September catch up

Well, life has finally settled down and we are now fairly settled in at Mom and Dad's house. So it is time to get blogging again! September has been a pretty good month. Kennedy has adjusted to living at Grandma and Grandpa's and loves seeing her grandparents every day. She has been teething this month, again, and now has all four canines! She has almost a full set of teeth now, and will only need her 2 year molars to make it a complete set. Getting her to agree to let us brush them has been a bone of contention lately. We have tried several different toothbrushes and it seems that she enjoys our electric toothbrush the best! She laughs because it tickles and I'm happy because she lets me in her mouth for longer than a second.
This month has been a busy one for us as well. We've had something up pretty much every weekend. We had a 25th wedding celebration out in La Broquerie the first weekend and then the next night we were at Celebrations dinner theatre. This was the first night Kennedy ever had a paid babysitter, and it went really well! It was a bit nervewracking for us at first because she and her babysitter had never met before but it was fine! Kennedy got along great with Melissa and even went to bed without a fuss. What a fabulous daughter we have!
September was also the month that we FINALLY turned Kennedy's car seat around to forward facing! I've been wanting to do so forever but the firemen at the fire station's wouldn't let us because she's so small. Well, we caught them on a good day because they let us that day! She really likes it and I love that I can just turn around and there she is! A couple of the pictures posted are of Kennedy being silly in her chair, with sunglasses and chewing on her jacket.
One day Kennedy and I went out to visit our friends JoEllen and Abby in Oakville with another friend Lani and her little guy Ajax. One of the pictures is of the three of them in their chairs at lunch. It was a really good day even though it was raining and we had to stay inside. There are plans for more of those days in the future.
And finally, friends of ours from Medicine Hat, Tyler, Rachelle and Abbi were out this past weekend for a wedding and we were able to spend part of an afternoon catching up with them. Kennedy and Abbi had a good time getting to know one another, playing with whatever was available in a very UN-child-proofed house! Fun for them, some tense moments for us parents. But a good time anyway!
So, September was a busy month but a good month. Here's to hoping October will be just as fun!

the move

this post must be sans pictures because we are now living at mom and dad's house and we don't have our computer set up yet. just wanted to update everyone on our situation.
we officially moved out of 585 windsor ave on aug 23. a bit of a sad day but it's all for a good cause. i mean, how can a old stinky house compare to a brand new house?? it cannot. and so, while it is being built, we live with mom and dad. Kennedy is having a bit of a rough time with it. she's confused about why we are always at grandma and grandpa's and having a rough time with bedtime. she's also acting up a bit during the day. this will pass, i know, but it can be so hard to take and have patience while it is happening. if you are reading this and are of the praying pursuasion we would love your prayers.
that's about it. how boring without pictures!! hopefully next time there will be some. by for now~!

busy, busy, busy

Okay, I'm posting again! Wow, two nights in a row, I can hardly believe it. I don't really have a great subject but this one pretty much sums up our little monkey these days. Kennedy is sooo busy, she gets in to absolutely everything. Grandma Derksen had an idea to switch up the "no" every once in a while with "touche pas", which we thought was a good idea. It worked at first but soon "touche pas" became a fun game for Kennedy and she would laugh and go back to whatever it was she wasn't supposed to be doing. And now "no" has also become a laughing matter for her. I am afraid of the "terrible twos" if this is what one is already like!

Here are some pictures of her doing some good and some bad: climbing in and out of a box (a new favorite--good), playing with the phone and that open cupboard (good and bad) and jumping off the couch (good/bad). I shall explain. I am not a fan of her playing with the phone but I let her because it entertains her for quite some time. I'm always nearby though, making sure she's not pressing redial or calling Zimbabwe or something worse like 911. Open cupboard bad: we put all of our plastics and tupperware in one bottom cupboard so she could play with them, but that's not that cupboard. There isn't anything dangerous in there but it's not what I wanted!!! Again, "touche pas" and "no" is a game so I've started to give up on that cupboard being off limits. I would never get supper made otherwise. Jumping off the couch: good if we are around to watch her, bad if we aren't. So far she's not tall enough to get up on the couch herself but it won't be long and she'll just figure a way up; she's much too smart for her own good. Ahhh, it just keeps us on our toes and we love it!

spaghetti night!

We have had spaghetti more than once since Kennedy started eating big people food, but this night was by far the most fun she, and we, have had thus far. There was sauce EVERYWHERE! I just had to share some pictures; enjoy!

Kennedy's 1st Birthday Party!! June 16th, 2007

I have been informed by many, many people that I need to update our blog. This has occurred to me many times over the last month and a half since I updated and I have tried several times. The problem lies with my lack of knowledge when it comes to computers. I am laying all on the line here, admitting my complete idiocy with computers. This silly blogger program occasionally decides that I shouldn't be allowed to upload pictures, and what's a blog update without pictures?? It takes me a long time to remember what I'm supposed to do in order to fix the problem and thus it becomes a long time before there is an update. I also feel quite inferior when I look at other people's blogs because they are so well organized, with the pictures arranged so and the text laid out beautifully. Our blog is not so because I can't figure out how! I do not like the "edit Html" button because I don't know what to do. I try to rearrange the text/pictures but when I go to preview it usually looks worse than before. So, alas, I ignore the blog for awhile. It is much easier to ignore it than to do something about my stupidity. I feel like I should know much more than I do, but alas I remain clueless. And now that it has been so long since I have posted anything, this post will likely be a very long one!!!
Our first group of pictures are from Kennedy's first birthday party. Yes, she has turned one!!! Hard to believe for us but it's true. She really is no longer a baby. Her party was lot's of fun with as many close friends and family who could make it. She made a fine mess of her birthday cake which was exactly what mom and dad wanted. What's a first birthday without cake everywhere? And because of the chocolate gooey mess, we took her shirt off. And then we left it off for the rest of the party. There are many pictures of her with just her pants on and she will be mad at us when she's older, but for now it is simply hilarious!
The party was awesome, the presents were numerous and Kennedy had a blast. All in all, a good day. I can't resist posting a picture of the cake that I made. We originally had planned a monkey/jungle theme but didn't really know how to do that so it ended up just being a monkey cake. It was chocolate/banana flavored and delicious if I may say so myself.

Poolside fun!

Last weekend I decided it was time to bring out Kennedy's pool. It was FINALLY nice in Winnipeg and I was anxious for her to play outside. I got it set up early morning and filled it so it would warm up. Once she woke from her nap around 11:00 am I got her ready and out we went. Well, it was still much too cold and she really wanted very little to do with being IN the pool. This picture is of Kennedy the first minute she was in. That's as long as it lasted! The rest will be of her on the outside. She had fun, just not in the water like I'd hoped. The last picture is of Kennedy after trying to blow bubbles in the frigid water. She didn't like it too much but she kept doing it. Silly monkey.

Raining in Winnipeg

For the last couple of weeks it has been raining in Winnipeg so we have spent a lot of time indoors. I feel like I never get original shots of Kennedy when we're inside for so long so I haven't posted in a while. I don't want to bore my loyal blog readers with the same old pictures over and over again. Also, Kennedy really doesn't sit still long enough to have her picture taken. She is one busy girl. Her mother has a hard time keeping up and she's not even walking on her own yet! Wow do I have some fun in store for me.
So, in order we have Kennedy playing in her "house" (thanks Elie! I play with it every day!), sticking her tongue out for the camera, playing with a spoon and doing her usual tricks of knocking over the gate and trying to climb it. The fun never ends around our house, not with this monkey hanging around!