Weekend Update

We have been seeing glimpses of Maci's budding personality over the last few months now but this weekend I realized, she is FUNNY!  She has such a happy go lucky personality and is starting to make funny faces with great timing of when she does them.  Maci is also really into monkey see monkey do and so that has led to her doing all sorts of funny faces, scrunching her nose and playing with her tongue.  The babbling is also becoming a bit more clear and I am fairly sure she is say dadda but I say it doesnt count until she knows to be saying that particular word directed at Clint.  However, she is funny to converse with now, big girl!  Oh and not to mention the fact that she is trying to walk all over this house. . . silly girl!

First, here are some pictures from last Sunday.  It was a GORGEOUS fall day so we decided to take a quick walk to the park that is only 2 doors down from our house.  Maci had so much fun swinging in the "diaper" swings and sliding with daddy.  This kid has NO FEAR!

This weekend was really rainy and cold in Minneapolis.  Clint wanted to get started on at least the back part of our new privacy fence this weekend so that we get the Cedar wood out of the garage before winter, plus we wanted to beat the ground from getting too hard.  So because of this, Clint worked out back all day Saturday (in the misty cold rain ICK) while Maci and I ran errands and ultimately blew 3 hours wandering around a local mall.  This girl is her mother's daughter because she sure enjoys shopping and people watching.   

Taking a pause for a pick post Maci's 1st Auntie Anne's pretzel bite

 Someone cant hang quite like her mom ;-)

Then today we did our typical Sunday football day with another wonderful Bengal win, sorry Dolphins!  Also like a typical Sunday, we had people over to watch the game.  This day was unique though because we had never met these people before.  My college roommate Ashley lived in Chicago for several years before just moving to NYC.  She had a friend of a friend that recently moved to Minneapolis for work related reasons so she got us in touch with each other since we are both transplants to the area.  Plus, Jamie and Mike also recently had their first child (Brielle).  So today the three of them came over to meet us and it was a great time!  They are really nice people and we have a lot in common, always fun meeting more new people!  Brielle is 6 months old so very close in age to Maci and I love having more moms to compare notes with :)  I plan to invite Jamie to one of our mom & me get together at some point so she can meet some more amazing women/moms in the Twin Cities area - what a great weekend!!

Have a great week everyone!

Lots of Love, 

C, K & M