Sweet tooth

I don't know if I told everyone already, but Mikayla FINALLY got her first tooth!!!! It broke through about 2 weeks ago. We are so excited and are anticipating the arrival of #2 any day now. She has really evolved with her food intake. She does NOT want baby food anymore and is very picky about what she does eat. Mommy is having a really hard time with this because I know that she is not eating as much as she should. I know that new textures will just take time for her to get used to. We have also been transitioning her off formula to whole milk. She actually had her last bottle with formula last night so today is just milk. That kinda makes me sad because she is growing up. Saving a little in the wallet though!!! On another subject... we finally had the last of our new flooring installed yesterday!!! Yipee!!!! My house is still in disarray because we have to wait until tonight to put everything back in its place. I am ready for organization again!!! Ok - back to Mikayla. Sunday at Grandma & Grandpa's Mike was eating a blow pop and thought he would give Mikayla a lick or two... well, little Miss Mikayla had a different idea. She grabbed it from Mike and popped it in her little mouth... the whole thing. I thought she was going to cry when we took it from her. We did get some pictures first though.

Cheese Puffs

I had share these pictures with everyone because I thought both were so cute. Today, Mikayla was having her afternoon snack and I decided to give her a big cheese puff - just to see what she would do with it. Well, like the rest of us... Mikayla likes junk food. She got about halfway through and started putting the rest in her mouth at once. She loved the taste.


I hope that everyone can see who is standing beside the highchair in this picture... it is Duke. He is waiting to be fed. Mikayla and Duke have become big buddies at feeding time. She is sticking her hand off the side of the highchair and giving food to Duke. She is not just dropping it... she is letting him take it out of her hand. Of course, Duke expects this now. Before he wanted to go outside and play when she ate... not anymore... he waits right by her chair. Sometimes after she lets him lick the food in her hand, she decides she doesn't want to share so she then eats it!!!! So funny!!!! Guess we cannot worry about dog germs in our house.

Flood in Portland

We have had a lot of rain today... an all day pouring rain. This is what our backyard looks like.


There is also standing water in the street. This picture was taken right in front of my brother-in-laws house. It is like this throughout our whole neighborhood. Hope everyone is careful.

Just hangin' out

Just some pictures around the house...
Look out Daddy... already talking on the phone!!!


Look at this messy, funny face!!!

This is a funny face also!!! Mikayla has become such a clown... loves making funny faces and noises, loves imitation!!

Her serious face!!!

Playing the drums with Mommy's dishes!

Happy girl with pig tails... look at all this hair!!!

First timer

We had a couple of firsts today. This morning we went with our friends from the Gourley family to the park in White House. Mikayla went down the slide for the first time(with Mommy's help). She really liked it, you cannot tell by her expression in this picture but she honestly did. She would laugh as she went down. We did not stay very long, the weather was not what I expected it to be... a little chilly. We are supposed to go back in a few weeks with our Mommy at Home group and I'll put more pics on here then.

We are developing an artist!! Mikayla made a pretty picture with fingerpaint for the first time today. She did very well with it. Of course, I had to sit very close to insure that she or the dog did not eat the paint. I was afraid that she would be a little freaked out by the texture of the paint but she dug right in and started smearing. I helped a little but she did 95% of the work herself!!

Finished masterpiece... for the fridge!!!

SNOW??????

No, your eyes are not deceiving you... I woke up Monday morning and had snow on my deck, roof, and truck. It was not much at all but still the white stuff. Just wanted to share - I knew if I did not take a picture people would not believe me.

Happy Easter

This picture did not turn out as well as I had hoped it would. We had a late special service at church and by this time Mikayla was ready for nap... so it was a chore just to snap this one picture I was not trying again. And yes, Mike does have a full suit on in this picture!!!

We had my family and Mike's family over for Easter dinner on Sunday. Grandma Bonnie made this pretty bunny cake.

Just being silly Uncle AJ!!

Mikayla and Daddy at the table.

Aunt Amber and Uncle Philip(just got back from their honeymoon Saturday night), Grandpa Jimmy, back of Aunt Susan's head. And yes, my floor is still blue... getting new floor next week... it cannot come soon enough!!

Grandpa Jimmy, back of Aunt Susan's head again, Great-grandpa, and Great-grandma.

Back of grandma Bonnie's head and grandpa Carl chowing down!!

There's that crazy Uncle AJ again.

Just hanging out

Just took some pictures of Mikayla playing today. She has had a really yucky cough since Thursday of last week. Through that she is still wanting to play. It has not been very much fun seeing her suffer through trying to get over it. She has been a trooper.
This is her new smile for pictures.

She loves her Elmo. She is looking at herself in the mirror in this picture, watching herself as she hugs Elmo.

You see it in her eyes in this picture that she is not feeling great.

One of her favorite things to do now is stack her nesting blocks. She also likes for Mommy to stack about 4 of them then count from 3 backwards and she knocks them down. She gets so excited as I count, waving her arms... so cute.

Such concentration!!

This is one of her favorite toys a duck head that rattles. She likes to stack him on top of the blocks also, over and over and over. She also likes putting him inside the blocks and taking him out, over and over. She looks so determined in this picture.

Just a swingin'

A couple of weeks ago Mikayla finally got to use her swing at Grandma and Grandpa's house. She loved swinging. The higher we pushed her the more she laughed and smiled.

What a mess!!!

We are having new flooring installed throughout our house so Mike decided Sunday that he wanted to pull up all the old flooring. This is what my house looked like on Sunday... and the floors could look like this for a couple of weeks!!!! AHHHHHHH!