Our Christmas pic

Santa!

fa la la la la. Right?

So, as you can tell, Marissa wasn't crazy about Santa.... Luke looks a bit dazed, but actually, he's just excited about the candy cane in his hand.

We really planned this trip out.... wait to go on one of Scott's days off so I didn't have to go by myself.... pick a weekday afternoon before school kids are on break so that maybe we can just walk in and go right to Santa without having to wait in line.... our plan worked perfectly! And still these little stinkers didn't want anything to do with Santa! Oh well!

I do have to say that this Santa is (a) the best looking Santa I've ever seen, and (b) so sweet and patient. He even *sounds* like what I think Santa should sound like.

Quote of the day as we left from Luke: "Mommy, Santa just told me he'd be at my house in a few days. I think that's weird."

Another cute outfit

One of the girls I work with sent this outfit for Marissa.... so sweet.

BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!!!

Our beautiful little girl is ONE! She is a FAST crawler and is interested in everything Luke is doing. She began crawling up the stairs.... I didn't know she knew how until I happened to see her halfway up the stairs one day! You can kind of see it in her birthday picture (below), but she fell off the 3rd stair just a couple hours after her professional birthday pictures were taken - instand black eye and huge bump on her forehead! She has taken steps between people, as long as someone is standing waiting to catch her. She says Mama and Dada.... but "Dada" is also the word for several other things, including doggie, baby, and Luke. Each one of those "dada"s has a different sound to it - she definitely thinks she's saying different words. She is cracking everyone up with her personality and she's even starting to show a little temper when things don't go quite her way. In fact, two days before her 1st birthday, she threw her first major tantrum while I was *trying* to visit some friends.... she SCREAMED (no, really, I mean SCREAMED) for well over an hour. In that time, I loaded the kids up, drove back to our house, called my doctor because I thought something was wrong..... and after an hour and 15 minutes or so, she just decided she was done. I couldn't believe it. Oh, sweet Marissa.

Here's Marissa in her birthday shirt:



We made cupcakes for the actual birthday


She wasn't too shy about getting into it.


This is another of Marissa's quirks: she likes to rub whatever she might be eating into her hair.... so, clearly the icing made an interesting look.

Other things I keep forgetting....

And before I forget YET AGAIN.... I have to jot down a few of the funny things these kids do....

• Marissa loves to "sing" while she eats. It all started when I fed her for the very first time in the hospital and the lady who came to help me start nursing said "oh, she's going to sing for her supper". Marissa has always made some kind of noise while eating, but now that she sits in her high chair and eats table food, she constantly makes some kind of noise while eating. I can be in another room and I know if someone has given her something to eat because of all the noise.

• I asked Luke if he would please let Ashley (our dog) inside..... he said "Well, I most certainly can, Mommy". How very helpful.

• Luke also likes to add "actually" to just about every sentence these days. I asked him if he wanted cereal and toast for breakfast and he said "Actually, Mommy, I'd just like Apple Jacks actually." All in a very matter-of-fact tone. Crack me up - how old is he anyway?

• Marissa has been giving guppy kisses for awhile, but now she's picking up on what we do when we try to get kisses..... you know how you make the "mmmmm" noise while you lean in for a kiss? Well, Marissa has started pursing her lips together tightly and making that "mmmmm" noise while she leans toward you and pushes her nose on your cheek. Once is just not enough, either..... which is fine by us!

• Luke calls Scott's whiskers "crumbs", as in "Daddy has crumbs on his face" or "Daddy is washing his crumbs". The last time Luke got his haircut, he announced that he had crumbs on the back of his head (where the hair was the shortest). This is especially funny when he tells OTHER people about the crumbs. For instance, his Sunday School teacher has a mustache - he told Mr. Doug that his daddy didn't have one of those yet, he only had crumbs. Funny, funny stuff.

• And just in case I haven't posted this somewhere else (because this is my favorite Luke-ism) - when eating something particularly tasty, Luke makes either Scott or me say "This is delicious" so that he can say "You can say that again". I love it.

• Marissa likes to twirl MY hair as she winds down.... I think simply because she doesn't have enough hair of her OWN to twirl. haha. It's pretty sweet though.....
  

True Confessions....

For any of you who check the blog regularly, you know that it's been a LONG time since I posted anything! Work was CRAZY busy.... I can't even find a word to describe how terrible it was. My family didn't see much of me - especially in the last few weeks leading up to 9/15. However, it is OVER and as my wise friend says, it "came to pass.... it didn't come to stay, it came to pass."

So, I'm now catching up on posting pictures and stories from the past month and a half! There have been lots of exciting developments in the Kenworthy house.... Scott started a new job on 8/3 and is enjoying it. The kids are growing and changing right before our eyes!

The "true confessions" part is that you'll see posts with August dates and you'll wonder why you hadn't seen them before. I back date my posts because I use the blog as a kind of "baby book". Back dating helps me remember the exact dates things happened. So, no, you're not on a one-month delay, I'm just cheating!

Enjoy catching up with us!

Toothy grin!!

Another season of Colts football!

Here we are on our way to the Colts Season Opener!


Here's Luke sending us off...