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Happy Birthday Nana and Uncle Jason

Today is my mom's birthday. (I won't tell you how old she is, but I will tell you she will be celebrating her sixth birthday ending with a zero next year.)

Today is also my brother-in-law, Jason's birthday too.

We hope you both enjoy your special day to the fullest.

Halloween

Makenna got to dress up as the great pumpkin for Halloween this year. Not that she knew what was going on, but she was cute anyway. The hat didn't make it too long, and we were amazed we even got any pictures with it on due to her extreme objection to it inside the house.

I saw the Ames Library had trick or treating all day so we went. Basically a couple buckets of candy around with no one manning them. Lame. But she enjoyed running up and down all the isles, stopping only to pull a random book off the shelf. People were always pleasantly surprised to look up from their books to see a giggling pumpkin whiz by them.

We also took her to the play place in the mall and let her run from one end of the mall to the other. Yes, the Ames mall is that small. She was the hit of the place. Lots of "Oh how cute!"

We went to church that night so we missed out on most of the trick or treaters, but Makenna and I stopped by a few neighbors houses when when we got home. Again, the baby in a pumpkin outfit killed.

We finished the night off with Makenna going to bed and Allison feeling ill from eating too much candy. Happy Halloween indeed.

One Year Stats : Finally

We finally had Makenna's one year appointment today. Here are her stats:

• Weight - 18 pounds 13 ounces
• Height - 29 inches

So I was looking back on our blog and I have definitely been slacking on updating on Makenna so here are some updates about her over the last few months.

10 Months

• Eats all table food
• Drinks from a cup with meals and snack
• Loves pulling things out of drawers and baskets, also loves pulling things off shelves
  
• Walking well
• Likes playing with blocks...aka knocking over towers
  
• Climbs up the stairs

11 Months

• Gives high fives
• Likes turning pages of her books but only will sit still while you read to her when she is tired
  
• Signs "milk" and "all done"
• Loves to play Peek-a-Boo
• When asked "Where is Makenna's baby?" , she will go find her doll
  

12 Months

• Loves to dance
• Loves to bring books to you to read to her - favorites are touch and feel or flap books
  
• Can stack one block on another
• Puts toys into containers - doesn't just empty stuff anymore
• Signs "please"
• Will rock her doll in her arms and put her in her rocking chair and rock her
  
• Climbs on anything and everything
• Great at problem solving...aka moves somethings she has the ability to climb on next to something she doesn't so that she is able to climb on the reachable thing
• Whenever someone is eating she come running... guess we must not feed her enough
  

Pumpkins!

This post is a bit late, but few weekends ago we went up to Jared's parent's farm to pick some pumpkins. Jared's brother's family came too. Makenna seemed to have a fun time trying to keep up with Ally and Drew. The weather was great that day and the kids got to spend a lot of time outside. While we were there Jared's mom planned a treasure hunt for the kids to find pumpkins with the letters of their name on them. We also enjoyed celebrating Makenna and Drew's birthday with Jared's brother's family. Makenna got a much loved guitar that she carries around quite often and dances with.