Cousin fun!

Ahhh - look who finally decided to take an afternoon nap!!  She knew cousin Madison was coming and I told her she needed to rest up.  It worked!!

It is HOT here so we headed to the splash pad in Hartland again.  The girls had a great time.

Spraying each other.

Sitting on the jets.... silly Madison

Madison nailing Oma with the sprayer!

And Makenna....

Cheers!

What a couple cuties

Getting drenched

Trying to get Makenna to pose for a picture....seriously, how cute are those little buns hanging out of her swim suit, though?

Here's what you get when you tell Makenna to pose...

 

Playing....who wants to earn a dollar by finding Daddy's wedding ring in his car??  Sadly, there were no winners in this game.... Daddy is in BIG trouble tonight....

Madison reading Makenna her bedtime story.... You know you've read a book a few times when Madison is working so hard to sound out each word and read the book and Makenna has it memorized and keeps helping her with the words she is struggling with by shouting them out.  Smarty pants!  It was pretty funny to listen to....

 

Looking forward to hanging out with you girls again tomorrow!!

Weekend Fun!

Saturday Daddy and Makenna had a special day together while Mommy headed up north for a bridal shower.  Daddy took her to her first movie theatre movie - "Monsters Inc University - ty" as Makenna called it.  They had a great time complete with a big bowl of popcorn.

Miss "I don't need a nap" was up to her old tricks again on Friday.  We picked Daddy up from work at 4pm after me struggling with her all afternoon refusing to nap.  By 4:30 this is what she looked like in the backseat as we arrived downtown.  Sassy girl!  I ended up driving around while Daddy got his haircut so she could sleep and then we headed to a dinner place where we could park on the street and eat on the sidewalk right next to our car so we wouldn't have to wake her.  Thankfully she woke up a little while later and wasn't too cranky at all.  In fact, she thought it was pretty cool that she could play in the car while we waited for our food.

 

Love these 2!!

The littlest snowflake.... is getting bigger!

 

At my 32 week ultrasound today, he measured in at 4lbs 4oz!!  He didn't cooperate very well in getting good pictures, but if you look hard enough at this one, you can see his little face.  Looking forward to meeting you in just a few short months, baby boy!!

This week in pictures....

Getting a little custard with Mama

Girls got curls!!  These were her post-French braid curls - aren't they gorgeous?

Chilling with Little McKenna at the water park.  Love these 2 and what a blessing her mommy's friendship has been through infertility and now we share in our Kenna's;)

Pat Patting baby brother

"Decorating" baby brother this morning

silly girl

Practicing our smiles for our photo shoot on Saturday

Tinkerbell helping mommy clean

Being silly at the "brewgame"

Love these Kenna's!

 

Brewgame!! 

 

 

30 week shot!

Her new favorite pose

She's starting to get this pedalling thing down!

State fair time!

Last Friday Daddy took a the day off and we headed to the State Fair!  We had beautiful weather and managed to leave just as it started getting really busy.

Mmm, nothing says State Fair like some mini donuts for breakfast.  Yum!

A little ride down the piggy slide

 

As a side - she wanted to go down the BIG slide but a certain Daddy was the scared one that chickened out - ha!  Too bad mama was pregnant or I would have totally taken her down it.

 

He did, however, make it up to her by playing on the wiggle cars with her!  She loved it!  Might have to add this one to her Christmas list.

 

Mmm, good old state fair lunch - corn dog & applesauce.

 

Mama, of course, went with the Krispy Kreme cheeseburger.  I ate it too fast to get a picture;)  Ha!  I will say that it tastes even better while pregnant.  I was tempted to get a second, but went with the fried cheese instead.  Tasty!

We did let her go on one ride and she picked the dinosaurs. 

Weee!

We knew one of her teachers and her friends from school were going to the fair on Friday, too, but it is SO busy I didn't think we'd run into either of them.  Makenna, on the other hand, was convinced we could find them and spent most of our day whining  asking where they were. 

 

She was sooo very excited to run into her friend Eve right before we left!

 

 

PS - yes, the state fair is supposed to be about the animals but true to character when we went to see the animals she was too excited to find her friends to care about the animals at all.  Oh well! 

Petting Zoo with Annikana

Elizabeth had a g.roupon for a cute little petting zoo in East Troy and we made the trip there this morning with Annika. 

 

Makenna wasn't so sure about most of the animals....she definitely isn't an animal lover, but once we got out the brushes, she had a good time grooming this little pony.

She probably had the most fun racing little plastic ducks down this piping.

I was impressed when she was brave enough to get in and milk this cow, though!  I think having Annikana there to show her how and do it with her helped.

Weeeee

She went on her first pony ride, too!  I think it is safe to say we won't be buying her a pony anytime soon - she wasn't too impressed by it and asked that the lady let her down after only one lap...

She thought the goats all tickled her fingers when she fed them

She didn't really want much to do with the baby kittens once they were on her lap.  She loved the idea of holding one until we put it in her lap and then she was done after just a second.  Ha!

 

We had a great time hanging out with our friends today!!  We love you guys!!

Baby names....

So we've been working diligently on a name for the littlest snowflake - Daddy has read through the book of 100,000 names and narrowed it down to 25 of his favorite (and yes, he did read through ALL of them).  I, personally, have it narrowed down to 2 or 3 but we really aren't ready to commit to anything yet.  We'll ask Makenna all the time what she is going to name her brother and here is what she has come up with so far:

1)  Marshmallow
2)  Goggles
3)  Rock
4)  Brewer
5)  and the one she goes to 99% of the time.... "a boy"

In the past week or so she has decided that there is a baby growing in her belly too.  She likes to show me it and tell me that her name is Ariel.  Silly girl!

Brave girl!!

I have to rewind a little bit to the story of the gray chair.... when we first switched her to her toddler bed, she INSISTED that we lay in her gray chair until she fall asleep.  At the time, we were so thrilled that she would stay in her bed and go to sleep if we laid in her gray chair (and we were all SO overtired and just wanted her to sleep) that we obliged.  Unfortunately, this has turned into a REALLY bad habit and she got to the point where if she woke up in the middle of the night she wouldn't go back to sleep until mommy or daddy got up and laid in her gray chair again.  We tried to incentivize (i.e. bribe) her by telling her that if she was brave and stayed in there without us in the gray chair, we would take her to the Disney store and she could pick out a prize.  While she likes the idea of earning her prize, she would tell us every night "soon I will be brave".  She cracks me up;) I really wanted to break her of this before the baby comes so last night I decided it was finally time to just let her cry it out and be brave.  So, Daddy and I tucked her in and said our good nights and shut the door.  And she SCREAMED and SCREAMED and SCREAMED.  Daddy went into the office with the door shut and music on so he couldn't hear her (which is probably a good thing because I'm sure he would have cracked when she started with the "Daaaaady, I need you!  Daaaady, please come hold me!!".  After an hour, she did finally fall asleep on her own AND she didn't wake us up all night!!  YAY!!  I will say that when she woke up she was so very proud of herself for being brave (even if it was forced bravery - ha ha!).  The funniest part is that she has the bedtime rules so ingrained in her head that she can't get out of her bed that even with all the screaming, she never attempted to get out of her bed once.  Good girl!

Here's to hoping for more bravery tonight!!

First haircut . . . I blame Mulan

Someone decided to give herself her first haircut at school on Monday.  I've been telling her for awhile now that her hair is getting so long we'll have to get it cut soon....not quite what I had in mind.  Thankfully daddy picked her up from school because I'm pretty sure I would have started balling in front of her teacher.  Ha! I did tear up when they told me at dinner. Makenna felt horrible and started crying a little too.  Later that night she told me she was just cutting her hair like Mulan does with the sword.  Sassy girl!

Sky gazing with daddy