Wow - time is flying

Ok i admit i have not updated this as much as i did pre-facebook. McKinley is doing GREAT. She is growing by leaps and bounds. She is learning so many things daily. I promise to try and update more. We have been to the GI dr and the Peds lately. She is off all meds except her singulair meds for her allergies. We are amazed how well she is doing.

Updates - Mckinley is still in size 3 diapers. She is working on potty training. She is officially in a toddler bed because she was climbing out of the crib on friday. She is just over 20lbs. She goes to the allergist on Wednesday to see how she is doing. We have introduced her to Raw Goats Milk in the last week and she seems to be handling it well.

Blogger is not letting me upload pics at the moment but once it will look forward to it

Craziness

It has been crazy in our house the past week. McKinley was very sick most of the week ... so we spent alot of time at the drs office for testing.. we concluded it must have been something viral.

Our refrigerator died on us on Wednesday morning... we lost everything. All of McKinleys food that we made for her.. all of my stockpile.. it was a very traumatic experience.. and if i didnt coupon it would be very hard on our budget to replace all that was lost. So we lived out of a cooler for a few days waiting for our new refridge to be delivered. It was delivered Sunday so we are now in business

Then it snowed.... yes SNOWED in Summerville Friday night. I will post pics later but McKinley had a blast and we had a blast playing in it. Work has been crazy busy this past weekend and i had coupon workshops to teach so we have been slammed but in a good way.

We made a trip to publix and saved 140 and spent 11.00 - in one transaction :) so that made the weekend.

Tot School

We have been soo busy lately. I feel sometimes i quit my full time job to work another 2 full time jobs with all the couponing and then tot school Mckinley. We are changing a few things and getting better organized and are doing GREAT with the coupon classes.

Here is McKinleys updated Tot School for the past 2 weeks. We go to the library once a week for story time and Rollie Pollies for Music and Class. We are also normally doing 2-3 activities with my moms group so we are very blessed to have McKinley in so many activities.. Here are a few pics from the past 2 weeks - We attended the Children's Museum and The Aquarium :) McKinley is running now and these will be the last pics you see in this stroller. We have upgraded to a nice Graco Mosaic Stroller after trading her her infant car seat at Babiesrus.

Enjoy...McKinley at RP Music Class - we have attended 2 weeks in a row and she now understands the maracas and the sound they are making.
Here she is at the children's museum - she loved the water tables and then grocery shopping. We learned how to scoop and pour the water and how water can make things move.
She also is obsessed with my sandals.. she loves to dress up in them and walk around the living room with them.. warren caught these pics while i was out.
We also started the Bright Beginnings bags with McKinley - she mastered the toys very quickly.. we also bought her new educational toys from our local homeschool store.Mckinleys awake now.. i will upload aquarium pics later :)
Thanks for checking in on us

Oh Where is my Hairbrush....

If you are a veggie fan like we are you are now singing that song at the moment.. McKinley had her first BIG GIRL HAIR CUT tonight... she soooo needed it. Her hair is very thick and her bangs were almost touching her nose - so off to Mrs Lindas to get our haircut. (side note Mrs Linda has been cutting Warrens hair for more than half his life... and warren gets his haircut every 3 weeks and will miss just about anything to not have to reschedule his haircut) so she was gracious enough to agree to cut little misses hair tonight... She sat perfectly still and was GREAT - i was worried but once again she was amazing.

Here are before pics.

Here are after pics

Prayers Needed

We have family friends that are going thru the worst thing imaginable right now with their little boy at MUSC. He was diagnosed with Leukemia this week and will start treatment. They need our prayers more than anything right now... He is 2 and they have another child also.. Please keep the whole family in your prayers as this is a long road ahead.. we have faith that he will be in remission in 3 years.

It is so ironic that our moms group just walked in November for the Leukemia foundation and now one of our own is in this situation. Prayers for the drs and staff at MUSC as well... thanks guys...

McKinleys issues are so small in comparison - this is another lesson in life that when i think we have it so hard - that someone else we love is going thru something worse.

Storytime Take 1

We went to storytime this morning at the library for children walking-30 months old. McKinley had a blast. We sang 4-5 songs and the teacher read 3 books to us. We worked on sitting on a purple mat on the floor and then cleaning up afterwards. I was nervous as Mckinley has never had a group time activity.. she was amazing. I should have not worried one bit. She did walk around a little bit but for the most part we stayed seated and listened to the story. One more moment in time that shows she is growing up and that i need to let her grow up, lol. I am loving our library experience more and more :)

Tot School Week 1

We are having a blast with McKinley these days - Also make a HUGE note McKinley is now forward facing in her car seat and now in size 3 diapers for the first time this week.. this is HUGE for us.. we have 65 packs of diapers in size 3 so we will not have to buy diapers for a very long time (if ever) :)

Tot School has been good this week, we worked on puzzles, and picking items up and putting them away. We also ordered the last of her curriculum for the summer. :) My laminator is getting a workout. I also attended a class at the library which now allows me to check out the bright beginnings bags (they have theme bags with 2o books, cds, dvds, games, and toys in the them) so now we have a whole lesson plan on colors. We start with Blue this week.. so come back next sunday to see what all we have done.

This past week we played alot as well. McKinley and i attended Divitas (a local gymnastic center) , a Rollie Pollies open Gym, and the Just Like Home Playhouse with my moms group :)
We had a blast.. here are a few pics from the week

We worked on our colors while at Rollie Pollies with the Stars.. We worked on balance and walking up and down an incline. We also worked on pointing to our eyes, mouth and nose. She has picked this up pretty quickly. While at the playhouse we dressed up as a princess and enjoyed being a mommy for the afternoon.