Sunny days.

 Kenzie Marie: 6 months

Landon Gary: 5 months

We have finally had a few nice days.  When I put Kenzie's white hat on to keep the sun out of her eyes and off of her bald head, all I could think of was Landon.  She reminded me so much of Landon that I searched for some pictures and found this one.  I see such a big resemblance between the two of them.  It is so fun to look back at baby pictures of Landon and Kadence and compare the three of them.  Love them all!

6 Month Check Up.

My sweet little lady is already 6 months and had her well baby check up today.  We saw our new pediatrician Dr. Jones-Dees for the first time.  She is very nice and Kenzie seemed to do better with a female practitioner.  Ryan works with her husband who is a surgeon at the hospital.  Here are her stats:

Height: 26.5 inches- 75th percentile

Weight: 15 pounds 9 ounces- 40th percentile

Head: 43.3 cm- 75th percentile

Growing and developing as expected!  Now if the stinker would just take a bottle...

Love this shot showing her two bottom teeth!

And this is how she felt about the shots that she got!

Memorial Weekend 2011

We headed back to the farm for the long weekend.  The weather wasn't fabulous, but the kids spent a great deal of time outside playing and getting dirty.  We finally got to see Aunty Arin after a long almost 2 months.  The kids hardly knew what to do with Papa, Grandma Sue, Aunty, and Leonard to play with.  On Saturday, us girls all headed to Aberdeen to visit Natalie and Olivia and the boys headed to the stock car races.  I thought Landon would absolutely love this considering his obsession with cars, but I think he thought it was just ok.  Ryan said he got kind of bored after a little bit but was easily entertained with Angry Birds...shocker.

Sunday was a pretty nice day and the kids helped Grandma Sue plant her garden.  Landon was a great little helper and stayed interested the entire time.  Kadence started out interested...

until she found some worms.  Then, it was all about the worms for the remainder of the garden planting. She liked to rip them in half and then say, "Now there's two worms, Mom!!"

Worms, dirt, water, mud, sticks, bugs, rocks...does it get any better?

Grandma and Landon planting.

Kadence making sure Landon's worms weren't escaping.  Too funny.

Another fun-filled weekend at the farm.  The drive home on the other hand, was not so fun.  There was an awful storm that we pretty much rode with and followed the entire drive home turning a 3 1/2 hour trip to over 7 hours.  We spent a good chunk of time stopped at two different gas stations.  The kids were so good, oblivious to what was going on and excited to get out of the car and have a treat!  I on the other hand, was holding it together for my children, but so scared I felt like I was going to throw up.  I am not a storm lover.  To top it off, when we returned home we had no power until 530 am Tuesday morning.  Lovely.  

Another long weekend come and gone too fast (aside from the not so fast car trip home).

Time for some food.

Little Kenzie has hit the food milestone.  This is yet another reminder that she is growing up so fast!  She is sitting up much better now and spends a lot of time playing in her high chair.  She has two teeth now and I am thinking she was finally ready to try some solid foods.  I have given her the baby mum-mum rice cakes a couple of times (more for entertainment) but since she has the two teeth, she actually bites off of them and gets pretty big chunks in her mouth.  She might need a little more time on those.

She thought she was pretty cool though.  And...DO NOT take one of these away once she has it in her hands, bad idea.

Kenzie had her first bites of solids last night which were some yummy avocado thinned with breast milk.  Don't lie, you are jealous.  I think she did very well for her first time.

Although I have done this twice before, it's still equally exciting.  I am going to try and prepare Kenzie's food myself.  We'll see how that goes.  She's so sweet.  Love her to pieces!

A little boy's dream...

They have finally removed the giant dirt pile from our backyard.  I knew that this would be quite entertaining for our children and I was very glad we were home when they came to do it.  I did not realize just how entertaining this process was going to be.  It has been so fun to see the excitement in the kid's eyes as they watched these very large machines demolish the dirt pile that was just a few feet in front of them.

The kids spent a good portion of the past day and a half out on the deck playing and watching.  When they weren't outside, they stayed near our window just to make sure they weren't missing out on anything.

It was so cute, Landon immediately found his trucks and started playing.  I could see the wheels turning in his little head and he was mocking what the people were doing right outside of his door.  He had so much fun.

I on the other hand, am glad the extremely loud noises have finally lessened.  Here's to sod in view and a large yard to run and play in, finally!

Girly Girl.

Kenzie got earrings like her big sister this last weekend.  Kadence was about the same age when she got her earrings.  Kenzie did pretty well with the piercing, just cried during and then was fine afterwards.  She has even been really good about letting me clean them.

So pretty!  At least she will look like a girl until she gets some hair!

Big sister Kadence just after she had her ears pierced!  Already over 2 1/2 years ago!

Love these girls!

Kenzie's Baptism.

We finally had Kenzie baptized and decided to do it here in Fargo.  Landon and Kadence were both baptized at my church in Cloquet; however, it happened to work out much better to get Kenzie baptized here in town.  We had her baptized at Hope Lutheran Church (south campus) where we plan to become members.  Kenzie did very well during the service and it was great to have our family here to celebrate this wonderful time while she received God's gift of eternal love.

"Child of God, you have been sealed by the Holy Spirit and marked with the Cross of Christ forever."
(I didn't have the actual baptism photos on my camera and will try to insert some here later)

Our sweet family of 5.

Our family and Kenzie's sponsors, Holly and Kristy.

Kenzie and her sponsors.

A fun shot of our family who was able to celebrate with us.  We missed Arin and Sue but they were at a family wedding in California.

Kenzie with  Grandpa Ken and Grandma Debbie.

Kenzie with Papa Gary.

"In Holy Baptism our gracious heavenly Father liberates us from sin and death by joining us to the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We are born children of a fallen humanity; in the waters of Baptism we are reborn children of God and inheritors of eternal life.  By water and the Holy Spirit we are made members of the Church which is the body of Christ.  As we live with him and with his people, we grow in faith, love, and obedience to the will of God."

"In Christian love you have presented your child for Holy Baptism.  You should, therefore, faithfully bring your child to the services of God's house, teach your child the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments.  As your child grows in years, you should place in your child's hands the Holy Scriptures and provide for instruction in the Christian faith, that, living in the covenant of your child's Baptism and in communion with the Church, your child may lead a godly life until the day of Jesus Christ."

(Lutheran Book of Worship)


Congratulations to you sweet baby Kenzie.  We love you so very much.