Following Through...

Last weekend was a first for Mckenna, she had the FLU! It was horrible, this was one of those times that I felt like I was not so qualified to be a mom. I questioned my every move, I felt desperate and I just wanted my baby to feel better! She is on the mend now and were were able to celebrate Christmas on Saturday with the Lucas family.

Mckenna was spoiled by everyone. I don't even know if I can mention everything but the big hits were Elmo in Grouchland movie, the Little People House, and a little vacuum that talks and makes vacuum sounds. She also likes the little critters from Aunt Kelly that are supposed to move, but due to a lack of batteries they just make little squeaking sounds.

Mckenna's vacuum to help mommy clean the house!

 Mckenna had a blast opening presents. She would pick a person to help her get them started! 

Mckenna was also our little Santa. She delivered all of the gifts to each of us!

Then Daddy got the best gift of all...

Mckenna!!!

We hope the weather cooperates and we make it to Iowa and back home safely this weekend!

Love from 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!

Very Tired Kenna with Papa Ken

Here are some recent pictures from my phone camera. Better than nothing, right!

Rooting on Mizzou against Kansas!

Eating her first Ice Cream Cone... She ate the WHOLE thing!!

Well, that's all for now! Love from the Lucas Family!

Thanksgiving

I don't know what is wrong with me lately but I didn't bring my camera to Thanksgiving this year and I didn't get it out ONCE when mom and dad were here over the weekend. So if I had taken pictures this is what you would see... You would see a darling picture of Mckenna sitting at a little table gobbling up her Thanksgiving dinner which consisted of ham, sweet potatoes, a roll and a cookie. You would see a picture of her in her cute sweater dress in one picture and then a picture of her in her pajamas because she dumped milk all over her dress. You would see her playing hide and seek with dad. You would see her sitting at the end of the table with her two grandmas. We really did have a special weekend and LOVED the time home with Mckenna and our family. We went out to dinner, went bowling and ate a very nice dinner together!

I do have one picture of Mckenna and Matt making breakfast together on Thanksgiving morning and a picture of her in her Thanksgiving pajamas. (Don't mind the HORRIBLE shadow behind the picture of her in her Pajamas!)

Sunday after everyone left Mckenna and I put up the tree. Mckenna took the ornaments down as fast as I was putting them up. We now have a tree that is half decorated. Nice and pretty on the top and boring on the bottom! In between decorating the tree I tried to snap a few pictures. (Again there is a horrible shadow behind Mckenna in all of the pictures... boo... this momma photographer needs some more practice!)

Getting the little tree out.

 And just before nap time I snapped a couple of pictures of Mckenna and Daddy reading a story and watching the game.

Love from the Lucas family!

Baptism

November 7, 2010 Mckenna was finally baptized. We shared this event with Brooke as well. It was a wonderful weekend celebrated with the Meade, Lucas, and VonBon Families! Saturday the women went downtown to help Laura pick out cabinet colors and then ate at Spaghetti Works while the men watched football at Chris and Lauras' house. Mom made an incredible meal Saturday night for everyone, it was fun to have all of our family in one place! Sunday was the baptism followed by pizza at Godfather's! It was a fantastic weekend and I couldn't have dreamed of another way for Mckenna's baptism to be.

Have a good week! Love from the Lucas family!

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun weekend! Matt didn't have to work overtime on Saturday (yippee!!) so that freed up a lot of time for us to get some things done together! We took all of the summer yard 'things' in, boo, and did some quick shopping before Matt went to watch the Mizzou game with John. Sadly, they lost but I think he had a pretty good time anyway. Sunday, we started off the day at Kelly's work for their Halloween party. They had many games and things for the kiddos to play! Mckenna won the costume contest and won a bumblebee PillowPet. When Mckenna was looking tired we packed up and went home to take a nap. Unfortunately, Mckenna slept a little on the way home and when we put her in her crib for a nap we just heard little shrieks of laughter. I don't know what she was doing in there but it was fun to listen to her on the monitor. After her 'nap' we brought our pumpkin over to Matt's parents house to carve before Trick-or-Treating! The day was long, but fun! Enjoy some of the pictures from the day...

Kelly's Work Party:

Mckenna wanted to keep all of the ducks! :)

Carving Pumpkins with Daddy!

Trick-Or-Treating

Love from the Lucas Family!

Pumpkinland...

Doesn't she look so sweet waving to you on that big, orange pumpkin? This weekend we went to the Pumpkinland at one of the local farms to enjoy the beautiful weather and farmlike things. It was a really neat place, complete with a market of fresh foods, pumpkins, animals, and pumpkinland! Pumpkinland was pretty cool. They used straw, tires, wood, and some kind of slick rubber to create a playland for kids. I will let some of the pictures do the talking! (In many of the pictures Mckenna looks dazed, I think it is because she couldn't stop watching all of the kids run around her.)

Sitting at the top of the straw pyramid!

A ride through the fields behind a KABOTA!

All that playing made someone tired!

Come on Papa John, we're ready to go home!

 Have a great fall week! Love from the Lucas Family!