Kendall's comfort

So each child usually has one thing they always do for comfort or when they are tired. For Dilan, it was me. For Megan, it was her blanket. For Atwood, he had his thumb for a while and then a blanket. For Kendall it is two fingers and her blanket. It is so cute to watch. Some day when she is like 8, if it doesn't stop, it might not be quite as cute. She just brings her blanket to her face and sucks on two fingers. You can just see her little thumb poking out here.

We try to capture the picture, but as soon as she sees us with the camera, she starts smiling and the moment is over. This one turned out pretty good though.

First snow!

It snowed for the first time of winter on December 1st. We don't always get as much snow as I would like, but it was enough for the kids to go play outside.

Kendall was happy to just watch from inside. The kids kept throwing snowballs at the window and she thought it was hilarious.

Dress-up + make-up = Lots of fun!

Here is Megan with her little friend Sadie. Sadie lives two doors down and they are in the same class at school. This particular day, they were playing "fashion castle" with Megan's little poodles.
A little bit of lip gloss goes a long way.

A little bit of blush goes even longer...

Madison had just wiped off her make-up when we got out the camera, but her smile is still adorable!

She finally has top teeth...

Ok, so you can barely see it, but she really does finally have two top teeth. It has been much nicer to feed her now. She quit eating baby food a few months back, but without top teeth, it wasn't quite as easy to bite. Now, she is lovin' life because she can pretty much bite off and eat everything that the rest of us do.

Yummy!

Happy Birthday to you Kendall!

I am not sure that she actually ate very much of her cupcake.

She just like to feel it and rip it apart.
This is pretty much as messy as she got.

Here she is all cleaned up sporting these great Cinderella shades.

She definitely loves being in the spotlight.

Being 1 is so much fun

We absolutely love this little lady. She really is so funny. She is also very loud. She loves to smile and totally cheeses it for the camera. She can be totally crying about something or upset, but as soon as she sees that camera, she is a whole different girl. She turned 1 November 1st.

And yes, she is totally teething. Our kids start drooling bad when they are about four months old. Kendall didn't really cut her first tooth until she was 10 months, but the drool just keeps coming. She still only has four teeth so I am sure you will see quite a few more nasty shirt pictures from her. When we go out in public, I like to change her, but here at home we just let it flow!

Fun with friends...

Who are these masked men?
Ok, so more like masked boys. This is Jake (holding the pumpkin) and Atwood dressed as Spiderman. It was all we could do to get them to stand still while we snapped a quick picture. They both had lots of energy that night.

Here we have Miss Madison dressed as Elina (from Barbie in Fairytopia) and of course Miss Megan as Rosella (from Barbie as the Island Princess). These girls are seriously SO funny when they play together. They both have great imaginations and you never know what kind of story they might be acting out!

Happy Halloween!

This year for Halloween Dilan dressed up as Boba Fett (from Star Wars), Megan as Princess Rosella (from Barbie as the Island Princess),

and Atwood was Spiderman.

Kendall was a cute little ladybug...if you can really believe it, I did not even get a picture of her.

I have a billion other pictures of her, but missed the one from Halloween.