Happy 1st Birthday Kennedy!

Yes it is true, our little rascal turned 1 year old today! One year ago this sweet little girl joined our family and threw everything we knew about babies out the window. She is definitely her own little soul. In this first year of her life she has learned that there are many things she loves. Topping the list is her love of eating, specifically mac and cheese, love of giving kisses, love of her mommy (she loves her daddy too but is definitely a mamma's girl), her love of climbing the stairs and more recently discovered her love of climbing onto little tables and toilets, and finally her love of dogs. The love of dogs includes all and any form dog. Be it pictures of dogs, dogs at the park, Roxy...she loves them all. If she sees a dog or anything that resembles a dog she gets very excited and, if she can, she will give it a kiss. It is very sweet. We (but mostly I) decided to take that love for dogs and throw Kennedy her very own pink poodle 1st birthday party. It was so much fun and Kennedy didn't disappoint when it came to the much anticipated eating of the cake. She started out very polite and nibbled at the frosting but when she realized there was cake underneath it all there was no stopping her. She had a blast digging and smearing the cake everywhere she could. Don't belive me??? Check out our youtube video.

Ahh clean again...Happy Birthday Kennedy!

New and Improved

Instead of filling up blog space with our little home videos, I decided to put them on youtube instead. If you fill so inclined to view video of our day to day life you'll find links to all the fun in the sidebar under the blog archive.

All Dressed Up

Easter festivities

dying our Easter eggs and sprinkling gliter

The finished product

Bed head and all, Taylor emptying her eggs left by the easter bunnyKennedy "hunting" for eggs (or just following Taylor around)

"I can do it..."

Lately Taylor has been interested in doing things all by herself. Usually she wants to put on her shoes and brush her teeth all by herself. One morning as we are trying to get out the door and I asked Taylor multiple times to get off the chair so that I can help her get dressed. On typical days, Taylor usually ignores my requests or runs away from me until I am reduced to getting mad and making threats. This particular day instead of the usual "I guess you don't want to go with us..." (which is followed by screams and tears), to my surprise I looked over to see her getting dressed all by herself! It probably took three times as long as it usually does to get ready and her shirt was on backwards but the look on her face of accomplishment was priceless.

Whaaa!!

Half of our little family have been sick with the wretched flu and the other half have been busy taking care of those with the flu. Well that's not entirely true. Kennedy didn't help much other than helping the sick ones smile every now and then. It has been a long and sad week for Nate and Taylor. Other than a weak attempt on Nate's part to go to work, and trips to the grocery store for more medicine...we haven't left the house for 7 days!! We have felt a little disconnected with the world while we have been quarantined in our house trying to get everyone healthy again. You would think with the modern luxuries of Internet and TV we could survive one week with little contact with the outside world and not be left out of the loop. Surprisingly (as we learned at what we thought was 8:30 pm but really 9:30 pm) we have missed one major yearly occurrence as winter ends and spring begins. Tonight we rounded up the girls, bathed and put them to bed, same as any day. We were both hard at work surfing the web, as our usual routine after the kids are down for the night, and still it didn't hit us that the world had moved on with out us by one hour. We did think it a bit odd that Extreme Home Make Over wasn't on at its usual time (we missed it) and that the evening news came on one hour too early. How could we miss something like day light savings?? It really made us feel strange that we lived one whole day one hour behind all of you! If Nate hadn't checked the time in the bottom right hand corner of his computer and caught our mistake we would have began another day the same way. It may not seem like a big deal, and really its not, but it was a strange feeling to know we were so disconnected with the rest of civilization.

The Butterfly Pavillion-a family outing

She held a taranchula and got a sticker to prove it!

Getting a close up of bed bugs and such

We got a close up when one landed on my arm
Kennedy more interested in the flower
The main attraction