Fall

Here’s our annual Fall pictures.  They were so much fun to do this year.  Kenzie loves the leaves.  Every time we walk through them she starts laughing hysterically.  Kaitlyn was jumping up and down in them just to make Kenzie laugh .  I included some of the ‘blooper’ shots just because Kenzie discovering the leaves is too cute not to share…

Visit with the Fire Department

For fire safety month, our apartment’s leasing office arranged a meet and greet with some of our town’s firefighters.  They brought over an engine and ambulance and gave tours to the kids.  Kaitlyn was excited to sit in the truck and hold the hose.  She talked about it all day!

Presque Isle Trip

Columbus Day weekend we took our annual trip to Caribou/ Presque Isle where we enjoyed the corn maze, mini golfing, and selecting a pumpkin.  We also weighed Kenzie on the pumpkin scale.  It looks like she’s coming in at a whopping 18.5 lbs these days.  She also LOVED the pumpkin ice cream at the end of the day.

13 Months

1st Day of School

I’m not sure who was more excited about the first day of school…  Kaitlyn or Mommy and Daddy!  Kaitlyn is excited to have moved up a floor and to have a desk instead of tables this year. 

Other things Kaitlyn mentioned about her first day

• “I saw the note in my lunchbox.  It was sweet” (I put a ‘have a good day at school’ note and cookies in her lunchbox as a surprise)
• She has gym twice a week this year
• She read with her reading buddy (apparently they read with stuffed animals in class)
• She learned about plants- they grow with seeds, sun, and water
• She held Snowball the Magic stuffie and told the class about her vacation.  Apparently, if you hold Snowball you are allowed to talk.  If you are not holding Snowball you are quiet and listening to whomever is talking.  She told the class she went on Carnival and saw a whale tail.  Of course, she did not mention the part where she went to Alaska.

Kevin, Kenzie, and I got cornered by the principal for a family photo for the school Facebook page.

Kenzie’s 1st Birthday

On Sunday we celebrated Kenzie’s 1st Birthday!  We bought her a special birthday outfit to make up for all the Kaitlyn hand me downs she’s going to be wearing throughout her life.  We had lunch and birthday cake at Red Robin with Mammy and our good friends Paul and Michelle. 

We opened all of Kenzie’s awesome presents.  Unlike Kaitlyn at that age, Kenzie really got into the wrapping paper and peeling it off on her own.  I only had to help get it started.  With Kaitlyn I ended up opening the presents pretty much all by myself.

After that, I threw down some newspaper and let Kenzie have at her smash cake.  I knew I wanted something animal themed, since I had an animal cake for my baby shower.  Kenzie loved the cake.  She kind of cautiously put her hands in the cake at first.  Then carefully examined her hands.  She didn’t try to eat any of it until Kevin gave her a bite of it.  Then she started sucking her thumb loudly.  I thought she was going to gnaw that thumb right off!  Eventually she realized she had icing on the other hand and tried to stuff her entire fist in her mouth.  Once she was done and I commented that I needed to get her cleaned off Kaitlyn told me “good luck”.  Kenzie did look like a little green monster!

Today was Kenzie’s 1 year check up.  She did gain some weight and has FINALLY doubled her birth weight.  She is now 17.5 lbs which puts her in the 16th percentile (up from 11th percentile at 9 months).  She is a whopping 29 inches long which is the 41st percentile.  Her head circumference is 16.8 inches.  This is only the 6th percentile.  Because her head circumference is so small and as her doctor commented we (including Kaitlyn) had larger heads (thanks, I think?), he has referred Kenzie to a pediatric neurologist.  It doesn’t sound like he believes anything is really wrong, but with her smaller head size and slightly slower mobility it’s a safe rather than sorry thing.  We aren’t really worried right now.  We just think she is a small baby who would rather be cuddling than crawling, but your thoughts and prayers would be appreciated.  Of course we will keep everyone in the loop and let you all know when we hear anything.  Her 15 month check up will be in November.