Lights! Camera!! Action!!!

Yep, McKenna’s a movie star now. Or something like that… I found some time to transfer some stuff off the video camera and on to the ‘puter, and now we’re passing the savings on to you! :confused:

Since the clips are on Yahoo at the moment, you’ll need a Yahoo ID to view ’em. If you don’t have one already, it won’t cost you anything and you really don’t have to give them much info. Heck, you might even like it. :O

Let me know your Yahoo ID and I’ll add it to the access list. Once that’s done, all you need to do is login to Yahoo and then go here. If you get a “Sorry, the page you requested was not found.” message, chances are you clicked on the link before you logged in.

The clips are in Winblows Media format, but as long as you’ve got a version of Media Player you should be okay. If the clips won’t play for you by clicking the link, try right-clicking the link and save the clip to your computer – then try opening it. Not sure why, but that worked when I was using an older version of Media Player. If that doesn’t work, send an email to Bill Gate$, I mean, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

There are three clips out there right now, but more should be on the way over the next week or so…

Enjoy!

Stand up and be counted

Well, it’s official: McKenna is now standing on her own (more or less). We’re not sure if she realizes what she’s doing yet ;), but it’s only a matter of time before she’ll be running all over the place. She’s also getting good at helping her mom sort laundry – that is, until she falls into the basket… :laugh:

Now we’re getting somewhere…

Still more where these came from, but here are some more recent shots of McKenna. Took me long enough, didn’t it?! :rolleyes:

As for the gal herself, McKenna’s doing great. She’s crawling all over creation and pulling herself to a standing position whenever she gets a chance (which is often). Thanks to our marathon road trips this summer she’s finally met her cousin, Jude, as well as all her aunts and uncles. A kid never had so many folks to wrap around her little finger. 😉 She’s quite the talker now, but we seem to have lost the translation manual so we just tend to smile and nod our heads a lot. It’s good practice for when she’ll be a teenager. 😎

Life is good. 😀

Okay – I’m worthless.

It’s been three months and I still haven’t gotten any new pictures up on the site. 🙁

Thankfully, I’ve got some vacation time coming up so hopefully I’ll find the time to get some of the newer shots out there. Keep your fingers crossed!

While I’m at it, McKenna continues to be our primary source of entertainment. For Father’s Day she wasn’t able to make it to the store to buy me a gift, so instead she cut her first two teeth. Watch out world! (And furniture, and toys, and Baron…) She’s also getting to be pretty mobile – rolling and scooting all over creation. I don’t know if I’d call it crawling just yet, but it’s only a matter of time. Time to start installing the Tot Locks… :O

Time flies when you have a baby…

You’ve asked for it. You’ve begged for it! You’ve even lost countless nights of sleep waiting for it!!!

Or not. 😉

Regardless, I’ve finally gotten off my butt (and then proceeded to put my butt in the chair in front of the ‘puter) and put some more pictures of McKenna out on the site. Here you go! She’s doing great and continues to be our primary source of entertainment. Her bag of tricks now includes:

  • Sticking everything within reach into her mouth
  • Talking constantly (we’re still working on translating at this point…)
  • Smiling – especially when she’s complimented
  • Rolling thither and yon, but not quite all the way over
  • Impersonating Jackie Chan – kicks a plenty!
  • Standing (more or less) as long as she has someone to help balance her. You’d think she’d wait until she’d learned to crawl first…In other news of note, the Walrus (our 1949 Cheverolet) came back from the shop yesterday and it’s running like a champ. 😀 After a long overdue wash and wax (yes, to the car) we all piled in for a trip through the neighborhood to see how many heads we could turn. Very cool. 😎
  • Better late than never…

    Did I say I’d be posting new pictures of McKenna soon? :crazy: Oops! Here they are – a little late, but none the worse for wear. Hopefully the next batch won’t be too long in getting here…

    In other news of the McKenna kind:

  • She’s discovered how to work her kick n’ play bouncer. Now that she’s learning how to entertain herself, we have a bit more time to ourselves. Honestly, though, we just watch her play now. 😀
  • We’re getting her hooked on TV early. Educational TV, that is. Picked up all the Baby Einstein collection and she really enjoys ’em.
  • Bath time is a lot less traumatic (for everyone involved) and I’d almost say she’s starting to enjoy it. Of course, that may just be because afterwards she gets to stare at herself in the mirror while she’s getting dried off. Portent of things to come? :rolleyes:
  • The holy grail of sleeping through the night is almost in our grasp. Sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn’t, and sometimes she REALLY doesn’t. :O
  • Baron thinks she’s old enough to pet him. Of course, he also thinks that any of her blankets we leave laying out are his blankets. Go fig.That’s it for now (What, you want more?!). Check back again for more updates. Same bat time. Same bat place. And as soon as I figure out what those are, I’ll be the first to know. 😉