Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving. We spent the day at Nonna and Pops’ house. It was the first time that all six of the grand kids on Chris’ side of the family got together (there were three new babies this year). It was a little difficult to get a picture with all of them together. Here is the best one!

(front row - Cooper and Killian, back row - Ryker, Pops, Kiera, Nonna, Chase and Jordan)

Chris did a great job this year on our outside Christmas lights this year.
A couple of weekends before Thanksgiving Chris and I went to the Renaissance Festival with our neighbors Bo and Kasia. It was our first time to dress up.

Nine Months Old

Well, Kiera has almost outgrown her rug! It's so much fun to look back at how little she was in each previous month's picture on the rug.

But (no pun intended) you can see that it's much harder to get her to lay still for her monthly picture. This is how some of the pics turn out now as she quickly flips over and crawls away.

Max doesn't always allow Kiera to lay so close to him. We were surprised to see them get so entwined. She was having fun playing with Dad and Max on the floor.

Kiera's recent milestones:

- pulls up on everything and cruises around the furniture
- continues to eat well - everything we've fed her without complaint. She has learned to feed herself puffs and loves them
- went for her first swing ride at the park
- learned to clap :)
- moved from the infant room at daycare to the waddler room
- the cutest thing she has been doing lately...tilting her head to the side (ear to shoulder) and smiling. Seriously, how do babies and dogs know when they look adorable? It's like she is posing. When we imitate her she tilts her head to the other side and holds it there. We call it her "so cute" look.

Just Playing

I bought this block set for Kiera, but Killian made several impressive designs on it recently (all she wants to do is eat the blocks). We documented each one and posted them on his Facebook profile. I think this is a great example of how creative and intelligent he is.

Kiera's Great Aunt Kendra made her some frogs and lizards. She was really happy with her new toys.

Halloween 2009

Our Little Lamb

Kiera was an adorable lamb for Halloween. She really didn't mind her costume at all. As you can see she is still holding her special pumpkin.

If I haven't mentioned before, Killian has an obsession with putting things on Kiera's head. We have to keep an eye on him! ;)

For the few weeks leading up to Halloween Killian said he did not want to go trick o' treating. He hasn't been going the last couple of years. However, as Kiera and I got ready, he changed his mind. So we grabbed his staff and one of Chris' jackets. We said he was a wizard, but I wish we would have said he was a shepherd because that would have made more sense - ha!

I love this picture of Kiera. She looks very determined to steal the candy stash! Don't worry, we didn't allow her to eat any of it.

We also went to the Wings Over Houston airshow on Halloween day. Kiera didn't mind her earmuffs. Killian and Chris enjoyed their first airshow. We got discount tickets because my office is at Ellington Field where the event was held.