Grammy's Visit

Baby Boy's nursery (I know, I know... he really needs a name!)

McKenna with her big sister cake at the shower

McKenna in her new outfit from Grammy - so cute!!

McKenna helping grammy pick chicken for freezer dinners we were making.

I think she did more eating than picking :) She really liked the leg!

She really likes to be "nake nake" and loves glue sticks! Here she is naked and glueing something on to her paper.

Chicken Pox!!

My mom (Grammy) came to visit last week to help us get ready for the new baby and keep us company while Brandon was training in Seattle. We had lots of fun, put lots of food in the freezer and got the baby boy's nursery ready. She was also able to be here for both of my baby showers which was a lot of fun, too. McKenna loved having her Grammy here and had so much fun. She was so sad when she had to leave, but would tell me "Grammy bye-bye, airplane, see Bapa, Texas." then it would follow with "Nenna, Texas?" I keep telling her Grammy will be back in just a few weeks when baby brother gets here.

It is amazing how much she is talking. Even just in the last week she has changed so much. She is climbing on everything! I found her up on the barstool at our desk this morning. She is holding whole conversations back and forth and using three word sentences almost all of the time. She is starting to sing along with songs more and more and even request which ones she wants to hear on a CD or wants you to sing.

She is getting ready for her baby brother and now has a big sister sweatshirt that she got from one of the baby showers. We have been reading books from the library about being a big sister and bringing new babies home. We also made a big sister book with pictures that she drew of our family, pictures of her when she was in my tummy and when she was little. When you ask her what her baby brother is going to do when he is out of mommy's tummy she says "poop, pee-pee and whaa whaa." She likes to point to my tummy and say brother and knows when we go to the doctor that she gets to hear brother's heartbeat. She is such a big helper. She wants to help wtih everything from cleaning and laundry to helping daddy use his tools (of which she loves the "hammet" and has used to hammer the closet door in the hallway while we weren't watching!) So I'm sure she will want to be a big helper when he gets here. I'm sure she still has no idea what it will be like when baby brother is here, but I can't wait to see her reaction