McKinley Jane: 6 Months Old

Another month has flown by and Miss McKinley is six months old.  This girl is growing and she is on the move!  She gained 1.5 pounds in four weeks and has learned to maneuver across an entire room in a minute by rolling and scooting.  

She is forever a Mama's Girl and loves to be held, snuggled, and talked to.  I have to carry her a lot!  She is every bit as social as her big sister and has to be in the same room where the "action" is taking place.  While Mama is her favorite she has a special love for Grandpa's company, especially his laugh.

Kinley and Grandpa having some fun.

Kinley Jane loves her Mama time.

Six Month Stats

size 2 diapers (almost size 3)

6-9 month clothes

16.2 pounds
75th Percentile for height, weight and head size

two naps: 10:30-12:30 and 3:30-5:00

First ride on a a Merry Go Round at Knotts!

Loving the motion!

Mom having fun too!

Six Month Firsts

New Foods: strawberries, peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, mango

First ride on the merry-go-round

Scooting (almost ready to crawl!)

First time in the jumper (and she loves it!)

Big smile - She sees something she wants!

Here we go....

The rocking begins!

She was rocking so fast I couldn't get a clear picture!

Valentine's Day 2015

"We love because He first loved us." 1 John 4:19

"Peanut" and "Little"

Happy Valentine's Day from the Shacks!  Today we celebrate our life together as a family of four and thank Jesus for giving us the gift of each other.  We hope as parents we can teach our girls about compassion, selflessness, and how to see their own self-worth as a daughter of Christ.  We hope we can model for them what it looks like to love another person both romantically and in other ways.  Lord Jesus help us to be good at loving each other the way you love us. 

Dan first asked me to be his girlfriend on Valentine's Day 2002

Dan had to work on Valentine's Day so we had a fun family breakfast together.  Last week Lena spotted these huge red Valentine heart plastic goblets and wanted so badly to get one for everybody in the family.  But we were on her allowance shopping trip and she didn't have enough money to buy them all.  So as a surprise I went back a few days later and bought them and used them for our juice during our Valentine's breakfast.  I suppose we will use them every year during our Valentine's meal as a fun family tradition. 

Lena helped me set our pretty breakfast table.

Getting ready to drink our juice out of our special goblets!

Mommy didn't have time to put on any make up yet, but "cheers" anyways!

Valentine's Menu 2015

"Sweetish" Pancakes

Bacon & Sausage

Fruit Salad

Apple-Spinach Juice

Apple-Banana Rice Cereal (McKinley)

I even tried to do heart-shaped fried eggs.

Dan's V-Day cookie stash.

Lena and I made special Paleo cookies (and some not Paleo) for Daddy to take to work.  We decided to make him Paleo Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Lena had a blast decorating her cookies.

We also made some of Lena's favorite sugar cookies and took some over to our neighbors with some Valentines that Lena picked out at the store and wrote her name on.  (She can do a fabulous "L" and a pretty good "E" so far!)

Daddy always picks great flowers!

Daddy bought us girls some pretty flowers and Lena bought Daddy a little love snow globe with her allowance money.

"Little" getting in on the V-Day fun.

Lena loves the snow!

We hope your heart is full of love as you celebrate with your family!