Material Girl

If I literally want to make Mackayla's whole day I take her to my closet and let her grab my clothes and run her hands (and head) through them. If I'm holding her while I get something out of our kitchen cupboards she will inevitably grab the curtains next to us. Or in the bathroom she grabs at the towels and shower curtain with amazing speed.

She LOVES grabbing material. She is obsessed with it. I have never seen anything like it and haven't quite figured it out. Maybe she will love clothes?

Watch this video for about 25 seconds and you get the idea. The quality is subpar but I am filming it myself (in a face mask no less).

{video to come shortly}

Cute little material girl, no?

She is eight months old today. Still teething with no luck but lots of pain and anguish. Still no crawling (woohoo-less chaos with packing!). Still incredibly happy and mild, even though this teething bout has given us a little grief.

I play the piano in primary and she will either sit on my lap while I play, or play on the floor until she gets tired (Ben usually has treatments during primary time). If I take her somewhere with just the two of us she is the easiest baby on earth to take care of and never makes a peep.

She is loving all the new food she tries and is getting so chunky. I love it. I usually just give her some of what we eat for dinner to try plus a baby food. She is getting pretty good at feeding herself...I am remembering quickly what my floors will look like for a while with a messy eater!

Cody has his preschool program today and I took a video of it but it's a little too long to post. Pretty cute. I am excited for him to go to kindergarten next year! It makes finding a place to live a little more complicated too...because you also have to consider the school district too. I have never been nervous to move before, but everything seems to change with kids. Will they like their school, will they make good friends, will they have a place to play, etc.

Supposedly Ben will not have to do treatments at OSU. woot woot! He has had to get up and go in at crazy times to do those. This has been a busy year. I'm not sure it is worse than 4th year vet school, definitely as challenging, but we were in a new place and I had a baby so it just had a few different additions. This year Ben is not out of town he is only ten minutes away, we just don't see him when he has long hours.

Speaking of Oklahoma, there are warnings that tomorrow and the next day could bring tornadoes. Some of them could be at night so we'll have to watch the news, apparently while we're sleeping. I know people that live here don't get too worried, just take precaution. But this is kind of disconcerting, to say the least, to me.

Wow, I'm getting chatty on this post. This video is never going to upload.

Here's the kiddos and me with a face mask: