Sunday, March 24, 2013

Catch-up...Elaina and McKay

It's been a while since any of you have seen Elaina and McKay, so this blog will be me telling you all the milestones they've hit since Christmas along with some pictures.

Elaina is a very talkative girl! Too bad I'm the only one who understands her :) She says just about everything now, but every once in a while she'll ask me what the name of something is. Her favorite phrases are probably "Mommy, I'm not tired." and "Laina so hungry, Laina wants some treats!" She really likes to play pretend and go outside with McKay. She has a new friend though named Daniel, who she really likes. Daniel is the little boy who lives next door, and goes to nursery with Elaina. They hold hands in Nursery and even try to dance with each other. When I asked Elaina if she liked Daniel, she said, "I LOVE Daniel." So cute...But even with Daniel right next door, Elaina's favorite playmate is McKay. She asks for McKay when I put him down for his nap, and bugs me to wake him up for her. I love how well they play together. Here's some pictures of Elaina










McKay is so smiley as always. His communication skills are improving, both verbally and physically. He'll bring me his shoes to tell me he needs to go outside, or he'll put his hand in mine to lead me where he wants to go. He knows what "Be soft" means and what "McKay! Get out of there right now!" means, and when he's in trouble, he'll turn toward you, give you a grin and wag his finger at you to indicate "No, No." It's so disarming, I'm not sure how I'm ever going to discipline this boy. He's just so happy! Except when he's not. When he's not, he runs off in the opposite direction, and buries his face in the closest upholstered piece of furniture. He cries for about five seconds, and then goes about doing something else. He's such a character. Words McKay says now are : Bye-Bye, Uh-oh, What's that (whuzzat?), Hi, All done, and momma and dadda of course. Here's some pictures of McKay.








And here's some video of them too!

http://youtu.be/NwNSasyQjAI

http://youtu.be/8GGWIEqsTNs




Catch-up...Our new house finished part I

So we never posted pictures of our house all finished up! We love being out of apartments for the time-being and are so grateful to Heavenly Father for our blessings. Enjoy these pics! Sorry about the lighting...I took them at night :( Lets face it, my house is only worthy of picture-taking when my kids are asleep!




This is the entryway. We haven't done a thing with it yet :)


This is the fireplace in the living room.


Kitchen and Dining Room.


Dining Room.


My Art Project.

That's all the pictures I've got so far. I'll take more of the Bedrooms and outside tomorrow, and see if I can actually post them in  a timely fashion! 

Catch-up...Belated Christmas in Louisiana

So I've been pretty bad at keeping this thing up-to-date, but I will definitely try to do better. After our Christmas trip to Utah, we came back to Louisiana to have our own small Christmas. Elaina loves Christmas, so this was very nice for her! In fact, she still tells me "Merry Christmas, Mommy" when she's feeling particularly lovey. Anyway, here are a couple pictures of us at Christmas time in our house.


I wish we had taken more actual pictures of us at Christmas, but we mostly took video which is on our video camera, which is locked in our office, so I'll be posting that another day probably :) Anyway, we just want to say thank you to everyone who helped us out so much while we were in Utah. You make a crazy trip so much easier! We loved getting to see everyone. We love you all, and Merry Christmas!