A new career path?

I'm pretty sure that at some point all little girls discover thier mom's makeup unattended and they just can't help but to try some on. A dab here, a smear there and voila - perfection! Today Marley made that discovery and she decided to try out some bronzer and mascara - now these choices may be a bit daunting for most first timers, but our little Mars is brave! And as you can see here it was quite a success, I think she has a future as an emo makeup artist!

After many tries, I have finally captured a baby smile! Mackenzie is growing so fast, she is already smiling at us and she is starting to coo! She is even trying to hold up her head - she will be playing with Marley in no time! On January 17th she went for her checkup and she already weighs 10 lbs 2 oz. But then again, who can stay thin when you have your own personal chef whose specialties are lego cakes, rubber cupcakes, and plastic cookies! Yummy!

Find what you're good at

So far, Mackenzie is a great sleeper. She sleeps most of time, and she usually does pretty good at night. On many occasions we have found her sleeping INSIDE her swaddle, which seems to be a favorite of hers, I guess she is still trying to simulate the womb - or give me heart failure! She seems to have a pretty sweet disposition I guess it's from all of the sweet dreams. Most of this we can attribute to our resident sorcerer and big sister, who casts a steady stream of magic spells on the baby to keep her in check!

Merry Christmas

We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas! We were blessed to share our holidays with our newest member - not that she had any idea what was going on, but it was nice to have our little family all together!

As most kids do, at least according to thier parents, Marley got an obscene amount of gifts between Santa and her grandparents, so much so that we packed up the majority of her previous toys just to make room! One of her favorite gifts was this tea set from Santa and she was kind enough to share some tea with Mackenzie.

Mackenzie pretty much slept though the whole day, at least she tried. She did get a whole lot of lovin' though and plenty of new toys to try out when she gets a bit bigger - which Marley is anxiously awaiting!