Mackenzie the Big girl no longer baby

I look at Mackenzie and just get overwhelmed with thinking how much she has grown up over the past 2 years.When I think back on the past year and what she has come through it truly amazes me. Mackenzie is always so great at going through changes. In a month period we moved into a new house, put her in a full size bed, took her pacifier away and brought a new baby sister home. Then back in October Mackenzie had a huge obstacle come in her life. The Dr told us it was night terrors. For those who have never dealt with this before, I pray you never do. It just broke my heart to see my daughter struggling and there was nothing I could do about it. It lasted for about 3 months and it affected every area of her life. She was loosing about 5 hrs a sleep each night. She would wake up screaming in the night and was just terrified to be a lone. Most nights she either ended up in bed with us or one of slept with her. We broke our number one rule in doing that but when your already loosing sleep with having a new born you cherish the few hours you do get and will do just about anything to keep that sleep. Her biggest milestone recently and mine is that she is no longer wearing diapers. She has been ready for a while but life had gotten in the way. I took the first week of January though and devoted it to her and with in 2-3 days she was potty trained. She is only in diapers at night time. I am not sure what we will do with the night time issues. Mackenzie at about 18 months old was going through some things and the Dr told me to give her a cup to take to drink with her. If you don't give it to her she will ask for it. Her vocabulary has improved tremendously over the past 6 months.

One of the things that melts my heart the most is watching her sing her bible songs. She will be walking around the house and start singing "for the bible tells me so" that is about the only line she knows and she will say it over and over again. She loves going to her "class" which is the Sunday school time. She usually will end up going to 2 out of the 3 services and it is the one time I am ok with her saying she isn't ready to come home. She usually will ask a couple times a week about going. One blessing we have is the fact that our back yard buts up to the property of our church so we will usually take a walk over there once or twice a week and say hi to the staff. It's nice that both my mom and dad are on staff at church so the girls are able to see their Nana and Papa often. I can't wait to see what God has in store for 2012