Alexis and McKenzie
The Happy Couple
Alexis dancing with Uncle Russ
Alexis went for her 18 month check up about 3 weeks ago. She's up to 21lbs. 10oz and is 32 inches long! She is now 19 months old and is really starting to talk. About 2 week ago she finally gave me a name, "Nommy"! Within a week she changed it to "Mommy"! On Christmas, every time she opened a gift and tore the paper, she'd hand the paper to one of us and say "heere" as if to say "Here take it!" We all had a very good Christmas! This was the first year in our 11 years of marriage, that Heath and I were both off Christmas Eve as well as Christmas Day! McKenzie and I spent most of Christmas Eve in the kitchen baking cookies for Santa and making "reindeer food" for his reindeer. Christmas got started bright and early at the Williams' house when McKenzie awakened at 5am!!! We got her back to bed but when I got up to put clothes in the dryer at 5:30 she was sitting in Heath's recliner rocking her baby. She told me she couldn't sleep and was going to sit and wait for us to get up! I sat with her for a few minutes and then Heath got up. We woke Alexis up and got the day started. Santa was sooo good to us! We had lunch with my family and Heath's family came over for a little get-together Christmas night.
Modeling their Christmas gowns Nana made them!
Heath and I celebrated our 11 year Wedding Anniversary on December 5th. Mom and Dad kept the kids and we had a little getaway to the North Georgia Mountains for a couple of days. We even got a little snow on our anniversary! It was great to spend time together as a couple without the kids for the weekend, but we really missed them! While we were gone we ran into Santa, who sent us home with an "Elf on the Shelf". McKenzie has named "her" Bailey. Heath asked that we at least have a boy elf, but McKenzie insisted it was a girl. Poor Heath, trapped with 3 women, a female dog and a female elf! Each morning McKenzie awoke to find Bailey in a different place. She's even followed McKenzie and Alexis to Nana and Papa's as well as to Uncle Russ and Aunt Laura's.
McKenzie gave us an idea to begin another new Christmas tradition. A few weeks before Christmas she told me she wanted to "make Christmas presents for kids who have Cancer and will spend Christmas in the hospital". Heath and I were so surprised that a 5 1/2 year old would come up with this on her own. So we set out to make it happen. She decided buying would be better than making presents so off we went. After we gathered all of the toys, we delivered them to the Aflac Cancer Center at CHOA. We drove down to Atlanta with the girls and gifts. First we stopped off at Lenox Mall to let the girls ride the Pink Pig. This was Alexis' first year to ride! She had such a good time!
Then we headed over to CHOA so that McKenzie could deliver her gifts.
We were so proud of McKenzie for coming up with the idea and we plan to continue this next year, only bigger! Anyway, less than an hour after we arrived back at home, the phone rang. It was Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, GA calling to tell us that McKenzie had won the baby that they had raffled off. We had been a few weeks earlier to see their new facility. I purchased one ticket for McKenzie and had to try to explain that she likely wouldn't win, but that we made a donation to a local charity. I was in tears because at that moment I knew that my child had been blessed for blessing the children at CHOA! We took her to Babyland 2 days before Christmas to "adopt" Davina Christina!
After reciting the "Oath of Adoption" we got to watch a baby being born in the Cabbage Patch. As soon as the Doctor announced "It's a Girl" she told the story of a little girl whom the baby would be named after who had given toys to children in the hospital and then announced the baby would be named "McKenzie Lea"! McKenzie was soo surprised as were we! We had no idea that they were going to do this! Here's a picture of McKenzie's namesake!
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