Wow

Yes, I am a bad blogger. Man - what a month. I can't believe it is already March. And today is Eli's 8 month "birthday." It has been really busy around here. And fun. Makenna says the darnedest things and there are just so many you can't remember them all. Some of her new ones are: "Mommy, come get me" (when getting up in the am) and then when you get there, "Mommy, I'm not tired." Which 7:30 on a Sunday morning when her brother has slept HORRIBLY...is not a good time to "not be tired." She also has some major spouts of "I can do it myself" times and quite the attitude. We decided that I would take Makenna off b herself this past Sunday. She said she wanted to go to the aquarium, so off we went. We didn't spend a ton of time there, but I think she enjoyed it being just the two of us. Hopefully we can keep up special times alone with each of the kids. The weekend before she went to the circus with Robert and Pops.

I love watching the two kids interact. Eli thinks Makenna is great and laughs at her all the time. And she is so sweet to Eli - most of the time - she loves on him and likes to try to feed him. Eli has started crawling. It started off where he would do "tee-pee" and peek his head through his legs. Then he would get down on all fours and propel himself forward. It was funny to watch. And then last weekend he figured it out - he learned how to crawl on his knees. He has gotten much faster over the week. If only we could get him to consistently sleep at night...

Speaking of sleep...both kids are in bed...and for some silly reason I am still up...not that it's late...but I am missing good sleep opportunity...and since I never know when I'll be up...I'm going to head that way myself.

During Feb. we had some pictures done - supposed to be Eli's 6 months, but he was 7 months. And Mak's 2 years. Plus us. I'll post some later, but again, I'm going to take advantage of the quiet!

Good night!

January 10/11, 2011 Snow

The snow storm. I wish we would have been able to play in it, but by the time Makenna and I got outside, it was hard. She still enjoyed being outside for a few minutes. When Robert got home, we had to get a couple of pics of Eli. I believe this is the third snow here, but the first one we were able to get him in pics! Hope everyone is staying warm! Enjoy!

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Makenna 2nd Birthday

We had Makenna's 2nd birthday party this weekend. Just family this year. It was nice to see everyone again. The pizza was late (by one hour) but other than that - it was great. She had a great time opening her gifts and did a good job at giving everyone hugs, kisses and thank yous! We then decided to head to the aquarium on Sunday. The kids are free and Robert and I got annual passes this summer. It was pretty slow, so we got to see almost everything. I think there may have been one section we didn't go in. Makenna actually touched the sea animals that could be touched this time. All in all a good weekend!

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Christmas

It takes some time loading pictures on this site and we've all seen how often I can get on here and update! So, here is a slideshow from our photo account (http://garhart.shutterfly.com/). I'll try to post links here when I upload more pics!

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Can This Be Right?!?

My little girl is 1 year 11 months 3 weeks and counting? I'm not sure what has happened to the past (almost) 2 years, but they have FLOWN by! I know they say that they have the terrible two's - I'm wondering if we didn't hit that a little early because Makenna has been SO much fun the past couple of weeks. We are now completing more than 3 word sentences. She has the best laugh/smile. She refers to herself as "she" - it is quite humorous. "She want that." The other night she had her jammies on and went to put on a shirt she received for Christmas - over her jammies - and then proceeds to tell us "the shirt is too tight." How in the world did she know that? And of course it is too tight, you don't wear it over your jammies!

Mr. Man is still growing. He is getting his little legs up underneath him, so I hope that doesn't mean he will b crawling soon. Just stay a baby a little longer. He's not been a huge fan of cereal, but we need to become more consistent in giving it to him. Since I have been off the past week and a half I have tried to get him to sleep longer at night in between feedings. We now go 6 hours. Woo hoo! Baby steps!

Speaking of sleeping - I need to get ready for bed before little man gets me up. I'll post Christmas pics soon! We have some good ones of the cousins!