McKinley Jane: 18 Months Old

McKinley Jane - 18 Months Old

Our tenderhearted, fearless daredevil, Miss Kinley Jane is now 18 months old!  This girls is growing lightning fast.  She is still a Mama's girl and loves her time with me but has proven to be a people person like her big sissy.  Her Sunday School teachers LOVE her and think she has a big personality.  She is tough as nails and tender as a flower.  She will quickly scammer up to the tallest part of the big kid playground and slide down the big slides on her belly.  She will lay her baby doll tenderly on the floor, cover it with a blanket, and give it a big kiss and say "awwww".  She generally plays well with Lena and they often hug each other just because.   

18 Month Stats

Size 5 Diaper

Size 6-7 Shoe

Size 2T Clothes

26 Pounds

34 Inches Tall 

Naps once a day from 1:30-3:30

A doll among dolls.  Yes Kinley and Lena have a dozen dolls...literally.

Ready for a cupcake treat.

A little humor and Kinley's favorite "Baba".

This girly girl loves her tiaras, jewelry, and shoes!

Kinley HATES the sand but wants to play. She refuses to sit in the sandbox but will play from the outside.

18 Month Favorites

Book: Mickey Mouse Road Trip

Anything Mickey Mouse

Food: crackers, M&Ms, dip (katchup and ranch), and not much else.  She did like strawberries for a short time.

Toys: playing dolls with Sissy, her stuffed puppy, reading books, putting things inside something then taking them all out...over and over again. 

Playing outside (She is fearless and will go down all the big kid slides on her belly.)

Naptime and her "baba" (bottle) 

Dressing Up:  Our little girl loves anything girly: sunglasses, hats, tiaras, shoes, etc!  

Reading a Mickey book on a family road trip.

Juice and scrambled eggs is a breakfast staple in our house!

Getting into Mommy's cabinets.

Its always great to be outside.  Here she is enjoying a wagon ride.

This girl loves her dips!  She calls it "dit" and always gets lots of curious stares when she eats in public.

Got a pretty bad black eye from crashing into the bunk bed ladder.

18 Month Milestones

Four teeth and getting two more in the back

Favorite Words: Mama, Dadda, Nooo, caka (cracker), wawa (water), Give back!, 

Started coloring

First big black eye (from bumping the new bunk bed)

The Thaw

Five years ago today I got one of the most important phone calls of my life and I missed it while I was at my friend Sarah's baby shower.  I remember after the shower was over standing on the sidewalk outside the house nervously listening to this voicemail message....the message that brought news that would change my life.  March 5, 2011 was the day that Lena and McKinley were thawed as embryos after being frozen together by their genetic family in 2006.  We received this precious picture of these embryos four days after this phone call on transfer day.  Lena and her twin (on the left) were transferred to my womb and McKinley (on the right) was refrozen and kept in frozen storage for almost three more years before she was thawed again and transferred to my womb.  I kept this voicemail on my phone for four years...I couldn't ever bring myself to delete it and so I recently recorded it instead.  The Lord has done things in my life that I would never have imagined.  Miraculous things!  He is so very good to me. http://youtu.be/zHw6DwcRvjM