Zoo with friends

Went to the zoo today with girlfriends and kids. Here are a couple pics of Mack today as I mostly shot video.

Old Navy friends

Mackenzie loves loves loves Barker from Old Navy. And actually the whole family at Old Navy. Everytime we go here this is her favorite spot to hang out.

Swimming Ladybug

Today I took a half day off from work and we went to the lake. It was so hot out and the water was a perfect temp. And by going during the week there was hardly anyone out there.
We hadn't been out there in about a month. The last time Mackenzie was out there she was pretty timid. She would get on a floatie with one of us but was majorly clingy and didn't want to do a lot of things. That was last time. This time she did so great! She got in the water and she was a little frog moving all around out there. She was even climbing on the swimstep and then 'jumping' into the water. It was so great seeing her have such a good time. She's really been doing some growing up this summer.


Is that the Loser sign?

Family Day at the Zoo

Sunday we all went to the zoo. We needed to wait until Daddy got home from work so this was the first time that we went late in the day. I will say it was a nice change. People seemed to be on their way out and by the time we were done the place was decently spaced of crowds. And the sun was setting different on the animal areas so that seemed different too.

This was the first time Mackenzie let us put her up on this cute little barrel horse.


Daddy and Mackenzie viewing the large animals.


There is an area that you can go in and pet the goats. There must have been about 20 goats in there and a lot of them were young ones and they were so full of energy and playful! There were a couple of them that were head butting each other. This one was the smartest one. He was up on higher ground and would raise up then come crashing down on the one below. We did not let Mackenzie go in there since it was so rowdy. But we had a good time watching them play.

Mackenzie checking out the fish.

Breaking free and having fun!

Out back

This was last week in the backyard on one of the nicer days we had. Mackenzie's 2 favorite things to do back there: If she isn't playing with the water....



then she's getting caught picking my flowers...

But then she'll give me a look like this and of course; all is forgiven...


Love the 'Peanuts' tongue...

POTTY PAINTS

Well Mackenzie is still painting with her own body paints! She still is pooping in her diaper, digging in it and showing us with an "ewwwwww" comment. If she is in her crib when this happens,and we don't get there in time, she is painting it on her crib and painting it on her walls! It is sooo disgusting! I have yet to find anyone else that has gone through this themselves. From everything I have read online that this is just a stage and eventually she will outgrow it. What also is bad is a few days a week she goes to my parents house and a daycare lady and they have both experienced it. Which is bothersome for us. It's bad enough that we have to deal with it but we don't like someone else having to deal with it.


I have tried to look locally for shirts that snap and at 3T/4T size they are very hard to find. Last week my mom and I found this website online that sells them and I got 2 white ones in the mail over the weekend and so far it has already proven worthy of the purchase! On Sunday I put one on her, I layed her down for her nap and pretty soon I heard an "ewwww" coming from the room. When I hustled in there she was standing up saying ewww but her hands were clean! AWESOME! So yesterday I went to the website and ordered a few more shirts. So it looks like our little lady will be wearing these shirts for awhile.

We have been sitting her on her potty chair and she'll sit there but she is missing quite a few of the readiness signs. But at least she's getting acquainted with it and maybe eventually she'll surprise us.

COUNTY FAIR

Grandma, Mackenzie and I went to the county fair yesterday. It was a very hot day so it made it unbearable. But we spent a lot of time going through the barns and looking at the animals.

We watched a rabbit show and a friend take 1st place...

Looked at the cows. Later I walked Mackenzie through a different cow barn and as she walked by a cow that was laying down by the walkway she gave him a little pet. I was glad to see that she wasn't afraid.

Mackenzie seemed to really like the goats. We found a young 4-H boy that was very interested in sharing his goats with us. We learned all about them and even their names.



This was a fun little area. There was a water pump area that pushed rubber ducks down the troughs...


And this corn 'sand'box. This corn felt so good on the feet!