talking about the fish and Mckenna randomly said "Algae fish funny". I guess she really does listen when we talk :-)

Last night Jeff was helping her feed the fish. I was in the kitchen, but wasn't really paying attention. Jeff turned his back to put the fish food away and the next thing I hear is the following conversation

Jeff: "Did you just eat the fishies' food?"
Mckenna: "Uhmm"
Jeff: "Mckenna did you REALLY eat the fishies' food???"
Mckenna: nods her head

Me: Hiding my face from Mckenna, laughing hysterically because my child just ate STINKY fish flakes!!!!

Jeff: "Mckenna fish food is for fish, not for Mckenna. Fish food is YUCKY!"
Mckenna: "Yucky!"


UGHHH! She ate fish food! If you haven't smelled fish food before then you are not missing much, it STINKS!!! I still can not believe that she actually ate it! What a silly girl!


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Oh yeah, we also had a great break through with her today. We were telling her that next week we are going to bring a baby brother home to our house. She was just listened. About 10 minutes later Jeff and I were talking about something else and all of a sudden we can hear Mckenna just jabbering to herself. We started to listen and realized that she was talking about "baby brother" and his "binky". We still aren't sure that she understands anything at all about having a sibling, but for now talking about a baby and a binky are great!

Mckenna

Oh how we love our little Mckenna...

We have been having lots of fun over the last couple of months! Mckenna has grown up SO much and we have loved MOST minutes of it :-)

Here is what we have been up too the last couple of weeks...

** Mckenna got a bubble machine (Mommy DESPISES blowing bubbles!). We had friends over to play in our beautiful backyard and enjoy the bubbles. Chandler and Ryan are two of her best buddies!

**Mckenna's cousin, Jaci, had her first sleepover at our house. Mckenna LOVES her cousins!
**My great friend, Amber, and sister-in-law, Jana, threw me the most ADORABLE baby shower!! They "SPRINKLED" me with gifts and love :-) Aren't the umbrellas and colors so super adorable? The food was tasty too!I look SO awkward in this picture, but I had to post it for the umbrella :-)

**Grandma and Grandpa Jones visited. They came to watch Jana and Chad's kids while the lucky couple went on a cruise. We got to spend lots of time visiting Grandma and Grandpa AND playing hard with Jaxon!
Also ignore how funny I look in this picture. The self-timer on my camera wasn't working how I wanted it too (I only had 2 seconds to run, haha) But this is a pretty good belly picture. Huge huh?

**The weather has been GORGEOUS!!!! You have no idea! We open our windows every morning, Kenna plays outside several times a day, our yard looks AmAzInG and the sun is so cheery!!!!! One afternoon while Jeff was watering the flowers we let Mckenna play in the water. She thought it was great for about 8 minutes until the wind started to blow- brrrr!

**Daddy built Mckenna a........ SANDBOX! Yay! No more digging in the garden! Jeff and Mckenna built it in the daytime and then we played in it for FHE. Mckenna thought it was great and she ran out there first thing this morning to play!

**Mckenna is growing up sooo much! She eats a TON. This was her at breakfast this morning (Daddy bought us donuts!!!) YUM!
**Lastly, I love this view while I am doing the dishes! She loves this chair. She also loves our glider chair. She has learned that we "take turns" and lately if Jeff or I are sitting in one of those chairs she will walk up to us and say "turn, turn" or "Kenna turn". If we don't let her have a turn right at that moment she will say "MOVE!" What a kid! Oh how I love her!

KITTY...We need HELLLLLP!

Every kid gets attached to something, right? When I was a nanny the parents had SEVERAL of the oldest boy's favorite blanket. They probably had 6! At the time I didn't understand their reasoning like I do now...

Last night was the second night this week that Mckenna woke up (around 1am) crying for KITTY. The first night kitty was hidden under the blanket and last night kitty was in the dryer (she needed a bath, BADLY) .... Last night we realized WE NEED MULTIPLE KITTIES!!!

Our problem- this is where you all come in- we can't find kitty at any Target around us (we have tried 4). SO, if any of you happen to be at a Target in the next couple of weeks will you PLEASE check the stuffed animal section for KITTY...PLEASE! She is Circo brand, black and white, and floppy. We will pay you back (and would even pay shipping)!!! If you could find multiple kitties that is even better!!!!!!!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

I know this is a bad picture, but do you see how much she LOVES this Kitty? :-)