5 months!!

Happy 5 months Makenna!!! 

In usual fashion, guess who woke up shortly after midnight to let us know it was her birthday?  She does it every month - totally cracks us up.  Last night it was at 12:20am and she woke up jibber jabbering away - Brad and I both got up and went in her room and her face lit up with smiles and she just kept right on a singing.  I'm pretty sure she was singing "happy birthday to me!" 

Here is a video of her from today:

And some fun pics from today:

Such a happy girl!!

Killer eyes! 

 Pure chubbs!

 So pretty

Look at me, I know I'm SO stinkin cute!

Some fun facts:

-I am now officially in my crib.  I had started getting up once during the middle of the night again anyway for a feeding so mommy and daddy decided to put me in the crib and see what happened.  I did great the first night - no spitup on my pretty hair in the morning and I only got up once.  Since then, I haven't been doing quite as well, but I have a bit of a bug and that might be part of it, too. 

-I am a SUPER happy baby! 

-I love to spit all over the place - daddy taught me how to stick out my tongue and make a spitty mess and I can't stop.  Lots of nights I will wake up in my crib and just lay there spitting all over the place:) 

-I'm a CHUNK - last week's doctor visit I measured in at 16lbs 8oz! 

-My neck is slowly getting stronger - doctor thinks I have torticollis (where one sides neck muscles are shorter than the other) so I start PT to help stretch them out and straighten out my neck this Friday. 

-I love my exersaucer!  It lights up and plays fun music - red, yellow and bluuuue!

-I like it when mommy takes me for walks in the baby bjorn.  I can look all around and see the pretty trees

-I am starting to notice Bugsey more.  I will just sit and stare at him when I'm in my bumbo and on a few occassions, I've reached out and grabbed a handful of his fur.

-While I've been giggling for a few months now, I haven't had that big laugh out loud giggle until just this week.  Its the CUTEST thing ever!

-I haven't figured out how to put my feet in my mouth yet, but I sure do like to look at them and try to figure out how to.

My first giggles.....

Great weekend!!

Saturday my cousins Madison, Bryce and Drew came and we went trick or treating

 So stinkin' cute!



 Sunday was my baby dedication - here I am up on stage at church with mommy and daddy. 

We had a big party at my house after the baby dedication - ALL my cousins were there!  Here we are with Great Grandma Cookie Beek. 

 Havin' fun with Auntie Vicki

I LOVE my party dress!! 



Big Day!

Today is Makenna's baby dedication!!

At this hour (2am here), trying to convince the little star of the day (Makenna, not Brad) that she has a big day ahead of her and needs her sleep. So far, its not working. I think she knows she's too cute to need anymore beauty sleep;)

I'd post a pic with this one, but don't want to encourage her to smile at the camera at this hour;).

My chubby little ladybug;)

Out for a nice fall walk

Watchin my tree...

Vote for Makenna

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Look who slept in her crib last night!

And she only got up once during the night at 2:30 and stayed dry (of spit up, that is) too! Yay Makenna!!

Spatula fun!

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Playtime with Lexi

Such pretty girls!!

Fun toy;).

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Pumpkin farm and morning snuggles with daddy...

My little pumpkin....

Today, my good friend Cheryl came over with her little miracle baby and the two of us had a BLAST searching for the perfect pumpkin to carve so we could put our little girls in it for a super cute photo shoot.  LOVE how these turned out!!  Thanks for the awesome photo taking Cheryl!! 

 Wasn't so sure about this at first.....

 Loves it!!

 Seriously, how funny is this one?

 Such cute smiles!!

 I think this one is my fave

 Such a silly girl!



Dancing with daddy....

Love, love, love this pic!!  Makenna was super sleepy and fighting an evening nap - we walked up and down the street in the hopes of getting her a quick catnap before daddy got home so she would be happy for him.  Wouldn't ya know it, as soon as he pulled up she was WIDE awake and all smiles.  She sure loves her daddy!  Here they are dancing as he sings to her.  Look at that chubbs!!  She is just SO stinkin' cute.  He's pretty handsome, too!!  Gosh, I'm a lucky gal!!

Fun in the leaves....

More fun from this week...

M is for Makenna...

We hung out the triplets on Saturday afternoon - what a nut house it was over here with all 4 kiddos!! Amazing what a year can do:)  

 We had a great time cuddling with you, Adelyn, Ellie & Quincy!!  You be good kids for mommy & daddy tonight, ok??

Someone is ready to go!

Bugsey doesn't get many rides in the car now that baby girl is here - you think he's trying to tell us something?
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