Crawling, Dancing, Fishing & Racing!

Lydia has now officially abandoned her army crawl for regular crawling and gets around at turbo speed.  Her front top tooth has completely broken through and is coming in more and more everyday.  Unfortunatly she has started gringing on it with her bottom tooth, but she only does it when she is eating.  

She is loving all her new toys from Christmas and it just amazes me how smart she is and how quickly she catches on to things.  Grandma & Grandpa Kennedy got her a neat magnetic fishing puzzle that she really loves.   She also really enjoys the princess car that they got her.  She loves it when Mommy & Daddy push her in it really fast!!  She loves to dance to her musical toys and she has also become more of a cuddle bug lately.  Which mommy loves!

Here are the videos.  You can also see them all on our photobucket account.

Here is a video of her crawling. 

Here is a video of her racing in her princess car.

Here is a video of her dancing to her new toy from Grandma & Grandpa Becker

Here is a video of her playing with her fishing puzzle

Christmas 2008

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This is a slideshow of our Christmas this year.  It includes Christmas Eve with the Kennedy Family, Christmas Day with the Becker Family & the Day After Christmas with Seth, Hannah, our neice & nephew (Ian & Noel) and Darril & Dani (Ryan's cousin & his girlfriend).

Holiday Photos

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This is another album that is "flip style" there is an arrow at the bottom of the screen after opening.

We took some holiday pictures today of Lydia in her new Christmas dress.  I was hoping to get a few more of her with her santa hat on but she HATED that hat and kept pulling it off the second we tried to put it on.  She loved the little ornament though!  

10 Months Old

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Be sure after you click play to press the arrow at the bottom of the screen to "flip" through the pages of the album.  There are multiple pages of the "book".

Our baby girl is 10 months old today!  It just amazing me everytime I think about it.  It really does not seem like it was already 10 months ago that she was born.  

Some new things: 

Lydia has a top tooth coming in now.

We're Climbing stairs!

When she is upset she bats at her right ear. (Note: And if you hold her right arm down while she does it she'll start batting at the other ear!)  LOL!

We tried Oreo's for the first time this week! They were great until we wanted to share with Kaizer. She wanted to take turns with him, giving him a lick and then taking it back.  That didn't last long!

Merry Christmas!

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This photo was taken today and I love how it shows off her two bottom teeth really well.  

It seems like her hair and her two little teeth grow longer every day.   She is growing up so fast and doing new things daily! Her favorite thing right now is climbing - she wants to climb anything and everything she possibly can!  She has become quite a cruiser and moves from different pieces of funiture to get places.  She is getting very good at learning the names of things and she knows Daddy, Mommy & Kaizer very well.  She also knows juice, milk, sippy, "can I have some?" and most recently "tree".   We ask her "Where is the Tree?" and she lifts her hand and arm up to the tree and makes a "Oooohhh" sound.  She loves all the decorations and lights.  

Her cousins Ian &  Noel will be arriving next week and I am very excited to see how she interacts with them.  Noel is 4 months and Ian is almost 2.   I am also looking forward to seeing her reaction to her new toys and opening gifts for the first time.  I will be sure to post lots of pictures of our eventful week next week with family coming and all the celebrations.    

We want to wish all of our dearest family and friends a very Merry Christmas!  For those who are traveling we wish you a safe trip and to everyone we pray you all have a very blessed holiday!

Organic Meat & Produce

I had always purchased Tyson chicken at the store because I was under the impression that it was free of antibiotics and hormones. I recently found out that they inject the eggs with antibiotics and also feed them to the chicken's in their feed. 

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I have been doing some research these last few days looking for places to buy organic beef and chicken (locally preferably). There are quite a few places in Wyoming that sell "organic" 100% grass fed beef where you can buy 1/4, 1/2 of a whole beef. I decided to pursue Williams Grass Fed a little more and they said they had a 1/4 left packaged and frozen until next summer. My parents and I are going to be splitting that 1/4 to try it and if we are happy with the beef we will probably order at least a 1/2 next year. I really like supporting local farms and ranches and also getting something that you can trust in knowing exactly what is in the meat. These are all free of antibiotics, hormones & steroids. They are free roaming cows that are 100% natural grass fed and completely free of pesticides as well.

Unfortunately with our long winters there are no organic chicken farms anywhere around here and the cheapest I found is to order bulk organic chicken breast online from BlackWing Organic Meats at $7.90/lb. which does not including shipping. Our local Albertson's carry's Wild Harvest brand chicken and it is not 100% organic but it is free of hormones, antibiotics and 100% vegetarian fed and it is a bit less expensive so we will probably just purchase that locally at our store along with eggs and milk that we can get organic at Wal-Mart or Albertsons.

I am really looking forward to visiting some local farmers markets in Spearfish and Buffalo/Sheridan next summer/fall. Not only is it just a really neat experience visiting those markets and getting wonderful fresh produce but I think it's really great to support those local farmers that provide such great organic fruits and vegetables to us. To find your local organic farmers markets, ranches & stores Click Here. 

12 Days of Christmas Tag

"On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me..."

1 Embarrassing moment:
I cannot think of a good one to share!!

2 Best Friend: Ryan

3 Things I buy regularly: Milk, Vegetables, Chicken Breast

4 Places I want to go: Italy, Ireland, Egypt, and someplace tropical.

5 Goals for the upcoming year: Finally loose the baby weight from Lydia, conceive baby #2, find a church, go camping at least twice, gain less than 30lbs during pregnancy with baby #2.

6 Things most people don't know about me: I take SUPER hot showers and love them. I love wearing high heels. I am a makeup junkie (yay for Sephora's!). I have a soft spot for designer jeans and purses. I bite my nails when I am nervous. My hair is naturally curly.

7 Things I would never say: Please pass the peas. Cooked carrots are my favorite food. I have never been to Hawaii. My life is boring. I'm an only child. My favorite color is red. We own a cat.

8 Things I love about the Christmas Season: Celebrating the birth of our savior, Christmas music, the snow falling, decorations, lights, good food, wrapping & giving gifts, & being with family.

9 Things I say to my kid/s: I love you, want some juice?, Tootsie!, Hi Sweet Pea, Come to mama, Big girl!, Night Night, Patty Cake Patty Cake, No, No, No!

10 Things I do a lot: Vacuum, Cook, Change Diapers, Check our email, Prepare Formula,
Clean Dishes, Do Laundry, Wash Bibs, Feed Lydia, Run Errands.

11 Things I would rather not live without: God, Family, Friends, Our Home, Organic Food, My treadmill, Our Escalade, Our computer(internet), my camera & video camera & Spearfish Regional Medical Clinic.

12 People I tag: Christine, Danielle & Mom - I don't have 12!!

9 Month Check Up

Lydia had her 9 months check up on Wednesday of this week. She weighed in at 16lbs 4 oz and 27" tall. The nurse said she is no longer in the 10th percentile for her height but is now in the 25th. Which is great. She is still in the 10th for her weight but she said that she is following the growth curve perfectly for weight so that is great.

Lydia only had to get one shot this time; the HIB shot. She has always done really well up until the actual shot and has even had a shot that she didn't cry for but this time as soon as the nurse came over to her she knew what was about to happen so she started to cry right away and tried to roll away from her. I had to hold her still so that could give her the vaccine. She did fine afterwards though and had no problems with it at all.

Here is a chart of her growth since birth:

Birth: 6 lbs 12 oz; 17.75 in.
2 months: 10 lbs 1 oz; 21 in.
4 months: 11 lbs 15 oz; 23 in.
6 months: 13lbs 11 oz; 24 3/4 in.
9 months: 16lbs 4 oz; 27 in.

Army Crawl