Mt. Rushmore

Maci has always been such a good eater and the good stuff always shows on her face!

No matter how often we see this, it never ceases to amaze me. What a vision that man had.
Maci has to walk everywhere now. She would Desperately love to do it by herself, but not yet. So, she takes off with whoever is willing to grab her fingers. She loves to run up to you and tickle your leg. And LOVES to play hide and seek. She is also gaining confidence because now she will walk holding only one hand. Sometimes, when she is walking along the furniture, she will let go and stand by herself for a few seconds. She is testing the waters. Maybe by her birthday she will be fully walking. If not, I am in no hurry.This is the best picture that we got with Maci and the Presidents. She is always on the move now and doesn't like to sit still for long.
Love this picture. This is a bookshelf that she frequents often. She occasionally pulls some of the books out and looks at them.
So, at the end of this month she has five teeth all together. She got her front teeth around Sept 11 and one on the bottom at the same time and another one on top and bottom is about to pop through. She makes teething seem easy. It is very rare that I have to give her medicine to help with the pain. She now waves on demand. Sometimes she waves to herself and then looks at her hand questioning "My hand is moving, am I doing that?" So cute. Then on the 24th, David finally got her to clap on her own. So every time we say "Hooray" or "Yea for Maci" she claps her hands.
Well, fall is upon us and I am SOOOO looking forward to October. It is my favorite month of the year. Halloween is fast approaching and I have had her outfit for 6 months. Can you guess what she will be??? Have to wait and see...

Train ride and Story Book Island

Over Labor day weekend, we stayed at a KOA behind Mt Rushmore called Pulmer Gulch. So fun! I highly recommend you google it and plan a camping trip sometime in the future. Very kid friendly and lots to do in the Black Hills. One of our highlights of the weekend was taking a ride on the 1880 vintage steam train. Our two-hour ride took us from Keystone to Hill City and back. Maci absolutely loved it. I think it was because she wasn't in a car seat with closed windows. On the train, she could feel the wind and be free!

The next day we went to Story Book Island. It is a free park that the Rotary Club has put together and stays in business solely on donations. What a wonderful idea! I am glad it is still free. Not many things are these days. This place was so magical. We will definitely come back when Maci is a few years older and when she will understand more of the stories. When you walk in, you come to a castle which has Rapunzel's hair hanging down. Then all the stories come to life for you. The ginger bread man, black beauty, the three little pigs, Jack and the beanstalk, Pinnocio, Pocohontas, the Wizard of Oz, Winnie the Pooh and friends, Robin Hood, the cat in the hat, Cinderella, every princess imaginable, and a big shoe from "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many kids, she didn't know what to do..." And all this was only probably half of what was there. Then there was a huge playground at the end. We let Maci swing probably for 20 minutes and she cried when we took her out. She loves to swing.

This was a MUST picture! So cute and so true. This is the stork that stopped at our house with the cutest little girl on the planet!

She loved going around in this with her cousins.

And of course, she had to ride Toto.

It was a very fun, long day for her. She was pretty tuckered at the end of the day. I think she fell asleep before we hit the end of the driveway.