McKenzie's New Clothes

McKenzie has "grown like a weed" since she was conceived. She was a week and a half early and was 8 lbs 5 oz 22 inches long. Since then, she has been either off the charts or in the 95 percentile in compared to the kids her age. My Mom always sends us Jaime's old clothes, which helps out A LOT. But because of McKenzie proportions, she cannot always wear Jaime's old clothes.

A lot of her clothes are either getting holes because they are hand me downs or they are just too small. So on Thursday, we got McKenzie a new pair of shorts and 3 new shirts. I wanted to be sure that they would fit, so we went to the dressing room. When she tried on her new clothes her eyes just beamed! She was so excited! Here's a couple of pictures of what we got.





After we picked out her clothes, she said, "now we have to get Owen some new clothes." Since Owen just got a bunch of new clothes for Christmas, we didn't get him anything new. I just thought she was really sweet for thinking about her brother.

My Owen

I love Owen So much! He is the sweetest little guy. I almost wish that I was pregnant with a boy so that he would have a brother. (Notice I said, "almost." I am not having any more babies for a long, long while. Unless we are blessed with one while on birth control.) Anyways, He's just so stinkin cute.



Today, McKenzie and Owen were supposed to clean the toy room. McKenzie was doing a lot of the work while Owen was playing. After a while, I told McKenzie to leave and Owen had to finish it by himself. I got lots of excuses from him, like, "I can't do it! It's too hard!" and my favorite, "I want to take a nap!" He finally finished, just in time for dinner.

Truely Magic

My faith in the Magic Eraser has been restored! I was able to "Fix" 2 additional items with the wonderful Magic Eraser.

First, McKenzie received this super cute piggy bank from my Grandma Hudson just after she was born. I absolutely LOVE it. Well, McKenzie thought it would be a great art project and colored on it with a black sharpie. I seriously thought that it was ruined at the time, but I couldn't part with it. Now a couple years later, I decided to try the magic eraser and voila! It's super cute once again!


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After


My next project was to clean the wall in the toy room. We had a dry erase board in here for the kids to color on. Of course that wasn't good enough and they ended up coloring on the walls with the dry erase marker. Ugh!!!! Today, I was finally able to remove the marker from the wall, Thanks to the Magic Eraser! I'm sorry I ever doubted you!


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After

Wall Art

I think that most of us with kids have experienced the coloring on the walls at one time or another. For me, it's been a few different times. The first time, I was able to easily remove the crayon with a magic eraser. Well, the 2nd Time, I wasn't so lucky. So I lost my faith in the magic eraser. Eventually, we moved, and I never had to remove the crayon off the walls. This last time, 2 of my 3 kids, participated in the coloring and by the time they were caught, they did much damage.

I first had them wipe down the walls with baby wipes. That worked for the purple crayon, but not the magenta or the yellow. Soon, I gave up and months later the crayon markings were still on the wall. Wanting to get it removed, I searched online. There was comments saying to use oil, so I got out the pledge. The pledge did not work. I then tried the Pam cooking spray. Nope, that didn't work either. I decided to move on to other comments. I tried heating the crayon marking with a blow dryer and then wiping it with soapy water. OOPS! That smeared the crayon all over! I panicked! Then I read to try the blow dryer with a magic eraser. I quickly got out the remaining 2 erasers and with the blow dryer, the crayon started coming off! Hurray! Even the smeared crayon came off! It took about 20 minutes to get the entire room free of the crayon marks!

My Kids

McKenzie and Owen Love playing with Zoey and they are really good to her, most of the time. I'm not sure what got them started, but they thought that it would be funny to put blocks on Zoey's head. Then Owen started whacking the blocks off Zoey's head. They all were cracking up so hard! It was really cute. Then I took pictures off all 3 of them together.



My Girls

Trying to Stay Positive...Even with Negative Comments

Every time I have a baby, it always takes at least 2 years for me to lose the weight. After I had McKenzie, I got pregnant before 2 years. As soon as I found out I was pregnant with Owen, I had people asking me when I was due! I still had 8 1/2 months to go. Then after I had Owen, I had lots of people asking me when I was due or if I was expecting. It didn't matter if Owen was with me or not. I guess this time is no different. Last Thursday, I was playing volleyball and I dove for a ball. This lady there said something like, "Oh! Be careful! You don't want to hurt your baby!" Or course it was real quiet when she said this, so everyone heard. I said, "I'm not pregnant. I just had a baby 4 months ago."

I HATE it when this happens, it hurts a lot and I usually start getting down on myself. I'm really trying to stay positive. No one WANTS to look pregnant when they are not. I wish that I was one of those people that loses all the weight as soon as the baby comes out, but no. Plus, my babies are huge! If I would have gone to my due date with all of them, they would have all been 10 pound babies! Hopefully, with all my volleyball exercise, I will lose this weight soon!

Zoey is growing so fast!

So my little baby just doesn't want to stay little. I am behind on laundry so I picked out the only outfit in her closet and tried it on thinking it wouldn't fit and it did! So can wear 9 month outfits now! And Yesterday, she rolled over for the first time! She is just growing up too fast!