Mackenzie: 10 Month Update

Mackenzie is 10 months old! Her birthday is coming up fast, and I can't believe it. 

Over the last month Kenzie has gotten a lot more mobile, and her favorite thing is the walker. She crashes around the kitchen in that thing, and has recently learned she can make it down the hallway into her sisters room too. Basically, she follows her sister anywhere around the house. 

Kenzie still loves to eat any form of baby food, except the chunky kind. This kid is SO not ready for table food. She gags when I give her a teething tablet! We've also tried Gerber puffs, and that didn't go so well. She's just content to stick with baby food, and we'll keep trying every week or so. 

So far she hasn't pulled herself up to standing yet, but I did catch her on her knees the other day digging through the Lego bin. Progress! I think she's gotten a slower start with moving around because she got so big so fast. 

Here's how other things are going...

Mackenzie Likes
Following her sister
Leaving surprise puke piles all around the living room
Running over people while in the walker
Trying to escape the baby gate
Giggling with her sister
Playing with whatever she can get her hands on
Staring people down...don't take it personal, she's a serious baby
Grabbing food that isn't hers off the table
Banging her head against the couch when she's tired
Bath time with her sister 

Mackenzie Doesn't Like
When people leave the room, especially her sister
Staying quiet during Relief Society
Sleeping In
Real people food

We sure love our sweet girl! She has the sweetest disposition, and I love getting to spend my days with her. We took the girls out the eat last weekend, and we had two separate instances where people came over to our table just to tell us how cute she is. We agree! 

I'm already excitedly planning her first birthday in a few months, 
its going to be such a fun day! 

Marley Stories: December

Marley is such a silly girl! These are the funny things she did or said during December. 

Right now Marley really likes kicking a ball around and pretending to score goals. The only thing is, she calls it scoring a "gourd." I tried correcting her awhile ago, and she got VERY mad. So now she runs around the house shouting, "Mommy, I scored a gourd!!!"

Marley is still going through her phase where she loves pretending to go places. She puts on socks, sometimes shoes, or a hat and says goodbye as she walks towards the door. The other day though, she got herself all bundled up and said, "Bye Mommy! Have a good Christmas!!"

Thanks to "The Cat in the Hat Knows a lot about Christmas," Marley does this bit where she pretends to be an elephant. She comes up to me and says "Eeeeew! What's that Smell?" And I say I don't know what it is, and she replies with, "Its lion poop!"

Marley, Kenzie and I were in the kitchen having dinner and Kenzie was being super loud and crazy. She was crashing around the room in the walker and squealing super loud. She did something that made me say, "Oh geeze!" And then Marley responded "No, not Jesus!" 

Now that Marley is sleeping in an actual bed, I've been working with her on saying prayers. She loves kneeling by her bed and ALWAYS reminds me that we need to do it. Normally she just repeats what I say, but recently I told her that she should do it, and this is what she said ALL on her own:

"Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for our family. Keep them safe. Help us to be good and nice. Amen."

A few days before Christmas, we went to visit my Aunt Bonnie and her family. While we were sitting in her living room visiting, Marley kept asking me for a pencil. I figured she had seen one someone in the room, but didn't think much of it. Well, eventually we realized that when she said pencil, she really wanted to play with these plastic ornaments in a jar. When we tried to correct her and tell her they weren't pencils, they were ornaments...she got REALLY mad. I have NO idea where that came from.  

The other night, Kenzie got really fussy when I set her down and left the room. She was crying and screaming, but when I came back and made a face at her, she smiled really big. After Kenzie did that, Marley yelled, "She's happy ever after!" 

On my birthday, when Marley woke up I went into her room to get her in the morning and told her what day it was. She gasped and got REALLY excited. Then I asked her what we should do for my birthday and she paused for a minute and thought really hard. Then she responded with, "Blow candles!" 

Marley LOVES to sing. But she gets the words wrong a lot.
Here are some misheard Toddler Song Lyrics:

"Row Row Row your boat, gently down the STREET."

"Sleep in HAPPILY peace, Sleep in HAPPILY peace."

"Sing sweet NIGHT IN SCALE, sing sweet NIGHT IN SCALE"

"Follow the prophet, JESUS the way"
(Supposed to be "He knows the way" for those who aren't LDS)

"IPSY IPSY spider went up the water spout."