The 2011 Kennedy Klan Portrait

from left to right:
Janessa, Kaden, Grey, Darla, Chantelle, Keaton, Brent, Marshall, Kari, Logan, Beccy, Dave, Maryn, Liana, Vienna, Jared, Jillaine, Lehman and Davis

*absent from photo: Brian, Kenna, Brooks, Mark, Lauryn, Mattea, Kayla

Sisters - puzzle time

Here are a few pics from puzzle time the other day that I thought were pretty cute and also lets you see the two girls together - I still think they look nothing alike!

This Mattea after being told "No, you can find where it goes all by yourself, you just have to look with your eyes" - so apparently making this face and keeping your eyes like that will help you see where the pieces go!

Time to put the camera down - puzzle time is starting to unravel!

Mattea fall update

Here are a few recent pictures of Mattea. There is not too much to announce in update news for her, as there are no recent Dr's appointments to get official measurements etc. We know she is super tall, and on our scale at home weighs over 33 lbs. She still loves doing crafts and games and playing imaginary games. Her recent facination is with plastic animals (you know the little dollar store kind??) she has a bucket of them and carries them from room to room narrating for them along the way!

Doing one of her favourite activities - finger painting! It took us many tries to get over the fact that it is SUPPOSED to be messy. She kept wanting me to clean off her fingers every time she got paint on them...which with FINGER paints meant she was pretty much missing the point of the exercise! Now that we are officially okay with the mess and that we will be cleaned up afterwards, she loves it!
She is a little TV bug, and although we limit how much she can watch, she has a very good memory and can recite to you all her favourite shows and movies. She also inherited her Daddy's ability to tune out anything and anyone while she is watching!
No, we were not purposely modelling for this shot - I'm not quite sure what she was doing, but I think it was a break from dancing around to her Christmas music! But this is a good picture to show just how tall she really is! She is in size 4 clothes and she is not even 2.5!
Enjoying the 1st snow flurries of the year - we were dressed for a blizzard, which is certainly was NOT, but she didn't seem to care that there were only about 10 snowflakes in the sky! - Mattea said "I yike dis snow, it wooks nice and sparkwey!"
Another small update is that she is now singing! She has been doing nursery rhyme style songs for a while now (like twinkle twinkle etc) but she is now doing worship music from church and memorized all of her sunday school Christmas songs within the first week of having the CD! Now we just have to work on getting her to sing it in front of other people!!! She really is a sponge though when it comes to music and memorizes the words to songs very quickly (almost after the first time hearing something!)

Kayla - 8 months old

Kayla has now turned 8 months old. She now weighs in at 20 lbs 13 ounces, and is 72 cm long, so she is above the 90th percentile for height and weight, so another big girl! But to compare, Mattea was the same height and weight at 6 months old, so Kayla is still "small" to us! She now has two teeth, and is putting them to good use by eating lots of finger foods (cheese being a favourite!) She has been standing for over a month now, and is walking around on furniture. She will let go and balance but has yet to take that first official step - but something tells me, it won't be long! She loves her Daddy, and her "T'ah" and wants to be included in all of their games, and joins right in with their craziness. She is proving to be a real mischief maker- she has a radar going anywhere, touching (and subsequently eating) everything she shouldn't (shredding kleenex, going in bathrooms, opening doors/drawers, trying to eat door stoppers, eating shoes, eating plants - with no discrimination between real and fake:-/) So all that to say, she keeps us on our toes, but she has a grin on her face the whole time, and with that dimple, it makes it hard to keep a straight face when keeping up with her antics!

Her first "snow" - we saw flurries and Mattea insisted that we hurry and go outside to play in the snow. I think it was a bit of a disappointment!
Playtime in Tea's room before bed - usually includes wearing hats and having tea parties (she is holding one of the hats, which she promptly attempted to eat)

Payback time for all the cheek pinching she gets! (and for Daddy and Tea putting this crazy hat on!)

On her way to find something else to do - clearly she is above playing with her toys:-P

The Gene Pool

Playmobil must run in the Kennedy gene pool. How else would you explain the continuation of a hobby and form of play, entertainment and creativty spanning children born in 1979 through 1999. Maryn gave me another edition of her newspaper to read the other day. In her Playmobil world of Eversham (the town) quite the exciting noteworthy happenings have been immortalized.

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! (2 links to her 2 newspapers)

Testing the Heights

Liana was coming over to edge the walls in our hall and staircase, so Dad set up a ladder leaning on the wall and pressed up against the stairs. He wanted us to test it out........

Lehman got a little scared.

Dad wasn't nervous at all.




Jillaine didn't go because she has a crippling fear of heights.
I did go up, but we didn't get a picture.



Posted by: Janessa

Jillaine's Decorating Skills

As you all know, Jillaine has amazing artistic skills.....so to make her 'bread' more fancy, she uses those skills.

Posted by: Janessa