A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

I love when the kids run off with my camera. I could comment on these, but I think I'll let you imagine your own captions.

Kendall is 4 months old

Kendall is 4 months old today, October 9th. It is so hard to believe she's been in our lives that long! Seems like just the other day we were choosing her birth day. It was about this time last year that we found out we would be adding to our family.

She weighs 16 pounds 2 ounces and is 25 1/2 inches long.

She is still taking Zantac and it is working so well. She has really turned out to be a happy baby. She happily goes with me to eat lunch with Trace and Kinsey at school, to dance class each week, baseball games, and cross country runs on Saturdays. We can even make it through the grocery store without incident now!

She is really starting to sit up on her own for longer periods of time and is looking for things to grab. Kinsey's hair is a favorite. She is laughing more and more, especially at the big kids when they sing and dance and entertain her. She has a set of fabric stacking blocks that she loves. One of them in particular is to be a favorite thing to play with.

She is eating rice cereal really well now. We will do that for a few more weeks before she gets baby food. She can sit in a restaurant high chair by herself now and is happy to do it long enough for one of us to eat!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Cross country is still going strong. The kids ran in the second one-mile fun run of the season today. The age groups were a little different; K-2nd, 3rd-4th, 5th-6th.

Trace won for his age group!!! He ran his mile in 7 mins and 30 seconds. He ran a great race and was thrilled to get that little tennis shoe trophy when he crossed the finish line. When I got to him right after the finish, he asked, "Are my legs still there?" He ran so hard to make sure he got first place.

  

Dad cheering him on the last 100 yards.

In this shot you can see the second place runner. You have to look really hard for the maroon shirt behind the soccer goal in between the man in the blue shirt and the woman in the orange.

It was very early on a Saturday morning. We all wanted to stay in bed this morning. 

Kinsey went to cross country practice last week and has decided she LOVES running! She walked in the door from practice and asked me to go running with her. Right then. We went for a short run the following night. We ran 3/10 of a mile and Kinsey talked the entire time. About running, maybe one day having braces on her teeth, why I don't like to run near strange dogs, and more about running. After a 4 minute run, she was ready to pack it in.

Kinsey and Abbie

They planned matching outfits for this race. And they decided they would stay together the whole time. Many times Kinsey stopped and waited for Abbie. And they did finish together!

The pre-race pose.

Although it may look like she is posing as a boxer, this is her running stance.

 Pre-race stretching

Here they are waiting for the starter's gun. With their ears plugged.

The home stretch!

It was a very good day at the track today!