Monday, April 25, 2011

Maci is 8 Months old 4/25/11

Maci is 8 months old this week. It is hard to imagine she is that big already! She is doing so much better this week after having a fever of 102-103 for five days last week. She is eating now and taking a bottle which she was not doing much of last week. She is also back to her active self. Maci is offically crawling and can move. She moves faster on her stomach with the army crawl but still manages to find Levi and or Mama and Dadda and see what we are up to. She is into exploring her surroundings very well: pulling over plants, pushing over her basket of books or eating her diapers. She loves to eat and we have been giving her "puffs" and other small finger foods and she seems to like it all. She also loves music and after supper while we are cleaning up we usually put on music and dance and sing..she flaps her arms and laughs at us all. She knows when Mama or Dadda leave and it seems when I work a day and then are back home she is more clingy to me( but that is ok :))..she will babble..ma..ma..and I think she is just babbling..but maybe she is saying MAMA :) Levi is offically in his big boy bed downstairs and the toddler bed is away. They are no longer sharing a room and that quick transition had partly to do with a night last week where Maci was sleeping and Levi got out of his bed about 20 times and this lasted till about 10 pm. Of course waking Maci up in the process. We do have to stay by him for a few minutes downstairs while he settles in but after that he is ok. We have the baby monitor in his room and he knows he can talk into that and we can hear him.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Spring Break Project...

A few weeks ago a coworker was telling me about how her husband made her pedestals for her front loading washer and dryer...that got me thinking. I asked her where she found the idea and it was on this website. I showed it to Ryan and he put it on his "to do list" saying that "I could do that". I added the idea of having " laminate flooring on the pedestals to help with wear and tear. I do not think that I would ever buy the pedestals in the store because they seem too expensive this was an alternative that was much cheaper. Needless to say, Ryan got the pedestals made, painted and installed in 2 days time staying up one night till 4am to finsh. We had to move the cupboards up to make them fit(thanks Case and Laura for your help)but they look better than I/we thought they would. It organizes our laundry space better and makes the room seem bigger.

4/10/11- Maci's Baptism

What a beautiful day to celebrate Maci getting baptized. Record high temperatures in the 80's and gathering for lunch with family. During the service Maci did great.She looked so cute in her little white sweater dress and hat. Levi was a little restless but did not yell or say that he had to go pee pee in the front so that was good. Maci did not mind the water for the baptism at all and I am sure that is related to Daddy and Levi's bathtub splashings and sprayings..."just getting her ready for swimming". so the few sprinkles were fine. We are committed to raising Maci to know and love Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior and our families will help with that too. We know that Maci is loved! Daddy said a prayer before lunch and shed a few tears for the love that he has for his extended family and Maci Jean. We rested after everyone left and then headed out for some icecream a great way to end a blessed day!