She really seems to love it. She was almost asleep since she missed a nap today and woke up as soon as she saw it. Even dog tired she played with this for 40 minutes until dinner was ready and again after dinner kept roping new people to play with her. She loves it.
Thank goodness for the "Chibry, Bentley, Carriere party in a box!"
Luckily DeeAnn, Kaeden, Shelby, Heather, Lawrence, Kari, and Maks were able to make it to the house. Scott made a cameo near the end of the party. My mom flew in yesterday but based on weather warnings was able to change her flights until earlier in the day so she made it to Calgary for the weekend.
Shelby quite liked playing with all McKenzie's new toys, Strawberry Shortcake, the puppy with a puppy (shown here) and her Barbie. She also got money and a cute jacket and vest. Thank you to everyone who sent or brought gifts.
Cake time. The very cool sign in the background was made by my friend Jenien. Unfortunatley, Jenien was stuck and could not get to the party.
BLOW!
This party was FUN! Thank you everyone!
McKenzie visited Santa today. Her look seems to be saying, "REALLY?! AGAIN!" She is not Santa's biggest fan yet. 
She likes to stand at one of the house with the car and yell out 1...2...GO and race to the other end or until she hits something and then laugh hysterically.
While she was napping I moved most of her toys to the basement and set up her new table and chairs. Technically they are her birthday gift from Mike and I but they would be a little hard to wrap anyway and she won't know the difference.
Step 2 - crawl up the stairs
Step 5 - Stick the landing for a perfect 10.0
This evening McKenzie was determined to play with Harley. Here she is showing him how to draw.
Here she is trying to play BOO with him which involves running at the person/thing you are saying it to and yelling BOO. I am sure you can all guess HOW MUCH Harley LOVED this game.
Since that did not go over well she reverted to showing him her drawing.
She kept trying to hug him too but she comes toward him so quickly that he doesn't really like that either. She is determined though so I think she will win in the end.
Here she is using a piece of cheese bun as a car. "Driving" it all over the table with vroom vroom sound effects!?!
After lunch we looked at my old sticker books. I have one page in there that has some gumballs making faces. McKenzie chose to mimic the faces for me and tell me what emotion it was if she knew how to say it.
Here is laughing.
United Way Bake Sale tomorrow and since I am organizing it thought I had better make some stuff. Made these cupcakes earlier and forgot to ice them. Bed time now and too tired to make icing. Cool Whip, strawberries and melted chocolate...voila! I also made icebox cookies and will be offering up Christmas baking for hire that can be purchased and redeamed in December. Hopefully it goes over well. Wish me luck!
Here's how it works, mom. You pull the scope out.
And then put it up to your eye...oops...or your third eye in the middle of your forehead.
The baseboards were all painted in my craft nook today so this evening I got to set it all up. I have a lot more stuff than I thought I did!
Still a work in progress but it is so nice to see all my stuff after it has been packed away for the last few months. McKenzie and I went to a stamping party this afternoon too so I got to make cards and get those creative juices flowing.
Apparently, I should take this act on the road. McKenzie was in a silly mood tonight and was laughing like a loon over me playing with her little dog toy. Mike got a bit on tape.
Sorry it is poor quality...light was low and afterward I noticed that someone (not to name names but this someone is not yet 3 ft tall) had touched the lens so it is a little smudgy too.
Ever the ham!
Eating her first treat...a Rice Krispy Treat.
Scared of Mommy when she put the vampire teeth in. After her initial fear she started playing with them and pretending that they were eating her candy.
Trick or Treating at Mommy's work.
Trying to figure out this pumpkin thing.
My friend Jenien made this and all the costumes for our social committee whom dressed up like crayons.
The Crayons.
After a quick costume change at lunch I competed with our management team for best group costume/decoration. We were the Thriller video. We did the dance too...well part of it. I have it on video but am having trouble getting it to load.
Halloween night. McKenzie stayed home and handed out candy. She got so excited when the kids came. Here she is looking out the window and calling "Kids...where'd you go!?!"
She did so good handing out candy and I think she really had fun. I was suprised by how many 8-10 year old boys told her how cute she was. When she opened the door she got a lot of AHHHHH's. She was a little scared of a few costumes. One boy actually took his mask off for her so she wouldn't be scared...there are some great kids out there. 
