Paige and Bryce Mackay: July 2012

Monday, July 16, 2012

POWELL - 6 MONTHS OLD

2/18 Ok, blurry pic, but you can still see how cute he is!

2/20 Look how grown-up Powell looks! So adorable!

2/20 Who needs a binkie when you've got a perfectly good hand to suck on?! :)

2/21 The many faces of Powell (and this kid doesn't hate some tummy-time :)

2/21 Lovin' me some chub!

2/21 Brotherly love (they're even holding hands!)

2/22 Hanging out with Aunt Kels

2/23 Powell's first trip to Spokane. Daddy and CJ went to the Gonzaga vs BYU basketball game, so Powell, Mommy, and Mattie went to the mall, then had an ice cream sundae back at the hotel room

2/24 Powell can't be kept from the action for long, even when he's feeding :)

2/25 Sleeping angel

2/25 Trying rice cereal for the first time

2/25 Powell enjoyed the water after the rice cereal the most

2/27 Powell's more interested in playing with the spoon than eating the rice cereal

2/29 Mattie and Powell playing

2/29 Leap Day!

3/2 Mattie wanted to share her doggy with Powell

3/2 He's adorable, even when he's a mess!

3/2 Powell's first time taking a bath in the sink

3/3 Only Aunt Kelsey and Daddy can get Powell to do this

3/10 Enjoying one of Mattie's birthday gifts

3/10 Up on his knees for the first time!!

3/10 Trying peas for the first time

3/10 Snuggling with Daddy

3/13 Just cuteness

3/13 Helping Mommy celebrate her birthday

3/14

3/17 Smiley, even when he's tired

3/17 Blurry pic, but you can still see how happy he is (cute!)

3/17 Powell started giving high-fives!

Tyring carrots for the first time
3/17/12

Six months old

Weight: 17 lbs 7 oz (51st percentile)
Length: 26 5/8" (60th percentile)
Head: 17 3/8" (62nd percentile)

- 2/22 He went in to the doctor for a cold today and it turns out he has his first ear infection (it's pretty minor, thank goodness). While at the doctor's, he got weighed and weighs in at 17 lbs 4 oz
- 2/25 He had rice cereal for first time today. He didn't hate it :)
- He loves to see balls/balloons thrown. He laughs so hard when his brother and sister are playing basketball or tossing a balloon around
- He had a bath in the sink for the first time and loved it (so much that he splashed water everywhere :)!
- 3/6 He is all over the place now. He hasn't started crawling, and we haven't actually caught him scooting, but we put him in his bed in one position, and when we come back, he's all turned around. Today I laid him on the bed with his feet to me. I got up to shower and when I came back, he was now facing his head toward me. That means he somehow turned all the way around! We have seen him stick his little bum in the air when he's on his belly so we know he'll be on on those knees soon (too soon, if you ask us :).
- 3/10 He got up on his knees for the first time today!
- He has started giving Daddy high-fives
- He has tried rice cereal, peas, and carrots
- He likes to drink water from Mommy and Daddy's cups :)

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

MATTIE - 3 YEARS OLD

This little girl turned 3 years old on March 9th

Height: 38 7/8" (83rd percentile)
Weight: 36 lbs 8 oz (91st percentile)
Basically, she's built like a 4 year old :)

Here's a few things about Mattie at 3:
- Loves to read books in bed
- Favorite book is Over in the Meadow (that's what she told us) and she practically has it memorized
- Jumps when she's anticipating something she enjoys
- Is often heard neighing like a horse
- Is fiercely independent and wants to help with everything - especially cooking and cleaning - and wants to do everything on her own!
- Hums to herself all the time
- Calls white dandelions "snow flowers"
- Twirls her hair (half the time she ends up twirling it into knots! :)
- Loves to play pretend! Can play by herself for hours in her own little adventure with various characters.
- Is definitely the most dramatic of her siblings
- Though she's not crazy-girly, she can be very prissy. She likes to wear pink and purple and red (her favorite colors), she likes to dress up, she likes to get her nails painted, she likes anything "spark-a-ly," as she says it :), and she enjoys wearing a crown and jewelry and being called a princess
- She LOVES animals, most especially horses
- Her favorite foods include: Mac n' Cheese, hot dogs, chicken fingers/chicken, yogurt/Go-gurt, apple juice, chocolate, cheerios (especially Multigrain) and milk, toast, marshmallows, Oreos, diced pears, apple slices, grapes, melons, corn, cooked carrots, and broccoli
- She loves to say the prayer and can say the beginning and end all by herself
- Has recently developed fears of spiders, going under water, and dark places
- Loves to make Powell laugh
- Likes to play on Mommy and Daddy's iPhones and iPad
- She is super smart! She can count to 20, recognize the numbers, knows all her letters, can do 24+ piece puzzles all by herself, and more!
- Favorite movies are her My Little Pony movies and her Barbie and the Pegasus movie
- CJ is her best friend and she misses him when he's gone
- All her nursery leaders LOVE her and can't tell us enough about what a great little girl she is
- She hates loud noises, like the vacuum or public toilets or electic hand dryers
- She can't wait to start pre-school in the Fall. She talks about it all the time!
- Has her Daddy wrapped around her little finger (you should hear the way he talks about her :)

We're so glad she's our little girl!

MATTIE'S 3RD BIRTHDAY

Mattie turned 3 years old on March 9th!

This is what she woke up to that morning:

Daddy carried her out of her bedroom and took her to see all the pictures. And then she got to open her first gift before she even had breakfast!

French toast for breakfast - one of her favorites!

After breakfast, she opened the card from Grandma Forsgren. It had 3 dollar bills!

We took CJ to school and then got Mattie ready for her big day. Here she is, our 3 year old!

Then it was off to Mattie's first birthday activity: her very first mani/pedi!

Picking her color. She liked this polish because it was "spark-a-ly"

Though she was shy, and wouldn't talk much to the nail techs, she loved her pretty nails and made sure to point them out to people throughout the day :). Maybe we've started a birthday tradition!

When we came home from her mani/pedi, Mattie got to open another gift: a My Little Pony movie (and those are My Little Pony fruit snacks on the table too :)!

After we picked up CJ from school, they had fun taking pictures of each other :)

Then we thought we'd open up the birthday box that Grandma Forsgren had sent. Mattie did a great job of letting CJ help and CJ was excited to see a few things in there for him too (Grandma Forsgren is always really great about that :). Mattie loved everything in the box - the candy, the butterfly blowers, the bendable rabbits, and the dress-up dolly - but she absolutely loved the music jewelry box Grandma sent her! It even had jewelry and a coin purse inside of it. It was perfect!

After her nap, Mattie woke up to find her Papa and Gramma there, along with Tyler, Gaby, Zack and Domenic! Perfect time to go jump on the tramp!

Cute cousins!

Gramma Sheila brought over special birthday cupcakes! Mattie was eating hers like a kitty :)

(don't you love the post-nap and post-trampoline hair? :)

Then it was time for Mattie's birthday surprise. She loves animals, so we went to the local animal shelter and walked some dogs! The kids got to choose which dog they wanted to walk, and then we got to take the dogs into some pens and let them run around and play. It was a blast!

Checkin' out the dogs and cats

Mattie and the little dog she chose to walk

Playin' in the pen

Mommy and Powell with our sweet Mattie Gayle

Look how happy she is! Someday she'll have a puppy of her own (just not yet :)

After playing with the pups, it was time to head back for Mattie's favorite - Costco pizza - along with strawberries (both plain and chocolate covered), apple slices, Go-gurts, and pink lemonade. After eating, it was finally time to open gifts.

Besides a unicorn from Tyler and Gaby, the My Little Pony train, and a Lala Loopsy mermaid doll, Mattie also got a cute little piggy bank (that was actually a pig dressed as a lamb :) from CJ that he picked out all by himself, and a fabulous dollhouse from Gramma and Papa

Then it was time for cake! This year we started a new tradition. Before singing "Happy Birthday," everyone was given a coin to put into Mattie's new piggy bank. We passed the bank around and as we placed our coin in, we told Mattie either a birthday wish we had for her or something we love about her. It was special and we hope the tradition lasts.