Wow – now after only 24 hours since she first asked to stand up, she now demands to stand up at every available juncture, and loves it! Prediction: I’ll bet she’s walking before she learns there’s even such a thing as crawling.
I can’t wait to show her Aunt Morgan and Grandma her new bag of tricks when we go down to Clearwater to see them for Christmas!
Today we had a wild surprise: an intense will to stand up!!
After she slept most of the day today, we took Mackenzie in to the Scientology Church in DC for our Monday meeting. She’s usually been fine with us carrying her around facing out, but today she all of the sudden started arching her back and complaining up a storm until I finally decided to just put her down on her feet and let her stand up — which was the exact item! And whilst we’ve never previously gotten her to put weight on her feet for more than 3 seconds at a time, she decided to just put her foot down tonight and stood up for several minutes straight on about 3 different occasions while we were there!
Awesome! Ability regained!
Now, she hasn’t yet even managed to be able to stay seated by her self, and needs major support to stay on her feet, but she definitely communicated today that sitting is over-rated and she’d prefer to just start walking around like the rest of us. 
Mackenzie the Landmark Lifetime Member, originally uploaded by tadnkat.
Mackenzie got her first commendation from the IAS, for becoming a Lifetime Member of the International Association of Scientologists at the 25th Anniversary of the IAS. She was a bit overwhelmed at all of the people clapping for her so wasn’t at her tippety top bubbliest, but certainly liked the idea of playing with & drooling on the fancy pin she got!
Thanks to @eringravitt for taking the photo. I unkindly just flung my camera into her hands as we went up to get the award, and unfortunately the settings were all messed up so the photo was taken with bizzarre flash & exposure settings making it look like we were getting an award in the Bat Cave. However, Adobe Camera Raw came to the rescue and luckily it came out looking just dandy.
Mackenzie flaunting her new IAS Pin
However, what I failed to get a picture of was the lovely way that the banquet hall was set up at the Founding Church. The new building of the DC Church of Scientology has a great chapel which was designed as a multifunction room, so that it could be set up for church services, and then reconfigured to host a swanky banquet like was held at this occasion. It was really quite nice, and just highlighted for me the outstanding attention to detail of this building.
Unfortunately, the absolute most awsome photo that’s ever been taken of Kathryn and Mackenzie was inexplicably corrupted on my camera’s SD card when transferring it off onto my computer, so this will have to suffice.
It was an awesome day out in the mountains, though. Great way to get some space.
The snow started melting today, so we spent some time outside enjoying the slightly warmer weather and still-beautiful snow.
More and more, Mackenzie just loves being outside & looking around. The cold doesn’t bother her at all (or at least she never complains about it), but she DOES complain if you don’t take her out & let her look around for some time every day.
Mackenzie had her first snow today! We had snow yesterday starting at around 9am, and lasting most of the day. Only trouble was that the air temperature was around 33°F all day, so we didn’t get more than about 1-2 inches of accumulation. But still – it was plenty to be able to get outside and experience the snow a bit!
See this set on Flickr for more photos.
Mackenzie & I were in great spirits today, all up until the Beavers lost the Civil War by a hair against the hated Ducks. Hmph.
But, unlike yesterday – in which I had an impossible time getting her to go to sleep (I think mom was making caffinated breastmilk) today I had her doing superbaby flying around my head, and tummy time and all sorts of other workouts, so by 11pm, she was out cold.
Dressed up in her fuzziest outfit & hat, Mackenzie accompanied me on the Metro down to the Scientology Volunteer Ministers tent at the National Mall. She was nice & warm, but also developed some of the cutest rosy cheeks from peeking out at passers-by on the Mall.
This tent was put up by my folks at the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, DC.
Scientology Volunteer Ministers tent at the National Mall
We decided to get some fresh air and take a walk around the block today & enjoy our fantastic November weather.
As an aside, yesterday Mackenzie had her checkup at the pediatrician. She was 13.5lbs and a full 25" long. For her age (87 days) that puts her in the 90th percentile on weight, and the 95th percentile on height! We sort of knew she was going to turn out as a tall, slender girl!
So, what to do now? Well, if you know the normal operating condition, the right thing is to not change anything!
Day 85 | Mackenzie at the Scientology VM Tent, originally uploaded by Tad Reeves.
Today I went down to the Scientology Volunteer Ministers Tent to volunteer for a while helping people with their day-to-day problems. Mackenzie was on full-time duty cheering everybody up, and was all smiles & chuckles to anyone who came near us. It wasn’t until the end of the day when they started breaking up the tent that I got the idea to take a photo, and at that point she finally decided to pass out.
It was a great day though. Totally awesome weather for a 15th of November (something like 68°F all day & sunny) and we got to help a whole bunch of people with solutions to day-to-day problems in their lives. While I was there we helped several people relieve stress in their day with some Scientology Assists, and some other couples improve their relationships with each other with some on-the-spot training in communication techniques.
Of course, Mackenzie was a big help, as sometimes all people need is a friendly face to help brighten their day up, and that’s something Mackenzie can provide in spades! :)
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