Drama Queen

Miss Kennedy is becoming quite the Drama Queen! She has learned how to turn on the tears in an instant, she gags at every meal, and she's just plain goofy. Here are some pictures of her having fun on the computer camera tonight. Notice Daddy having fun throwing Ansley in some of the pictures too.

9 Months Old

Guess who's nine months old? Well, actually almost nine and a half by now! I'm a little late on posting due to our crazy past few weeks.
Here are her current stats:
Weight: 19 pounds 4 ounces (50-75th percentile)
Height: 28 inches (75th percentile)
Head: 19.5 inches (off the charts)
The doctor was a little worried about her head size. He thought it was probably just due to genetics (she can thank Daddy for that) but wanted to check it out just to make sure there was no water on her brain. We had to have an ultrasound done on her head, but the good news is, she just has a big head!

Some other things about Miss Ansley:
--She can say "Ma-ma", "Da-da", "Hi!" and when she wants food for some reason she says "Nah Nah!" over and over again. I have also heard her say "dah" when she looks at a picture of a dog or when she saw my brother's dog last week. She can also sign for "more".
--She learned last week to say "hi" and wave at people. Boy was she having fun doing that at church this morning. It's really cute though, and she says "hi" in the most high-pitched voice.
--She loves her big sister and laughs at her all the time.
--She hold remotes and toy phones and puts them up to her ears and jabbers.
--She can stand for a few seconds on her own.
--She is trying her hardest to walk and loves to pull up on things.
--Due to that fact, she often has scrapes and bruises on her face.
--She is the most easy going baby I have ever known. We just got home from a 30 hour round-trip to Houston, in the car, and never once did she make me question whether I was sane or not for trying to make that trip. She was awesome. She just chilled in her carseat and rarely got upset about anything. I'm not so sure I can say the same about her sister...although she was pretty good too!
--She sleeps about 12 hours each night, from about 7-7, however, she is super flexible if we can't get her in bed by 7, and just goes with the flow.
Two kids can be challenging at times, but Miss Ansley's easy-going nature reassures the fact that I want to have more kids...someday...not anytime soon!

Pulling up to look at the TV

Saying "hi" to mom

Talking on the phone

Enough already!

Weekend Recap

Jeremy was gone this weekend with the youth group, so I decided rather than stay home alone and deal with sugar highs all by myself, I would take the girls to my mom's house in East Peoria. We went up Wednesday so we could "Trunk or Treat" at my mom's church. Kennedy had a lot of fun with that, and continued to wear her Ariel wig through church that night. Thursday we spent the day with Grandma Horsley and went to "Crackel Barrel" as Kennedy calls it. Her and Ansley had so much fun playing with their Great-Grandma. Friday we went to my mom's school for her classroom Halloween Party and Kennedy got lots of treats there. Then on Friday night, my Grandma kept Ansley for us, and Kennedy, my mom and I went trick-or-treating together. The weather was awesome and Kennedy didn't even have to wear a jacket. Last year she didn't really know what to think about trick-or-treating, but this year she had it down pat. After each house she would say "I just love trick or treating!". Then at one point she said "Why doesn't everyone tell me how cute I look?" I guess had heard that so often, she expected it at every house. My vain little child. After she asked that though, it seemed like almost every house we stopped at said something to that affect. She certainly got lots of comments about her red hair. However, thanks to the time change and coming down off the sugar high, Sunday was a pretty awful day. Kennedy was in quite a mood and had many meltdowns. We went to our old church, and she was very excited to see her old friends, but leading up to church and following church was one big crying at every little thing fest. It probably made us leaving easier on my mom! Here are some pictures from our visit.

You've got to be kidding me!

Remember the snake we had in our garage a few weeks ago? Well this morning as I was taking Kennedy to tumbling class I was greeted by another snake. It looked just like the last one but was a lot smaller. Then, tonight as we are sitting down for dinner, Jeremy went out to the garage to grab a soda and came back in to tell me that he just chopped off the head of another snake. Yippee. He actually got a picture of this one though (shown above...he also took a picture of the chopped off head, but I'll spare you from that one). The really bad part is we are not seeing the same snake over and over again. They are clearly different snakes. The first two were black, one big, one little, and this one was greenish brown. I am really not happy about this at all! Any suggestions on what to do about our horrible problem? I'm completely paranoid to go into our garage and if they get into my house I think I may start looking to move!

Pumpkin Carving

We spent last weekend confined at home while Kennedy battled Strep Throat. Saturday we decided to carve pumpkins. We had 4 pumpkins and Kennedy picked out what she wanted carved on 3 of them. Then I had the honor of carving all of these things. I obviously had patterns to follow...and I thought they turned out pretty good...I mean I did win the pumpkin carving contest at a Halloween Party we went to last year ;)
And since I won that contest, I received a tool box full of pumpkin tools that made carving this year so much easier...I had a battery powered carving knife--it was great! After I spent all that time carving my masterpieces Jeremy decided he had to one up me and picked out the most challenging pattern in the book. Needless to say, I don't have any pictures of his pumpkin to show you, because he never finished it! Kennedy was pretty excited about the pumpkins. If you click on the picture, it should take you to some more.

From Halloween 2008

HSM3

Last night was the much anticipated opening night for High School Musical 3. We bought Kennedy the CD earlier this week, and she already pretty much had all of the songs memorized by the time we saw the movie. She was decked out in her HSM shirt, HSM underwear, HSM barrettes, and took her HSM bear with her. Her friend from church (she's 7) went with us too. Ansley even enjoyed the movie and made it until the last 15 minutes without having to be taken out! It was my favorite of the three movies, and I'm sure we'll be owning it as soon as it comes out on video!

Tigger

Jeremy's mom gave this Tigger outfit to Kennedy when she was a baby. Check out this link to see her in it. Today, we put it on Ansley and took a very similar picture. Kennedy was only about 4 months in the picture, and Ansley is almost 9. She's a little smaller than her sister was at this age!