Mackenzie Update

December is a busy month for us. We have her birthday and Christmas and this year we got some of the most snow we've seen in many many years. I never did hear the full total but someone told me it was between 1 and 2 feet on the valley floor. It was breathtaking but in the same sense it got old, really fast. This area is not equipped to handle that much snow so quickly so it made for an interesting couple weeks around here.

Mackenzie is now a big 2 year old and into everything these days. She loves to push the chairs over to the counter or sink. And of course it never is the closest chair, she always seems to pick the farthest one.
She has found a brand new Kong toy that we had for one of our dogs and seems to think it's her own personal "chewie". At least it's durable and exactly meant for that. Her older brother asked us why she was chewing on a dog toy? I'm sure that looked strange.

Mackenzie just had her 2 year check up today and is now 36 1/4" tall and weighs 31.2lbs. She is in the 95th percentile for both categories. She is wearing 2T but also can wear some 3T clothes. Just a couple weeks ago she moved up to size 5 diapers. She was in size 4 since she was 8 months old. She was chunky at first and off the charts as a baby but has really slimmed down but seems tall for her age. When we did the estimate of her adult height the results were 5'9. I'm 5'6 and her Dad is 6ft. It will be interesting to see what she gets to and even if that height predictor is accurate. I think it's more just for fun.

Mackenzie loves to giggle and loves the game "this little piggie". She loves to be chased around the kitchen table and also likes to play hide n seek in the house. She really loves her Dora, Wonderpets, Shrek, Veggietales and Backyardigans. Not in any particular order, it seems to vary in whatever mood she is in.

She laughs at our cat Murphy and sometimes will go up to him and give him a little pet but mostly just stands back and laughs at him. She will snuggle her stuffed puppy up to her chin and real sweetly will say "baby". Everything like that is "baby".

She is saying "up, bye, baby, look, pretty, oh nooo, woah, choo choo, flower, two" and I can't remember what else. She also acts like she counts when she lines up her little people. When we count in order she will sometimes say two, six and eight.
She is also giving us five when we ask for it.

Lately she is really into yellow ducks. And she tries to make the sound of a duck or quack. We haven't quite figured it out. We were at Toys R Us a couple weeks ago and she saw an end display of baby towels and washcloths and one of them had a yellow duck on it. And she just kept standing there and making the duck/quack sound. It was cute and a little hard to pull her away from it. I felt she had made a friend!

I just looked at her the other night sleeping soundly in her crib. As I stand there looking at her it's hard to realize that little person was inside of me. I can still see her baby similarities but also can see the change of the little person she is becoming.