December 2009

This Christmas we opened our Christmas presents on Christmas Eve morning. We fully intended to open our gifts the day after Christmas, but we couldn't wait! Drew and Makenna opened a joint gift of little cars that they can play together. Drew gave me a single brew coffee maker...awesome! Makenna was very excited to help me open it.

Drew had to help out at the Christmas Eve services at work. We attended one together and then served in the nursery as a family. After church we came home and got into our pj's and drove around looking at Christmas lights. Drew and I ate a dinner consisting of gourmet sandwiches and snacks in the car. You can see in the picture below Makenna looks very excited to drive around and look at lights at 9 o'clock at night.

Christmas morning began a tradtion we hope to do every year. We went downtown to Saint James Park and made pancakes for the homeless. Our good friend Rob joined us and my Dad, too. It was really awesome to see God working that morning. Makenna crashed in the car on the way to Grammy and Bampa's house.

Below is a Christmas gift from Grammy and Bampa. This little ballerina outfit is actually a bathing suit! So cute!

Makenna started using her hockey binky the day after Christmas. Drew was so pleased!

October Update

Makenna is now 11 months old. We will celebrate her first year next month, yikes! She is still army-crawling. Refusing to move up on her hands and knees, but very capable of doing so. She pulls herself up on everything and loves to stand and walk along the couches. She is signing a lot more frequently and has added a few words to her signing vocabulary. It is crazy to me that she can communicate at such a young age, it is amazing! She kisses and hugs freely, and actually blows kisses to people. She loves to wave at everyone in the grocery store, and she can bark like a dog when asked "what does a doggie say?" Below are a few pictures from our pumpkin patch visit and a few random shots from the past month. Oh yes, and Makenna made the switch to a front facing carseat this month. She made a lot of screeching sounds as she road forward for the first time. It was so funny.

Aunt Heather Playing with Makenna

Kyle and Heather babysat Makenna while we went out on a much needed date for our anniversary. Heather can interact with Makenna like no one else can and Kyle caught it on his phone camera. She had never reacted this way before and hasn't since! It is adorable. Thanks Kyle for catching it for us. :)