What are you thankful for?

I am thankful for many things. I am thankful for every one of my family members, immediate and extended.

Dear Jim,

This Thanksgiving and holiday season, I am thankful for you and what you mean to Mackenzie and I. You are the reason I get to be a stay at home mommy and raise our daughter. For that, I am thankful. I cherish the support you give me so that I can do that. I am grateful for everything that you do. We have accomplished a lot together and I know that we will continue to do so. We have a beautiful little girl who we adore and loves us back just as much. We are both very lucky. I couldn't ask for a better man. You would do anything for us and I am proud to call you my husband and best friend.

Love,

Allie

Dear Mackenzie,

I am very thankful for you this Thanksgiving. You are a wonderful, smart, intuitive little girl. You have learned so much and continue to do so each and every day. I love all the activities that we get to do together. There is no relationship like a mommy/daughter relationship. Mommy and Daddy love you both very much. We love watching you learn, read your books, play with your toys, and whatever else the day brings. You are so curious about the world around you. Your smile just melts my heart. Your hugs and kisses make every day that much better. We love you!

Love,

Mama and Daddy

Happy Thanksgiving week, Everyone!

What are you thankful for?

An Artist at work

All I have to say is: It's a masterpiece!








Yes, she is really into "drawing" on the pantry door now. :-) We are getting to a very creative age.

Kindermusik

We have enrolled Mackenzie in the Kindermusik program (http://www.ntckindermusik.com/). It is a wonderful program and she is in the 18 month-3 year age group. She really enjoys it. She gets to meet new friends and socialize, learn new concepts through music, listen to stories, and play new instruments. Check out the website above! I have included some pictures of just a few of the activities that we do in class. Of course, we do lots of different things every week and Mackenzie is VERY proud to show daddy the stamps on her hands when he gets home.
We used the scarves for a song on long and short sounds.

Egg shakers! This is one of her favorite activities.

I'm a little teapot. We just started this last week with the kids.

Sandblocks.

Stamps! This week the kids got Indian stamps.

As you can tell, we do many activities each week. I only included pictures of some of them. We start class off with a hello song and end with a good-bye song. Mackenzie gets a big grin on her face every time we start the hello song and loves listening to it in the car. She has learned a lot so far from class and I can only imagine what more is to come!

Happy Veteran's Day!

Thanks to all of those who served our country. For this special day, our local library had a special program last week with songs and fingerplays. At the end, the kids got to make our ornaments for the "Honor our Heroes" tree. Mackenzie made one with a picture of Papa (grandpa), as he is a veteran of the US Army. Here are a few pictures of Papa helping her put the ornament on the tree.

Try walking in someone else's shoes

Mackenzie chose to walk in Daddy's shoes this morning. Literally. She loves getting a pair of our shoes, whether it's mommy's clodhoppers or daddy's nice work shoes or a pair of tennis shoes. Well, we're off to get ready for Kindermusik. Have a magnificent Monday! Why don't you try walking in someone else's shoes sometime?

FALL-ing for Mackenzie

What beautiful fall weather we have had lately! Mackenzie enjoyed jumping in the leaves today while she was enjoying some of the last warm weather we will have for awhile. Lots of fun! As you can tell, she had a blast!
There's that beautiful smile from our little princess.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Mackenzie in the leaves!

Ahh, let's rest for awhile!

Happy Halloween!

For those of you who guessed Mackenzie was a cow for Halloween, Congratulations! A very cute cow! "Moo"! :-) It was a beautiful night so we ventured out and trick-or-treated at many houses in the neighborhood. She did great going up to the doors--her thing was that she wanted to pick out her own candy instead of having people give it to her. She also enjoyed seeing all of the other kids out in their costumes. Enjoy the pictures and hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!

Ready to head out and get some good candy.

On our way to the next house.

Mama and Kenzie getting ready to cross the street.
Kenzie asking Daddy when we are going to go the other way.

Grazing on some goldfish she got trick or treating. Couldn't wait til we got home.

Have a moovalous day!!!