It's in the GENES!

Mackenzie has completely outgrown her "nursery" so we are moving her into a bigger bedroom. . .what used to be known as the "guest" room. The "nursery" will then become the "exercise" room. This process is actually taking us some time. . .we had to first clean out the guest room closet (filled to the brim), under the bed (again, stuffed with stuff), and then decide on how we were going to decorate the new room for Mackenzie. So far, the new closet is painted. . .pink! Boy do we have a lot of work ahead of us!!!

To save some $$ we ventured over to the Home Depot. I heard that they were having a fabulous sale on their lighting fixtures. Matt, Mackenzie, and I browsed around, but didn't see anything that struck our fancy. As we headed towards the exit Matt remembered that he needed a new paint roller bucket thing-a-ma-bob. So he headed towards the paint section, and Mackenzie and I stopped to look at a patio furniture display. It was actually a very nice display of beautiful wicker furniture, with really fluffy seat cushions, and some cute little decorative pillows. Nice, right? Well, to the untrained eye (that would be mine), it looked like an everyday normal display. To Mackenzie's eye, it was a very UNRULEY display. She took about 5 or so minutes to arrange, straighten and fluff each and every decorative pillow. When she would finish with a pillow, she would give it a pat. . .almost to say, "good pillow. . .you are perfect now." When she had finished her self-given obsessive chore, she left the display in search of her father. I watched, mouth wide open, in total disbelief as my child walked away. . .no doubt completely contented with the world now that everything was in it's place. Who does her behavior remind you of??? I'll tell you. . .HER FATHER!!

She may look like me, but she is her father in so many ways! I have another perfect example from tonight. She requested popcorn for dinner. I was actually kinda excited about it because she usually turns up her nose to a fresh bowl of popcorn. So, I nuked some horrifingly-fake microwave popcorn. Hmmmmmm. It was yummy. While she was munching away I endevored to make her a much healthier dinner. Her favorite staple food, chicken nuggets, some raspberries, a tomato, and some skim milk. The popcorn was instantly forgotten when her feast was placed in front of her. Now, being 3, what do you think she ate first?? THE TOMATOES! YUCK! Then the raspberries. . .and then she only ate 3 of her nuggies. . .she is just like her FATHER. . .and I love that about her!!