The Dancing Queen

During Nana Karen's visit up here, Makaela decided she would bust out her dance moves. Here she is showin' off her stuff :) Her favorite way to dance is to just rock back and forth--I think she feels safest doing that, but she got a little funky here!!

Disclaimer: We don't necessarily endorse this music, but once we saw her starting to rock and dance, we had to find some music with a little more groove to it :)



This one, both Nana and Nathan are trying to help her groove--so I tried to catch them helping. Nathan was a little less than thrilled :)

Makaela Fix

I have some videos of Makaela uploading right now, but in the meantime here are some pics of her. Crazy to think that on Saturday she will be 10 months, and in just 2 months, we will be celebrating her 1 year birthday. How time flies!!

This is actually the most recent picture of her...taken just today :)

We enjoyed a wonderful visit from Nathans mom. She came up the week of Thanksgiving and was able to be stuck in the house with us during the crazy snow storm! Hopefully next time she comes we will be able to get out and do some fun things, although I'm sure she didn't mine having such a concentrated period of time with Nathan and Makaela :)

Makaela LOVES this Jungle Jumper at the church.

She has such a good time in it and she never stops moving while she is in it!!

Yes, Makaela does have a faux hawk. She still doesn't have enough hair to do much of anything with it, so periodically after I give her a bath, I do something crazy with it. :)

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

Christmas decorating came early at our house this year--and by early, I mean before Thanksgiving. Thats right--with the snow so peacefully falling on Monday, we couldn't resist the urge to pull out our Christmas decorations. Besides, since we're going to be gone for almost 2 weeks over the holidays, we figured the sooner we put them up, the more time we have to enjoy them. So here is the Fogde Household all ready for Christmas :)

This year, we also decided to invest in an artifical tree. We thought it would be a little silly (as much as we love Christmas trees) to get a real one that would just die while we were gone. So, while we don't have the smell of Christmas trees in our house, it still feels very much like Christas :)

Winter Wonderland

So, way back in November (which feels like it was way back) we were forecasted "few snow showers". If by few, the weatherman meant a few inches, than yes, few snow showers :) Enough to keep us house bond for a few days as the snow and ice piled up making the roads a little too tretcherous for us to brave. Nathans mom was with us, and due to the weather he ended up staying home a lot more than he had planned. Also, due to the weather we didn't get to go out and do much fun sight-seeing, but hopefully next time she comes there wont be a snow storm.

The snow started falling Sunday right after we got home from church and continued to fall through Monday night. Monday night also found us with no power (which we understand is a very common thing up here). Our power was out for several hours, but came back on sometime in the middle of the night, thankfully. A good portion of the homes where we live were without power through Wednesday and even Thurdsay!! Thankfully ours came back on so quickly. It was a fun adventure to say the least :)

Here are some pics :)

3 Year Old Conducting the 4th Movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony

I know this has gone around a little bit, but just had to put it up here. Too cute and too funny!

Our Little Cheerleader

Makaela usually loves to be thrown in the air. She picks and chooses her days when she like it and doesn't like it. Recently she started to throw her arms out to the side every time she was in the air, and not long after that she added her legs to that. Looked like she was doing toe-touches in the air. Couldn't resist taking a video :)

9 Months!!

Yesterday, we got to go see Makaela's doctor for her 9 month well baby check up!! I also scheduled her 1 year appointment--1 year--C.R.A.Z.Y.!!! I can't believe that we are that close already! Anyway, so Makaela is growing--out, but not up much :) She was 17 pounds, 4.5 ounces taking her up to the 20th percentile for her weight! And she was 26 1/2 inches long, taking her down to the 10th percentile. The doctor said she is just small and everything is very proportionate so he is not concerned. It was fun to look through the list of activities they will do in the 9-12 month range and see that she is doing all but 2 of them (well 1 1/2 kindof). One said that she may try to take a first step or two which she has not tried to do. The other said that she may start to say "mama" and "dada". She is kindof doing that, although not actually associating it with us. But everything else she is doing--most recently cruising around furniture!

Going back to the whole "mama" and "dada" thing--most of what comes out of her mouth is "guh". Occasionally she does utter sounds that sound like "mama" and she will occasionally say "da" as part of "dada". Sometimes even after Nathan sas "say dada" she will say "da". But there is one thing she knows for sure--and thats the dog. We've talked before about how much Makaela loves Bella, but now she tries her hardest to say "dog". It still comes out "guh" buts its a VERY definitive "guh". When she see's Bella she says "guh". When we say "Makaela, say dog" she says "guh" with much excitement and gusto! She knows dog but she just has not put together the right consonants yet :)

She loves--all fruit except Bananas. She liked them at first, but not currently a huge fan. She loves all veggies except for Avocado--which she did enjoy at one point. I think she is just getting picky :) She obviously loves Bella :) She loves to follow us anywhere we go. She loves strangers (uh-oh). She loves everyone at church. She loves to play peek a boo. And she loves lots of other things too--mind is just drawing a blank at this point.

Anyway, just wanted to update you on her stats :) Video of our little cheerleader coming soon :)