Our Happy Thanksgiving

The Weatherbys had a great Thanksgiving. For the 6th year in a row, we hosted the big day at our house. It's always such a fun day, but I think it was even more special this time around because Dan and I have so many things to be thankful for this year:

the birth of our beautiful baby girl

having made it through a complicated pregnancy in one piece

a happy and healthy baby

our loving and supportive families

great friends

visits from Caleb and Nick

each other

I could go on and on, but you get the idea.

Kendall had a great time on her first Thanksgiving, despite having had a flu shot the night before (she didn't even cry) and battling a slight fever and rash that's gone on for a couple of days now. We'll be back to the doctor on Monday if she's not better, but we spent the day not thinking about it.

Her first Thanksgiving feast consisted of turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, jello, mashed potatoes and biscuits!

She loved it!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Weatherbys! We hope that you had a great day as well!

I'm 10 Months Old!

I know it's no surprise that I'm late again this month with our monthly update. It's getting harder and harder (check that - nearly impossible) to get the little girl to sit still for our monthly photo session. You can see it in her eyes in the above photo. She's ready to pounce. I even had to enlist Dan's help this month, which I thought would make things easier, but Kendall found it to be even more of a game once Daddy was involved. We have many photos that look like this:

Or this:

Enough about my failed photo sessions, let's talk about Kendall! Time is still flying by and I can't believe she's 10 months old. I'll have a 1 year old in a matter of weeks. She's still growing like crazy and is now in 12 month, 12-18 month, and even some 18 month clothes.

Over the past couple of months, Kendall's personality has really started to come through. She is the goofiest, funniest baby that you can get to laugh at just about anything. She also has a very sweet side. She's started to give hugs and kisses without any prompting, and there are days when I come home from work and she crawls over to give me hugs. She says, "mom, mom, mom" as she crawls over. It melts my heart.

With that said, she's also come to know what she wants, and isn't afraid to let you know. Once you put her in her highchair to eat, she wants her food right then! She has five big teeth to eat with! If you take something from her that she has found during one of her exploring sessions, she gets very angry. She is very interested in our food, and isn't happy when she doesn't get to try what we're eating.

In addition to being interested in food, she's interested in just about everything else in the house. Sometimes this can be a good thing, although sometimes this can be a bad thing. It's neat to watch her play with the plastic bags (don't judge) and try to hold them all in one hand. It also amazes me to watch her solve problems. If she can't reach something, she'll figure out how to get to it. On the other hand, it's a bit scary to watch her pull wine bottles off the rack at my parent's house. She tries to climb everything and has started opening cabinets and drawers.

Bottom line, we love her more and more every day! Here's a look back at the last month, although I didn't take too many pictures that you haven't already seen, so it's a quick look back:

40 Weeks

42 Weeks

Daddy's Day Off

Dan had one more vacation day that he had to use before the end of the year, so he decided to use it this past Friday. We took advantage of Daddy's day off and headed to Sea World for the afternoon to visit Shamu and the rest of his friends. Kendall and I were at Sea World just four months ago with my friend Rachel and her family, but we figured that the little girl would be a lot more interested in the animals this time around. She wasn't totally enthralled yet, but you could tell that she was more aware this time around. Especially when we were in the Penguin Encounter! She was excited to see those penguins!

Checking out the Beluga Whales

At the tide pool with Dad

Thinking about touching the starfish

Finally! The Sesame Street play area!

It's so nice to have passes to all of these great parks in San Diego! I remember growing up here and visiting all of the attractions, and I'm so thankful that Kendall will have the same experience! What a lucky girl!

Halloween 2010

Kendall had a great Halloween weekend this year! It was a great start to what will be many wonderful Halloweens to come!

We started the weekend with a Baby Halloween Costume Party, hosted by my mom's group. There were a TON of people there! It was nice to see the babies all dressed up and to even meet some new babies that we had never met before. Kendall een won a prize for one of the cutest baby costumes! And, to top it off, I even got Dan to dress up. Here's Tiger Woods and his little lady:

To complete the couples costume, I went as Elin Woods:

On Halloween night, we had a bunch of people over at our house and even did a bit of trick or treating. Gram and Dude, Aunt Jessica and Uncle Sean, as well as my friend Elizabeth and her family all joined us! Kendall seemed to like all of the decorations and people that were out trick or treating! Sadly I have no good pictures from that night. We did take some of her with the pumpkins though!

Kendall soon realized that the pumpkins' tops came off...

...and that pumpkin didn't taste too bad...