Mckayla's 1st trip to the lake

We took Mckayla to the lake last weekend for the first time and we had so much fun with Mimi, Papa, Brian, Lacey, Abbey and the rest of the family! The weather was kinda stormy Saturday so we just played indoors most of the day, but Sunday we got to go take a boat ride before we had to come home. Abbey and Mckayla were so much fun, I can't wait to go again!
Here she was enjoying the cold air from the vent on the floor:

Mckayla's first trip to the candy store (a.k.a. gas station down the road):

Brian got this AWESOME picture of her in the swing that was rigged up on the dock. Mckayla had so much fun on the swing I thought I was going to have to push her all night!

Chris with his favorite little girls:

Looking like a little boxer:

Abbey even pushed her cousin in the swing on the porch of the cabin for awhile, it was so cute watching them play together!

Mckayla on her first boat ride:



Abbey got to help Papa drive a little bit

So much fun!

Chillin' in her hat

She army crawls over to her chair, and pulls herself up to play with those toys. She's really making progress on standing!

Studying her baby doll Mckayla


Here she plowed over all her toys to get under the jumper and she was so proud of herself for making it!

Playing with Peas

Mckayla didn't do so well EATING her peas so I put some on her high chair tray to let her experiment and play with them! It was so funny because she would reach one little finger toward the glob and stop before touching it over and over before finally giving it a squish!

She loves her sippy!

Standing

The past few days we've been working more with Mckayla on standing (without it meaning jumping time!) She's improved a lot and she will stand like this for quite awhile now. She's such a big girl!

She's comin' at ya!

Here's Mckayla desperately trying to get to me, well actually to the camera. She makes some of the funniest noises now, especially when she wants something!

And she loooooves her sippy cup now. We've really just started giving it to her regularly and she's got it figured out! I put ice cold water in there so she chews on it and drinks a little, but I think she likes the cold on her gums.

She doesn't hardly ever swing anymore, but she was being fussy so I thought it might relax her a little. Obviously she is a bit big for it now as you can see! She kept sitting up and leaning forward, thankfully she was strapped in tight!

Mirror

Mckayla was cracking me up today with all her silly sounds and babbling she does, especially when she saw herself in the mirror!

SCAMMED

For those that don't know yet, we were recently scammed out of about $2,300.00 from a fraudulent certified check! We sold an old projector and it the mount/hdmi cable we had on Videogon and the guy wanted us to do a C.O.D payment with UPS which requires the buyer to pay with certified funds via cashiers check/money order to the UPS driver before UPS will relinquesh the package to him. After 3 weeks (don't know why it takes so long) UPS finally gave me the certified check which Jessi and I deposited into our MidFirst bank account. Their Fraud department contacted us this morning and told us the check is a fake as it was printed on fake versa paper and has fake routing numbers. It had also been attempted to be cashed or deposited at another institution before. I insured both packages for the amounts they were worth, however UPS says they aren't responsible for any of it so they can't do anything. I say bullsh*t but we will see. We have to file a police report whenever we get the check back from MidFirst so maybe the cops will find the guy. If any of you know of any other channels I could go through for recourse to try and get my money back then please post and let us know or call us as this is not a small amount we are talking about and we need that money. That is like 2 mortgage payments! Needless to say, it has NOT been a good week. FYI for all you, DO NOT EVER use a C.O.D with UPS.