Baby Update!

Makenna is getting bigger and bigger.  At her 2 month check up she was 12 pounds 4 ounces and 21 1/2 inches.  This put her in the 75th percentile! The highest Noah ever was...was the 25th percentile! lol.  She is still a pretty good baby.  I feel bad because she always seems to be gassy.  Hopefully as she gets older her stomach will get stronger and she will be able to handle milk better.  Her 2nd month was spent just getting bigger.  She did smile a lot more and laughed a couple of times.  At two months Daddy was the first to make her laugh.  There was something that happened ONCE and then never again, but was pretty cool.  My mom and brother Jeff were talking to her and they kept saying "Hiii,"  "Hii,"  to her....well sure enough if she did not say "Hiiii" right back.  I am not joking at two months old! lol  If I did not have them as witnesses I don't think anybody would have believed me.  Of course she has never even come close to doing something like that again, but I think she said her first word at two months old! lol She also started wanting to be standing on her feet a bit more.

At three months she started reaching for toys and trying to put toys and her blankets in her mouth. :)  She is always sucking on her hands and is already a slobber bucket just like her brother was.  She is a joy! Here's her three month shot and then one of her helping daddy with homework.

 Noah is doing good too.  He helps me with his sister by playing with her and talking to her.  He thinks in order to talk to Makenna he has to be as close to her face as possible though.  And he is often pulling on her arms and hands a bit rougher than I would like.  But she is a trooper and tries to get him back...take a look. She is already holding her own! :) ha ha

Noah is learning more every day and talking even more too.  The other day he told me, "Mom I love you so much."  It warmed my heart.  He has recently learned what the words man, woman, boy, and girl mean.  And he is such a trickster.  With a mischievous smile he says mom, you are a man and daddy's a woman.  Then he laughs because he knows he got it wrong. He jokes with things like that all of the time.  He is a sweet kid who loves to joke around.

It is soo hard trying to get pictures of them both looking at the camera and smiling.  Hopefully for Christmas cards we will be able to get at least one!  I love my children sooo much!

My Little Man and Some Great Pics!

I decided I would write a little bit about my little guy because Makenna got her own little post and I figured I need to write more about him too.

He is 2 and 1/2 years old and makes me crazy and laugh pretty much every day!  I know he is mine, but that aside you cannot help but notice that Noah is extremely smart for his age.  He talks quite a bit more than other children his age and actually has since he was around 22 months.  I think it is because he has an excellent memory and does not forget anything.  This helps with his vocabulary, which is pretty extensive for a two year old.  He loves puzzles, coloring, and the movie Cars.  We decorated his big boy room with Cars and his bed is Cars.  He also loves Barney.  He is a bit stubborn, but super sweet too and we wouldn't have him any other way.

Here are some cute phrases that Noah has said recently:

• We live near a farming community and it occasionally smells strongly of manure. :)  One day in particular Tommy and I were commenting on the smell and Noah says, "Hmm it smells like cow farts out here."  Tommy and I busted out laughing.
• When Makenna still had her umbilical cord stub Noah noticed it for the first time when I was changing her and was astonished.  He had a concerned and grossed out look on his face and gasped, "Mama, somethings wrong with her pee pee."  Another thing that had me laughing!

He is such a fun little boy and I'm so glad he is mine!
We were lucky and extremely fortunate enough to have a lady in our ward take a few practice shots with her really nice camera.  The pictures turned out soo good!  I'm not sure she needs to practice anymore. She took the pictures of Noah above and here are a few of my favorites of Makenna:

Pumpkin Patch!

On October 22nd we decided to go to a pumpkin patch.  We ventured to the Tolmachoff Pumpkin Patch because it was a little closer to home. We arrived a little before noon, which happened to be when it was really hot outside. Definitely won't do that again, it was just a bit too hot!   We will be sure we get there first thing in the morning and are finished by noon next time.  Noah had a lot of fun though.  He was able to pet farm animals, play in dried corn, go down a slide made out of a trough, go through a corn maze, ride a train, and some other fun little things.  He definitely had a lot of fun.

It was interesting...he was scared to come close to the chickens, but did not hesitate to go up and feed a pony. Who knows? lol  He liked the little goats too.

His most favorite attraction was to climb little ladder steps up a small barn and then go down the trough slide.  There were a lot of kids in that and he loves to be around other kids, so it was right up his alley.  You could hear his loud laugh above the other kids.  He must take after him mommy, who is also known for her loud laugh! :)  Hopefully it won't get him in trouble in school as much as it got me!  Although I'm sure my sweet boy will never talk and laugh during class when he isn't supposed to, right? :)

Anyways, our first pumpkin patch was a lot of fun, if not a bit hot!  We decided to get a cheaper pumpkin somewhere else, but Noah had fun looking at the pumpkins.  We decided to put Noah on the train by himself, and he was fine until he could not see us anymore and then he started crying and crying for his mom.  So the lady pulling the train had to stop and she had him ride with her the rest of the ride.  Hopefully next year he will be brave enough to do it by himself! :) 

Makenna had fun too, she mostly just stayed in the stroller soaking up the hot sun.  All in all it was a pretty fun time!

Here are a few more picture of our day!

Mini Corn Maze

John Deere