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Check out our new MooneyWeb Kids posts- June pictures and Makenna’s Baptism pictures!

Check out our new MooneyWeb Kids post!

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Well we’ve switched the way we are doing things on this site.  We are still trying to figure out all of the features ourselves but I think we’ve got most of the old MooneyWeb pages ported over.

So feel free to explore around and take advantage of some of the new features of this site.

Hope you enjoy it!

Ragan & Steve

Spring time is here and we are loving the Arizona weather… and so are our visitors. As you read this update, you will see we’ve had a ton of family and friends stop by. This is evidence by the massive amounts of pictures that have been posted as well!! Enjoy looking at them on Mooney Kids webpage.

We say this in every update, but it’s always true, Noah is growing fast, 20 month now!! In the last week or so it seems like he is learning a word or day. Since the last updated, he’s added a few more to his vocabulary: mommy, daddy, baby, goal, cheese, uh oh, car, bubbles and ice (pronounce “c”) are words he can use now. He has also started going potty on the toilet “when he feels like it:” We aren’t pushing the potty training right now, but we aren’t denying it to him either! He is still a very sweet big brother, although we are noticing that he is doing some very typical brother things. For example, when Makenna is crying in the car he “mocks” her cry with a big smile on his face.

Makenna is changing daily as well. She flashed her first smiles around 5 weeks old and started laughing a couple weeks ago. She even reached a milestone today by rolling over for the first time! Makenna is still at the stage where she eats, sleeps and poops quite a bit. But she is starting to stay awake for longer spurts and let me tell you, she loves to smile. She is turning out to be a pretty pleasant baby and she is soooo cute (I may be a bit biased). She is a particular about the way she is held (but once you get it down she is pleased) and is usually happy on her play mat, in her swing, or on her bouncy chair. At Makenna’s last doctors visit (2 months) she weighed in at 12.06 lbs (78%tile) and is 23.75 inches (91%tile). She got some shots and didn’t hesitate to let the entire doctors office know how mad she was!

Between Steve’s parents and us, the visitors have been flowing to sunny Arizona. It was everyone’s first time meeting Makenna! Justin and Michelle visited from Virginia Beach, VA in late February. We were able to celebrate Justin’s 27th birthday. Justin cooked us some meals and we had a very relaxing time. Jarrod and Julian visited us for 10 days. Noah loved playing with his cousin! You can see a ton of photos from their trip here My Grandpa also flew in during that time to see his great-grandkids. A day after my brother left, our good friends (also Noah’s godparents), Karen and Todd stopped by for a visit from Minneapolis. As always, it was great seeing them!! Steve’s cousins, the Carlsons’ from Boise stayed with his parents and we got to see them as well. Mary and Pat also had some old Wausau friends, Jim and Bonnie, and Tim and Tina in for a visit as well. Visitors, visitors, visitors!!! And they picked the right time to come. The visits are dwindling down right now, but with Spring Training and the great weather, spring is a great time to come, so our doors are open to anyone.

Hope all is going well with everyone. Happy birthday Justin (February 27), Brandon (March 13), Mike D and, Paul Krause (March 17), Dan Bower and me (March 21), Ai (March 22) Brandon (March 13), and Ron (March 28), and Happy 1st bday Sophie (hoping to get pictures from her bday party to post soon!).

The Mooney’s

This is a way overdue mooneyweb update. I usually have no excuses, but we have been really busy and I have honestly not found the time to do an update. Obviously a lot has happened and changed since the last update so let’s get to it.

If you have checked out the new Mooney Kids webpage (which we update at least once a month), you would have seen the new addition to our family. Makenna Marie Mooney was born on December 20th via c-section. She weighed in at 7lbs 11oz and was 20.5 inches long. We were shocked that she weighed over 2lbs less then Noah but figure the monitoring of my gestational diabetes really helped out. So far Makenna has been your typical baby, she eats (A LOT), sleeps, poops, cries and then does it all over again. She has gotten into a routine of waking up about 3 times a night to feed. She can be a bit fussy when she is awake which we attribute to gas, but so far she isn’t to the level of what Noah was. Speaking of Noah, she has a lot of the same features as him, click here to see a comparison photo from when they were both about a day old. Its amazing how fast time flies, Makenna is now 6 weeks old and has started flashing some smiles. We had her 1 month doctors appointment and in the last month she has gained a whopping 3.5 llbs. The doctor was impressed! She is now 10lbs 9 ounces and is 21 inches long. The doctor says everything looks good and she has a great set of lungs!

Noah is now 1.5 years old. He just had a doctors appointment and he weighed just over 25lbs and is 32.5 inches long. He is adjusting to being a big brother rather impressively. He somehow understood that mommy couldn’t pick him up for the first few weeks and that was very helpful. When Makenna first got home from the hospital he would force people to “pet her.” Now he will gently pat or touch her and hand us the pacifier if he wants her to be quiet. He’s also done a lot of growing up in the last couple of months. He is finally starting to say some words!! We have established that his first word was “up.” It took a lot of time and patience for us to get him to say this but we finally succeeded. Other words he can say are “dog,” “ball,” “dance,” “open,” “please,” “more,” and of course the infamous “no.” It is quite entertaining hearing him say word’s with “p” as he like to over emphasize that sound. While he doesn’t know many words he sure does have the ability to talk in a language unknown to anyone for a lengthy amount of time. Seriously, give us a call and we’ll hand him the phone and he can talk your ear off. He’s also getting pretty good at understanding what we are saying to him. He is turning out to be a pretty sweet boy, as he will give out hugs and kisses. He loves playing outside with his bubble lawn mower, going down slides at the park, playing with his blocks, watching Little Einstein’s, Sesame Street and Go Diego. He also has a fascination with vacuuming and if he sees chores being done like sweeping he likes to help. When eating food he insists on using a fork like his mommy and daddy. His preferred mode of transportation is “running,” as he rarely walks to places. He loves to be chased and if you say “ready, set, go” he will race you.

Steve had a well deserved 3 weeks off of work after Makenna was born. He and Noah were basically inseparable. It even got to the point that if Noah got hurt, it was daddy he always wanted. I think Steve really enjoyed his time off with Noah. He continued his bath time routine and took over all over Noah duties such as nap time, bed time, getting up if he woke up in the middle of the night, and feeding him his meals. He’s turning out to be a darn good daddy and Noah would agree. Steve went back to work on January 12 and when daddy gets home from work and the end of the day; Noah is very, very excited.

I am doing well. I was pleasantly surprised with how quickly I recovered after the c-section. It was so much easier the second time around. With Noah, I had contractions for over 24 hours, had the c-section and was out of the hospital in 4 days. This time around I was out of the hospital in just 2 days and was walking around like nothing happened in a couple weeks! I am adapting to having two kids now. It’s a bit difficult with their age difference being only 16 months and Noah doesn’t quite understand everything. Noah still wants to be picked up and grabs my hand to go play with him and he is having to understand this can’t happen all the time. It’s probably most difficult when I am feeding Makenna but Noah is slowly starting to understand. I am definitely sleep deprived but am some how functioning pretty well. Steve has been really helpful too. Mary and Pat come over a couple times a week to help as does my friend Yvonne.

As for visitors the last couple months- we’ve had quite a few. We had a houseful for Thanksgiving. Steves’ Aunt Mary Ellen, Uncle Bob, and cousins, Ben and Matt flew in from Chicago. His cousin Ann flew in from Hawaii and Cousin Dave drove down from Sacramento. Steve’s sister, Laura, also came from Milwaukee. It was nice as most of them met Noah for the first time and we had a very nice Thanksgiving celebration. Shortly thereafter my Uncle Ray visited. He enjoyed golfing with Steve, Mary and Pat and we saw the Gonzaga basketball team lose to Arizona game:(. We were concerned Noah wouldn’t behave at the game but he did surprisingly well and was very into the crowd and all the excitement. About a week after Makenna was born Chelsea had a layover at the Phoenix airport and we were able to drive out and see her. My mom then came for a visit when Steve went back to work. She was very helpful during the week with the 2 kids, cooking dinner and cleaning.

I feel like I have been typing a lot, so I will now put an end to this update. I’ll try to get back on to updating this monthly. We have a few people to wish happy birthday to, Happy Birthday to Grandpa (Nov 6), Matt (Nov 8), Miguel (Nov 10), Laura Mooney, (Dec 15), Laura DC (Dec 20), Jayden and Andre (Dec 27), Colton (Jan 11), Kristi (Jan 14), Reggie (Jan 15), Shannon (Jan 18), Taylor (Jan 27) and of course, Makenna (Dec 20). And Happy 36th Anniversary to Mary and Pat (Jan 13)!

The Mooney’s