Honey

Tights on her head--being silly

What can I say....Maecee is hilarious. Good thing she's cute and funny because some days, okay most days she kicks my bootie! She is so BUSY! Before I say much more---I know that's good, at least she's curious, blah, blah, blah----but i challenge anyone to a few hours of chasing her and you may be singing a different tune! She just gives you this funny little grin and runs to her next area of destruction.

She LOVES to make messes, and be mischievous. She keeps all of us hopping. Yesterday I walked into my room to help Eth with something and came back to the kitchen and she had climbed up the chair, onto the counter (which she can do in about 2 seconds flat) and was pouring chocolate syrup everywhere! Yes, I forgot to put it back after I made some chocolate milk for her. My bad! But she had pulled the top open with her teeth! That same morning she opened an exedrin bottle (child proof and all). Then I was "trying" to put away her clothes and she was right behind me pulling them all back out, why do I even try? The good thing is she does want to help me clean but that usually involves climbing onto the open dishwasher, and always somehow grabbing whatever cleaner spray I am using and sprays her clothes, or whatever is least convenient at the time! If I'm doing the dishes she pulls at my legs saying bubbles, bubbles, meaning she wants to help with getting those bubbles everywhere!

I just spent about an hour yesterday trying to get stains out of her brand new easter clothes that she had worn ONE time (2 casual dresses, a shirt, pj shirt, and choco syrup off her pj bottoms :)). Good thing I'm not having another one, cuz none of her clothes would be able to passed along, she's ruining them all!

During her last week at the USU lab (the one you can watch through the one way mirror), they had hay in the water table that you could bury the animals with. At first she wasn't really interested in it because it wasn't quite as messy as water, or sand, or shaving cream. But then she finally gave into her urges and started grabbing chunks of it and throwing them out of the table. They were so patient with her, trying to tell her to bury the animals and put the hay back in the table, but her game was on.........and they weren't playing by the rules :). As a parent it is somewhat embarrassing to be watching that scene unfold, I wanted to open the door and tell her to stop it, because she really was doing it just to push the boundaries and get a reaction! But that would have probably been the reaction she wanted---right? Oh I'm exhausted already just thinking about our day we have ahead of us!

The real reason of this post is record a funny thing she said the other day. She loves to take her diaper off herself, so I was sitting her on the potty. She then makes this trying to push the pee or poop out face along with noises, then she's done. Well I was trying to get Brett to watch her because it was so funny. So I said Honey, look at Maecee. Next thing we know Maecee is saying "honey, honey" in her sweet little voice. You should have seen Brett's face. I was laughing so hard at BOTH of them! Anyways now she thinks it's really funny to call Brett honey....and so do I

I forgot to rotate this pic before I loaded it, but I love it because it shows what a happy girl she is! This is her sit and spin she got for Easter.

I better run I have all three kids hanging off me, wanting some attention. Let the day begin....

Baby Boom

I've been trying to download all of my pictures off my memory cards and put them onto my computer because I'm so tired of trying to take a pic and my camera saying "MEMORY CARD FULL". UGH, then I have to delete pics that I'm not even sure if I've saved yet....anywho I found this older pic of some McEvoy grandkids and decided to compare it with all of them today.

I think this pic was taken in Spring 06 I think I was still pregnant with Maecee

Start from top L to R McKenna, Alli, Brendan, Erin, Porter, Bridgette w/Trey on lap, Ethan, Lainey, Reagan, Kyra

And this is April 2008. Whoa talk about a baby boom!

Alli, Rorie, Ethan Grayson, Brenden, Leilani, Reagan, Porter, Trey, McKenna, Malia, Lainey, Maecee, Kyra, Ella, Bridgette, Maka, Austin, Carson 19 total grandkids. Notice how almost everyone has to hold a baby on their lap. Kind of funny!

First Level 5 Gymnastics Meet

We had an exciting first gym meet for McKenna this past Friday. It's been a year since she competed because it took her awhile to get her kip (a hard skill on the bars). But she never gave up and finally got it! Yea McKenna!!!!

Level 5 is different than 4 because the girls are scored individually by age group. I learn something new each time I go. I also cannot believe how nervous she was (I was pretty nervous too....). We had to leave here by 3:30 and the clock could not move fast enough for her! She was a bundle of nerves, and I kept asking her if she was ok. I thought she was getting sick but I think she was just super nervous. One cool thing about this gym was there was a kid's play area! How awesome is that. I didn't see Eth the entire time! Maecee went up for awhile and then got tired of it. I tried to get her to go back in, and she screamed her eyes out. So much for that :) But at least Eth got to enjoy himself! Last time we had competitions Maec was a baby, so it was easy to watch without having to worry about her running onto the floor or something. So it will be interesting to see how it goes with her.



Her first event was Vault (she scored 8.0). Level 5 uses the actual vault, not just a handstand and fall onto a mat like level 4, so that was exciting. Then she moved to Bars (she scored 9.0). I was so distracted talking, watching Maecee, off in my own world, etc. that I thought they were just warming up on bars and missed watching her!!! Everyone was saying how awesome she did, and I missed the whole thing! Way to score one for the team Heather! She then went to the Beam (she scored 8.55). She has a love/hate relationship with the beam. She loves the challenge, but it messes with her mind :). The skills for 5 are alot harder on beam, for example you have to do a cartwheel, and she didn't land it and fell off. But she looked so sharp and stuck it! Then the last event was the floor (she scored 8.6). I know I am biased but she rocks at floor. It's her strongest event and really easy for her. It helps that she took a few years of dance before gymnastics so she "gets the beat". But she is just tight, has fun, and makes it look simple.

So, I was excited about how well she did, but had no idea how she did compared to the other girls. It seemed to me and some of the other people that the scores were pretty low for everyone but I wasn't paying too much attention to what the other teams got. So awards time came and her two other team mates were in the 7-8 age group and did really good. Then McKenna's age group came. Well she did AMAZING!!!! She got 2nd place overall on Vault, 1st overall on bars (wish I would have seen it...), 2nd overall on beam and 1st overall on Floor. Then they do an All Around winner for the total amount of points and she got 1ST PLACE IN HER AGE GROUP! I was pretty excited! She was too :) Thank you everyone that came to support her (Jamma, Grandpa Horsey, Kim, Uncle Alan and Kiley) It meant alot to us to have you all there! Thanks a million!



So we are headed to St. George next week for her next competition. We are excited to go, but not to excited about the drive. In fact she asked me if we could fly :) Then she has 2 competitions in May and State is in June. In the Fall she will compete level 6 then be in level 7 by the end of the year. Pretty exciting stuff, and the fun part is that she absolutely loves it! It's so fun to watch your kids find something they love and are excited about and excel at it.

I'll keep everyone updated........

p.s. Our family has had a VERY stressful crazy last month or so and need to blog about for therapy reasons, so that is up and coming! Beware!