Graduation!

Happy Graduation to Mackenzie! She has officially switched her carseat to forward facing!!

She had her 9 month checkup today and everything went great! She is 29'' long and 23lbs. She is healthy as can be and doing great with all of her developmental milestones. She had to get 3 shots today, the last Hep B, seasonal flu and H1N1. She actually handled it really well too....she of course cried right when the stuck her but after about 10 seconds she was over it and eating puffs. They take urine samples at 9 months as a standard thing so as long as we get no phone calls on that then we're all good!

As for last weekend....Kenzie happily celebrated Halloween with us and he/our friends. Our two friends and their two kids went out trick or treating with us and the friend's brother drove a tractor around with a trailer and some hay so we got a hay ride around town to trick or treat! It was a blast and Kenzie actually enjoyed it more than i thought she would. She was fascinated at looking around at everything that was going on, she sucked on a lollipop and was wide awake the whole time! It was cold out (45 or so) but bundled in her fleece outfit and thick caterpillar suit she was all good. Joel and I took turns taking her up to the doors for candy. She waved HI a few times but was otherwise just happy! She seemed to like the hay ride the best though. Such a good baby! I couldn't be prouder.

Soooooo hmm...what else.....

things are going well with my new job. Haven't had any problems of late and i'm enjoying the interaction with the people. I'm starting to recognize some of the 'regulars.' Last week a little old man nearly broke my heart. He apparently comes in every other week or so. He and his wife got married when he was 18 and she was 16. They ran off to a courthouse and got married and remained married until she passed away last year. I'd say he's about 85 or something.....so you can see howlong they were married. They appear to have been best friends and so happy together. Now that she has passed away he has started to shrivel away and lose weight and has had 2 strokes and a heart attack since. He has lost his short term memory and has trouble remembering to pay his bills....but his memories of his wife are sharp as a tack. Maybe it's not such a bad thing that his short term memory is gone. Every single time he mentioned his wife to me he started to tear up. He hung around the bank for a good 15 mins just talking to all of us tellers, joking around and telling life stories. He just enjoys the company i think. Anyways...just breaks my heart. :(

I'm not in the mood to work on posting pics of Halloween just yet so i'll work on that later. Ii really need to work on getting some GOOD pics of the outfit since it was so dark outside and none really came out good on the night of.

This weekend we are celebrating Joel's aunt's birthday as well as two other friend's of ours. They have rented out a room at a downtown Irish Pub, so needless to say, Joel is psyched about that. :) Gammy will keeping Kenzie on Saturday night so i'll miss my girly but it should be a fun night.

Well i'm gonna go and relax. Kenzie has been sorta fussy today, be it from the shots or her general allergy drainage and cough i don't know. Hopefully tonight she sleeps a little better though!