The week before Thanksgiving my friends Heather and Erica from college came down. Erica is from this area so she was down visiting her family and Heather flew down to meet Kennadi and hang out so we all spent the weekend together. It was a lot of fun! We went to the beach and just hung out and relaxed, it was so good to have all of us together again. The last time was at Erica's wedding in June of 08!
Chris and I also had the Marine Corps Birthday Ball in November. Chris had to go to 2 balls but I only went to one with him. Unfortunately Kennadi and I were both pretty sick so I didn't have a great time but it was still fun. I am looking forward to next years' ball in hopes that I am healthy and can enjoy myself. Heather and Seth watched Kennadi and she did great for them so I was thankful for that! Chris had an awesome time a both, but was bummed that I was sick and couldn't enjoy it as much.
Kennadi reached another milestone this month right after Thanksgiving which has left me even more busy! She is now crawling and she gets around pretty darn fast! She pretty much went from scooting backwards and being frustrated to crawling forward overnight. At first she only crawled to try to get to where I was and she didn't get into anything. She was also pretty uncoordinated and slow so I knew she wouldn't get into too much if I turned my back for a moment. A week later is a different story! She is all over the place getting into trouble. She loves cords of course and tries to get to the TV and phone cords so that's one issue. The tree is a whole different story because she likes to try to pull on the cord for the lights as well as the ornaments. She is not very easily distracted with toys either, I pull her away and she goes right back. She does listen to the word no though and she knows my tone of voice when I mean business. She will crawl towards it and I say her name and she sits and whines because she knows she will not get away with it. It's pretty funny. One night we were sitting in the living room on the floor and she kept reaching up to touch the ornaments, I said no and she sat back down so I clapped and told her she did a great job listening. Well that quickly turned into a game and she now goes up to the ornaments, puts her hand up near it, then sits and claps. I guess at least she isn't pulling on them still so mission accomplished! Today her favorite thing to do is crawl to the front room by the door and play with the shoes lined up there. I ran into her room for about 10 seconds and she had made it all the way from her playroom through the house to the entryway and had one of my shoes in her hands with the biggest smile on her face. I guess I need to do things while she is sleeping now:)
This weekend my dad and Lynda came down to go Christmas shopping and we shopped all day and Kennadi did great. She sat in the stroller and hardly fussed all day. She is a good little shopper already! It was great seeing my dad and Lynda and they loved playing with Kennadi all weekend!
So those are the latest updates, not much else is new. We are looking forward to the holidays. We will be spending Kennadi's first Christmas morning with just the three of us and she will open her presents here. Chris works all night Christmas Eve and will get home Christmas morning hopefully by 8:00. After she opens her presents we will load up and drive to Victorville for the weekend with Chris's family and then head up to Mammoth for the week. It will be great to see everyone and especially great for Chris to have some time off with us since he works so much and he is really looking forward to snowboarding. Chris is also getting promoted to 1st Lieutenant this month so we are excited about that as well! We hope everyone is well and enjoyed Thanksgiving!
A couple random pictures:
First spaghetti experience, it was such a mess that she also got her first hose down in the shower before her bath.
When daddy plays with Kennadi, he thinks it is funnier than she does:
USMC Birthday Ball:
She just sat in the hallway and stared at Chris while he got ready, so cute.
Kennadi's First Thanksgiving!
Chris got home just in time to help me with the turkey, I hate touching raw meat so he did all the dirty work before he went to sleep for the day.
Turkey PJs:)
First Turkey Dinner:
Trip to the beach with Heather and Erica, all the other pictures are on Heather's camera
Playing with her hair
Christmas Photo Shoot: Stephanie came over and took Christmas pictures for our card. Thanks Steph!
The first video is of the week before she started crawling when she would get frustrated going backwards. The second video is of the night she started crawling forward:)
