Uncle Brent "Tries" to Teach Makenzie to Play Baseball :)

Uncle Brent showed Makenzie how to hold the bat.....
He gets her ready to try to hit the ball....

And she swings!!! She didn't hit the ball of course, so it frustrated her. She laid the bat down, put her hands on her hips, and told Brent, "Well, I just can't do it." We laughed so hard!

Makenzie and Presley Meet Britlee for the First Time!

Hanna and Britlee
The girls were so excited to meet Britlee for the first time. They loved getting to hold her and give her lots of sugar.

Presley thought she was such a big girl, and kept saying "Baby!" over and over again.

Makenzie was able to hold Britlee all by herself. She's quite the big girl now. She actually thought we were going to be taking Britlee home with us! We had to explain that Britlee had to live with Aunt Hanna and Uncle Brent...lol!

This was actually the first time the girls laid eyes on Britlee. They'd been waiting so long for her to get here that it was so exciting for them to actually get to see her and touch her. Makenzie kept telling her that she loved her, and that she was "so sweet".

We Welcome the Newest Addition to Our Family....Britlee Morgan Telano!!

Britlee was born Sunday morning, October 26, 2008, around 7:45 am. She weighed 7 lbs. 11.5 oz. and was 20 inches long. She's absolutely beautiful and looks like her Daddy! Hanna, Brent, and Britlee are all doing great ( just a little sleep deprived), and Makenzie and Presley are soooo excited to have a new little cousin! My camera died on me, but I promise I'll have more pictures soon!

Mommy's Big Girls

Our pretty girls are getting too big for their britches! Makenzie thinks she's big enough to do whatever she wants, and we've been having a time with her lately. She can be such a polite well-mannered sweatheart one minute and in the next, she's throwing a tantrum because she's not getting her way. She's so stubborn that when I tell her to do something that she doesn't want to do she gets mad, balls her hands into fists, and says, "I'll will not!" Pray for us!!! I guess you really do reap what you sow because I acted just like her when I was little! As for Miss Presley, things aren't much better..lol! She has decided she's as big as Makenzie and wants to do everything she does. Therefore, everytime Makenzie picks up a toy, they get into a tug of war over it and are both screaming at the top of their lungs. I really feel like I'm raising twins now! The funny thing is, Makenzie can mess with Presley, but nobody else better mess with her. She's very protective of her sister! They're also very sweet to each other when they wake up in the morning and before they go to bed, but the problems occur while they're playing of course! Presley also gets very angry and pitches a fit if you do not let her do things for herself. I think both girls are going through an independent stage. They're about to kill me...lol! Miss Independent here decided that she no longer needs Mommy to help her wash her hair. She can do it all by herself! Her new thing to say when somebody asks her how she learned to do something is..."I taught myself." How funny is that! She is such a mess! Makenzie found some old Barbie dolls that I had when I was a little girl the other night ,and now she refuses to put them down. She loves them! It's so funny how she's into all the baby and Barbie doll things (pretend play) all of a sudden. She even asked me if she could have a mop like mine for Christmas this year! Ha!

Taking a Day to Smell the Roses.....

Mommy got to come home from Ackerman High School early today since it's homecoming. It was too pretty to stay cooped up inside so we went outside to explore! Smelling Mommy's roses....
Presley is sixteen months old and getting so big! She and Makenzie now pretty much wear the same size clothes and Presley is only 1-2 (depending on the shoe) shoe sizes behind her. Presley thinks she's just as big as Makenzie which has developed into lots of fusses when the girls decide they want to play with the same toys, have the same cup, you name it. It's definitely getting interesting around here!
They actually got into a little fuss about which riding toy they were going to play with, and for once, Makenzie was actually the cause of it because she wanted the riding toy Presley had (which she has outgrown)...go figure...I took this picture before the fight broke out..haha!
Our pretty girl! She's still prissy as ever and loves playing with her babies, "cooking", and helping Mommy clean. She's just now able to reach the pedals on this Dora Tricycle that her Mimi gave her for Christmas last year, and she still isn't tall enough to pedal it all the way!
Running from the puppy...

Our girls definitely keep us entertained! It's been a long week with Wayne gone to Louisianna to work on restoring power from the outages caused from Hurrican Ike. The girls and I are missing him sooo much! He calls every night to tell the girls goodnight before they go to bed, and every night, Makenzie tells him to come home! Please pray that everyone on their crew will continue to be safe, and that they'll have a safe trip home.

We Love Icecream!

Both girls love icecream...we gave them icecream sandwiches for the first time the other night, and Wayne and I ended up laughing so hard by the time they'd finished them. Presley kept saying, "Yum, yum" the whole time and chowing down. Makenzie took her time eating hers so of course Presley finished first and then tried to take Makenzie's!
Presley's face after eating her icecream sandwich! Oh boy!

As a side note, Makenzie's ballet teacher pulled me aside during her class Thursday night and said she thought Makenzie needed to move up to the 3-4 year old class. I told her I thought she probably needed to as well, but I didn't want to say anything because Makenzie had a great time with her, and I didn't want the other Mom's to get upset with me. After class, Megan (Makenzie's teacher) took Makenzie and me to speak with the owner to make sure we could move her, and everything was worked out so as of Thursday Makenzie gets to dance with the big girls as she calls them. I just hope she behaves because now I can't go into class with her anymore (which is probably a good thing), and she's going into a class full of girls she doesn't know. Pray for us both!

Fun Times

Makenzie warming up with some stretches at ballet.
Presley's getting too big too fast! She's almost as big as Makenzie! ( she'll be sixteen months old next week) :(
Chasing each other around the yard..they have so much fun together!
Mowing the yard with Daddy...Presley says, "Enough with the pictures. Let's go!!!"
Having fun on Daddy's lawnmower...they were ready to get going!