Mckenna is 11 months old

Mckenna turned 11 months on Oct. 19th 2010. I can not believe how fast she is growing. She has been saying mama and dada for awhile now her new sound is nar nar nar over and over its so funny. She picked up her baby doll yesterday and bought it to hear face and started yelling nar nar nar at it. She is not walking yet but she is dancing. She shakes her little booty its so cute. She walks around the furniture all day and can go up the stairs. She can stand for a few seconds but she does not show any interest in walking. She has been sleeping through the night for about two months so that has been really nice. Caden asked me yesterday why Mckenna could not talk and I told him when she gets older she will talk. Caden then asked if she needed new batteries.
Being a mom is the biggest blessing there is. I love every moment of it.

My Morning

Woke up at 6:30 this morning after having a bad dream about spiders. I HATE SPIDERS! I decide to put Kenna in her bed so I could sleep for another hour or so, I flip the covers off us and a huge wolf spider comes running out for under Kenna off the bed. (thank goodness that it did not run towards me) The thing was the size of a half dollar coin it was a solid spider. And I am not just talking really long legs I am talking about the size of its body.
So I pick up Kenna and take her to her room. I go back into my room to look for this spider because it must die or I will not be able to sleep in this room ever again. I get my flip flop and find find my intruder still on my bed. Kevin is still asleep. As I stand there and plan my attack that thought of it getting away from me is just to much to bear. I start to have a total panic attack. I can not get myself to get close enough to killer the spider. So I decide that this is a job for Kevin, I said kevin wake up and do not move. I was so scared that he would move and the spider would get away. Kevin gets up comes around to my side of the bed. We talk for a second about what just happened and i tell him the spider must die, it can not get away or you will be sleeping alone in here until its found. Kevin being the nice guy he is or just the fact that he is a boy at heart wants to catch the spider. So he takes my flip flop and a glass cup to catch it. At this point I feel like I am in a scary movie my heart is racing out of my chest I could not watch. I go around the corner cause there is no way a spider can jump through a wall. Then I hear Kevin yelp that is the best word to use cause he didn't scream but I could tell by the noise that he did not catch the spider. I stayed around the corning in fear that if I looked around the corner the spider might be running towards me this time. I really do not think that i would have been able to handle that. Kevin said that the spider was dead so I went to go see the dead spider body just to make sure that he was not lying. That was my lovely wake up this morning!

McKenna in the Mirror

I love my new camera! I made this shirt and the flower that McKenna is wearing.

McKenna really loved looking at herself in the mirror. She laughed and laughed!

Practicing with the new camera

McKenna 5 months

Kevin bought my a SLR digital camera. I want to start doing my own pictures of the kids I love taking them all to the studio to have pictures but I always spend so much money. So from now on I am going to be taking my own pictures. Tell what you think.

McKenna is really starting to enjoy playing with toys. She also will play in her jumper for a little bit too. She is sleep about 4 hours spans at night too. Her naps during the day are getting longer two. Its makes life so much easier. I am really enjoying picking out her outfits every morning. Sometimes when I change her diaper I change her whole outfit just so I can pick out a new outfit lol.

McKenna 4 months old

Bailey wanted to be in the picture too lol
4 months came so fast. The boys are starting to really enjoy her a lot. She is laughing and smiling they enjoy entertaining her. McKenna is a very demanding baby this has been the first month that i have been able to put her down. She is still getting up every two hours at night to eat. She is only 12lbs so I am ok with getting up to feed her because she needs to put on some weight. I love having a daughter! She is so much harder then the boys were at this age.

The Garden

The Whitehead Garden

We started about three weeks ago. A couple things have started growing for the garden. We have tomatos peppers green peas yellow/green squash broccoli lettuce carrots. Most of the stuff is growing inside because we can not seem to keep bailey our dog out of the garden. I think Kevin may kill her. (not really) We put up a fence made out of lattice to keep bailey out but she chewed a hole right through it. So we are going to have to try something else this weekend before we move all the plants from the house to the garden. We have tired to grow a garden a couple of times in texas it always died.

It took 18 long months

I am happy to say that we finally sold our house the buyers check cleared today and we close tomorrow! I am so excited! I really thought that we were going to be forced into forclsure and dump our credit. Since we are going to have to replace the van soon this would have really bit us in the butt! Not only did we sell but we also made 2200 which totally shocked me. I have to pay some lawyer fees and I also just made the house payment so in the end its only acouple hundred dollars but hey thats better then being out a bunch of money!
So we have been in Cali for two weeks it fills like its been two months. I love it here we are going to check out the beach this weekend. I am excited to find all the good spots so that when family comes I can show them around.
On to another topic weight loss. Thats even hard to type I have never had a problem with this before but man I seem to now. After my last three kids right away I droped down to 130 and then I would stay there for a long time and then go back to 120. Well its already been to months and I am still 142 which is not big for everyone bit it is for me. So I started going to the gym and i am so sore. I am going to be going to the gym three times a week and i will update every week and how much I have lost. This blog is going to make me accountable.

Getting on the band wagon

Well here I go I am jumping on most of my friends have a blog and my husband just created one. Well we just moved to CAli and I love it here the weather is perfect.
We recently added or forth and last child two months ago her name is McKenna little sister to Logan 6 Nathan 5 Caden 3. Life is really busy with four little ones.
The big news around here is that Logan lost his first tooth Its been loose for almost two months I thought it was never going to come out. Two nights ago he was trying to sneak into the popcorn tin by biting the lid off he didn't get it open but his tooth popped off. I heard my tooth came out followed by him screaming I am bleeding. I guess I forgot to fill him in on that part. Poor first child I am practicing on him all the time!