Updates!

Wow, it has been FOREVER since we have updated our blog. It is soo crazy to me how incredibly fast time passes. Now that we have kids it feels like everyday just flies by. Soo...we have many updates for our kids in the last three months. They are doing so great and have grown in so many ways lately. They now are sitting on their own, crawling, laughing, babbling, and starting to pull up on things. They are also starting to really interact with each other, and it is really fun to see their relationship grow.

Mckenna is our little sweetheart and will melt your heart with her sweet disposition and soft voice. She loves for mama to hold and carry her around the house. She also has a unique sense of humor, and the most random things will make her laugh. Her laugh is so cute, airy and quiet. You mainly know she is laughing by seeing her belly move and looking at her face. She also loves her brother. He can almost always make her laugh just by looking at her. She loves to follow him around the house and join in on whatever trouble he is getting into. She is also so forgiving to him and will still smile and want to be around him when he climbs all over her, pulls her down, or knocks her over.
Mckenna has also had a really hard last month. She has been sick four times, has had two er visits, 3 urgent care visits and a four day hospital stay. Poor girl has been through more in her short life than most people have been through in a lifetime. Her patience and endurance amazes us!
Mckenna is now an impressive 14 pounds and 26 inches. She has started crawling and pulling up on things. She is starting to babble a little bit more, and just said her first word, "dada." She also blows raspberrys when she is upset, and growls at you if she is really upset, in pain, or frustrated. She also got her first two teeth, little white dots that have started to pop through her bottom gums in front! We can't believe how fast she is growing up!

Connor is our fun-loving crazy boy, who brings so much excitment and fun to our house. He is now a whopping 17 pounds and 28 inches tall. We were also very excited to find out that he now has made it on the growth chart for his age! Of course he is in the bottom 15 percent for everything, but hey at least he is on it now! Maybe daddy's dream of him becoming an NBA star will come true.:)

If there is one word to describe Connor it is "busy." Life is an adventure for Connor. He is so busy and constantly on the move, he cant stop exploring and discovering things. If you even try to change is diaper, hold him, or get him to stay still for even a second, he will turn, kick, scream, and do anything he can to get away from you so he can start exploring again. A diaper change must be accompanied by a toy that he can hold to divert his attention from getting away.

Connor's favorite things to do are to try to climb and explore things... the stairs, the dishwasher, the toilet... you name it. If we open the dishwasher, he makes a beeline for it like a dog going after a fallen crumb. He also likes to sneak into the bathroom and standup holding on to the toilet and beat it like a drum. If he is taking a bath he loves to stand up and then immediately plop down again and again to make the biggest splash he can. Connor will also dump any trash can within his reach and scatter the contents all over the floor taking a taste test of anything and everything that looks interesting. He loves to get in my cabinets where I keep all my tupperware and pots and he likes to scatter them all over the floor. Connor also loves his sister, but unfortunately for mckenna he likes to show that love by tackling her and laughing or some other sort of rough play or torture.
As far as milestones go, Connor is crawling and is starting to get really fast. He also loves to stand and pulls up on anything that he can possibly find to help him stand. Connor also said his first word, "mama," for the first time about three weeks ago, and won't stop saying it. "mama" means mama, dada, "I want food," "I'm frustrated," "I'm tired," or anything else. Sometimes he just babbles "mom-mom-mom -mama-mama-mama as he crawls around on the ground.