Mack and her infamous (already) pink uggs!

I took Mack shopping on monday and everywhere we went her and her uggs were the talk for everyone! She has always had an outgoing personality, but lately she wants to make sure everyone hears her ;) then pair that up with her boots and you have quite the little "ham"!!!

Christmas, Santa, Family & Fun!!!!

Well our first Christmas has come and gone....all that planning and its already over!!! Mackenna was amazing and had so much fun...we think she is still trying to catch up on sleep (us too!)

We had so much fun celebrating with our families and sharing the many firsts with everyone! She got so many things, it was a bit overwhelming :) santa even came for her...she must have been a really good girl!!!! And to our surprise she also woke up christmas morning with her first tooth cut through!!!! Our little girl is not so little anymore!

Here are a few of our favorite pictures from our 2 big days..
Happy New Year!!!
Nate, Kara & Mackenna

BIG GIRL!!!!

Mackenna is officially sitting up on her own!!!! She used to be in the tripod position, but just today now she's sitting up and able to balance :) SO PROUD OF HER...such a big girl!!!

Kenna Meister is 6 months old!!!!!

Today marks Mackenna's 6 month "birthday"!!! WOW, where is the time going????

To ring it in, we took her for her well check and things are looking awesome. She is now 16 lbs 12 oz and 27 inches long! She is developing and growing right on par for her growth chart and we couldn't be happier at the healthy little girl we have been blessed with. She graduated to Level 2 for food, so tonight we went to Target and bought some mighty yummy kinds and gave her her first taste of "pear, strawberry granola"...nummy nummy!

She is sitting up, well, more like supporting herself like a tripod, LOL and making all kinds of new sounds! She started taking 2 hour naps at least once a day now, so I know Daddy is loving that and her most favorite thing to do right now is grab for anything she sees, especially mama's hair! Time to start baby proofing!!!!

She gives mama quite the kisses these days and usually has only been giving to me, but gave some to Grandma just recently :) she is quite the lover girl! She loves to play with her Daddy and they have so many of their own little songs they sing; she is so lucky to have a Daddy like him. She loves to be read to and we've been enjoying discovering new books with her!

With Christmas right around the corner, we decided to do Christmas themed 6 months photos!!! These are just a few of our favorites! We are so excited to have our first Christmas with our little girl and wish you all a joyful holiday season!!!!

Happy Holidays xoxo
~ The Schliemans ~

Mackenna's 1st Visit with Santa!

We took Mackenna to see Santa last night and she did such a good job! Now next year, I'm guessing that may not be the case...

We are very excited for her 1st Christmas!
Love,
Nate, Kara and Kenna

BIG DAY

Today was a BIG day for Mackenna Elizabeth! SHE WAS BAPTIZED! She had her whole family there and a bunch of extended family too; we were so grateful they were all there to celebrate this joyous day for our baby girl! THANK YOU!!!!

Lots of Love,
Nate and Kara

Happy 5 Months Baby Girl

Mackenna was 5 months last week, we can't believe it!!! So much has happened in a month! She's rolling over (officially Nov 6th, 2010) and now we can't stop her. She's finally figured out that she can roll herself back over to her back too, but she's not the best at that quite yet. She's drooling like crazy...could it be teeth??? She's had 2 ear infections, but thankfully they cleared up right away and she's doing well! She's starting to really grab for her toys and any day now she'll be sitting up on her own as she's basically our little tri-pod right now holding herself with her long arms!

One of the biggest changes is how well she's eating baby food these days; she LOVES her bananas, but even more, she LOVES her PEAS and GREEN BEANS!!! Weird, we know :) But we're not complaining. The most fun thing these days is her realizing that the noise she hears is her own voice! Now that she knows it's hers, she yells, screams, laughs and talks all the time...it's music to our ears (well most of the time!)

Of course her smile is still lighting up the room and is as infectious as ever! We feel so blessed every day with her in our lives and can't believe how big she is getting...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

OUR LITTLE MONKEY!

Our Singing Little Baby!

Had to share what we've been so lucky to hear these days! We think we have a little singer on our hands...you be the judge :)

Pumpkins for the Punkin!

We headed out to Emma Krumbee's this afternoon to do some pumpkin picking for Mackenna! It was raining when we got there, so we sat inside the little restaurant/general store and had some yummy apple pie while Mackenna had some lunch. When it finally let up, we ventured outside to hop on the tractor ride to the pumpkin patch where we found some GREAT pumpkins and got some FUN pictures too! Once we were done with that, we walked around at the Scarecrow Displays and fed a goat at the petting zoo! We had a great afternoon and hope Mackenna did too on her 1st pumpkin patch adventure!

A little fruit and veggies...

Mackenna had a BIG night with her first taste of apples and sweet potatoes...she LOVED them!!!!!

A little fall photo shoot...

Our little peanut...

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Breezy Point

We headed up to Breezy Point this past weekend to stay at Uncle Tom and Aunt Linda's House....it was a great time and we enjoyed our first mini family vacation and a weekend away, just the 3 of us; and Wrigley too of course! We went to the shops in Nisswa and walked around and found a cute little coffee shop, we drove around on the ATV for a little while before Nate took off like a crazy man on his own :) and we had a nice cozy bonfire where we read our story for the night! Kenna had a great time and while we were up there, she turned 4 months old!!! We can't wait to go up there again soon!

I'm 4 Months!!!!!

Update!!!!

It's been awhile since we've given a good ole update about lil Mackenna!!! She'll be 4 months this coming Saturday; we cannot believe how fast this is all going!!!!!! She's made some pretty big strides as of late:

* Laughing
* Coo-ing or as we like to consider it, talking :)
* She's found her hands and stares at them like they are aliens
* Chews on EVERYTHING, but mostly her hands
* Smiling
* Kicking and turning her hips - we know she's about to flip soon!
* Her head control is about there and she's almost ready to hold it on her own with zero help
* Trying rice cereal!!!!
* Sleeping 7-9 hours a night - YAHOO!!!!
* Grabbing for things

We're sure we're missing a few, but these are the ones that are very apparent these days!!!!

We had to take her to the doctor on Friday as we had a feeling she was coming down with something and wanted to get her in before the weekend...She got to meet her new pediatrician, Dr. Jones, and she loved him (so did mommy and daddy...thank you for the recommendation Grandma and Grandpa Harrison!). He was so kind and gentle and explained everything that was going on. Turns out, she had an on-set of her 1st ear infection, so she's been on antibiotic and will be for 10 days. She's taking it pretty well...Nate would prefer it was his medicine as it's bubblegum flavor and remembers how much he loved that stuff :) She weighed 12 lbs 14 oz and is in the 40th percentile still, but growing and that's all that matters! She got the go ahead while we were there to eat rice cereal for the first time (check out the pics) and did pretty well; things are about to get MESSY!!!!!!

She has her 4 month wellness check and shots on Monday the 18th, so we're anxious to find out all the other milestones she's hit and all that she's about to endure!

Love,
Nate, Kara, Mackenna and Wrigley