Jess Party of Five

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Kendall 1st & Keira's 3rd Halloween Birthday Bash

Kendall's first birthday has come and gone!
We had the girls joint party on Kendall's actual birthday.
It was a day I had waited for, for a whole year and the day of her party went by in a flash.
Leading up to party day, I just hoped that the weather was nice and no rain.
We got lucky and it was a beautiful 75 day.
The kids loved the jump house, Kendall didn't go in but she didn't seem to mind.

The party started at 1pm.
That morning I got up early and started making all the yummy desserts for the party.
The party desserts included...Witch hats, monster munch, cupcakes, pumpkin seeds, spooky strawberries, graveyard pudding cups, candy corn cups and Kendall's rosette smash cake.
The party went really well and I still cant believe it's come and gone.

Be warned now, there are a lot of pictures!

Kendall with her great great grandma

CAKE SMASH TIME...

She was unsure about it at first and then after a few minutes she really got into it!

After we got Kendall all cleaned up and an outfit change, we sang to Keira

She LOVED it, if you couldn't tell!

After singing Happy Birthday and cake, we headed inside cause it started to get really windy and cold. A lot of the decorations were blown off the tables and before presents we ran out and gathered everything. Daddy helped Keira open her presents first and then I helped Kendall (she had an outfit change after her cake smash)

Monday, November 4, 2013

Kendall is ONE!

Kendall Morgan,

You are 12 months old today (10.27.13) I am still in shock that we are here celebrating 12 months of your life already. I cant believe how fast your first year has just flown by. I don't even know where to start with how I'm feeling about you turning ONE. Although the year flew by so quickly you've have grown into such a funny little girl with the personality to match. Your smile just lights up a room and everyone smiles when they are around you. You are just the perfect addition to our family. I'm excited to see what your next year has in store and all the new things you learn. We love you to the moon and back sweet girl.

SLEEPING: You are still such a great sleeper. You have transistioned yourself from 3 down to 2 naps a day. You go down for your first nap around 9 until about 10:30 and then you'll go back down for your long nap around 12:30 and will wake back up around 3:30. You go to bed at 8. Sometimes you still want to be rocked to sleep, those are the nights that I treasure. You are still a big snuggler and I love when you come over and lay your head on my shoulder and leave it there for a few seconds.

EATING: You are a little garage disposal. You can eat with the best of them. I'm not sure where you put it all. You sure do love your food though. You eat 3 meals a day and snacks in between. We are transitioning you to whole milk and your doing good so far with it. You are eating only people food now, you wont touch the pureed baby food! We've also introduced juice, you've only had it a few times and it was diluted with water.

PERSONALITY: Baby girl you have the best little personality. You are so chill and go with the flow. I hear from so many people how good you are, how chill you are, how you don't make a lot of noise and how you are ALWAYS happy! You are the happiest little girl and I love your bright smile. Some of your facial expression have me cracking up, I wish I could catch some of them on camera.

STATS:

Height: 17lbs 12oz

Weight: 29"

Clothes: 12-18 months

Shoes: 3

Diaper: 3

Hair: light brown

Eyes: dark blue

Teeth: 6

MILESTONES:

* You can throw a ball

* You can sit up on your knees

* You follow simple commands "come here" or "give it to mama"

* Can point to things with her pointer finger

* Pointed to a picture of Jason and said "dada"

* When you ask her "where's baby Kendall" she will point to herself

* Can push toy cars/trucks

* Can give high five when asked
* When she drops something she says "uh oh"
* When she's eating and something is good she will say "hmmmmm" over and over
* If she picks up something she's not suppose to and you ask her for it, she will hand it to you
* She puts toys into things (bins, shoes, bowls, etc)

LIKES:

* Loves to crawl around the house following Kaylee and Keira

* You like to look out the front window to see what's going on

* When people are laughing you do this fake laugh along with everyone (it's so funny)

* You like to snuggle on the couch with mommy or daddy. I love the fact that you will still snuggle with me.

* You like to throw things on the floor and watch people pick it up and give it to you and then you rethrow it back down.

* To get into everything.

* To dance when you hear music

DISLIKES:

* You totally do not like having your diapers changed. As soon as the diaper is off you roll over and make a mad dash for any where.

* I've noticed that you don't like to watch TV. The TV doesn't catch your interest, you would rather be doing something other than watching TV.
* When you have to pick stuff out of her mouth

FAVORITES:

* Your lovey, you cannot go to sleep without him. Mommy will be getting you another one for Christmas just in case something to happens to the one you have

* Ripping off all the letter magnets off the fridge

* Playing with the doll house
* Playing with fake food
* Loves to put toys into things and then take them back out and repeat (does this for a good 30 mins)

THINGS I WANT TO REMEMBER:

* You are slowly starting to let go of things and stand alone for a few seconds

* You still sleep in your crib in our room and I don't see that changing anytime soon

* You are still in your infant car seat, you've stayed in the seat the longest. Both your sisters were in big girl car seats at 8 months old. We have a seat for you, we just haven't transitioned you yet.

* You transitioned yourself from 3 naps to 2 naps a day. I'm still amazed that you can take 3 naps and still sleep through the night.

* You got another tooth (top right) 10.9.13
* You got bronchitis again (10.15.13)

Friday, November 1, 2013

Halloween 2013: Trick or Treating

Trick or Treating was a little different this year than prior years.
This was the first year without daddy.
I wasn't sure if we were going to go trick or treating at all.
I wasn't really comfortable taking the 3 girls out at night by myself.
But grandma and grandpa to the rescue.
My plan was to take the girls to the mall and walk around there, but our mall did there trick or treating last Sunday!
So we met up with some of the girls cousins and went with them.

It was weird trick or treating without Jason and weird cause there wasn't a lot of kids out and there wasn't very many porch lights on. The girls didn't seem to care, they had a great time. We didn't stay out long and went to maybe 15 houses before packing up and heading home. The baby rode in the stroller and didn't seem to care about what was going on. Next year should be really fun with all of them.