Amateur photo shoot...yikes!

So the other day I decided I wanted some cute pictures of little Mary Cate. It's not like we had anything going on, I mean the house was totally quiet and I definitely didn't have another child trying desperately to get in on the pictures...no, not in THIS house! Anyway, In the midst of chaos, we had an impromptu photo shoot.

sleepy little one... 

too cute of a face to pass up:)

check out how long little miss thing is!

I could eat this face up...:)

chunky little cheeks...yup, she's definitely ours;)

sweet little grins

I think she is dreaming about eating...

Poor little Mary Cate had to endure her mothers wishes;) She did great and I think we got some pretty cute shots for an amateur photographer with no editing software! (I will admit, most of these pictures were taken by Andy!)

She's Here!

Mary Cate McPherson

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

at 12:02am

7lbs 3oz

21 inches 

the happy sisters...what a bunch;)

All are doing well and accounted for....I think;) I promise I will get up more pictures and also tell the very wild delivery story, as soon as I find my head. It is now zone-defense...and boy is it a wild game over here:)

Water Day

Saturday was dubbed Fun-Filled Water Day in the McPherson household. It signaled the end of summer camps for Andy, so it was a day we celebrated being a whole family once again....of course, football preseason begins in little over a week, so we are trying to take advantage of every opportunity to be with him!

The day started off with a walk to McDonald's for breakfast...could it have started off any better;)! There we discovered cinnamon rolls....what?! How did I miss that McDonald's had cinnamon rolls?! Oh they were delicious and absolutely gone in seconds...I still don't know if the girls even saw them;) Anyway, with that confession on the table, we finished up our walk and then spent some time playing a reading together. Alley had her last swim lesson on Saturday morning, so we all went out to cheer her on and see how much she has learned. This girl has LOVED swimming lessons! She has improved greatly and I look forward to her taking more lessons. This was just a beginning to swimming, where they learn just to be comfortable with the water, going under, kicking and floating. She has started learning how to breathe while swimming and it's hilarious! We need to get this girl some more lessons;)

Here she is waiting for her turn

"breathing" and "kicking"

You should have seen her face when she'd come up from the water to breathe...hilarious!

After lunch and nap time, we all ventured to Longwood's fountains to play in the water. It was incredibly hot outside and we felt the girls needed a little change in routine. They have been begging to go outside the past few weeks, but let's face it, I am not going out in this heat! I will confess, this fountain is two blocks from our house and I JUST remembered it was there! We would have been doing this all summer  if I had remembered it was there. Oh well...the girls just loved playing in the fountains!

Investigating and totally unsure

following the leader

Oh yeah, we are loving it!

 running through all the spouts of water

hmmmm, what was I doing?!!

The water got me!

Kendall's favorite thing, trying to sit on all the water spouts...she's too funny:)

checking it all out

We had a great time and all slept extremely well:) We might just have to do this again!

Are we ready?...

Yesterday we got out the car seat in preparation for Mary Cate's arrival. It might seem a tad early to some since I still have just over a month left, but if we were on "Kendall time" she would be arriving in a little over a week. I'd rather be prepared than surprised:) Anyway, I'm not sure everyone in the house is ready for the new arrival...it looks like someone thinks they need to try it out first....

Not to be out done, Kendall had her turn in it as well. Hopefully when Mary Cate comes she will be the only one getting in and out of this car seat! I'm not banking on it though!!

Visit with Mimi and Papa

Mimi and Papa graciously kept the girls for me one morning so I could make an "uneventful" trip to the fabric store and do some other shopping while Andy was at work. I greatly appreciate their willingness to keep my wild little ones, but they seemed to have done extremely well...mimi and papa that is;) Just kidding, my girls thoroughly enjoyed themselves! Mimi took some pictures of what went on while I was gone...it looks like Kendall and the cat had quite a morning:)

Kendall "being nice and gentle" with the cat...oh I bet she was in heaven...Kendall that is;)

Kendall has this strange obsession...whenever she sees or feels anything soft, she immediately puts her thumb in her mouth and tries to snuggle and lay on whatever it is that is soft...she doesn't care if it's moving, alive or not...

still desperately trying to get a snuggle

so so close...I can hear her saying it now..."wanna snuggle kitta-kitta? It fun!"

Alley had a blast too. She played with the toy farm with uncle John, went up to Papa's church and played on the playground and in the sunday school classrooms. I don't think they could have had a better morning. I think there was some disappointment when they saw mom;) I guess Camp Mimi and Papa will have to happen again....darn;)

4th of July

Doesn't everyone wish they could spend their fourth of July relaxing in a hammock? Believe me, it was only Kendall and Alley that got the chance to "relax" on Monday. We had a very typical day, which is always busy busy in our house with two little girls. Mimi and Papa graciously invited us over to their cabin for a cook-out that night. We enjoyed ourselves immensely...as you can see, the hammock swing was a hit! I heard "higher", "faster" almost the whole time!

Kendall showing off her 4th of July beads...think she's excited?!

setting up a game of bowling. It was so funny, the first time we told Alley to throw the ball at the pins she drop kicked it and it knocked over every single pin!! That's my girl;)

very seriously considering her next move

um, wrong sport sweet-heart....

Our girls love corn on the cob! Kendall will sit there and suck on the cob forever! Both girls were ecstatic to help Mimi "shuck" the corn.

Kendall even helped...until she grabbed a piece and took a big ol' bite out of it...yuck girl!

showing Kendall what to do

yes, it was so hot and muggy outside...we decided to feed the girls ice cubes. At least they were in the spirit of the day...they had star-shaped ice cubes:)

oh yummy

Alley doing some last minute relaxing before the big storm blew in

um, I don't think she was very excited about this picture...check out that pout!

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July!!

New adventure

Now that I've been a stay-at-home-mom for exactly a month, I am realizing I need a creative outlet. With all the sewing I've been doing for my girls over the past several months, I decided that maybe I should try and create some clothing and baby items for other people. So thus began my dream...

My hope is to continue to do what I love, creating personalized clothing items, but for other people not just my girls. Come check out my new website, you might find something you like:) 

www.sewsweetgiggles.blogspot.com