Kenlee's 18 Month Mark

Kenlee was 18 months old on Saturday, crazy right? She has been growing so much. She attended nursery for the first time on Sunday and did very well. The leaders said she was super quite but I bet she grows out of that one. She LOVES books. She loves to do puzzles and to play with her fisher price doll house. She loves ring-around-the-rosies. Some of the words she says are: puppy, baby, mommy, daddy, mama (grandma), papy (grandpa), shoes, ball, cheese, teef (teeth). She loves to be like Mommy and Daddy. She wants to bring her purse when we go places and wants to tie a tie while daddy gets his on for work. Her daddy is her best buddy and mommy's big helper.

She is little miss sassy.

But she loves to smile!

Stats:

33 1/2 inchs (92%)

23 1/2 pounds (40%)

She is so fun and always wants to play. She is loving and ready to help. We love her so much!

Blake's Birthday

This year Blake had a full birthday week. It started the Thursday before his birthday. We went bowling at Logan Lanes. Blake had one of his best games ever, he scored a 155. Kenlee cheered us on. Then we took Kenlee to the mall so she could play in the soft play area. She had a blast playing peek-a-boo through the giant fake soda cup. That night we meet Mitch and Hannah at Texas Roadhouse and had his big birthday dinner. We had a great time, Blake got his steak that he loves and I had a burger. He threatened all of us not to tell the waitress it was his birthday. I wanted to but I knew he would only get me back for my birthday. On the way home, even though we were stuffed, Blake wanted to stop at Subzero for ice cream. What a full day, and it was only the beginning.

Saturday, the 5th of February, was his actual birthday. He had to work during the day because it was the day before the super bowl and it was busy. So Kenlee and I spent the day getting ready for his party. His request for dinner was a homemade lasagna. I was nervous it wouldn't turn out but it was actually way better then I expected. After we had dinner, we had Blake's family come over for cake and icecream. I made him a raspberry cheesecake.

The Cake!

My family decorated our entry way for his birthday. It was way cute!

Sunday was the Super Bowl and so we all gathered at the Daines. Mitch had planned a party for us this year. The food was amazing! Steak, chips, dips, soda and the best part........STICKY FINGERS from Wingers! The game was fun too but unfortunately my team lost :(

Mommy's little Steelers fan!

Our super bowl crew!

The Thursday after his birthday was my family's party for him. Mom and Tiffany made him a red velvet cake and for dinner we had cordon bleu pasta. It was yummy. My family did themed gifts this year. The theme was "KING OF THE GRILL." He got all his grilling necessities.

I love the chef hat!

All in all I think he had a pretty sweet birthday. Thanks to all our family!

Christmas 2010

I know that I am really late posting about Christmas but I didn't really get a lot of pictures so I wasn't sure how to do it and then had almost decided to not but I would eventually like to print a book of our blog and didn't want this post missing from it so here it is.

This year our Christmas fun started the Thursday before Christmas. My family always gets together the eve before the eve of Christmas to sleep under the Christmas tree as a family. Unfortunately Kenlee got sick that afternoon and was running a fever over 102 degrees. She wasn't showing any other symptoms so we decided we would go over and see how things went. We made homemade pizza and had a very fun evening. This year we all slept downstairs so that we would not feel like sardines in a can. Kenlee did really well considering how crummy she felt. She only woke up twice and one of them was because Karlee's radio alarm scared her. We thought that she had finally broke her fever when we all got up Friday morning so we went on to more fun plans.

Friday night was with the Daines family. We went over and had dinner with the family. I made a pie to take over for dinner because I wanted to practice making pie crust. It turned out really good. Kenlee had started running a fever again and was pretty miserable. We were waiting to have the Batts come home so we could open the family gifts so we just let her sleep on my lap and watched A Muppet Christmas Carol. The Batts came home and we all opened our fun family gifts. After that we took our sick baby home and tried to finish up some traditions. We all opened our Christmas pj's and then put out a plate for Santa. Kenlee was done after that and we put her to bed in hopes she would feel better for Christmas.

Santa's Milk and Cookies

When we woke up Christmas morning Kenlee was still running a fever so we didn't take many pictures of everything but here is some of what it looked like.

Kenlee's Santa Gifts

Our Poor Sick Kenlee

We just took things slowly and let her nap when she needed to and she was a trooper. She still got excited to rip off the wrapping paper and loved playing with her toys. We still had a good Christmas even with her sick.

The Monday after Christmas was the Seamons Christmas party. We had such a great time. This year Blake's cousin Drew was in charge of games and he did some of the games off of "Minute to Win It." It was so so fun! Also Blake's Aunt Kathy and Aunt Debbie made the cutest little denim purses for all the little girls. Kenlee loves to carry hers around and put the little play jewelry on.

Kenlee playing in Kathy's amazing toy room. She loved it as long as there were no other children around.

For New Years we went up to Idaho to visit with all of my family. I love getting together and playing games and eating great food. We had soup and rolls, it was so good! After we had eaten we went and played some card games to let our food settle. After we could all move again we had our traditional volleyball game. Blake played while I watched Kenlee because I am not coordinated enough to play. :)

Blake playing Volleyball

We had such a great holiday season and were so blessed to be able to spend the time together with our families.

First Time in the Snow

Blake had the day off on Thursday and so we decided the weather was decent and we would take Kenlee out to play in the snow. She had never really been in the snow so it took her a while to get used to it but when she did she loved.

Grandpa Daines took Kenlee around the house in the sled, she didn't want him to stop. She had a hard time staying in but she got the hang of it.

Dad and Kenlee playing in the snow.

Kenlee attacking Mitch while he was making a snow angel.

We found out that if someone road with her in the sled she didn't tip over. Blake got to pull Mitch and her around the house.

Kenlee and I walking back up the hill after it was our turn to use the sled.

Gingerbread Houses

Grandma Daines likes to get the grandkids together and have them make gingerbread houses out of homemade gingerbread. It was so fun. This was the first year that Kenlee was old enough to try and praticipate. In all reality I made the house and she ate the candy but it was so fun. I had never done a gingerbread house before so I had a blast with it.

Kenlee asking for more candy, she loved the sixlets!

Kenlee and her gingerbread house!

All of us with our gingerbread houses. Didn't they turn out great! The girls had a blast and now we can us them to decorate for Christmas!

This was our finished house up close, it was so fun to make.

Thanks Grandma Daines!

Thanksgiving 2010

I am a little late getting to this post but its because I wasn't quite sure how to do it because I didn't get my camera out much on Thanksgiving.

This year for Thanksgiving we were with my family up in Idaho. I love when everyone gets together. We always have great fun and funny conversations. This year I made two pies, a low-fat pumpkin pie and Blake's favorite pecan pie. They turned out so good. Blake's mom helped me with the crust so they actually turned out good this year.

Because of all the snow we got the Tuesday before we were not able to go get our Christmas tress like we normally do so we played games. We really needed to get home before the canyon got to dark but the game was so fun that we stayed a little later then we probably should have. O well we got home safe. Thanks Cheryl for hosting our Thanksgiving, it was a great one!

That night when we got back we gathered at my parents house to play some more games. Nathan picked Twister, I quickly volunteered to be the spinner.

Mom and Tiffany were really good at it.

Then Kenlee wanted to try, she thought the mat was so cool!

We decided to put Kenlee in her pj's for the night but after she got her stripped down I remembered that her pj's were in the car and dang cold so we let her run around in her onesie. Karlee turned Christmas music on and Kenlee danced on the twister mat like it was a stage. It was so funny!
We had such a good time and hope to continue our good memories and traditions through the years to come.

Growing Up

Over the last few weeks I have really noticed signs that Kenlee has become a toddler and a pretty smart one at that. She often goes down to her room and plays for a while but today I realized things had got pretty quiet so I went to check on her and found that she had climbed into the big chair in her room and was reading a book. It was so cute! The funniest part was that when I got out the camera she looked at me several times like I was interrupting her reading time. Funny girl!



Also she has decided that she loves to color. I got the jumbo crayons as a test to see if she was interested in coloring and she has loved it. I was writing out my grocery list yesterday and she decided that she wanted to draw too. Instead of letting her draw all over the list like she wanted to I got out her crayons and a piece of paper. She sat and colored for quite a while. I was impressed because she never holds still to do anything. We will have to make coloring an activity more often.

I can't believe she is so grown up. Everyday she surprise me by showing me how well she understands things and comprehends what we are asking her to do. For example when we get ready to go some place we ask her if she wants to get her shoes and she runs down the hall and points at the basket where her shoes are kept. She has also started pointing at her jacket before we even ask because she knows thats what comes next. Then she makes sure we have the diaper bag and if she thinks we may have forgotten it she tries to drag it down the hall to us. Then she makes us get our shoes and jackets on. If we are not fast enough for her she goes and gets the shoes and puts them on top of our feet. Then she points at the key hanger and makes sure we don't forget the keys, then she knows we are ready and she knocks on the door until we open it. She is so smart that sometimes it scares me. I know that I really need to be careful of what we do because I don't want her learning bad habits so little and I want her to keep learning good things like putting things away (she loves to try to put things back where we got them from even if it means asking us for help by grunting and screaming) and the new challenge of teaching her to share her toys.