Christmas/11 months

For Christmas and New Years this year we were here in Escalante. It was soo much fun with Kenadie. Even if she didn't really know what was going on it was really exciting for us. We got spoiled! So much stuff and its all stored in a room where we just look at it until we get into our own house! Kenadie had a blast with all the kids around, espeically with all the new noise, and light up toys!
This little girl is going to be one in less than a month. WOW!!! can't belive it. She is crazy!! She is starting to stand up in the middle of the floor all by her self. Not walking yet, thank goodness! She is into EVERYTHING!! The power button on the tv is always going on and off, when we say no she smiles and laughs! The dvd player is constantly opening and closing, along with the cd/dvd compartment in the computer. If she is not doing that she is either eating dog food or or emptyting out a cupboard. She talks and talks and talks. Her and Dylan have lots of "baby conversations!" And they LOVE eachother. THere going to be so bored when there not together every day.This was a hard month for the little stinker. She was pretty sick for about 3 weeks. Starting out with croup that lasted all 3 weeks. It was pretty scary, then we ended the last week with double ear infections. Yuck! That was the saddest thing ever. Poor babies, thank goodness that was the first time she had ever had one. We are lucky! But I got to learn just how much I love childrens benedryl. Helped me ALOT and helped her get some rest to help get better. We are doing really good right now, not sick any more! Kenadie has got another 3 teeth coming in, and is learning how to use them very well. Man this little girl has quite the personaltiy. She lets me know whether she likes something, wants something, disagrees with something or just plain is not in the mood with something very well!! Very good comunication :) She is soo much fun though. She is learning and picking up everything really fast now. We are teaching her all her face features (ears, mouth, nose etc.) And she loves it. She still loves waving bye bye, and is obsessed with the cell phone. She uses any toy/remote she can find and puts it up to her ear and chats with it. Anytime you say "hello" she automattically puts her hand or toy up to her ear and says hi or hello. So funny! She learned that all by herself. I promise I am not on the phone as much as it looks like!

Pictures and 10 month

I know you can't see the santa pics very well, but I had to scan them in and thats the best I could get them from now, but you get the point of how much she hated him right?!?!



Thanksgiving/Christmas with the Allens


Her mamas baby, loves strawberrys!



Yes this is TONZ of progress! We are getting hair. WOOHOO! And this was takin like a week ago, so you can imagine what it looks like now! You make think this is nothing but this is awesome because you used to not see anything, only in the light, but now its there, length and all :)
Its a huge chore to get pics now that she can move around


Finally we succeeded

10 month update below!

10 months!

SO I do have pics for this month, but I will just have to add them later today! Kenadie is a whoping 10 months. Double Digits. WOW! She is soo much fun, and soo much work ;) She is into everything and putting everything in her mouth! She was successful with trying dog food before I could get to her, and she didn't mind it at all. She dances, has a very silly laugh, clicks her tongue all the time to make the noise, climbing and standing on everything, loves peek a boo again! Thinks her dad is just soo funny, and has learned how to take toys away from other babies! Her face is absoloutly priceless when the baby takes the toy back! The word "No" has been used lots this past month, but she still thinks she can't understand it ;) We have my little nephew over during the week while his mom works, and he is a big time binki baby! Well Kenadie now thinks she needs one, but only when hes there. She doesn't need it for comfort she just likes to crawl around with one in her mouth and play with it. If i don't give her one she is constantly pulling Dylans out of his mouth, so yes I am feeding her another habit! At least she doesn't really care for it when hes not around. I think she is teething again, because she is chewing on everything once again! Her blanket, my nail files, Anything with a rough surface! SHe is so much fun, but I am so not look forward to when she walks, She will be much faster than what she already is!
Last night she got to experince Santa for the first time, and well she hated him! All we did was walk by him in the back of the resturant and she screamed. Then later when I took her to sit on his lap...well lets just say the picture wasn't so "precious"!! We tried a couple more times through out the night and it never changed. Infact she kept an eye on him ( he was behind us, so very obvious) all night to make sure he kept his distance! She wouldn't ever take the candy cane from him. It sat on the table in front of her for over an hour before she would grab and suck on it! Which we all know is amazing because Anything thats in reach of a 10 month old gets touched, eaten or thrown!
We are still In Escalante trying to figure out what our next step is. We are going through the process of possibly buying a house in Monroe still, but we aren't getting our hopes up to much because you never know what could happen at this point. Christmas is so close, and I LOVE this time of year. Hope everyones doing good and has a great Christmas!!

9 Months!

This year is going by way too fast! I can not believe that Kenadie is 9 months! And her little personality is just popping out! She is so funny, she has a very strong personality and yes, she acts like her mom and dad! I don't have any pics to put up this month because my camera got sent off to be fixed so for now this post will have to do. She is finally crawling both backwards and frontwards! She does both all day long, so she hasn't quite decided which she likes better ;) She can say "mama"!! She has for a while, but now it is just as clear as a whistle! Kenadie is getting very daring and is loving walking, not on her own, but along the furniture and when she is crawling she is always randomly stopping and sticking her bum in the air, and her legs spread way far apart, trying to stand up. After a few seconds of trying she goes on with crawling! Sadly because of this she had her first black eye and goose bump this month. It was very sad, her eye was swollen too! Its been over a week and that stupid green bruise color is still not gone yet ;) I wish I could just wrap her in bubble wrap and save her all the hurt feelings, but I know we have many MANY more falls, cuts, bruises, sprains, breaks and OWIES to come. I finally decided that her being able to kick and change the dvd player with her toes was a good sign of needing another car seat. SO now my baby is in a big girl carseat facing forward. Its so sad to look bad and see her looking right at me in this ginormous carseat. Where did my teeny little baby go? Kenadie is crazy smart. She copies every sound any of us make, and she wants to feed her self. and she always wants our food, not hers! ANd no way can she be tricked! She also knows how to throw a toy for tigg(not very far, so this game is no fun for tig) over, and over, and over again. She has learned to tease him with it to, and finds it really funny! My life is so chaotic with her, and I absoloutly love it. Life was so boring without her!
As for Lane and I we are still in Escalante at my moms house. It is so nice to have all the help from family, and being able to see them so much. But it is defiently time for us to find our own place. Looking for a place in Escalante had been so frusturating. There is nothing here, and I am being way more picky then i ever have. I don't want a completly old and run down place with Kenadie crawling on the floor and eating everything! So we just kindof stopped looking and are really missing Richfield area. We loved it there. So we are thinking of buying a house there! Which makes me so excited to have something that is ours, and that is somewhat permanet for a while. I think I'm craving that in my life big time. To settle down and plant some roots for a while.

8 Months

This post is a little late but we have been crazy busy this last month. My sweet little girl is 8 months. So big, she was sick this month so we took her in and her weight was just over 19 lbs. Once again she was in her 80th percentile! Just perfect! Her personality is soo much fun. She is crazy. She LOVES to grunt, and that is now what she is known for. Whenever she is concentrating or playing with her toys she just sits and grunts, its so funny. She wants to crawl so bad but its just not quite there. She can go backwards but not forwards. She is up on her knees finally but just gets frustrated and does a face dive onto the floor. I'm so glad that she is just now learning to crawl because she is into everything and everything is in her mouth, so its going to be chaos when she is completly mobile! She finally got two bottom teeth and she has her two top ones getting ready to cut through. The bottom teeth didn't bother her nearly as much as these top ones are. Poor girl they are really hurting her. She hardly eats during the day, its like she is just too busy and doesn't have time to, but at night she is up liek 3 times a night and wants to eat 6 oz. each time. During the day its a fight to give her food or more than 2 bottles, no more than 5 oz. She is such a stinker. I"m so proud I just taught her how to clap and it is so cute, also giving kisses, but she likes to give open mouth kisses ;) We are working on bye bye, blowing kisses and celebrating with her hands in the air. I could go on and on with this little girl, she is the light of my life, and I am so lucky to have her!
ALso Lane and I finally moved from Moab. We are currently living with my mom until we decided what we are doing. Lane is no longer working for Wadsworth but in now with AGI working on the new Dam here in Escalante. We will probably be in Escalante for a little while but not really sure because this field of work that Lane does keeps on moving. All I can say is that I am DONE moving for a long time, so hopefully we have a plan soon. Other than that not alot is happening. I'm excited for the winter to come and soo excited for the holidays to come!!