Football Season is Approaching!

**Saw the horrid picture of me that somehow ended up at the top of my blog and knew I had to update.

We went to the Lucas Oil Stadium tour on Saturday. Kennedy looked adorable and did great, but I was a mess. It was so crowded and so hot and I was so miserable.

If you were there, yes, there WAS a sign that said "Stay Off" but the Rule Following Mom was obviously not around for this picture.

Can someone PUH-LEASE get this lady to stop taking pictures?




She is getting a looking so big lately! I float between cracking up and being extremely worried abotu how much personality she has. When I tell her "No" about something, she looks at me for a second and I can see her deciding what to do. Then she usually laughs and goes back to do it again. Her latest thing is to test me when she is eating. She will blow a rasberries (i.e. spit her food all over her, her highchair and me) when I tell her no (usually pretty forcefully, since after dealing with 6th graders all day, being covered in green beans and rice doesn't make me all warm and fuzzy) she looks at me for a second and then does a teeney, tiny little one and looks like, "Yeah? What are ya gonna do about it lady?" I don't know whether to laugh or cry- I just know I'm in trouble :)




She also officially has four teeth now. It makes her look old and adds to her silly grin. I tried to get some pictures, but I decided to save that war for another day.

Try Again

I've been trying since Saturday to do a new post but blogger wouldn't let me upload it. I had written a lengthly entry then, but I'm tired now and have more stuff to share, so I will be brief with word but have lots of pics.

Surprise shower on Saturday. It was great and lots of fun. Kennedy tried to eat most of the presents :-)

Fell last Monday and seriously injured my foot, but nothing else. Crutches suck a lot when 8 months pregnant & have a 9 month old. (I'm sure they suck regardless.) Off crutches and in giant black "walking" boot that makes me more moble but sucks as well.

This is the day of the incident. The smile is forced.

Kennedy got big-girl walking tennis shoes! They are super cute! They help her to balance and stand on her own, but she is not use to actually coordinating her feet to move with them very well yet.

Very interested in what Rachael Ray was making in 30 minutes

Went to the state fair. Glorious food, was in wheel chair most of the time, Kennedy tried to eat the carrots that we were supposed to feed to the goats.

She looks like a big girl :-(

The process of trying to get to the camera.

In this toy, she can see the balls through the plastic but cannot figure out how to get to them.

Just chillin'.

9 months!...and CNN here we come

I can't believe Miss Thang is 9 months old! I love watching her grow and change and am amazed at how big she is getting. But, I also get sad thinking of how quickly time has passed since she was the smooshy little thing we brought home from the hospital. (I seem to long for those days a little more when I am out and about trying to do something and she is grabbing everything in sight, throwing it on the floor, and then looking at me like, "Um...you gonna pick that up now?") :-)

Her third tooth has broken thru and its a top one! Soon she will be able to chew instead of eating only dissolvable foods! :-) She still doesn't seem to be a fan of swallowing textured things, but she's going to have to learn to eat solids eventually- I will not be packing baby food in her lunch when she is 10 yrs old. :-)

She's becoming a lot more stable and balanced with standing up and even does it with out holding on for a split second. However, this means she is also become more adventurous, so the injuries will probably increase.

She got a new chair to sit on and she likes to sit in it and have her bottle or "read" (i.e. chew) a good book. Oh! She is actually letting us read some books to her now, instead of just trying to eat them. She is working on turning pages, but I think sometimes it is just a ploy to get it in her hands so she can eat it. She also likes pages with shiney and sparkley pictures- that's my girl! :-)

This is her latest adventure that she explored last week. Apparently, she has seen Annie do it and thought it looked fun. (Sorry the pictures are fuzzy.) But, it has been taken apart now so she can use the walking part of it :-( She seems to like that just as well though.

This is Kennedy just being a goober.

She's my daughter and I love her, but I think this is her redneck picture. With only two teeth, the crooked grin, her shirt that is too big and her head band that looks like a wrap for her rollers, she would be the one person they interviewed on the National news when something happens in Indiana...well, she's probably a little cuter and is more articulate. :-)