Christmas is on the way!

An annual tradition that Lois uses to kick off the Christmas season is watching White Christmas on Thanksgiving! It is such a good movie to start this great season of love, service, and selflessness. It also has really good music. So if you want a good way to get into the Christmas spirit early; we recommend watching White Christmas!

Some Thanksgiving food for thought

This is a video from the Mormon Messages videos. I find it quite appropriate for the upcoming week! Happy Thanksgiving!

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Words Kenya can say.

Here are some words that Kenya says and has meanings for:
Kitty (itty)- she began saying it just shortly after we got to MT. She was just shy of 5 months old and I think we are calling it her first official word. She still using to call This and the other cats here.
eat (ea)- without the "t". this word came shortly after kitty and occasionally still uses it.
dada- she calls for her daddy
mama-calling for mom
grandma (gma)- Yes she calls for her grandma!
grandpa (gpapa)- she has said it a few times before, but just tonight she was playing with grandpa and calling his name after he "beeped" her nose.
bye-bye (bye-bye)- so cute! She will wave and say it at the same time.
all done (da)- at the end of a meal, I tell her all done. Now when every I say all done, whether after eating or anytime, she will she da da.

There are often times when we say something she will mimic the sounds that we just made and they are very close. I think she has a gift of speech or communicating.

Other updates.
She is finally in the right side of clothing for her age. She is in 6-9 month size, but she is just over 8 months. She has done a lot of growing!
She crawls reguarlly!
Today she stood up by just holding onto my shirt and then stood there for a few moments. She then let of my shirt and still just stood there. This was witnessed by Chris, I am not making it up. I was impressed!
She loves to play with the kitty! She is getting good at being gently when petting her too.

I am sure there was more I wanted to say, but I am tired now and going to bed.
Please, if you have any memories or comments about Kenya up to this point in her life please leave a comment for us. I want to keep these posts and share them with her when she is older. Thanks!

Goodbye Halloween, til next year!

Halloween this year was good. We went to a party at some friends house on Friday and then enjoyed a mellow Halloween on Saturday. For it being Kenya's first Halloween we felt it went good. We dressed her up again and took her to the local grocery story. There they had 6 stations where they handed out snack items and had hot food to eat throughout the story. (No, not the food on the shelves, but pizza and hot dogs for us to eat. It was perfect because we didn't want Kenya's first Halloween to just pass, but she couldn't really do any trick or treating.

Next are some the latest pictures of her in her. They were take last Sunday. What a big girl she is now! She is in her 6 month clothing. What a cute outfit! She was all dressed up and ready for church.