FAMILY PICS AND 2 YEAR PHOTO

Went in today to get Mackenzie's 2 yr pictures taken and also do a family picture as well.
I started off telling the photographers that they really need to engage to make her smile. Well, they did a great job and had her really laughing. Once we were done with the Christmas/family photos we changed her shirt for her 2year old set. Unfortunately she was done and she didn't want anymore to do with picture taking. At that point we felt lucky to get what pictures we had gotten.

TRIPLE PHOTO

My nephew Tony put together this photo. He's got a pretty cool photo program and he's always amazing me with different pictures.
This was taken May 2008.

BOLT MOVIE

Today I took Mackenzie to her second theatre movie. She did pretty good. She walked in today and loved looking around at all the big poster boards of all the movie pictures. Until she saw a huge T-Rex looking thing looming over her head, then she got a little nervous.

We went inside and sat down and the previews started a few minutes later. She sat on my lap rubbing her blanket and her puppy's ear. I think the sound and the big screen keeps her attention easily. About 3/4's through the movie she was getting restless so I broke out her snacks and water. I kept expecting her to fall asleep but she stayed put and awake the whole time. There were some slow scenes toward the end that I could tell she was getting bored with but then it would pick back up and grab her attention.

The movie was very cute. The girl is an actress and Bolt is her dog in the movies and they fight crime. His whole life has been built in sound stages and he doesn't realize that he doesn't have super powers on his own. Bolt runs into a cat and a hamster in a plastic ball and they make for some entertaining side kicks. Especially the hamster.
Pixar sure comes up with good story lines.

PLAY-DOH ANYONE?

I was away all weekend and when I got home today I decided to get some Play-doh out. This is Mackenzies first time playing with it. She had a good time stacking up the small containers. She didn't really get "into" the doh but once I rolled them into balls she grabbed those and just sat there happy, holding all of them at the same time. She loves to carry small round objects.
She was in a very goofy happy mood which led to some cute pics.

STACKING...

I went to a friends house last night for a few hours. When I came home I saw this in the kitchen. Steve said that Mackenzie did that so he left it for me to see. I thought it was cute and also realized that we, or I, really need to put some shoes away.

Chuck E Cheese

Last week we took Mackenzie to Chuck E Cheese. We went in the morning and were the first ones there for about a half hour. I can still hear the silent bliss!

This was Mackenzies first time there and she enjoyed watching all the older kids and liked to push buttons on the games. She liked the carousel and the toddler slide. She's getting much better on the slides and when she goes down she doesn't lay back so far like she used to. This particular carousel she really liked because she noticed something...her reflection in the mirror! I was proud of her that she hung on and would just sit on it and go around. That was our first time to let go of her on something and stand back and watch. You just never know if they are going to quickly bail off.

Chuck E Cheese also made a visit. She quickly wanted me to pick her up. She seemed curious about him but wouldn't hold out her hands to touch him like he was asking. Later on I was following a little bit behind her and she started walking towards him. As she got closer she turned around to see if I was near by. We tried to visit again and he got down on her level but she was still unsure. We'll keep trying.

My camera got bumped to a wrong setting and I didn't realize it till later so the pictures look a little odd.

PLAY TIME

This weekend our sister in law Marci was up from California with their 2 kids and her Mom. We met up with her at a local kid zone.

This was our first time there and the place was just ok. First off their security at the check in/check out was a little skeptical. The place is like one big warehouse room with kids just running amuck. Most kids were left unsupervised while their parents sat around and visited amongst each other. There were some parents with their kids but most the time the kids were just barreling through everything and playing games of chase and it was like they were racing each other.

They had a couple inflatable slide areas, a small baby area, a toddler area and then some cars that you could ride. And they served pizza. We ended up leaving and going somewhere else to eat so we could get some visiting in.

This is their main jungle gym. This thing had 2 large corkscrew slides, a small corkscrew slide in the back and then 3 slides together that were off to the side. We took Mackenzie in there and helped her through the maze and she was doing pretty good.

Mackenzie getting ready to go down the red corkscrew slide with Daddy.

Mackenzie never went down this slide, she just hung out and was laughing at the kids around her. Adults were not allowed to go into this slide area.

Cousin Evan, he's a little over 7 months.

Cousin Mariah, she is 3.



This middle track goes pretty fast!