Thanksgiving Day

Mike's family came over to our house to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Once again, daddy escaped making the turkey thanks to Grandma Ferris. Although daddy avoided the kitchen, mommy spent a lot of time there making an adorable turkey cake for dessert and was very proud of her creation. Kayla had fun playing with her cousin Emry and we even got uncle Bob to finally hold Kayla. Dinner was yummy and we played some intense games of Apples to Apples afterward that mommy kept winning!

Thanksgiving Weekend #1

This weekend started out with a lot of shopping on Friday and Saturday. Kayla helped us spend a lot of money on her and her cousins. In betwen shopping trips, Mommy made some pancakes on Saturday morning that Kayla thoroughly enjoyed.

On Sunday we went over to Grandma Ferris' house for the first Thanksgiving dinner this year. Kayla got to play with her cousins Emry and Tiara, as well as her second cousin Dexter, and there were some serious battles over the ever popular piano toy. Emry bonked Kayla on the head with another toy but Kayla got her revenge by smacking Emry's pacifier out of his mouth :) It's all in good humor, right?

More 9 Month Pictures

9 Months

Kayla turned 9 months old a few days ago! She is now doing some backwards crawling and using various other strange methods of moving around. She also loves pulling up on things, especially mommy and daddy, and has even stood on her own for a couple of seconds a few times. I think she might just skip the whole crawling thing and try to go straight to walking. Her favorite games are playing peek-a-boo and banging plastic balls together to make lots of noise. She got her first two bottom teeth at the same time and they are almost fully in now. She loves using them to eat her puffs.

On November 8th, Kayla went to her second Badger Hockey game and this time she saw her first Badger win!!! Last weekend we took Kayla on a shopping excursion to Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL. It was pretty chaotic there but she did really well putting up with us dragging her all over the place in the stroller/car seat. We had dinner at Joe's Crab Shack and she got a nice bib to play with but we had to take it away when she tried to cover her face with it.

In early November when we started hearing about the threat of snow coming we couldn't resist trying on her new snowsuit. As you can see it is still a little large - I'm surprised we were able to stop laughing long enough to take the picture :)

Halloween!

Kayla celebrated her first Halloween on Friday night!!! She was a cute little ladybug and mommy dressed in her matching ladybug costume. Daddy did most of the candy distribution while the ladybugs watched all the litte trick-or-treaters from the door. It was a busy night as we had about 85 kids come to the door. Near the end of the scheduled trick-or-treating hours, we took Kayla next door to get some candy of her own - which of course mommy and daddy had to eat :)

Carving Pumpkins...and teeth?

The Tuesday before Halloween, daddy brought home a Mr. Potato Head kit so Kayla could make a Potato Head Witch pumpkin. Actually daddy ended up doing most of the work as Kayla seemed more interested in crumpling up the newspaper that was under the pumpkin and in trying to eat the Mr. Potato Head pieces. On Thursday, mommy cleaned out a couple of bigger pumpkins so she and daddy could carve their own pumpkins. Mommy made a silly bat and daddy made a vampire biting a woman on the neck.

In other news, Kayla seems to have some teeth coming in - finally!!! We can't see much yet but we could definitely feel something on her gums starting on Wednesday. She appears to possibly have both of her lower front teeth coming in at the same time - perhaps why she has been waking up more than usual during the night.