4 days of Celebration - Part I

Kenna celebrated her first birthday 4 days in a row - it started on June 15th with her big party at daycare!!! She had a special shirt she wore and brought cupcakes to share with her friends. Pati had a big celebration with all her friends, she got her a wonderful present to help celebrate the big moment and Kenna got to have her first smash cake moment :) She was dyed bright pink from the frosting, it was great!!!! Thank you Pati for being so great and taking such good care of our little girl!

Kenna's 1 year check up!

So Kenna's birthday started out with a check up at the doctor's office with Dr. Jones. I felt so guilty taking her on her BIG day, but as everyone told me, she won't remember and it will just be me feeling bad! So I got over it the best I could and tried to remember that!

Her check up went very well! She weighs 21 lbs, 8 oz (55th percentile) and is almost 30 inches long (70th percentile), oh and her 'dome' as Daddy calls it, is in the 90th percentile, so she is right up there and doing fantastic with all of that! She was cleared to begin whole milk and so far she loves it and drinks quite a bit. With 8 teeth now, we were also cleared to begin the wonderful adventure of brushing her teeth (with non fluoride toothpaste of course!) and she does pretty well with that too! Everything else he checked was great and he was so happy to see her; he even danced with her and sang Happy Birthday (he's such a great doc!).

Unfortunately, he did still hear her infantile murmur, so next Thursday, Nate and I are taking her to Children's downtown to have an EKO done on her heart. He let us know that we should not lose sleep over this at all, but just take it as a precaution and if something is wrong, to get it fixed now. He let us know it's the lowest on the scale for murmurs - it's a level I/VI early systolic infantile heart murmur. Of course were nervous as can be, but are anxious to just get the results and move past this! We also have to take her back to the ENT on Tuesday, but I think from the sounds of it, we'll be tube free!!! It's going to be a big week of doc visits, but we're praying and hoping for the BEST possible outcomes!

You're 1!!! Love, mama

Hi Baby Girl!

I can't believe you are 1!!!! The last year has absolutely flown by! I can't believe that just 12 months ago, you blessed my life and said "Hello World!" on June 16th, 2010. You gave me and Daddy a scare since you were 6 weeks early, but we quickly found out you were healthy and just wanted to be here and we couldn't have been more happy on that day! You have been the best thing that's happened to mommy and I love you so so much!!!!

We just got done with 4 days of celebrating YOU and let me tell you...it was AMAZING! Mommy made a "wall of months" to showcase how you've grown over the last year and it was so fun to reflect back on each of those months! You had so many friends and family come to celebrate - so many people love you! You weigh 21lbs and 8oz now and are 30 inches long (tall and skinny as Dr. Jones says!) You're saying mama and da da, but your official first word is HI and you LOVE to say it and love even more the reaction you get from everyone you say it to! It puts the biggest smile on my face! I don't think I've seen such a happy baby...

Mackenna, thank you for being the best little girl and daughter a mommy could ask for. I love you so much and can't wait for the next year and all the years after to watch you grow and to be what I hope is the best mommy in the world to you! You are my angel and I hope you know you'll always be mama's best girl! Happy Birthday Punkin!

Forever and always,
Mama

1 year sneak peak!

We got Mackenna's 1 year photos down a couple weekends ago at the Arboretum with Alicia Maria Photography and WOW, did we get some amazing pictures!!!!!! We are in the decision time stage and trying to figure out what we're going to order, but thought I'd give a sneak peak to what we have to look through...

We can't believe she'll be 1 next Thursday and are so excited for all the festivities!

11 months!

Kenna is 11 months; and we are still looking all around for the time; not sure where it has gone and in shock that we're starting to plan her 1st birthday already!

Lots has been going on these days; here are a few highlights:

* she is officially saying 'Da Da' and 'Mama' along with so many other sounds - we can just tell she's trying to tell us so many things!
* baby food is almost a thing of the past as she would much rather eat big girl food!
* she seems to no longer be interested in her pacifiers which is awesome since we don't have to worry about taking them away from her now!
* she's holding her sippy cup and drinking on her own (and has learned she needs to tip her head and the cup back to get the juice/milk out of it)
* along with the sippy cup, she's very independent with her bottle now and almost always feeds herself now when it comes to the bottle
* no more waking up habitually between 3 and 4:30am every morning - she is OFFICIALLY sleeping from 7:30 - 6am, HOORAY!
* she's beginning to balance on her own and stand for a few seconds before "gracefully" falling to the floor
* she is a speed crawler and getting SO close to taking that first step
* she is way more vocal these days with the help of daycare and all the kids she gets to be with everyday.
* she is exploring like crazy and getting into EVERYTHING (the TP is her new thing!)and she loves to eat random pieces of carpet (if you've ever gotten new carpet, you know what we're talking about)

It's been so fun, as it always is! We are more in love with her everyday and continue to feel so blessed and lucky to have Mackenna to call our baby girl! Til next time...

Loves

Baby Blues

We were having some fun with the camera the other day and got some pretty awesome pics of her baby blues!!!

Our New HOME!

Thought we'd share a few pics of our new home!!!! We are SO HAPPY!