Mackenzie in looooove! And Matea loves Monkey's?!?

So....Big Mack is in love.  Why am I not suprised....we have an adorable little neighbour - well the whole family is great (except for the Daddy, he has a scary telephone voice, just kidding), and Mackenzie has taken quite a "shine" to their daughter.  She is about a year older than him, but she is so kind, and she has sooooooo much patience, it is truly amazing.  ANYWAY I knew that he really liked her, but it didn't really register until I took this picture:

Now I don't know if you can tell, but they were jumping on the trampoline, and Mackenzie is looking right at Ayva, with the craziest grin I have EVER seen in the three and a half years that I have been documenting his life, moment by moment.  I seriously have NEVER see this smile...I think because it is his "True Love" smile.

Here are some pictures of them just playing around being cute, cute, cute

Look how big he looks in his little playhouse - sniff, sniff.

Ugh...Big Mack getting his mouth a little too close to "Snowy (dirt pile) Mountain"

Ayva hiding in a "hiding spot" Bob built for the kids.

The stairs Bob built to climb "Snowy Mountain"

He had to do some renovations to his first set of stairs (he initially built some a few weeks back)

because they got quite slippery, and Ayva's Dad almost wiped out BAD one evening

ARGH!  I don't mean to alarm you BUT, there are going to be a few cooking pictures....

and Big mack DOES NOT have his hands in his undies at ALL!

Pretty cute chef!

Coming in for a smooch for the camera man.

Miss. Matea having a snack....

It's the middle of March and she is wearing capri pants and the top from her PJ's,

Daddy was home today :)

SNACK PROTECTION -- Matea is a pro at preotecting her snack from Jada!

Look at how her little feet are all ready to push Jada away from her melon snack.

Oh...the monkey backpack.

Matea LOVES monkey's right now, she likes to read this one book about animals, and she tries to skip ahead to the 5th page just so she can make the monkey noise - it's cute.

We got this backpack for Mackenzie when he was little, it didn't work for us, but she seems to like it.

I think we are going to try and just get her to listen to us, instead of trying to walk her like a puppy.

Big Mack was our "practice baby" - we are doing some things differently with her :)

My heart just broke....she looks like she is getting ready for school!

no, no, no.....not yet.

Pretty girl

Handsome boy

Dinosaur Wrestling!

just for fun ;)