Makenna 8 months!

Makenna is getting bigger everyday.  She recognizes high, bye, patty cake, kisses, give me a five, ba ba (bottle), and yum yums (food)!  She says dada and mama and baby talks often.  Of course just like her brother...if she is happily playing it is "da da"  If she is crying and sad it is "ma ma."  lol  She is scooting forward and backward on her tummy, but has yet to crawl normally.  Just army crawling for her!  Here she is in the crawl stance for her 8 month picture....but that is all she does.  She gets in the stance and then drops to her belly to army crawl around!  She has brought much joy to the Starits' household and we love her so much!

Still no teeth at 8 months but she loves to bite down on her gums and can often be spotted with a toothless grandma grin! :)

Noah's Birthday

Noah officially turned three years old!!  It is hard to imagine that my extremely tiny, four weeks early, purplish colored, cone head newborn baby is now a big three year old boy! :)  He had a great time with family and friends to celebrate his party Lightning McQueen style.  He had many guests including many friends and he had a lot of fun.  The day of his birthday was super windy and chilly and I planned to have a lot of it outside, but it was a good time anyway!

 It was a Cars themed birthday party so he had to wear his new Cars shirt! ;)

Unfortunately I took most of these decoration pictures after the party! But here is how it was decorated!

We had to have our Organic Fuel to stay hydrated! ;)

This was decorated with balloons as well, but the wind blew them away! lol

The kids had to tow for Cars stickers inside of TowMater's box~! :)

Romane's House of Body Art provided Cars tattoos!

This was Noah's favorite!  You were able to put tires on your Car (Luigi's Casa Della Tires) and then decorate it!

I think everybody had a good time, especially Noah!  Just a little blurb about Noah.  He is still so smart and enjoys coloring, puzzles, games, and of course the movies Cars and Cars 2! :)  He still loves to go to Cabellas and often says:  "We haven't been going to Cabellas in a long time."  He loves to hang out with his little group of friends and asks almost everyday if he is going to see them.  He is a very happy little guy and tries to be a good big brother to his sister.  We sure love him and are so thankful to have him in our family.

Wicked!

This post is a little out of order, but I was able to go watch the musical Wicked at ASU Gammage.   We went on March 2nd and it was AMAZING.  I went with my mom, brother Jeff, and step sister Jessica.  We started the great evening with In and Out, which is always yummy!  Then we walked around and killed some time before getting to our seats.  From start to finish the musical was awesome.  Of course afterwards I had to have the soundtrack and have it on repeat!  I highly recommend going if you ever get the chance!

Noah's Birthday Prelude :)

Noah had his birthday party on Saturday, April 14th.  He didn't turn 3 until the 17th, but that was a Tuesday and not a good day for a party. ;)  Of course it had to be a "Lightning McQueen" party.  He is still obsessed with the movie Cars.  I will post more about the party later.  But I just wanted to show his first three birthday's and how much he has grown!  I can't believe he is more like a little boy now and not so much a baby.  It's been an awesome three years! :)

Easter

This Easter was a lot of fun!  We started it the Friday before Easter with a barbecue and Easter egg hunt with our friends.  Noah and I hang out with the same bunch of mommies and their super cute kids a couple times a week.  They have fun together and enjoyed their Easter egg hunt and had a great time at the park.  I like how Makenna is putting her hand on Noah.  When all the moms got up to take the picture and the kids started gathering around Makenna, she started freaking out.  I hollered for Noah to sit by her.  Upon seeing her brother, she quickly put her hand on his leg as if to say, "Oh good, I recognize you.  Please don't leave me too."  Her protective big brother was there to help her.  :)

Then on Easter Sunday, we were sure to document MKs first Easter with a picture and then took one of both kids with their baskets.  The Easter bunny was very good to both of them!

After we opened our baskets we headed to Tucson to spend Easter day with Grandma and Grandpa Starits.  Cousin Morgan was there and Noah had fun having another Easter egg hunt and getting more fun stuff.  It was a great day!

And since I didn't blog for the first years of Noah's life here is his Easter shot from last year.  He sure has grown since then!

Makenna 7 months

Makenna is getting bigger and more fun.  She will wave and clap her hands.  She smiles all the time!  She is a super great nap taker and has just begun to sleep continuously through the night.  We are so lucky to have such an easy baby.  Here are her stats:
16 pounds 4 ounces
29 1/2 inches long
45th percentile for weight and length

Noah ranged from 6th percentile to 25th percentile.  Shes definitely bigger than her brother so far. :)

Makenna's Blessing Day

I have recently realized that I never blogged about Makenna's blessing day.  So this post is definitely out of order date wise, but nevertheless extremely important!  I would rather not include the following family picture because I still look like a huge whale, but at least I know I've lost lots of weight since this picture was taken! ha ha  I truly wish that I could just gain the sparing 15 pounds during pregnancy and have nothing, but a super cute belly, but unfortunately that has not been the case now for two pregnancies of mine...I am sure my next ones will be the same too.  Erika pregnant = Erika super huge and fat.

But anyways back to the blessing!  It was a wonderful day.  We had church at 8:00 in the morning and since Tommy is the Executive Secretary at church right now he has bishopric meetings before church.  So I had to usually have to get the kids and myself ready for church super early in the morning.  Especially when church was at 8:00 I think I was more late than on time...but since January we now go at 10:00 and my track record for being on time is much better.  Well because my baby had to have her super adorable, white blessing dress with matching bow, and we all had to look extra good I was running late.  Tommy was freaking out, pacing and perspiring by the door.  He was sure that I would be late to Makenna's blessing, but I made it to Sacrament meeting in the nick of time.  Tommy gave her a beautiful blessing, in which I was able to catch most of.  Kind of hard to wrestle a two year old in church and hear every word that's being spoken, but from what I caught it was very nice.  I even went up and bore my testimony, nevermind I looked like Shamoo the whale, I was able to express my gratitude for the precious new blessing we received in Makenna among some other things.  I ended up cutting my testimony short as Makenna started crying, loudly, making it hard to concentrate. :)  Afterwards everybody came to my house and since it was still morning time we served our guests breakfast.  I made a yummy bacon and potato breakfast casserole and french toast.  I think everyone enjoyed themselves.  I know that Noah did, or at least he definitely found interesting ways of entertaining himself!

Here is Daddy and Makenna.  We sure love her and are so happy to have her in our family and that we could share this special day with her!