Sweet and Sassy

Today I was having a conversation with one of my friends about how difficult having a child like Makayla is. She couldn't imagine having such a hyper wild child that throws extreme tantrums the way Kayla does. And to be honest pretty much all my friends with children have told me one time or another how overwhelming it looks being her mom or how stressful it would be. Being mom to her is and has always been super hard and challenging and through out the mix of it all we still want another baby. There are times it is hard staying in one piece and most of the time I'm out with friends I spend the majority of the time chasing after her or trying to discipline (because I don't want to be the parent that ignores their kids bad behavior just so i don't look stupid in front of people. What does that teach your kids) but when my friend had left I broke down in tears went over to Makayla and gave her the biggest hug and kiss (while she was trying to push me away ) I told her how much I love her. My friends don't get to see the sweet beautiful girl that I see as often as I'd like them to see. But even though being her mom I have more trials and challenges than the normal mom I feel like It might just be more rewarding at the same time. I recognize every tiny sweet or nice thing she does. It may be hard having her scream at me in the car, but because what she really wants is for her mommy to reach back to hold her hand that that calms her down how can I not love her. I get to have more eye opening moments of how much she means to me and I don't take any moment for granted. I love her more than anything in the entire world. She is my Makayla sweet and sassy but none the less she my my angel and I wouldn't trade her in for anything!

Labor Day Fun!

This weekend my parents came into town along with Roberts sister. We had so much fun and LOVE when we have company.

Check out Makayla sporting her glasses. She cracks me up she will put them on and just hang out in them especially in the car with the sun is in her eyes. I love it!
She got to spend some one on one time with grandma and grandpa Sorensen. They spoil her with attention 24/7 and she can never get enough

Makayla finally got over her intense shyness. She still gets a little shy but it doesn't take days for her to warm up to people. She would run up to Tonya all weekend to have her hold her, she even ran to her before me when we got her from nursery...needless to say Makayla is going to miss her aunt Tonya tons!

She is getting more and more beautiful!

We had the best weekend. Every time we get visitors we are just so happy, its so nice to have family come visit us, since its normally us the one who travels to see people so its always a great change to have them make time to come see us. Thanks mom, dad and Tonya! We love you tons!

As far as Makayla goes, she is still our active little girl. I've taken her bottles away completely which wasn't very hard (except for her daddy who loves to rely on them) and she now only gets her Binky at bedtime/nap time and in the car (cuz she hates the car and screams without it). I kept thinking that the reason she wasn't talking much was because she had her Binky in her mouth 24/7 so that's why I decided to take it (even though they say it doesn't delay their speech) well since I've taken it she has used her words much more. Today she has been saying please tons so I know it was restricting her vocab. She really is growing like a weed and its so fun to watch her learn more. Her new thing now is opening and closing all the doors in the house. She loves getting up from bed now and come out cuz she can, so we have found a way to tie the door closed so she cant come out hopefully sometime soon she will just go back to how it used to be and just go straight to bed. We just love her so much!!

love her!

We got a new camera so here are some new pictures of Makayla