Seiter Family

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Christmas

If you are wanting to invest the best $30 of your life, may I suggest "The Elf on the Shelf". I overheard a lady talking about this while getting a pedicure. My parents found it on the Internet and it truly is the best investment. Long story short, you by this package of an elf and book that explains the story. You're able to give your elf a name, ours is Herbert. Herbert listens to you during the day and at night, "flies" back to the North Pole to visit Santa and report. You know that he "leaves" because when you wake up in the morning he is in a new spot! The kids are told in the story to not touch him, or else he loses his "special flying powers".

There are numerous stories about Herbert quickly stopping any problems we have with Abbi misbehaving (they don't call it terrible twos for nothing). My favorite story is she was being ugly to me DURING sacrament meeting and throwing a fit. I promptly marched her out into the foyer and told her that Herbert could hear her being naughty at church. To which she quickly wiped her tears and calmly replied, "I'm okay. I'm not throwing a fit." And that was that!

We took the girls to get their picture with Santa.

Here's Santa dropping off presents Christmas Eve!

Christmas morning:

We had a nice, calm, inexpensive Christmas! We spent Christmas at my parents and then drove up to Blanding the next day and spent a few days with Josh's family!

Kenna Turns ONE!!

On January 10th, our sweet Kenna turned ONE! I can't believe my baby is ONE!! YIKES! Time for another, just kidding, kinda, but here's some pictures from her b-day!

Kennadee is one of the happiest kid to be around! Her cute little personality is becoming more and more apparent each day, as well as how smart she is!! She tends to get cranky if her diaper needs changing, needs a nap, but you do not want to cross her path if she is HUNGRY!! We refer to her as the "IN-KENNA-IBLE HULK" because she gets really angry and getting her food as quickly as possible is the key to calming her down. She loves her older sister and tries to mimic everything Abbi does! She also has become quick at disappearing up the stairs or playing in the bathroom! The best thing is she still likes to snuggle and can make you smile by just seeing her! Coming home to her smile is one of the best parts of my day! We just love you to pieces Kennadee!

Friday, June 11, 2010

Month 4 Recap on Kennadee!

Kennadee turned 5 months yesterday! YIKES!!! She is starting to become more interactive and a "fun" stage if you will! She will hold her own bottle (when I'm not there to nurse) and can roll over on her tummy. She hasn't figured out how to roll back, which means, she screams for help when she gets sick of her tummy (usually 2 seconds after she rolls over). Josh just got the jumparoo out a storage and she loves being in that. Kenna is a jumping machine! We think she might be teething, because she has gone from being our sweet and happy girl to cranky girl. She has good days and not so good days, but I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world! She has cute fat rolls everywhere and I think she is really going to like switching over to solid foods!

Finishing lunch!

Oh, and she drools a TON! She soaked the entire front of her outfit yesterday!

She was upset at the zoo that everyone else was eating popcorn, so I gave her some to much on!

Abbi pushing Kenna in the swing!

Swimming Lessons

This summer, I decided it would be fun to put Abbi in swimming lessons at Mesquite Junior High with her cousins, Colton and Addison. We went for 8 sessions, 25 minutes each, and had a blast. Abbi learn to blow bubbles in the water, float on her back, use big arms and kicks, jump into the pool, climb in and out, monkey crawl (crawl along the side of the pool) and how to bounce to find the ground. It was interesting to see how they incorporated various songs to have the kids do things. For instance, to float on their backs, we would hold them and sing twinkle twinkle little star.

It was pretty fun to go to because you never knew what to expect from your own child and the other children in the class. Some days were good, some days were not so good. There was one day that Abbi was being a turd, so I dunked her in the water and then she participated. (I ended up dunking her two more times to try and wash the demons out). Her some pictures Josh took the last day, detailing the whole class.

The hardest part is at the beginning, where they get to choose a toy.