Pictures...

Lately Kenzie has been happy with taking pictures....she will actually sit there and say "cheese".....it makes me so happy and I definitely take advantage!

"funny face"

Ahh...I just couldn't stop taking pictures...hehe

One of my goals for 2010 is to cook a new meal at least once a month...January's meal was a chicken pot pie! It was very yummy and even Kenzie enjoyed it! Jeff does most of the cooking and if he's at work I usually turn to something quick & easy so I was pretty proud of myself that it turned out so yummy!

"cheese" with fishies in her mouth

Daddy's Atlanta Falcon's cheerleader...Despite living in Queens his whole life he's an Atlanta fan! He gets a lot of slack from his friends! :)

Blankie love...

Chuck E Cheese

On Saturday Jeff, my mom and I took Kenze to Chuck E Cheese for the first time! Well it's actually her 3rd time but the other times Kenzie wasn't even 6 months old-so I consider this her first time! Despite the crowd, Kenzie had a blast! I think next time we will take her to the Chuck E Cheese in Syracuse b/c they have a separate play area for toddlers! I know she would love to be able to climb on the play area and go down the slide without any big kids around! :)

Sleeping Beauty

I feel like lately I have been really in to taking sleeping pictures of Makenzie. Maybe because when she's sleeping she doesn't run from the camera or just start throwing a tantrum at the sight of it....
I just couldn't help myself tonight....our tired little princess fell asleep around 6:15 watching Barney!

And last night I couldn't help myself either....I just stared at her like this for so long! Why are sleeping babies/toddlers so precious?

Maybe b/c when they are sleeping they aren't screaming, hitting, biting, pushing, throwing things out of anger, etc....hehe! Ahhh...I love her....

...and her smelly toes! :)

Winter break recap

I've had a great week home with little Kenzie! It was so nice spending all week with her-playing with her new toys, sleeping in (she actually slept in to about 7:30 a couple times!), shopping, watching Barney over & over again...

She loves the Little People zoo from Grampy....she'll move the animals back and forth from her toy box to the zoo and sometimes she'll push them around in her stroller.

Playing with her new moo moo cow...

On Thursday my brother & his wife came down for lunch and we got to celebrate Christmas with them! And btw they are expecting a....BOY! I can't wait to meet little Brayden David!!

I realized that I have to let Kenzie grow up a little and feed herself...I'm always feeding her and rarely let her feed herself-I guess you can tell by the yogurt on her nose! Practice makes perfect, right?

I'm not sure when my mom and I are going to learn that Kenzie does NOT like the mall! Over the weekend we tried again...guess what? She still hates it! She did enjoy her time at the mall a little bit when we took a break from shopping to ride some kiddie rides!

Same ride, about 6 months ago! Look how much she has changed!! :)

Play date with Abbie

Kenzie & I started the new year with a play date with cousin Abbie! When I told Kenzie Abbie was coming over she quickly ran to the door...waiting to see her BFF! It was so cute!

Kenzie was very happy at first to see little Abbie....she blew millions of kisses and did a "happy dance" when she saw Abbie! I thought the babies would entertain themselves and I could go about my business....WRONG!

Boy, to 1-year-olds know how to fight! I couldn't believe it at first how much they teased each other and just fought over every single toy! There were a lot of pushes, hits and bad looks...but when they weren't fighting they had a lot of fun t/g!

Kenzie did this so many times...I'm not sure what she is trying to do but it usually ends up with Abbie being pushed to the ground and then Kenzie being hit.

At one point Abbie put her Crock on.....and sure enough Kenzie had to do the same thing and put one of Abbie's Crocks on. Everything Abbie did Kenzie had to do the same thing!

They played like this (with one Crock on) for some time.... it made me laugh how funny Kenize walked with one Crock on that is a couple sizes to big!

Abbie even took a bath in Kenzie's duckie tub! Abbie seemed to really enjoy it until Kenzie overwhelmed her with bath toys!

They both had to be on the step stool at the same time! At one point they were both standing facing the kitchen and Abbie was directly behind Kenzie....Abbie had a great view of the back of Kenzie's head! By the time I grabbed my camera, Abbie must have realized that looking at the back of Kenzie's head is not too much fun and started fighting for the front of the stool! Haha! The girls watching Kid Songs dvd....past Kenzie's bedtime but I let it slide since Abbie was over....didn't want to embarrass Kenzie! :)

Kenzie & I can't wait for more play dates with sweet little Abbie! :)