Tough little Mobile Macky!

Well it's been quite the week for Mackinley! He's a super mover now and can crawl really quickly across the room or wherever he wants to go. He likes to do a bear walk more often but is getting good at the real crawl as well.

We have a jolly jumper type thing for him that hangs from the ceiling. It's from a company called Merry Muscles and we originally thought it was newer than Jolly Jumper. It supposedly helps babies jump from a better place on their feet, but I'm not sure it's much different. It does the trick though.

The other day we had Mack in it and AdaLynn was playing with him. I knew that she needed to be supervised with this because she can swing him like crazy if she wants. I went to tell Jesse something and as I stood in the door frame talking to him (so as to be able to keep half an eye on the kids...well, probably more like a quarter) we both heard AdaLynn start cracking up. Ada likes to laugh and giggles quite often, but there's a difference when she really cracks up and this was one of her full on laughs. So I turned to look and could hardly believe what I saw! Mack was spinning like a figure skater in a scratch spin - YouTube it...I don't feel like figuring out the link thingy today. Anyways, Mack was spinning like crazy and AdaLynn was laughing like crazy and I ran over to stop Mack. His eyes were going back and forth so fast and we were trying our hardest not to burst out laughing because we were trying to tell Ada that she couldn't wind him up again!

While they say your love is multiplied when you have another child, one thing is for sure. Your attention is definitely divided! The other day we were all playing on the bed (except Jesse was at the computer with his back to the bed). I was playing peek-a-boo with Ada while Mack rolled around and when we were winding down with our game I stood up and gazed lovingly at my children. I thought it was so cute that Mack was crawling over to see Jesse. I stood there happily watching as Mack got the the edge of the bed and then promptly slid off. Head first. Onto the floor. When I heard him hit the floor I realised what I had actually been watching was my song falling off the bed and I rushed over. Poor little guy. He cried right away, was moving all his limbs and his pupils were the same size etc. so I knew we didn't have to rush to emergency or call an ambulance or anything. But he did have a slight cut above his eye so thankfully the doctor here in Caronport saw him and said I was right not to be too worried. No concussion - tough little guy!

It's amazing how many times I think to just put Mack on his feet when I put him down and then realise that he's not able to stand like AdaLynn is. Parenting the second time around is funny. It's amazing how much we forget/remember from the first time. I keep looking at Mack and thinking something is wrong with him (mostly because babies just weird me out...'cause they are kinda weird) but then I just remember Ada was mostly like that and she seems pretty normal now. Well, as normal as I'd like my kids to be anyways;-)

Here's hoping we have another great and less accidentally eventful week this week!

**Does anyone know how to add words (like AdaLynn and Mackinley) to blogger's spell checker?