Caught ya!!

It has become increasingly difficult to catch my daughter in time to take a quick pic.

She runs by me at the speed of light , and when she sees the camera she just runs faster.

(Hence my lack of updates) I have a million pictures of her first year, but almost NONE of

the last three months. Facially she has really changed, too! She is starting to look alot like Dad... Or maybe not like Dad, but just Italian. This is Kennedy yesterday and a year ago yesterday.

I didn't realize how ...umm..."energetic" Kennedy is until today when my friend Jeff brought his beautiful Charlee by for a visit. To put it nicely, Kennedy ran around like a maniac while Charlee sat nicely eating her yogurt tube. Might I also mention that she sat and ate her yogurt tube on my carpet without spilling one drop. Unfortunately she put it on the table (nicely) to go and explore the bowling pins, not knowing that her devilish little friend would get it. Kennedy squeezed the entire thing out on the carpet! Of course she did. Sit and nicely eat yogurt? Not my child.

Charlee decided she would play with Kennedys favourite thing....her kitchen. Nope. Kennedy isnt having that. She pushes the kitchen over onto Charlee. Charlee crys. Mommy tells Kennedy not to be mean...Kennedy crys.

A year ago today...

This is what my baby looked like a year ago today. I remember that sleeper. Size 3 months.

Right now kennedy is in size 18 months. A visit to the doctor on Thursday tells us that she is under weight (22lbs) but tall for her age (34.5 inches) I knew she was underweight and tall without his expert opinion. She is into everything. Her favourite toys of choice being her Playskool kitchen and her Bristle blocks. (SHe still enjoys my telephone and remotes more than anything.) She repeats everything now. Her vocabulary is quite large, I think that I have counted about 30 words that she knows and uses in sign as well as speak. She has stopped signing as much now that she has words. And words are so much more fun...because they are LOUD! She yells for everything. She was the "bad kid" last week at daycare with an incident of biting and beating up other kids. Not one of my prouder moments. As well, she managed to climb over her crib rail, land with a loud boom all to get to a book she decided she should be reading instead of sleeping.

She is still very affectionate. She mimicks I love you. She hugs often and kisses alot. I hope that those are things that she will never outgrow. The biting?....Well, i could live without that.