Kendree - 16 months

Whew!  Another month (and two weeks, but who's counting) have gone by already!

At 16 months, Kendree:

• Is walking!  No more crawling for this big girl.  She made the decision to just go for it around 2 weeks after she turned 15 months and there has been no turning back!  Sadly, I don't have a video of it yet (bad mama!) but will soon, I promise!
• Got her third tooth (top right) on June 13th.
• Takes one nap a day.  I've had to get used to a "normal" child when it comes to naps.  My sister always warned me that Easton's 3-hour naps daily were not the norm, but I held out hope.  I'm lucky to get 2 hours from Kendree regardless of when I put her down.
• Answers "yeah" when she wants something and when she shakes her head yes, it is really a shake of her entire upper body, which is hilarious.
• Signs please and thank you like a champ.  She will say thank you (tain-to) but please is just the sign and an occasional hissing sound along with it.  She will copy any sign you say to her, but sticks to her favorites when she is trying to communicate.  New favorites include cheese and drink.
• Is so easy to put to bed.  PJ's on, tell the family "night-night" and then a quick verse of Teach Me to Walk in the Light as you lay her down and walk out of the room and you won't hear from her again.
•  Loves to wrestle and can occasionally be found taking her brother down so he will wrestle with her.  This does not always result in happiness.
• Screams like no one you have ever heard.  I HATE IT!  She lets out the most high pitched scream you have ever heard if she doesn't get her way, or wants something a little differently, or if you are not understanding what she wants.  It is not fun.  She is that one kid in church that the whole congregation has to roll their eyes at.  Oh well!  At least I know she will grow out of it as she can express herself better (I hope!).

On to the pictures.

The only shot I got on her actual 16 month "birthday." She is sporting Easton's cowboy boots.

 Playing dress up with big brother.

 She loved pushing the fake buttons on his outfit.

 Wearing Grandpa's glasses.

 Kendree has an obsession with carrying around random pieces of clothing.  Her favorites are garments, but since I didn't want to take a picture of that, I waiting for the day when it was her swimsuit.

 Hanging out with daddy (photo by Easton).

 Wearing her new hat (well, new to her).  Easton and daddy wear hats, so she always wants one too.  I dug out Easton's old Cowboys hat so he wouldn't get upset about her borrowing his current hats.

 It was a Sunday right before church.  Kendree was eating lunch as Ronnie and I were finishing getting ready and starting to load up the car.  I only had to put a bow in her hair (or so I thought) and she would be ready to go. Enter the banana.

 Needless to say, we were skimming into church that day.  I didn't get everything out of her hair, but she at least looked presentable.

Kendree - 15 months

Our Kenny girl just keeps on growing! We went to the doctor yesterday and she weighed it at 20 lbs. 12 oz. and was 30 inches long (right around the 25th percentile for both). The doctor did recommend taking her in to be screened since she has been a little slower with some of her developmental milestones (crawling and walking).  They recommend that every child is screened at 18 months and just thought Kendree could get checked out a few months earlier, so I have to get that scheduled.

At 15 months Kendree:

• Will walk anywhere if she is holding onto your hand and will let go and take about 3-4 steps on her own before falling.
• Sleeps through the night
• Loves the "big kid" sippy cups the best (you know, the kind that actually leak a little bit when turned upside down-ugh!)
• Smiles and laughs all of the time.
• Now signs cracker, baby, grapes, shoes, hat, and please consistently and will attempt to copy anything you show her.
• Has turned on the babble big time.  She is constantly telling herself or me a "story" and loves to talk.
• Says eh-lo when she holds the play phones, or remotes, or ipod up to her ear.
• Got her second tooth on April 29th (bottom right one).
• Takes either one or two naps a day depending on how she is acting.  This makes scheduling some things hard, while she just has to live without naps other days if we have things going on.
• Loves her blanket (apparently I create monsters with those) and will let you know she is tired by finding it and just collapsing on the floor.
• Sleeps on her stomach for the most part, usually with her feet tucked underneath her and her bum in the air.

Kendree has a crazy obsession with this little drawing board she got for Easter and will drag it around the house with her.

 Until she sees mama with the camera and then she just wants that.

 She was a bit under the weather a week or so ago and fell asleep on the living room floor at 7:00 p.m. (told you she finds her blanket and just collapses on the floor!)

She is also starting to love accessories.  Bracelets are a favorite as are hair bows.  Note the two in her hair here.

 And now her "official" 15 month pictures.  Sans shirt and everything. (sorry for the blurriness, the girl never stops moving).

And now, a video of her walking with her walker.

Easton's Mater Teeth

Easton went to the store with daddy and came home with a Mater (from Cars) teeth sucker.  He loved that thing for two whole days until daddy threw it in the garbage (I still don't really understand what Ronnie was thinking when he did that).

Easton's favorite thing to do was to put the teeth in and then ask me to take a picture so he could look at it. I have about 20 of these on my camera.  Here are the best two:

Easter Videos-lots of them!

Kendree - 14 months

At least this one is semi-on time!

At 14 months Kendree:

• Has a tooth that has broken through!  Her bottom left.  We first felt the very tip on April 1st, and it has taken its sweet time since then.  We can just barely see the entire top.
• Seems to be at least progressing towards walking.  She will try to balance on her own throughout the day and is braver at taking steps in between two objects.
• Loves her silver sparkly shoes.  If I don't put them on her in the morning, she'll bring them over to me as soon as she finds them.
• Doesn't really seem to have any new words or signs this month...she's perfecting her whine though!
• Takes one nap a day.
• Is weaned! (3 days after going cold turkey, she slept through the night!)
• Loves her daddy and will crawl to the garage door and say "dada, dada, dada" over and over if she feels like she hasn't seen him recently enough.
• Loves any food we put in front of her, except cold lunch meat.
• Drinks milk, water and VERY watered down juice without showing much preference.
• Hates having her diaper changed. It is a wrestling match every time.

Hanging out around the house:

 Now she sees mom's camera

 Practicing with the walker:

 Found these on the ipod (it is found!) they are of Kendree at 13 months.

A little catch up on Easton

A month ago, we went with some friends to the children's section of the Wyoming State Museum. 

Somehow, Easton ended up as the pillow for two girls on the cot.

 And he continued to stay there...

 And stay there.  At least we knew where they all were!

 This is where Easton prefers to watch television....

And this is the face he gives when mama makes him move back.  Life is hard.

Kendree - 13 months

I know, I know.  I am almost a month late on this one....such is life when you are moving I guess.

At 13 months Kendree:

• Is cruising on everything she can get her hands on.  She has no qualms with using strangers if they are useful to get to her end game.
• Wants to do what big brother is doing...always
• Loves ALL food, especially from mom or dad's plate.
• Is taking two naps a day, but is looking like she may be transitioning to one a day.
• Is still not sleeping through the night...getting up once a night to nurse.
• Nurses to sleep at night.
• Loves to wrestle!  Sometimes other little kids don't quite understand what the heck she is trying to do.
• Still has absolutely no teeth!
• Wears size 3 shoes and is still in 12 and 12-18 month clothes.  Mama hasn't had a chance to get out the wardrobe change with the move, so she is squeezing into everything (shirts, that is).
• Is starting to show a little "toddler-ness" and lets you know when she is unhappy about you taking away something, etc.
• Says this (dis), ball (ba), Easton (kinda like eh-eh) (in addition to the words she was saying last month).
• Signs bread and cheese and we are working hard on please and thank you.
• Wears her hair in a ponytail on top every day to keep those long ones from getting in her eyes.
• Is as usual, lighting up our family!

Hanging out with Daddy.

Pointing, and probably saying "dis."

 At this point she was done with the camera but I wanted to try and get a picture of how long the hair in front was getting.


 So now, she wears her hair like the picture below...

I would have several more pictures, but a little one year old has lost my ipod, so we'll have to wait on those for now.