Kenadie walking

Here are some videos of Kenadie walking. These were taken a few days ago and she's walking even better now than in the videos.

HALLOWEEN!

This was Kenadie's first Halloween and she had pretty fun. Friday night, the 30th, we went to the Legacy Center where they had a lot of activities going on. They had trick-or-treating, a haunted house, games, food, and a movie. There wasn't much Kenadie could do since she is still young, but we just had to show up and see what it was like. It was a madhouse! There were so many people there it wasn't even funny. But we saw Kaitlyn and Liz there. And then I met up with my sister and her family. Kenadie dressed up as a chicken this year. We nick-named her Chicken Little when she was a baby and this costume was so fitting!

Kenadie before we left, trying on her costume.

Kenadie, Me, Kaitlyn, and Liz at the Legacy Center

Us, with my sister, Jo and her daughter, McKinley (as a pumpkin!)

Saturday night we went trick-or-treating. Well, really just around to a few houses to say hi. We didn't even plan to take her around but last minute we decided to. We used a Wal-Mart plastic bag as her candy bag. We had to visit Laura, Ruben and Seth. Seth and Kenadie love to play together. Seth was such a cute vampire!

After we got home, Kaitlyn came over to trick-or-treat. Kenadie only wanted her candy.

And getting undressed. She was SO glad to be out of that thing!

I had to throw this one in here. The week before Halloween, we went to a party. We dressed up as a Pink Lady and T-Bird.

This year was pretty fun, especially with a child. I just might get into it a little more each year.

First Steps

Last night Kenadie took her first steps without mom and dad holding her hands. She was so excited that she could do it by herself. I kept trying to get her to do it some more but she kept falling down. We'll keep trying and hopefully get it on video next time. And that, of course, will be another blog post!

Tutu's

I made some tutu's last week for Kenadie and her cousin, McKinley who is 4 weeks older than her. I thought it would be cute for them to get their pictures taken together in them. Haven't got their pictures done yet but here are the tutu's. I think they turned out very cute! And they were super easy to make.

Kenadie's

McKinley's

Whatever you think is comfortable, Kenadie

Spilt Milk

So, I had to pick up a few things at the store today.

I walked in the house with 2 gallons of milk in one hand and a huge box of diapers in the other.

I dropped one of the gallons of milk and it busted open and milk spilled everywhere in my front entry way.
I stood there in shock for a few seconds not knowing what the heck I should do.

Get some grahm crackers? Cereal? Oreos?

I opted for huge towels.

After the towels were sopping wet, I threw them outside and wiped up the rest of the mess with paper towels.

Then mopped.

Needless to say, that was disgusting!

10 months

Kenadie is just 2 months away from turning 1. I can't believe it! I say this everyday...time goes by so fast!


Kenadie has quite the personality. She makes me laugh all the time. She does the funniest things at the most random times. Sometimes she'll hit her head or her cheeks. When she hits her cheeks, she makes the O face with her mouth and looks almost like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone.


She's a pure genius! She can say quite a few words - Mama, Dada, book, duck(more like du) baby, uh-oh, ball(more like ba). She will point to her picture on the wall or a baby in a magazine and say baby. And she points to her books on the bookshelf and says book. I don't think a lot of 10 month old babies can do that! Oh yeah, she can say NO really well too, complete with the finger shaking! She'll crawl over to something that I've told her NO to before, and she'll say, "No, No, No No". And then she continues on and plays with what she's not suppose to!

She has been crawling like crazy and getting into everything. She loves it when you chase her. She'll book it down the hall, stop and look back to see where you are. She waits till you're close enough to tickle her then she'll take off again. She walks really well holding on to furniture. But just last night she started standing by herself. She saw how excited we were when she did that so she stood up over and over and over again, smiling as she fell. I'm sure in the next little while, after she's more comfortable standing alone, she'll take her first steps. Oh what a proud mom I'll be when that happens!

She just figured out how to open the box of wipes. We have the box that pops open. She sticks out her little finger and pushes down and it pops up and then she pulls out all the wipes one at at time. I've found a pile of wipes in her room a few times. Now I have to keep them on the top shelf so that doesn't keep happening.

She hates drinking her bottles. It's the biggest fight with her. But she loves eating food. She's pretty good at eating her baby food but she absolutely loves big people food. The other day, I had just finished feeding her so I started eating my lunch - leftover mashed potatoes with cheese. I put a small amount on the fork and started blowing on it. She saw me doing that and got the biggest smile on her face knowing that bite was for her. She LOVES mashed potatoes. Takes after her mom. She'll eat pretty much anything.

She loves to clap. She'll do it at the most random times. But she always does it whenever I say, "Yeay" or "Good girl". She's so proud of herself when she does something well, she just has to clap! If she hears someone laugh, she'll sometimes start laughing too. But it sounds more like a courtesy laugh.

Here are a few pics from the last little while.







The witches at Gardner's Village (well, only the one on the left!)







BUSTED!


With her cousin Matteo


Trying to get unstuck from under the exersaucer


Fell asleep playing with her toys while I showered


Loves her binky's. I have to keep at least 4 in her crib in case one gets thrown out or something!