Favorite Things

Here are a few of Kit's favorite things to do:

Play with Daddy:

Play with the puppy:

Climb on/in things:

Be a terror:

She had to un-sleeve every movie & throw it on the floor. Then she had to crawl all over them too. just to assert her dominance! :)

Idaho trip

So we went to Idaho last month, just thought you would like to see some photos. We went over to Yellowstone, and got some neat pictures.

Kit & me with Buffalo(behind us in the trees):

Zoom in on Buffalo:

Brent & Kit with Elk:

Zoom in on Elk:

We didn't get to see that many animals, Kit had enough of driving before we even got int he park, so we weren't about to drive more,and when she fell asleep after Old Faithful, we decided to call it quits and head home.

Waiting for Old Faithful with Riley(2 weeks younger than Kit)

Waiting with Daddy:

Thar He blows! (45 minutes after the "expected time")

Kit with her souvenirs

Us and old not so faithful

This guy was just walking down the road.

The end is near!!!

Yea, she's almost walking! She wants to sooooo bad, but she gets in a hurry and doesn't take the time to go slow and keep her balance. By the way that shirt went to her knees when we bought it 6 months ago! We had Brittany and Oren over for dinner on Monday, and with Calvin and Elizabeth walking everywhere Kit HAD to try she got 5 steps, which was her new record. She broke that record yesterday with 8.5 she might have gone longer, but she reached her mom & she things it's loads of fun to fall on her, so that overruled any thoughts of walking. :)

I' m also surprised on how nice the video is. we shot the footage with my camera's video function! Pretty neat!

My BIG little girl, or is that Little big girl?

Well, Kit had her 12 month check-up today. She's 29.75 inches and 17.5lbs. Yup, she gained half an inch and half a pound in the last few months.You could have fooled me and Brent though. We could both swear that she was at least 20 lbs, and a little taller than that. So the DR. has us putting extra calories on everything she eats to get her back to gaining weight. I don't think Kit will mind. She loves the Carnation breakfast mix in her milk (she just chugged an 8oz bottle in the time it took me to get to this sentance!), and the rest is all adding cream cheese and/ or sour cream and/or real cheese and such to her, well, everything pretty much. He said "she's not going to eat a cracker without some spread on it." Hehehe! But yea, Kit has reached a lot of milestones in the last month. Our pediatrician has an "ages & Stages Questionaire" that they have you fill out. Kit met all but one on the list. So in short she's:

• pointing
• feeding herself (even with a spoon if the food sticks to it and mom refills it) and feeds others
• standing by herself
• climbing on everything (she almost got from a box onto a chair and almost on the table before mom caught her)
• go up and down the stairs unassisted (although mom trips sometimes)
• walk assisted (mom, dad, couch or walker)
• She gets the concept of throwing the ball to the dog, and can throw it about a foot (forwards and sometimes backwards when she lets go too soon)
• She has words for "mom," "dad," "ball," "dog," "Comet," "up," and I thought "more," but that has turned into a "feed me/more"or just plain "gimmie Food!!"
• She also says "sit" to the dog, not because she understands it, but because mom says it to him so much. :)
• She can wave "hi,"but doesn't get the "bye" but we don't really say that to her, so that's understandable.
• She can find things wherever you hide them
• She knows what she wants and freaks out when she doesn't get it.
• She loves looking out the window
• She can climb up her slide, turn, and slide back down.
• She can give kisses, and they're even usually closed mouthed too!
• She has now about a 10 min. attention span ( 5 min for movies)

(A list in short huh?) anyway, she's just a joy most of the time. She still only has four teeth, but her two second teeth on the top should break through any day now. She weaned herself a few weeks ago. Once she started using a pacifier it was just a small step to a bottle. I had a bit of formula left, and she usually didn't drink it, but Melly mentioned putting chocolate in Leah's milk to get her to drink it, so I tried it with the formula, and Kit started taking it. So I siphoned her off of breast milk, & polished off the formula. Then on the the cow's milk! I put a little chocolate in that at first, but after a week I cut her off the chocolate (hehehe now I'm back on & putting MORE in). :)

Happy Birthday Kit!

I can't believe Kit's been a year old for almost a week now! Wow! where has the time gone? Anyway, here are some pictures of the fiesta!

Kit reading her birthday card.

Presents! Cake!!! Yummy! I think this is the only bite she actually took. The rest she just played with,

And shared.

here we all are; Happy Birthday Kit!

Look how big she's getting!!! And yes, she's NOT leaning on the couch.

What DOES daddy do?

Today was a lot of fun. Brent signed us up to go to his job's open house. So we drove up to Lehi, making a stop at Cabella's so Kit can look at the Taxidermy, and the huge fish tank and stuff. That was neat. Then we went up the hill and got to look around, a little. The had booths set up for each department. They geared it towards the kids, so, of course, I liked it. Puchasing made you "process" a candy order and you got to be the warehouse person & stuff but in the end you got candy, and that was good. The people from Singapore (they're here training for a new FAB to open there) had food & games from there. I got the spinning top record for 40 sec. but it was quickly beaten, but I got a key chain out of it. Brent's department was giving out Balloons! Kit LOVED them. Of course Brent and I kept worring that she's try to eat it & it would pop in her face/mouth. but nope, we made it home with the balloon & Kit played with it all day. She pulled it around on it's string, looking up at it, & then pulling it down. (yea it was a helium Balloon) So that was fun to watch. In all it was a fun day they had a carnival for the kids outside with little games & a bouncing castle thingy. It was nothing like IBM's old carnivals, but in the penny pinching corporate world that we live in, it was still quite nice!! I didn't actually get to see where Brent works but I got to see his cubicle (woohoo prarie dog land!) but it was interesting looking in the windows of the doors and trying to piece together what he does all day, and Kit made it through the whole thing just getting scared once at the man in the clean room garb that covered him head to toe except for his eyes & nose. I don't know why, but he scared Kit and she freaeked out. She kept watching him like he would eat her or something, but she was fine once we left the booth. But we get a little ID for Kit to have, and that's a neat keepsake. So yea it was fun. Kit got her first taste of a snowcone, and after eating all of Brents continued to eat half of mine. :) We also had a BBQ tonight with the guys Brent works with. That was neat to meet/meat them and enjopy time at the park. I wished I had brought my camera to both events, Kit was so cute iwth ther purple moustache from the snowcone, and she was having a great time going down the slides at the park. It amazes me that she can keep herself seated upright while sliding; instead of letting inertia pull her back.

Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes

Well, yesterday was a day to blog about. Not only have we had record low temperatures, but we we braved that chilling 40-some-odd weather and went looking for vehicles. I think it's odd that only Sunday Fer asked if we still had Chet. Well, we don't anymore. I know what you're thinking and the answer is "no." We didn't get an SUV or even another car. Yup, in this crazy world of gas prices and such we actually got a bigger truck! We got a 4-door Dodge Dakota 4x4, and it's RED! Ok, you're probably thinking we're nuts, but let me explain. Kit didn't fit in Chet. Which meant 2 things. One, if it snowed, we'd get stuck wherever;. We would have been trapped in the house several times last winter if we didn't have Chet. So, if there had been an emergency or something Kit would had to have been held while we weregoing because the car Does Not move if there's move than an inch or so of snow (we found that one out the hard way). Reason 2 is that Brent was taking Chet to work in case I needed to go anywhere or whatever so I could take Kit. Well, you can guess that driving 25 miles every-other-day in his carpool & 16 miles on the other days was taking a LOT of money in the truck which would make one Lehi trip on .25 tank of gas. So now the truck stays at home and the car goes to work with its better gas mileage. But Kit says "////[" literally, she's pushing on the keyboard. but anyway Kit went from sitting to standing all by herself with no help from outside objects, and she would have stayed up except that we were outside and Brent & I started clapping, which got Comet excited so he went and had to lick Kit's face, tipping her over in the process. The of course he needed to see if she was alsright and tried to lick her and sniff her all over, but we pulled him off. I hate to say it but Kit might think twice before standing there again. :) Comet has really cooled down. He's not nipping, except when I run on our walks, then he thinks he has to herd me. stupid dog. BUT besides that he runs circles aroundt he house with us, and is getting used to Kit. he still recognizes her as a fellow puppy, & feels the need to play as such, but that's not that often, and we snatch Kit away before anything can happen. Stay tuned for my puppy=1 year old blog. It's amazing the similarities between those two, plus Kit & Comet have a lot of personality things in common too.