The Kindt Family: Another week of "new" things...

Things are constantly changing in our house and I think that's going to be a constant for awhile here.

Makenna got her first tooth! I found it January 22nd, but it could've been there sooner. She was great when it was first cutting through her swollen little gums. I had been watching for teeth since she's almost 9 months old and had no teeth...plus Denver got his a little after 8 months, but she had been so good I didn't realize she had a tooth cutting through. In the afternoon she was more clingy than normal and I ran my finger over the bottom of her gums and ouch!, there was a tooth! Since then she has been a little more fussy and irritable...not sure if the next one is trying to get through too or if she's just sick of this one or what.

Since we're on Makenna, we'll continue with her. She's been "practicing" crawling. She sits on her butt and walks her hands all the way out until the point of if she went farther she'd fall to get whatever it is she wants and then goes back to sitting on her little butt. There are times she gets on all fours, but if she tries to go forward she goes splat and gets mad and its all over. Makenna is to the point where she's wanting to be more mobile, where as before she was our laid back one not caring what was going on and being content with where she was left. You can see it in her face she wants to try and keep up with Denver.

Food...is also getting a little more interesting. There are times that even eating what we're eating isn't good enough...she wants to do it herself! I didn't know this little girl had so much independence in her. I thought that was my Denver and my Makenna would be a more dependent one, but pretty sure I was wrong with that! We are exploring new foods quite often. Tonight Makenna had cantalope and LOVED it! I think the coldness felt good on her swollen gums.

Makenna got to try some pizza the other night!

We had fajitas for supper the other night, but Denver may tell you we had sour cream!

He ate sour cream by the spoonfuls...which I guess I should tell you is normal for him.

Patty Cake!! I've been working on playing patty cake with Makenna a lot lately and she would try to copy, but usually it ended up in "clapping" against the table or floor and the end of last week or beginning of this week she started putting her hands together, but it was one on top of the other and the middle of this week she figure it out and gets so proud! Some times when we try to get her to clap we say "Yeaaa!" and she even tries to imitate that now..its so cute! I didn't get the best video of her and I playing patty cake, but Evan wasn't home to help and my little helper was being a little too helpful...but enjoy! Also along with patty cake we've been working on high fives and knuckles. She figure out high fives...but doesn't always give them so that brain is still finishing the process of that.

Both the kids love to dance! This video is from the beginning of the month. I need to get an updated one because Makenna gets her arms into it now.

Our little Denver has become quite that talker. He has started telling stories. I love it! All of a sudden he just goes...and goes, and goes, and goes! This afternoon I told him to wait a minute while I went to get the camcorder and then asked him to tell me the story again. I couldn't decide what to edit out so its long...don't feel obligated to watch it all...but it was just to cute, I had to share it! Other things that Denver has mastered in the last month or so are...running the DVD player (that's probably been more than a month), pouring things (he always wants to be my helper and has gotten quite good!), understanding the concept of going on the potty chair (I don't know that he's mastered it yet...but we're working on it and he gets it more now than he did, but still not real interested...would rather be playing toys!), lots of conversations on his phone with his Cousin Jacob and friend Abby (pretend conversations...although Denver and Abby did get to chat on the phone the other day, it was pretty cute!), and there may be more, but that's what is coming to mind right now. He is also working harder on counting, before he had little interest, but now you can hear him counting quite often...lots of times its to play hide and seek, one of his favorite games to play!

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We've been trying to use our gym membership a little more often. Denver loves to go to the gym to shoot hoops and to go swimming. Here are some pictures from swimming the other day. Today Denver was enjoying going down the slide and I'm not sure if he meant to, but he ended up going down face first. I was standing right there and caught him at the end so he didn't get too much water and when he stood up he looked at me and said "I did it!" and was all excited! It was pretty funny.

I had planned on doing another "snowstorm" post, but kind of forgot and remembered I had pictures of the kids that I wanted to make sure I got on here so rewind a little...to the day after Christmas!

Denver all ready to go help Daddy clear the snow from the driveway.

A view of our mailbox and across the street.

Evan snow blowing with his new snow blower.

We made it 5 years owning a house without one, but this did it in and we bought one...18-20 inches of snow is too much shoveling for us!

Watching Daddy snow blow.

Our back deck...lots of snow.

Playing in all the fun snow!

A quick picture of Makenna in the snow...don't worry (that she doesn't have mittens on) it wasn't freezing out and we took her right back in afterwards.