McFarland Family Fun!: Another crazy month!

Another crazy busy month is in the books. As much fun as we had throughout the month, it will be nice to be able to relax a little bit on some weekends versus being on the go all the time.

Some highlights of the month included celebrating my birthday and several other of Keira's friends birthdays. Also I traveled to Dallas for a couple days for work, which left Scott on his own however my mom did coordinate her work schedule so she could help him out with bedtimes and all. One of the best parts of the month was when my girls from CA, Sounia and Kim, came into town to hang out. We had a blast and it was hard to see them leave, but we will see them again soon when we head to LA for our annual 4th of July trip.

Scott and I also participated in Pat's Run (Scott's 2nd time, my first). I am obviously a lot slower than Scott so of course he was assigned a corral way ahead of mine (corral 4 versus 17). Any normal husband would volunteer to start in the same corral as their wife, but Scott is a 'serious runner' and didn't want to be bogged down by us slow people. It turns out by the time I started, Scott was actually finishing. Serves him right to have to wait for me! And let's be honest, I haven't really run in 2 1/2 years (before getting pregnant with Keira) and that was basically my first big workout since having Leila. Smart move on my part! It was a run/walk situation, but I finished strong and got to high five all the Sun Devil Footballers! Was it worth waking up super early and ultimately injuring myself it just for that and the inspirational finish? Still debating that one. Speaking of getting injured, somehow I messed up my knee and it's been so painful. I'm icing it, taking advil, and all that good stuff and it's just now starting to feel better (not that that means it feels great as I'm still limping around) so hopefully I'll be 100% soon so I can get back on the workout wagon.

Now to the fun stuff. The girls! Oh how they are starting to fight like sisters. It's pretty funny. I have a feeling Leila isn't going to tolerate being bossed around. Keira will take a toy away from her and Leila will yell really loudly at her. Girl gets angry! But Keira is such a sweet sister too and will get her paci if she needs it, hand her toys, and just chat with her a bit when needed. I can already tell they are going to be the best of friends.

Leila...she is just getting so big! She is almost 6 months old!! Where does time go?

5 month photos

Clearly Spongebob's feet taste good

She loves to watch Keira and has the best belly laugh going on. She laughs a lot and can just get the biggest grin on her face. The best is going to get her in the morning and once she sees you she has a huge smile on her face and sometimes she squeals in delight. One way Leila differs from Keira is that she always has to put something in her mouth. Keira wasn't real mouthy like that so I find myself really having to keep an eye out what is sitting next to her on the mat when she's playing (i.e. newspaper that Keira has strewn around).

Loves to be in the middle of things

Sitting up like a big girl!

First swim

Keira...girl is still cracking us up! The things that come out of her mouth, or the facial expressions she makes, are just hilarious! Some of her recent quips include:

Sings up a storm - we love all songs, but lately she will sing No More Monkeys Jumping On The Bed while hitting her head pretty hard. LOL!
Loves Candy (just like her mama) - for a while, after Easter, every day she would hold up one finger in front of her face and say "just one." I don't think she understood that only meant one because she would do it again, and again, and again. It was pretty cute the way she did it.
Time out - not sure if time out works when your child likes it. Sometimes she will send herself to time out for absolutely no reason and then fake cry while sitting there.
Super clean - she likes to be clean and things around her tidy (except her books in her room of course). If the toilet paper rips, spills her milk or it's not completely wipes up, fuzz in the bathtub which she thought was a bug she will say "ew, yucky!" and point at it.
Does not like flies so we had to teach her "shoo fly" so she won't freak out every time she sees one. Now she will say it automatically.
Loves to accessorize with bracelets and sunglasses. When she puts on her sunglasses now she automatically turns to us and says "I pretty." We agree and say "yes, Keira is pretty" to which she replies "yeah." So far I don't think we have a self esteem issue.
Definitely parrots what we say as I sometimes hear her say to us or the dogs, "Hi sweetheart"