Sledding

Baby Girl loves the snow.  She'll watch it fall from her window seat (high chair) and "oooooooh" with a pointed finger at the window.  After her maiden voyage on a sled yesterday, she loves going for a ride as long as mom or dad are close by.

Dad towing little missy around

Bring on the baby hill

YAY!  That was fun!

Christmas

After an unexpected and crazy late Fall, we focused on making Christmas a high-quality family time.

Santa dropped off an early Christmas present for the whole family on Christmas Eve.

 

 The kids were excited because the pjs included slippers for all four sets!  (Tired but excited bunch.)

Kinley with Daddy on Christmas morning, loving her build a bear dog.  He plays some tunes that Kinley loves to dance to.

Birthday Girl

At one year old, our sweet McKinley loves:

*dancing

*reading books

*her DADDY (a serious Daddies' girl)

*stuffed animals

*raisins

*and after her first taste on her birthday, ice cream.

She is off the charts for height, 90th for weight and 50th for head circumference.

Happy birthday sweet girl.  Our family wouldn't be complete without you.

Beep Beep

After we observed little miss climbing on so many things, we decided to bring some ride on toys indoors.  She thought it was a great idea.

Hand on the horn, ready to beep.

Cute as a Bug

 The whole gang.

Our little ladybug has turned into a climber.  This is her favorite way to play with the little people garage.

Happy Halloween

McKinley and her little pumpkin that Dad picked out for her.

Dad!

Cheese!

Baby girl has been cruising around more and more.  This past week she was trying to stand up and put her weight on on empty box that collapsed and she crashed into the boys' drum set.  Her little eyebrow took the brunt of the fall but she was up and ready to run again in no time.

 Learning the alphabet

 Everytime she looks at the camera and smiles she also moves, which means blur... Darn.  I believe she was dancing here.

 REACH!

Catching up

Our littlest miss makes the cutest little church-goer.  She just keeps growing and growing.

Such a great eater these days.  Even cooked broccoli! 

This was McKinley's first experience at the Puyallup Fair.  She was such a trooper and she seemed to enjoy the fair food just as much as the rest of us.

Laughing at her brothers while drinking her bottle

 Mmmmm.  Slushy.

 Waiting for the older kids and Dad on the ferris wheel.

And we've been attending A LOT of soccer games these last 6 weeks.  I think this last picture describes how both Mom and Kinley feel as the season comes to a close.  :)

Canadian Thanksgiving

We celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving on the actual day with our little Cannuck.  She gobbled up the stuffing, small pieces of turkey, and mashed potatoes.

We finished the feast with honeycrisp apple slices dipped in caramel.  We're so grateful for our little Canadian who gives us a reason to celebrate TWO Thanksgivings a year.