Scooting

Its official! Kenzie is scooting now! I have been working all night on editing videos that we have taken since Kenzie was born---and while I was working on it I looked up and saw Kenzie scoot one last time to make it to the power cord to the computer! I of course got out the video camera and all she would do is laugh and smile! I think I finally got some scooting on video (about try #5!)

Christmas in San Angelo

We just got home from a long trip to Angelo. We got there last Saturday. It was a fun time getting to see family and friends. We celebrated like CRAZY!!! Monday night we went to the Veribest Baptist Church "Young Adults" Sunday School party, Tuesday night we had a get together with all the families Clay and Travis grew up with, and Wednesday night Clay, Kenzie, and I hung out with our friends Dustin and Kaela. For Christmas Eve we went over to Travis and Kaci's to hang out with Clay's Great Aunt, Aunt, Uncle, and Cousins. We ate, talked, read the Christmas story (out of NASB AND KJV!!!! ;) ), and decorated Christmas cookies!

Christmas morning we decided to sleep in and Travis and Kaci came out at about 11. We opened presents and watched Kenzie experience Christmas for the first time! All day if you would say "Merry Christmas" to Kenzie she would get a HUGE grin on her face---I guess she already knew! Kenzie got ALOT of stuff from Jim and Betty Sue, but so far her favorites are her baby doll and play laptop.

Here are some pics from our trip and Kenzie's first Christmas.

First Kiss under the Mistletoe

Kenzie in front of Travis and Kaci's Christmas Tree

Kaci and Kenzie on Christmas Morning

Travis and Kaci

Me, Clay, and Kenzie

Kenzie amongst all her presents (I wanted to do a pic of her in all the trash afterwards, but she was too tired to mess with it!)

First present to open

ITS HER BABY!!! She loves it already!

Playing with the laptop! Look at that face! Cracks me up!

Passed out sitting up with Baby---opening presents sure is hard work!

So when we got home there was still some snow on the ground---barely---but it was snow--so here are those pics:

Kenzie with My Pal Violet---what Clay and I got her

Its been awhile!

This one's for Travis!

Sorry its been so long since I've posted---When I logged on to post the 8 month blog I realized that I had already said everything there was to say! Now I realize that I didnt post about our first Thanksgiving or Clay's first Bball game---so here are some pics!

Clay's first game as a head coach

We dont wish to remember the score from that game, but his kids are getting better! In fact, they got their first win last Tuesday!!! It was a good game!

Here is a pic of Kenzie's first Thanksgiving----I kind of forgot about taking pics---sorry there isn't a good one! I took more videos than actual pictures!

My mom bought her this outfit for her first Thanksgiving---it had a bib with it that said "Everyone's Thankful for Me!"

This first video is of Kenzie playing with a Leap Frog Puppy

The second one is Kenzie playing while all my cousin's were playing Rock Band in the background. I was in another room and kept getting told to come and watch Kenzie. I think she was doing more before I got there---but you get the idea.

9 Months

9 Months

Here is what we're up to these days:

• Eating 3-4 times a day. When we went to visit the dr she said that Kenzie could start eating table foods---so she has tried pancakes, cheerios, macaronni, Gerber puff treats---since Thursday! Dr Landry said she needed to be having 18 oz of milk atleast a day and the rest could be in food. Other moms---how do you know if your child is eating enough "finger food" to be full? So far Kenzie is sharing more with the highchair and floor than actually eating! I also now see how women get in the habit of sweeping their floor multiple times a day! Thankful for Dalton also who often acts like a vacuum cleaner! Today we tried Carrots




• About 2 weeks ago Kenzie started pulling herself up on her hands and knees. She will rock, but still hasn't figured out how to move forward! She does however go backwards quite fast! In this pic, she had scooted all the way under the couch (well as far as she could go) and started whinning! Clay and I were in the kitchen so we walked in to find her like this! It was too funny!

• Kenzie is sleeping about 12 hours every night! She usually goes to bed between 730-830 and gets up between those hours as well. Of course on bball nights she goes to bed a little later---and still gets up at the same time! How do they do that?!? She is taking 2 naps---one in the morning and one in the afternoon.





• Since Kenzie has turned 9 months she has began to "blab" more often! She has more to say all the sudden!

• Kenzie LOVES her Daddy! Kenzie had been ornery ALL day so when Clay came home I said "Here's your daughter!!!" She was definatley happy to sit with him!

• We went shopping and it was COLD outside! So I bundled Kenzie up---we needed groceries BAD!!!

• Kenzie LOVES to play on the computer!

• Kenzie hasn't seen snow yet (unless you count the snow when she was 5 days old!). It snowed in Fort Worth when we were in Klondike, and snowed in Klondike while we were in Fort Worth! Darn the luck!

Updates from the dr: Weight: 19 lbs 15 oz (75%) Height: 27" (80%) Kenzie sure is getting big!