Kiley is 9 months!

Where has time gone? I can't believe that she is already 9 months old! While she can be such a little cutie, she has been my challenge baby. She has been mobile (GI Joe or the worm crawling) for a little over a month now and boy is she fast! She is just now starting to crawl on her hands and knees. She is everywhere and into everything she can get into and more. I forget that the floor must be swept and vacuumed everyday or she will take care of that for me. She is also pulling herself up to standing against anything she can. So we had to lower the crib. She love phones and wants to talk and play with them all the time. She is not really enjoying baby food. She eats some but throws a fit because it is not what everyone else is eating. She loves "otter pops"! I don't think she really says mama or dada and knows what it means but she says "hi". She really tries hard sometimes to talk and she loves to be talked to or read to. Oh yeah, finally she is starting to smile and laugh a little (very little). I one thing she is not doing that I wish she would is sleeping through the night. I am now in the stage where I will not go into her room unless she has cried for 30 minutes. I first night was great because after about 20 she started to calm down and by 30 she was asleep again. But that only worked once. I don't know what else to do to get her to sleep all night. I let her do the 30 minute cry for nap time and she is always out before time is up, but not at night. I don't have any more recent pictures then thoses posted from our little trips so far this summer so I will have to post updated pictures later. I think that is all for an update on the royal princess.

From Savannah

Hi everyone. I wanted to tell you how my week is going. Wednesday I was at the park in the morning at like 10 something. It was fun but I got a big sun burn on my back. Then sometime in the afternoon we went swimming at a mom's friend's house from church. Along time ago Grandma Lofgreen got Rebecca and I Disney fairy stickers. We put them up on our wall and it looks really cool. And today I'm going to a party with one of my friends are from school.

Love you all,
Savannah

Morning hike

We decided to take one last outing before Joe started his new job (today was his first day!). We took the kids and went on a one mile trail hike at the White Tank Mountains just west of your house. It was a nice little hike. Not too much for the kids or Joe and I. Along this trail are rocks with Indian writing carved into them and it ends at a little water fall. Of course there was no running water to see, but I have heard from people that have really seen the waterfall running that it is beautiful. I will still just have to imagine for now.

With a recommendation from Debra I am typing this blog in a different program then I usually do, so I am going to try and add a couple of pictures here. I will place the rest of the photos in an album as usual at http://mightymcknights.spaces.live.com/.

Another Day Trip

Yesterday we took the kids to the AZ Natural History Museum in Mesa and then to Arizona Mills Mall. Savannah had been to the Museum with her school class so she served as our tour guide. She did a great job. We stopped by the mall because our kids all got a certificate for a free kids meal at the Rainforest Cafe from the Library. I have posted some pictures again on our live space at http://mightymcknights.spaces.live.com/. Enjoy!