McFarland Family Fun!: September 2013

My favorite month of the year has come and gone. It's my favorite because it starts to cool down below 100 later in the month AND we go on our annual San Diego trip. Per usual it was wonderful and relaxing. I have included several photos at the end of the post. There were so many cute ones. We stayed at the same house we've rented the last few years and brought the dogs along too. They, of course, had a blast at the dog beach and the girls LOVED the sand and the water. Leila didn't want to get out at one point and was just sitting in the water. Anytime Scott or Keira would go down to the water to fill up a pail she was close behind making sure no one forgot her.

We also took the girls to their very first baseball game with Scott's parents. We had a blast as did the girls. We even ended up on the TV (with me making a funny face of course) as our friends texted us a photo of what we looked like on the TV. Of course we were trying to entertain the girls.

Before the game

Just heading to the game

Keira is still cracking us up with her sayings. She is also getting pretty good at swimming. Can't wait for next summer. Plus Leila loves the water so I think she's going to be a fish too. After we got back from our vacation we potty trained Keira as well. She has been doing so well over the past week and a half. The first day and the third day she had a couple accidents, but since then (knock on wood) she's been perfect...even at school. She is so proud of being such a "big girl" that one night she needed to sleep with her underwear (like a blankie) so I let her instead of having a tantrum. Well, around 1AM I hear "underwear mommy, underwear" through the monitor. She couldn't find it and I had to go find it to give it to her as she wouldn't let up. Luckily that was the only night that happened.

Working on her breathing

Keira is talking up a storm lately. Seriously...it's hard to get her to be quiet, but I love it. She's just so chatty and how she describes things are so funny. A couple of Keira's current quotes are:

"She a cranky butt" - in reference to Leila as we sometimes say that when she's tired and whiny
"I want some sink in this." - wanting water in her play teapot

Leila is just a beast. She is standing some on her own and continues to need to be next to her ALL THE TIME. Of course she has her temper too. If Keira is drinking juice or something, Leila will actually yell at her for a drink. We had some juice in San Diego and I gave her a sip of it. She liked it A LOT! So Keira took a sip and Leila yelled at her. Then I took a sip to see if she'd do it again...yep, another holler. Then my mom took a sip and she yelled again. Then when we brought it towards her she was smacking those lips. It was pretty funny. Can't believe she's almost a year old! Where does the time go? She also thinks she's quite a big girl and refuses to eat any purees and insists on eating only what Keira eats. So now I have all these purees that no one will eat.