Today McKenna ate the last tidbits of a jar of apple baby food. It's a big event for her as she has never actually finished a jar that I started before....it took her so long to eat the baby food before that I had to throw out whatever was left. This time it only took a week to finish one :)
Now she is officially 25 weeks old and growing so fast I can barely keep up. She now knows that rattles are supposed to be shaken, and is growing ever fonder of things that create noise. She also learned that if she taps on the floor and stares at the object of her desire long enough mommy will get it for her....seems she acquired more of her fathers traits than I originally thought.:)
Things in the homefront are going well, Mark made an awesome fence around the man shed outside so the little beans I will be watching when the childcare thing starts won't get hurt. The playground is almost done and is quite a hoot to play with, and we just bought a pressure washer which may be my favorite toy ever. There is nothing quite as magical as blowing dirt off the sidewalk. We have two weeks until our home inspector comes out to make sure we are child friendly so we have been busy little bees.
Another fun event that took place is our aquarium trip last weekend with KD. Mckenna actually stayed awake the whole time and seemed to have a good time. She sure loves fish!
Well, sounds like she is hungry so I better be off...before I go one last thought....
I entered McKenna into a cutest baby competition online and she didn't win! What's wrong with those judges??????

Yesterday was McKenna's official 24 week birthday! We celebrated by giving her zucchini gerber baby food for the first time (she ate only 2 or 3 bites so the jury's still out). Another big (very bad) thing that happened yesterday was that she climbed over the pillows I had stacked around her for her nap and almost fell off the bed. Yikes! So it looks like I need to start teaching her that she should take naps in her crib (which she HATES)
Mark & I will be spending this weekend continuing the process of becoming a legal and safe home for daycare services which I am really looking forward to as he and I scarcely get to spend quality time together anymore...go figure huh. But with all that has been going on here in relation to the daycare I know we are on the right track because the swingset is now McKenna's very favorite place. She is so giggly and happy when she is swinging, the higher the better!

The good news on the homefront is that some good friends of ours just had babies of their own. Amy & Tyler Banken just celebrated the birth of their first daughter Ada MacKenzie Banken on Friday April 14th. And Pete & Kristin Carlson celebrated the birth of their 2nd child Pete Jr shortly after on Wed April 19th (whom I will affectionately call Re-Pete) so little McKenna is going to have alot of good friends around her age!!!!!Mark & I have not yet seen Pete Jr, but we went to visit little Ada in the hospital and she is ADORABLE!!!! She was almost 3lbs lighter than McKenna when she was born so it was a little scary to hold her, but since I am a baby magnet now I couldn't resist!

I suppose that's all I have for now, I hope to get a chance to write again next week to tell everyone how this weekends adventure to the aquarium goes...it will be another first for McKenna.

Until then,
Jaime

So Jaime had the idea of taking some early Easter pictures of McKenna and they turned out great! I'm just the proudest Daddy in the world :)

Shawn and I did some backyard remodeling/landscaping this past weekend which turned out fairly well. If you don't count the 6" deep ruts I put into the lawn because of the tractor I rented. The firepit is now gone and we have about 20' by 20' more of pea graveled play space for the Day Care and McKenna. We got new swings for the swingset and I have all of the wood to build the slide area. Now I just need time to install. Hopefully it will be all ready for the Grand Opening of NellNell Daycare in a few months. Jaime turned in the paperwork so we are just waiting for a home inspection. We took the last of the CPR classes and Jaime is in the process of taking the 20 hour STARS training and when she finishes then I will start.

I finally got the truck back from the shop (it took them 2 weeks just to look at it). It drives great now and was a lot less expensive than I'd planned for so we got some new tires as well since the others were completely bald. Hopefully it will continue to run well since it comes in extrememly handy. Jaime has been driving it home from work at night, which makes it a lot easier on McKenna and me because we don't have to make the trek in to pick her up anymore right around bed time.

Best be off for now! Have a great Easter!