8 Month Accomplishments

• Can go from laying to sitting on her own
• Has 2 teeth
• Eats veggies, fruit, cereal and yogurt all in one day
• Gets up on all fours, rocks then reaches...no crawling yet, but very close
• Can pull herself up to her knees...feet will be soon
• "Clicks" her tongue
• Makes many more sound combinations
• Had her first sleepover without mom and dad at Grandma and Grandpa Danner's house along with Aunt Tricia, Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Melissa
• Can entertain her self for an hour on the floor...rolling, playing and looking for Mom and Dad's approval and excitement
• Can wave bye-bye...but not quite on demand :)

8 Months!

Tooth #2

Macayla's tooth #1 is about half way showing. This morning I put my finger in her mouth to feel around and sure enough, tooth #2 is starting to poke through!

7 Months Old!

In between Volleyball practice, picking up Macayla, making dinner for 6 and watching the first half of the Packer game I mananged to take some pictures of Macayla. Her biggest accomplishment is getting up on all 4's! Won't be long before she'll be crawling. I know I haven't shown any house pictures...I just want to wait until we are settled with pictures on the wall and stuff. Slowly but surely we are getting there.

So So Sorry!

As most of you know, our lives are crazy busy right now! Between work, Macayla, coaching, buying a house, moving into a new house, and settling into a new house I'm sure you understand why I have not posted any new posts lately. So here is the short version of what has been going on:

• Macayla's 6 month stats: 28" long (98th %tile), and 15 lbs 4 oz (28th %tile)
• Macayla is eating cereal twice a day and having 2 servings of veggies and 2 servings of fruits a day
• She is loving being at the babysitter!
• Volleyball is a challenge but I'm loving every minute of it!
• Macayla has cut her first tooth!
• Two weekends ago with tons of help from both my parents and Jason's parents almost every room in our new house was painted...Thanks to them doesn't even begin to show our appreciation
• This past weekend we moved into our new home with the help of Jason's parents, our brother in law Dave and friend Ron
• We are now settling in and loving the space. The neighbors are very nice. There are tons of kids in the neighborhood. We just love it!

I have a tourney this weekend, but it is my hope to post pictures of the house as well as take and post Macayla's 7 month pictures. It is crazy to us that she is over the half way point to turning 1 years old!

Labor Day Weekend

Almost every year for the past 30? years my mom's side of the family has gotten together for a family reunion. We have been all over the Midwest, but this year we gathered in Wisconsin Dells. All 20+ of us took over an old farm house Scandinavian bed and breakfast. We had a great time!

6 Months Old!

Although Macayla doesn't turn 6 months for a couple more days, as I look at my schedule over the next few weeks I decided I needed to take advantage of this last day at home before school starts. I was really wanting to take Macayla in to get professional 6 month pictures, but like I mentioned our lives are in fast forward right now!

6 Month Accomplishments:

• Both Jason and I have sworn that we have heard "da" and "mom"...of course we know she didn't say it with any meaning behind it, we know we have heard it on a few occasions
• Besides those sounds, Macayla is always "talking"
• She easily rolls all over on the floor...she starts in one spot and it doesn't take her very long to get to where she wants to go! Roll, Twist & Turn!
• Macayla has started at the babysitter full time and has adjusted incredibly. Although in the past few weeks, school age kids have been around, she will have a little boy who is 4 weeks older and another boy who is 1 1/2 years old to play with
• When on her belly she can push up with her arms really high
• She recognizes her name...most of the time
• In the past week, Macayla has been able to sit on her own for up to 1 minute at a time
• She smiles and gets excited
• Her hungry, sleepy, and bored cries are definitely distinctive
• She reaches to us when she wants us to pick her up
• She loves to stand, and will do so whenever we let her
• She loves the exersaucer
• This weekend she started on baby food...so far so good with green beans
• Continues to have rice cereal
• Went on her first camping trip to Washington Island, which included her first ferry ride