Getting Bigger

I figured maybe I'd post again. I'm so up and down on this blog... anyway seeing another blog I decided I should update on the girls, they are getting entirely too big (as I'm told that often now).....

Brooke- is now in 2nd grade and so so smart!!! She still loves dress ups and playing outside and she's really into having "shops" now where people can buy things. Her fashion sense is beyond me!! lol Some of the stuff she likes I cringe at, she is so girly!!! It is a little weird having to buy such frilly like clothes.. Although she still loathes her hair being done, at least by me for sure.  And I'm not quite ready for her to do her own hair. I think it's part of the control freak in me I like things to look nice or orderly as much as humanly possible and I'm not ready for her to look like an orphan girl. But I'm working on it, especially when my patience is wearing extremely thin. But she is growing up and I'm not quite ready to have to start worrying about real life stuff that goes on and thinking the teenage years will be upon us before we know it. Anyway off on a tangent. She is beautiful and so full of things clicking inside her brain and new ideas!!! Best of all she's finally starting to like playing more and more with her sister. Yeah!! Also she is becoming more of a blonde, I think its the redhead in her. She still likes to push my buttons and I don't know why. But her and her dad spent a few days alone which was really good for them about a month ago. I think they need more time together.

McKenna- Nearly 2 1/2 and still ALWAYS on the go. You cannot keep that girl pinned down. Honestly everywhere we go she wants to be totally on the move, especially when shes tired. And lately she's tired a lot, she doesn't like naps anymore especially since we made her crib into the toddler bed. I have been so reluctant to do it, because I knew how hard it would be to get her to stay. Well I decided it was past time though I am regretting my decision. Its so weird how opposite her and Brooke are. Brooke was in the toddler bed not long after she turned 1. But for all McKenna and Brooke are opposite, Kenna is learning a lot of traits from her sister, that I'm not so happy about. But she still keeps us laughing a lot with her antics. She is absolutely crazy and daring and silly. The only thing she is afraid of is falling off counters or things of that nature, which is funny because she hasn't ever fallen off anything like that. Everything that has hurt her, including seriously she isn't afraid of she goes back for more... It is amazing!! She is still just as clumsy or accident prone whichever you prefer. She has now had to have a set of stitches and almost more 2 other times. She's had many scrapes and scratches and constantly has bruises on her poor legs (I think its an inherited trait...sadly my legs don't look much different half the time) from falling and running into everything. She still doesn't watch where she is going half the time but getting better. We've had the dr look at her ears just to make sure she didn't have some inner ear balance problem, but nope its just her. lol. She is so tall and big for her age. She now weighs 33 lbs. and 36 1/2" tall. She can fit into most 4T shirts and some 4T pants, though not all. She has an amazing vocabulary though she still doesn't say the first letter of some words instead substitutes it for some other letter. We're still working on the alphabet and numbers and colors etc. But she likes to count and sing the alphabet. She still loves to dance and sing now. She is much like her sister and loves dress ups and shoes!!! She loves outside still and going places all the time. She is still a mommy's and daddy's girl.

As for Mike and I nothing much has changed for us, we too get another year older in numbers with each passing year. We cannot believe how time flies by so fast!!! We are just trying to make our lives better for the future and still have fun in the now with our kids. Still have work to do. Mike still works his bottom off to provide for us. We're hoping for some big changes soon, but the future is unknown and we are just waiting patiently. I still have emotional times when I think about my uncle and I miss him, knowing I won't be able to talk to him for quite some time. I definitely took his life for granted as I do so many others. And that is something that has held me in gratitude the past couple months. The Christmas party was a little hard this year without him, but we were so happy to see most of his family there, though it definitely couldn't have been easy for them.
I've also still been enjoying my calling as the YW secretary/personal progress leader. Though the personal progress side of it, still feels overwhelming when I try to figure out what all I can do to try and help the girls want to do their p.p. But I work with such amazing ladies!! Their strength is so encouraging and boosts me. We are still working on our little house. It seems the more we put into it, the more issues we find that need to be fixed. Mike is about sick of it, as am I, but he's the one that fixes most of it. That's what we get for buying an old house right.