The Lucas Family: Slacking

Everyone asked me how I was going to keep this blog up. I have great intentions to do so but I have been slacking lately. Maybe it is due to the fact that I am extremely exhausted at the end of the day or because I can't get a good picture of my subject because she is constantly on the move! Or maybe it is because Matt is working overtime lately and it is good on the pocketbook but hard on this momma. It is my promise from this week forward I will blog once a week! I promise! I do!

Matt is working overtime and I have lost my ever-so-helpful husband. Don't get me wrong, he still works hard at home and helps me fold laundry and wrangle Mckenna. But I am trying to pick up the slack for him since he is working 9 or 10 hours everyday. I have failed to tell everyone about Matt's promotion at work I am so proud of him! He will now be training new employees to True Manufacturing. His job will be to welcome employees, introduce them to the supervisors, and make sure they are getting trained properly. This will be a job with a lot less stress and for that we are thankful!

Mckenna is changing everyday. She is such a chatter box these days. It usually sounds like one of the minions from Despicable Me and ending with Mommy. Monday night when I was picking up Mckenna she was peeking at me through the window between the kitchen and living room at John and Charlene's and clear as day she said to me "I See You"! It was the cutest "I see you" I have ever heard! We have always viewed her as smart, partly because we're her parents, because of her ability to learn something so quickly. This is Matt's favorite story to tell as of late:
One night Matt and I were eating dinner. Mckenna was done and she was running around. She had her milk cup and was setting it on the water dispenser's shelf. She kept shaking the water dispenser, looking up at the water and then picking up her cup. Matt finally caught on to what she was doing... she wanted some water. He opened her cup and it was empty. He rinsed it out, filled it up and gave it to her. Satisfied she took a long drink and ran away.
Now really, how smart is that? She knew the water dispenser would fill her cup, she was just too short to touch the button. Mckenna is now tall enough to climb up onto the couch, if she has something to push off of once her feet are in the air! She is cutting two more teeth on the bottom and I can't wait until she gets all of her teeth. It will make her a happy girl and make eating easier.

Dad had to pick up a piece of equipment last week and was down on Thursday night. I think he enjoyed the bonus visit with us. We ate homemade pizza and had Dairy Queen for desert! He played with Mckenna before she went to bed and then we watched a movie! It was a great Thursday night treat!