I finally got a couple shots of the girls this past weekend. Morgan has a recovering bruise on her forehead from when she fell a couple weeks ago, and Mackenzie has Alfalfa-style hair since we didn’t brush it down after her bath, but at least we have pictures!

Morgan update: This girl continues to crack us up with her increasing verbal skills. It still amazes me that she has been talking for barely 6 months. Jackson’s class at church have been learning a song with all the Books of the Bible, so we have the song on a CD for him to learn. He has mastered the whole thing, and now Morgan is constantly singing ‘Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy…” from the backseat of the car. It’s pretty cute.
Morgan is finally getting to the stage where she is playing with friends, instead of just alongside of them. She still tends to be a bit of a loner, easily getting overwhelmed when there are a lot of people or things get crazy. When she’s with other people she is very quiet, and usually just stands and watches. With Jackson, on the other hand, she gets goofy and crazy - they still don’t get along all that great, but we’re working on it.
She finally is mostly potty trained - she does great with the pee part, has had hardly any accidents since we started potty training, but she refuses to poop in the potty. Instead she holds it and goes in her diaper at night. Jackson did this for quite a while, so I’m going to give her a bit more time to get it. At least she is out of diapers for the daytime!

Mackenzie - this little stinker is easily the loudest baby we have had in our house. Either because I’ve forgotten how loud the others were when they were younger, or because she has to be that loud in order to be heard! Probably the latter. She is a pulling-up pro now, and loves to pull up to anything that she can clear off or empty out. So I can’t tell you how many times I put the recycling back into the basket, my kitchen towels back into their basket, and the magazines back onto the table. Whatever she can reach will end up on the floor.
She still loves to be held. It also still doesn’t matter who is holding her, she has never had stranger anxiety in any way. As long as someone is holding her, she’s happy! She still loves to snuggle, and her poor 3rd and 4th fingers on her right hand are always cracked and raw because she sucks on them so much. She is taking 2 naps a day, but I can tell she’s starting to not need a full 2 naps, so am thinking in the next 2-3 months we’ll be transitioning to 1 nap a day. She loves to eat but has to eat what everyone else is having. If something on her plate looks different (like if we have soup and I strain it out for her), she makes quite the fuss until her plate looks the same.
She has kept her bright blue eyes, and we laugh seeing her in the tub with Morgan, because both Morgan and Jackson got Gavin’s olive skin that tans easily. Mackenzie instead got the pale white skin and add on to that her red patches of excema, and you have quite the sight! Looking at her we don’t think she looks a whole lot like the other 2 kids, but when I look back at Jackson’s baby pictures, she definitely resembles him. Her hair is growing in the back, but she still has a short section on the right side where she used to pull her hair out, so I’m actually thinking of trimming the left side so that they match. Haven’t gotten around to it though.

So that’s the update on my girls. They are doing well in a room together, they both get very hyper in the morning - usually Mackenzie wakes up Morgan, then they are silly together for a while, then Morgan leaves the room which leaves Mackenzie screaming because she is left alone. If Jackson is not awake at this point, now he is!