The Little GUY

McKay is SO stinkin ' cute!!! Here are a few of my favorite recent things.


McKay loves to take a bath. The other day I was sitting on the living room floor and he was in his room playing. He brings me his rubber ducks and says "BAF" "BAF" Then he grabs my hand and grunts while trying to pull me up still continuing to say "BAF" "BAF".

McKay went to a birthday party the other day and there was a Tonka truck there. I am not talking the little plastic trucks this was a HUGE metal truck. Really heavy. McKay carried it around everywhere with him. He even tried to hold it while he was riding a bike! It was hilarious. He eventually chose the truck over the bike.

McKay wanted to read a book so he brought it to me. Then he went and got his lawn mower he tried and tried, grunted and talked gibberish while he tried to put the lawn mower on my lap. For some reason he wanted it on my lap with him. He then decided it might be easier to pull it up if he got on first. He was successful so we read a few pages with McKay and the mower on my lap.

After it rained the other day we went outside to get some fresh air. McKay could not resist the puddles it was like he was magnetized to them. It took a lot of restraint on my part to just let him play. I decided what the heck, a bath can clean him off in a hurry. Then I started thinking back to when I was younger, my brothers and I would find all the worms we could after it rained. I looked in the gutter and sure enough there were plenty of worms. I picked one up and showed it to McKay. He got a huge smile on his face and said “SNAKE” I tried to explain to him that it was a worm but he is 1 ½ and just didn’t care. They were the coolest things in the world to him.

Sometimes I forget how much McKay understands and hears.  Pretty much everything I say McKay repeats.  I love it when he says new words.  This is an exciting time in life!!!!

Up Up and Away!

It is a rare experience for Dave and I to have the same day off. This Thursday we got to spend the entire day together! We started the day off by just enjoying each others company at home. Then we drove to Morgan and took a plane ride. Dave’s sister and her husband own a plane and they offered to take us for a ride. It was really fun. Dave and Aaron went on a flight first.

McKay really liked watching them take off and land. He knew DADDY was in the plane. Then it was our turn. McKay was a little nervous at first and just sat still not really moving. He loosened up a little towards the end. Even though Aaron put a couple booster seats underneath him I don’t think he could see out and so he really didn’t grasp that he was in the airplane it probably just felt like a car ride to him.

At the hanger they have a bunch of cool stuff like an old car, a boat, a couple airplanes. One of the airplanes was built just for little kids, it doesn’t have an engine but it has a control panel and control stick.

We put McKay in and were just going to push him around but he was not too thrilled and just wanted out. (In his defense he had just woken up).

This was a forest service fire plane that was at the airport.

They let us climb in and take a look.

It holds about 14 people.

Look at all the buttons.

After we left Morgan we had a picnic at the park. Probably not the best idea McKay ate about three bites and then was off to play. We had so much fun playing on the playground and swinging. Dave even tried to teach McKay how to roll down the hill. Dave rolled first and I wanted to record but he made me promise I wouldn't.

McKay was exhausted after that so it was nap time. We finished the day off playing games at grandma and grandpa Grondels house. I love days like this, it is easy to forget all the other things that are going on in life and just enjoy my boys!

Read on there is another posy down below.

EASTER!

This is a little late. I forgot I had these pictures on the camera. Easter went really fast this year and I feel like we didn’t really do anything for it. On Saturday I would have loved to take McKay to an Easter egg hunt but was unable to because I had to work. Even if I didn’t work we still probably wouldn’t have gone because the weather was nasty. Dave and McKay stayed home and colored Easter eggs. From the pictures it looks like they had a great time.

McKay mostly just wanted to drink the “juice” Sunday morning there was a basket for McKay but it didn’t have any Easter candy just toys.

No basket for Dave or me. Maybe we were naughty I am not really sure how that works. Is it like Santa and if you are bad you don’t get anything? For dinner we went to the Grondels house but I again had to go to work that night. We usually have an Easter egg roll down the Grondel’s steep driveway but we postponed it until the week after Easter. The best part about Easter is general conference. It was really enjoyable to just sit at home with Dave and McKay and watch conference. There were a lot of really good talks and it seemed like the common theme was family. I have been thinking about that a lot lately I feel I am seriously lacking in the good mom category. So I have been trying to spend more quality time with McKay. Sometimes I get caught up in all the things that I have to get done ie clean the house, laundry, homework, work, cook and so on, that I forget to just slow down and enjoy McKay. I have been a lot better but sometimes I still have to remind myself that I need to stop everything else and just spend time with McKay. All those other things can wait.

The End of The Week

Our spring break wasn’t over yet! Kevin, Trish and Porter came to visit. (yeah!) My dad took us to the ZOO on Friday. When McKay and I left the house it was warm and sun shining, by the time we got to the ZOO it was a little nippy out, it even started snowing but we still had a blast. I probably don’t even have to say it but McKay LOVED the ZOO!!! His favorite part was being able to run free, the animals were just a bonus.

He is bigger than the infant gorilla.

This lasted about 2 seconds.

Taking in the sun . . . o wait there wasn't one.

Fish.

Crazy snake slide. Too much traction, you literally had to crawl out of it.

JEB

Whoa!

Peek-a-Boo