Turkey

We started Makadie on baby food about a month ago.  So far we've given her sweet potatoes, applesauce, pears, peaches and bananas.  We decided to try out some turkey the other day.  Here was her reaction:

Good-Bye Money, Hello Yard

We recently finished our yard!  (I use the word 'finished' loosely because we still don't have flowers or trees yet.)  We have gravel off to the side of our driveway, curbing around the future flower beds, sprinklers, a garden area complete with garden boxes and beautiful, beautiful grass!

Covey spent almost every weekday evening, plus every Saturday all day, working on the sprinklers for the last month.  Makadie and I pretty much never saw him except to step outside and say hello.

And when the time finally came to put the grass in, what does the weather decide to do?  Rain for the first time in over a month.  *sigh*  But we got the sod laid the following day with lots of help from friends, family and ward members and it looks amazing!  

Sadly, we can't really enjoy it fully for a few weeks until the grass takes root, but every day for the last week I have taken Makadie outside to let her stand on the edge of the grass.  She loves being outside and standing and sitting in the grass!  She gets the biggest grin on her face--it is so darn cute.  It makes all the time Covey spent totally worth it. :)  (I'd like to say all the time 'we' spent, but in truth, I only helped for probably a total of 5-10 hours on the whole yard since I had to take care of Makadie.)  Thank you Covey! :)

Here are some photos of the process:

Month Five

Good heavens!  Makadie is almost 6 months old and here I am writing about 5 months.  Time just goes so fast.  So here is the update on Makadie's 5th month of life:

• She started blowing spit bubbles

• She likes both the sitting and standing positions.  She would much rather be up so she can look around than on her back.

• She is a lot more vocal.  She babbles to herself, and other people, sometimes.  We notice she is a lot more "talkative" when there are other voices around besides Covey and I--like at church or if the TV is on.  She also does this funny high pitched yell.  I wondered where she learned to do that until I found myself making a similar noise to her.  Babies are quick learners! 

• When she sees something she wants, she reaches for it.  Or rather, she would reach in the general direction of the object.  :)  (She has got a ton better at this recently!)

• She is so much better in her car seat!  Before she would start crying the minute she realized that's where she was going, but now she doesn't mind it so much and will even go 30 minutes sometimes without a sound! 

• We borrowed my sister in law's Bumbo and Makadie loves it--especially when she was first wanting to sit up all the time.

• We continuing sleep training with her.

• We started on Makadie on rice cereal.  I noticed that she seemed to be really interested whenever I got food for myself and would sometimes try to reach for it.  So I thought, 'what the heck' and decided to see if she wanted to eat something other than mom's milk.  She loved it!

• Makadie had her first ride in stroller without having to sit in her car seat.  While she was still pretty small in the stroller, I could tell she like it so much more than having to sit in her car seat--probably because she could look around better.

•  She rolled from her tummy to her back.  She actually did this once about a week before she hit her 5 month mark, but then she didn't do it again for another week.  Now, she is a pro.  :)  We are still working on the back to tummy roll.  It's so much more interesting to be on her back, that she's rather roll from her tummy to back than the other way around.

• Makadie is not one to laugh a lot.  She will get big smiles on her face when you do something she likes, but all of the normal things that get babies to laugh don't necessarily work with her.  So I was really surprised when she giggled one day when I was "eating" her neck and stomach.  It is the cutest thing when she does it.

• She found her feet!  Once she found them, she was always trying to hold onto them.  Too funny.

• Covey celebrated his first official Father's Day!  Covey absolutely loves being a dad and he was excited to be able to have another reason to celebrate Father's Day.

• People always comment on one of two things when they see her: her hair and her tongue.  The girl is always sticking it out!

• Makadie's hair is getting long.  Pretty soon we aren't going to be able to do her mohawk hair. :(  When we were over at my step-sister's house about a month ago, she wanted to fix Makadie's hair into pigtails.  I don't know how many 5 month olds have enough hair to have ponytails, but mine does!

Here are a few more cute photos of my girl:

 My little Chiquita banana

Covey got her ready for church one Sunday

4th of July

When I get ready in the mornings, I put Makadie in her bumbo on the counter.  To entertain her yesterday, I dumped a bunch of her headbands and flowers in her lap.  She loved to play with them!

Every 4th of July, Covey's parents do a huge BBQ with a bunch of extended family.  This year was no different.  We were excited to show Makadie off to all the family who hadn't seen what a freaking cute baby we have, and to eat some yummy food. :)

 Covey's brother, Chris, and his family were in town visiting from CA and met Makadie for the first time

 Chris's daughter, Megan, holding Makadie

Family Photo

 

Is Makadie not the cutest?!  I loved making a little patriotic flower for her to wear in her hair.

Me and Shannon