Beach

We went to the beach this weekend to see the Blue Angels. Here are some pics of the baby - I won't post any of the planes for now! I realized after I started uploading the pics that I don't have all of them - we didn't take very many of the 3 of us together, but I didn't copy those to the computer yet. I'll have to post them some other time - it is getting late and I am tired and these pics are taking forever to upload tonight!

10 Months Old

Another month...and another set of pictures. I posted on face.book tonight that one of Makenna's favorite things to watch is the lottery. It is so funny - she recognizes the music every night. She must be mesmerized by the balls. She gets very excited and won't turn her head until the commercial or the news has started. We'll have to get it on video!

The past couple of days when you put her to bed and say "night, night" - it sounds like she is saying it back. It is so cute! So, not sure if her first word is technically night, night, but I guess we'll see if she continues!

I have a bunch of things to take care of tonight, so here are the "birthday" pics and a few more!

10 Months


Love Elmo!

Ok - I'm done!

Happy Halloween

It rained here, so no trick or treating for Makenna - except we tried to go to the neighbors, but they weren't home. I don't think we had as many kids as we did the first year we were here. (Last year I was out of town and Robert didn't feel like handing out candy.) Oh well. There's always next year - hope you had a good one.
Our little yellow jacket:



With Pops:

The family:

With Aunt Alli:

With Nanny and Aunt Alli:

With Grammy and Aunt Alli:

First lollipop from daddy:

Playing with the pots:

All I got for Halloween is...

....my two front teeth!

We took this the other night. I am surprised she let me hold her lip long enough to take it! We put her Halloween costume on last night - the front seems to come down a little far, but that's okay. The size is a 2T, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how a 2 year old would fit in this thing! It has a little skirt that she likes to play with and she won't wear the headband, but I knew that would happen. Hopefully we can get a picture later!

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

Homemade

Two things....

One...a number of weeks ago, we made our own laundry detergent. I don't know what has gotten into me....first homemade baby food....now homemade laundry detergent. Here are the items we used....

and here is what is looks like...

No, it doesn't have a scent - I am scared to buy an oil online because I am afraid I wouldn't like the smell for my laundry. In the bucket, it smells like I.vory, but the laundry doesn't have a scent.

I found the recipe here: http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/laundrysoap.htm

Second - Robert can dress up for Halloween at work today. He was going to so as this made up superhero, but Allison and I thought his idea was kind of silly. We kept trying to get him to do something else - like make a "P" for his shirt and use makeup to blacken one of his eyes to be a black eyed "P" - but he wouldn't go for it. We recently purchased a new printer and still have the box so he wanted to go as a printer box. Creative. But, Allison found an idea to use the box - a rubi.x cube. I had colored paper, we used electrical tape to define the spaces and voila - a homemade costume. Enjoy the process: