Hair Like Daddy

Macina is finally getting more hair so I am able to do the little fountain pony tail on the top of her head. It's been humid out lately so when we're outside it gets really spiral-curly. After her bath I comb her hair (it gets so tangled and knotty) and then we have to put a little mousse in the back to tame the frizz and get nice little ringlets. She hates me doing anything to her hair but she's getting more patient (or maybe I'm just getting better at doing it quickly and painlessly).

Here's a shot of the back a couple weeks ago.

And yes, she gets this blonde curly-sue hair from her daddy.

Nick on his 2nd Birthday:

Not sure how old he is here but I'm guessing closer to 2 1/2 or 3:

I think this one is more like 3 as well:

Strawberry Picking

Last week we went strawberry picking for the first time. It was a perfect day. There were tons of strawberries at this place and the cost was just $1.25 per pound. Macina mostly just picked them, took one bite out of them, and then tossed them. She liked it but got bored quickly so once again Nick ended up doing most of the picking while I walked up and down the rows with Macina.

Showing me the "baby" strawberry she picked.

(anything little is a "baby" in Macina's eyes. If I say "Macina just take a little bite." She looks at me and says "Baby?" and I say "Yeah, a baby bite." If there's a few drops of juice left in a cup, she refers to it as a "baby" amount. She is obsessed with all things baby.)


Sour strawberry face!

I think she looks so "old" in this picture! :(

Daddy and Macina leaving with 10 lbs. of strawberries.

This was a fun activity to do but next year I will do it when I know we will be home for the next week. We went away for the weekend right after we picked these and of course I never got around to freezing them so now I have 9.5 lbs. of detereorating strawberries in my refrigerator.

Memorial Day Weekend Part 2 & 3: Cookouts

After the farm and a nap we went to a friends house for a cookout/pool party. Macina loved swimming with Daddy while the other guys played Pool Beer Pong.

Playing cornhole with daddy

Hanging out with Rob

Then on Monday we went to Nick's parents house for a cookout. There's a pond in their neighborhood so we all took Macina down there to check it out.

Nick and his Dad took Macina out in the paddle boat, she insisted they try to catch the goose, but they were too slow!

Riding on dad's shoulders, watch out for that ceiling fan! (when Nick was young, his babysitter had her boyfriend over and put Nick on his shoulders and walked into the ceiling fan, i think Nick has a scar on his forehead from the impact)

Aunt Kate sharing her corn on the cob with Macina

Farm Video Clips

Memorial Day Weekend Part 1: Farm Fun

Saturday morning, we headed out to the country for some farm fun! It was a little over a 20 minute drive, and when we got there we were the ONLY people there! I was so happy because that meant we'd have all the animals to ourselves! This place was so neat, as soon as we got out of our cars we saw roosters, ducks and chickens running free all around us....every time I turned around there was a freakin rooster crowing at my feet.....and they don't just crow at the crack of dawn....it is ALL DAY LONG that they make that annoying noise. First the tour guide took us to hold baby chicks and ducks.

Macina wasn't too sure about the chicks, it kept flapping its wings on her!

So mommy held the duck next to her so she could pet him, isn't it so cute?Then we went to play with the bunnies!

Now on to the llamas. There were three really nice llamas and we got to feed them bread, Macina really liked this:
(we also fed bread to billy goats, donkeys, cows, deer, pigs....)

Now the baby goats were a different story. I thought she would love this part since she loves feeding bottles to her baby dolls and just about anything else that she thinks should drink from a bottle. It started off okay but once the ten baby goats figured out it was feeding time they started "baa-ing." Not a cute little baa, but a really loud obnoxious baa that totally freaked Macina out. The bottle to goat ratio was way off so the goats went a little crazy: they literally came out through the little squares of that fence!

Daddy had to finish feeding the baby goat all alone, what a good sport!

Male Peacock!

Blizzard the Reindeer:

Talking to her little friend, the farm owners' granddaughters loved Macina:

Me, being forced to participate in the cow milking.

Our Farmer Family:

At the end they took us for a barrel-train ride. The guy pulled us all around the farm. Macina loved this and cried More! when the ride was over, but I was happy to be done-I felt like a giant crammed in that darn barrel and it was so bumpy!

Those are just a few of the pictures we got and we saw a lot more animals. It was so much fun except the bottom of my shoes were full of crap when we left. That's farm life! (that's what they kept saying to me anyway)

I have three video clips from the farm too that I will post later!

Feels Like Summer!

Well it is finally nice out, so Nick and I have been taking advantage of the warm weather! We spend most days outside going on walks, playing on the playground, sandbox etc. Although it hasn't been hot enough to break out the baby pool. Our first trip to the Zoo with Macina was awesome. She had so much fun seeing all the animals and just kept pointing to her hand, which means she wants to hold the animal. She loved the monkeys, birds, otter, shark.....everything. We spent a few hours there and she was so well behaved the whole time in and out of her stroller!

Watching the monkeys:

Looking at the big Gorillas!

Playing in the sandbox

Our picnic- (she had to wear a headband and sunglasses to be like her mama!) I love my baby girl!

A trip home

A friend I've known since 1st grade is expecting her first baby (BOY) so I went to my hometown to go to her baby shower and visit with my family. Nick stayed in town, he was busy studying for school! Macina napped at my parents house while I went to Jeni's baby shower which was nice since I could talk with some old high school friends I haven't seen in a while:

Jill, Jeni (5+ months pregnant), and Me

After that I spent the next couple of days just playing outside with Macina and my siblings. She loves all the kids! Here she is jumping on the trampoline with my sister, they are best buds, she is such a good little Aunt!

Then Monday night my parents babysat Macina and I went out with my sister Emily for drinks. We had so much fun, can't wait to do that again! :)

It was a great long weekend hanging out with my family and friends. I needed that! Love you guys!