7th & 8th Month Milestone Update

Now that Makenna is almost 9-months old I guess I should update you on the milestones that she has accomplished. Well she started army crawling on June 24th, rocking on her hands and knees by June 29th, got to a sitting position on her own and said "Mama" by July 9th, started crawling July 15th, began pulling herself up onto furniture July 21st, and learned how to climb up the stairs on August 13th. So if any of you were wondering why I am slacking on blogging, this would be the reason. She keeps me constantly on my toes and busy. I love that she is mobile now!!

L.A. Zoo Fun

On July 23rd we went to the Los Angeles Zoo. We had a great time and knew that Makenna would love to people watch. We wanted to see if she would be more interested in the animals now that she was three months older than when we had gone to the Living Desert to see the animals. Well she liked them a little more this time,

but mostly just liked to people watch (You would think this was in response to an animal but no, she liked the people...Hehe),

and catch a snooze,

but the thing she was most excited about was the waterfall!! She could not get enough of it. I don’t know if it was the sound, or the movement, or just that she thought that it was the biggest bath tub she had ever seen. But whatever she thought, she loved it.

Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!!

I feel so bad for all of the kitties around us right now. Makenna is fascinated with them but they are not so fond of her. Our cat simply runs away from her if she even gets within 3 feet of him because he knows if he sticks around that he will be missing some fur. Here are a few pictures of her with the kitties.

Makenna must have snuck up on our kitty or he was too fascinated with the birds to get up because he usually doesn’t let her get this close.

Makenna with Toby’s parent’s cat. She jumped up twice into Makenna’s lap. Makenna didn’t know what to do with a cat that would get this close to her.

This is one of my sister's cats. He tolerated her for a while.

Well this blog posting ended up being more of an apology to the poor kitties in our life. Sorry:-(