Funny saying from McKenzie

McKenzie is such a silly girl! She just makes my heart melt so much! I love her to pieces!!! Anyways I came across a paper that I written down something really funny that McKenzie said. This was while we were living in my Mom's house back in September or October. This is what is said...

McKenzie: Mommy where is the barbies' shoe?

Mom: I don't know, is it downstairs with all the other toys?

McKenzie: Gets off of her chair in the kitchen walks over to the heat vent in the kitchen looks down it and says yep it's down there!

I thought that was pretty darn hilarious! I know there is more to come, and I can't wait for them to come. They always make my days so much better!

Fred the Snowman!!!

Today it snowed again! yea!!! I love the snow, i've missed it so much. I know it will probably get old, and I'll probably start complaining about it. For the mean time I'm going to enjoy it, especially with my kids. Well since I haven't really played in the snow with them, I decided since it snowed again I would fineally go out there and play with them. We built a snowman. I haven't built a snowman in years, and I mean years! It was really fun, I did most of the work of course, the girls had fun helping me pack snow around him, and make his face. I asked McKenzie what his name should be, and she thought about it for a second and then said hat. I said Hat??? Then she said nose. She didn't quite understand the question. So I asked again what is his name? She stared at me blankely and said snowman. Silly girl. I said well it could be Fred, Harry... And then she shouted FRED!!! So that's how Fred the Snowman came to be. We had so much fun!

Paint can craft

In october my ward in South jordan had their Super Saturday. Well My Mom decided to sign up for this Paint can craft. I signed up to do something else. It turns out on that day We started moving, so we were only able to show up and get our stuff that we paid for. The lady in charge of doing the paint can craft said that she would be happy to let us come over and she would help us do them. My Mom signed up to do 10 one for each grandkid. She asked my sister and I to come help her make them. This last saturday, December 1st, we went with my mom to help her. I got to decorate McKenzie and Madisynn's cans. They turned out so cute, It was so much fun, but oh boy did it take forever!!! The paint can craft's purpose is to be like a christmas stocking, but just a cute can instead, and since we don't have stockings for the kids because they are in storage in colorado right now, these cans will come in handy. I'm definately going to have to do some more.

Potty time

Today was bath day for my girls. I've been putting Madisynn on the potty whenever I give them a bath which is every other day. I just wanted to introduce it to Madisynn, and I started it about a month ago. Well today I just wanted her to go so she could see what the big deal was. She just sat there, kind of got fussy here and there. I sang songs to her, gave McKenzie a bath, got McKenzie ready, and Madisynn just sat there. I massaged her feet, and then she got really fussy but she fineally went!!! I was so excited for her, we did a potty dance, we screamed, I gave her a big handful of M&M's. I hope that this is a start, and that we can get her potty trained quickly. I guess it depends on the child. McKenzie still isn't potty trained all the way. I have her in panties during the day, and a diaper at night. She has accidents here and there just at nap time, but wakes up wet every day in the morning. She's been lucky where she's been completely dry for a day or two. She is almost 4, I'm trying to be patient. I'm open to any ideas that you have. Please let me know, I would really appreciate it.

McKenzie drawings

Last week sometime I was sitting on the computer checking some emails. McKenzie was at my side with her doodle sketch. She usually just draws circles and stuff, but this time she actually drew a picture. She said to me " Look mama I drew a spider" it was so cute and I was so proud of her and their was no way that I would be able to save it because it's on her doodle sketch, so I took a picture of it. She got so excited that she erased it and started to draw another one. she says look mama take a picture. Then she erased that one, and started to draw another one. I kind of tried to influence her to give it eyes, a mouth, you know that sort of thing. It turned out to be a scribble, and she says hurry Mommy take another picture! I looked and saw that it was a scribble and said why don't you draw another one that's not a scribble and then I'll take it's picture. She hurringly did what I asked erased that one, and started to draw another one. So I stopped what I was doing and watched her, when she was done doing what she thought was good enough, I told her to draw some eyeballs and told her where to put them, to draw a nose and where to put it, a mouth and where to put it, and some hair and where to put it. It turned out adorable!!! Go Kenzie!!!

Snow!!!

We were so excited when it snowed here a couple of weeks ago. As soon as McKenzie woke up from her nap I told her that it had snowed. She got a big smile on her face and ran out the window. I got Madisynn up from her nap and I dressed them in their snowsuits and winter gear took pictures of them, and let them go outside to experience their first time playing in the snow. McKenzie was so funny she just ran around the backyard. I kept telling her that she could roll around in it and that she would stay dry. She wouldn't listen to me at first, but then she fineally did it. She layed on her back! Madisynn wasn't the biggest fan of the snow, plus her snow gear was huge on her, so it made her look kind of like Randy off of a Christmas story! She cried when I brought her in and took her snow stuff off. I think that she just likes to be outside!!! It snowe on Dec 1st tons more and Matt took McKenzie out to help him shovel the walks. Neeless to say she had a BLAST!!! She started to cry when her hands got to cold. I need to find waterproof mittens so I can put them over their cotton gloves. I also need to get Madisynn a new coat, because hers is not waterproof. We're definately looking forward to more SNOW!!!

Halloween pictures

So I know this is a little late. I didn't have a camera at halloween, so when I got my camera I dressed my girls back up in their costumes and took some pictures. Madisynn was a bee this year, and McKenzie was Strawberry Shortcake. McKenzie is now obsessed with Strawberry Shortcake. I just wish that they would have kept the old strawberry alive and not changed her.