Thursday, February 6, 2014

Cuteness overload!

 I was in my bathroom drying my hair and Mackenzie was playing with her toys/dolls in my room.  I saw that she was reading stories to her doll so I sneaked a picture with my phone.  I listened to her for about 10 minutes just reading to her doll and asking her if she could see the book.  


 She loves to pretend play and one thing she likes to do is "go shopping".  She loads up her babies in the shopping cart, gets her purse, kisses me goodbye and tells me she is "going shopping to get a few things...I will be right back...I love you honey".  She kills me!  My other favorite thing is when she gets on her phone and paces around the house talking loudly to whoever she called.  She rambles on and on about everything and talks so loud.  She loves to talk on the phone and whenever I am talking to Grammy or Grampy she always wants to talk and she will talk their ear off.  The other day she was in the back seat talking to Grammy while I was driving and I guess she accidentally hung up on her.  Mackenzie said "oh no, she hung up.  That's ok I will text her back." and then she was pushing buttons and kept saying "I am just texting Grammy".  I just kept saying "okay".  When we got home and went inside my mom texted me saying "I guess Mackenzie still has your phone, she has been sending me some interesting texts."  I looked and sure enough she had sent about 5 different texts with all sorts of random letters and numbers.  One of the texts did say OK though.  We got a good laugh out of that.  I have no idea how she knew what she was doing!?  Mackenzie talks really well for a 2 year old, she says a lot of big words like "actually" and "never mind" and "probably" she seems older than she is but she is so tiny she looks younger than she is.  I crack up at some of the things she say though....if she asks for something like gum or a drink and I say "sorry I don't have any gum" she will say "yes you dude!"  and she says things like "why are you getting hims coat" or "look at that guy, hims wearing a red shirt".

 Mackenzie loves to change her outfit and put on lots of different clothes during the day.  She helps me pick out her first outfit in the morning, she always has to tell me what she wants to wear or if I pick out something she says, "I don't want to wear those pants I want these ones..."  She also likes to play dress up and recently discovered the dress up clothes at Grammy and Grampy's house.  She likes the play dresses and shoes.  This particular day we were playing good guys and bad guys chasing each other.  So she got Cameron's Spiderman hat and chased us shooting webs at us. 
All ready for church.  She loves her red cowgirl boots!

Awww!

 It doesn't get much better than this!  They love each other so much and play so well together (most of the time).  Mackenzie loves Cameron and he is so sweet to her.  I love watching them interact and play together.  She follows him around and says whatever he says.  They make up fun games to play and play pretend a lot. 



Playing with Grampy

 Cameron loves to play Chinese Checkers with Grampy.  Just one of the many things they like to do over at Grammy and Grampy's house.



Library fun

 Cameron and Mackenzie love to go to the library and pick out books and movies.  It was snowing all day so we decided to go get some books and movies to snuggle up with :)


Both of them love me to read stories to them.  Mackenzie is so cute to watch when she gets her babies and dolls on her lap and reads to them.  She is always reading a book out loud and making up the story as she goes along.  I have tried to video her doing this but she always catches me and stops....

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Chopsticks

 I have never had a desire to try using chopsticks.  Too much work to get one piece of rice in your mouth!  They seem rather frustrating to me...I just want to eat :)
The kids, on the other hand, are entertained by them.  They like the challenge more than I do!  Mackenzie basically stabbed her chicken with the end of the stick, genius!

 Love the concentration....

 Got one noodle...

Yay, a few noodles at a time!  Progress :)

Bath time

 What's more fun than a bubble bath??


 A bubble bath together.  More bubbles....more toys....more fun


Daddy was gone this weekend camping with the YM in the ward.  We missed him, but we had lots of fun hanging out.  The kids had so much fun in the bath, I think we were laughing for about 20 minutes straight at all the crazy bubble creatures they were looking like.  What funny kiddos!

Crazy hair

It was crazy hair day for Cameron at pre-school today....so it was crazy hair day for Mackenzie too!

 The pictures didn't turn out as bright and colorful as their hair was in "real life" (as Cameron would say).

He was so excited for all the colors in his hair and thought it was so cool.  


 random.....but Cameron loves to brush my hair and do my hair (blow-dryer, squirt bottle, brush, clips the whole thing!  So cute.) and he also wanted to brush Tica's hair.  I told him I would buy a special Tica brush to use for her.  So I bought one when I went out to buy the hair paint.  He was so excited and just wanted to brush Tica all morning :)

Monkey see monkey do!  Mackenzie loves Cameron and it's the cutest thing that she always says, "my big brother" and she will hug him, or just refer to him as her big brother.  She will say "where is my big brother' or "I want to sit by my brother".  They are so funny together and have the best time!!