9 Months Old!

Friday, June 29th, Andy has a friend at work that invited us over to take a look at their clothes that their daughter had outgrown. His wife took me down to their basements where there was lots of bag of clothes. The Mom loved to shop at her favorite store Gymboree quite often. She also shopped at The Children’s Place and Gap. I went through one bag and only ended up taking out about 4 items. I started going through the second bag and decided I should just buy it all since everything was in excellent condition. About 20% of the clothes still had the tags on it. When she went shopping she would by the entire line of a theme (flowers, Hawaiian, butterfly, snowflake, ice skating, poodles, etc.) with everything to match including hats and shoes. MaKayla now has clothes through 3T. I will still be on the lookout for a few more things like pj’s and a few more winter items but for the most part she is set. As you can tell we were very lucky and I am cloud 9 with our purchase. I have sorted the clothes according to size and have started washing everything. It is going to take some time to get it all done but I don’t mind =). I have 6 large Rubbermaid containers overflowing with clothes. I think we are going to try the space saver bags to see it that helps with storing them. I will let you know how it turns out. Saturday, June 30th, we started off the morning with MaKayla’s 9-month pictures at JC Penny’s. MaKayla smiled for the camera like a pro. The pictures turned out so cute, I can’t wait to show them to you. Next, we went for MaKayla’s 9-month checkup. Poor little thing got one shot. At least it was not four like the previous appointments. Doctor Baptist said that she is very healthy and tried to walk off with her after the appointment. He was surprised that she would go to him and not cry. She is still in the 25-50% for her age weighing in at 18 lbs. 1 oz and 27 ¼ inches long.
Then we went to Aunt Vickie and Uncle Nick’s house to see their two new pug puppies Harley and Zoe. They are just adorable! By the time we got home the shot had started to kick in and MaKayla was not feeling the greatest. I put her on the floor with a bunch of toys while I folded clothes next to her. She tried to use one of her toys to stand up and she fell and hit her head on one of her blocks. Poor little thing got a goose egg and a bruise. I felt so bad for her! I know it is just the first of many bumps and bruises but she was already not feeling well. I nursed her for the last time and she calmed right down. It was nice that our last experience of nursing made her feel so good! It is really hard on me but I know that we bond in so many other ways.
MaKayla and Uncle Nick
Andy worked hard on the deck this weekend. The stairs are now lite and the railing is almost done. We ate dinner out on the deck on Saturday night it was so nice!
Last night I went in to kiss MaKayla goodnight before I went to bed and found her sleeping while doing the splits. It hurts just looking at her =). It was so cute, I had to take a picture.