Back-tracking...

This is actually June Part 2...

Sometimes it takes her a minute after nap for her to ACTUALLY wake up.

In yo' FACE!

;)

This is Makenna's flirty face.

She has a distinct affinity for men in general, and we are finding that she is generally more outgoing than Mattaya was. And Makenna wants to be the center of attention. So far, she hasn't become extremely obnoxious about that, but she definitely puts up a good show trying to draw the attention of EVERYONE in the room. :)

Whatever you do, DON'T tell a toddler to "smile".

Daddy's hair-do. Daddy's sandals.

Contemplating: "What IS a jellyfish?"

Mattaya randomly asked to paint with her feet. So we did.

Makenna has quite a bit of hair, but it doesn't hold a barrette like Mattaya's did.

Classic raspberries.

Wearing Daddy's shorts. Mattaya found this HILARIOUS.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This is one happy baby!

She doesn't care for green beans so much. She'll eat them (she's got good eating genes, to be sure), but if she grabs a handful of green beans and Cheerios, she'll keep the Cheerios and fish the green beans out. ;)

Matt and Mattaya do this funky face thing at the dinner table.

He TOLD me he was going to take care of some things in the yard...

Green beans: grimace, or grin?

Matt passed his test for Tech Sergeant!

So Mommy and Mattaya baked him a cake (Mattaya was allowed to use sprinkles the way she desired--Uff-dah).

Bizarro child. She found a yard stick and was insisting on measuring Daddy, but she needed her glasses in order to see the numbers. I'm GUESSING this was inspired by Grampa Dave?

The alphabet is coming along.

And they're off!

Mattaya won the race to the dryer, but then...

Daddy announced a change in the finish line so he was suddenly in the lead!

She is OCCASIONALLY unhappy. ;)

Daddy and Mattaya shared an avocado for snack. Yikes! The pit is not for eating!

The face of a toddler who's been told to stand still.

Bewildered. Bored. Battling the urge to run.

Getting her pre-church workout: push-ups.

Inspecting carpet fibers.

She's been mightily attempting to crawl in spite of the fact that her casts don't let her bend her knees very far.

Mattaya made Daddy a Father's Day card.

And, yes, I know it's such an elderly man thing to do to wear socks with sandals, but the sandals hurt her feet and she won't keep them on unless I put the socks on. Bear with me.

A belt. Could there BE anything more fun?

"Have glasses like gampa."

Grampa Dave often tucks his glasses into the front of his shirt.

Wishing and hoping.

Poor girl doesn't get to go outside much. Both my kids are heat-weenies, and the casts start cooking her after only a very short time. So Makenna sits by the patio door and watches Mattaya enjoy the backyard.

Every kitchen event is a photo op.

Mattaya: "Kenna, say ah."

Makenna: "Ahhhhhh."

Mattaya: "I love you."

Mattaya: "Shhhhh."

Makenna: "Something to eat?"

If the baby does it, she must need to do it, too: crawling.

Skeptical of the chocolate pudding.

Discovering it's not so bad as it looked.

Loving that Mom let her have the whisk all to herself!

Makenna gets a real bath once a week when the old casts come off before the new casts get put on. She thinks it's GREAT fun!

"Here ya go, Mom--wanna bite?"

"Just open your mouth like this."

We just love those blue eyes!

"Really, Mother? Is this altogether necessary?"

Little ham. :)

Love to see my sleeping babe.

When she smiles, I see Gramma Julie...

Squashing peas.

Good times.

If the casting appointment falls at the right time, we'll bring DQ home for Mattaya's snack.

She's okay with that. :)

A little cautious about the sprinkler.

Just going for it.

Daddy let her experiment with handling the hose. That was definitely more fun than the sprinkler!

Learning to drink from the hose.

Notice the single cast. This child has become quite the escape artist.

Daddy took Mattaya to swim for the afternoon to somewhere Mattaya had never been before. She had a BLAST!

Anyone else grossed out by the frog's tongue?

She was kind of afraid of the fountain, but she would stick her little bootie in there. ;)

This picture looks a little maternity-esque.

Poker faces.

Notice Makenna flashing the flirty face as she prepares to roll away.

Any guesses on what this is? Matt had to explain it to me when I got home that day. To the far left is a lamp. The thing near the top is the pillow. In the bed are 4 people (each with their own blankets). The four people: Daddy, Mommy, Mattaya, and Micah. Ummmm...what? Mattaya is too, too funny with some of the stuff she comes up with!

Funny faces

Because you wanted to see Mattaya's teeth and gums up close and personal, right? ;)

[What do you think, Dr. Brent?!]

Mmmm, corn!

I would just like to thank the person who invented Painting with Water books. No muss, no fuss, hours of entertainment. SUCH a blessing when I need to do dinner prep.

Really--don't ask a toddler to smile. I'm tellin' ya...

J is for jacket

Makenna was THRILLED to discover the floor register!

"Look what I found, Mom!"

Because of the casts, she gets around by rolling everywhere.

The bubblegum shirt is one of her FAVORITES. :)

The one-cast wonder.

Our little stinkers. :)

One morning Mattaya woke up and decided she must make Jell-O immediately. There would be no talk of breakfast or any such thing. So we made Jell-O.

We've had some really hot days, so I got out the sprinkler...but she didn't care much about the sprinkler and preferred to just play.

She lay down on her artwork and was covered in sidewalk chalk.

She wouldn't run through the sprinkler to get clean, but she cooled off and cleaned off in this little bucket of water. She's such a little weirdo!

Scrub scrub scrub

She doesn't really understand the whole using squirt guns to get other people wet. She believes they are for getting bugs off the house. I think I won't argue with her! ;)