Thanksgiving

We went down to Texas to spend Thanksgiving with my side of the family. Thursday we drove out to Marble Falls to my aunt's house. We had a great time with the family - watching football, playing with cousins and catching up, and who could forget the delicious food.

Here's the whole family! Yep, that's Kinley's new smile and Kendall was too tired to bother.

This is my Granny with all her great-granddarlings

Lee, Addison, Kendall, Kinley, Leah

Holly, Emma

Kinley was playing hard with her cousins. Her cheeks are pink because she was hot, her nose is red because they put chalk for the pool cues on their noses pretending to be reindeer (Leah told us she was Blixen) and that's worm cake all over her shir. Obviously she had a great day.

Thanksgiving Feast

Today was Kinley's preschool's Thanksgiving Feast. I knew we were going to have stone soup for lunch, but there was a whole program that went with everything. The program was cute, the decorations that the kids made were priceless, and the desserts were yummy!

The classes marched in wearing some great costumes. Kinley was the cute kid that saw me, pointed and yelled, "Mama!" Her performance was fairly good, but I'm most proud of the way she acted while the other classes were doing their thing - standing still being a big girl!

This is when she was saying "Mama" and pointing and looking super cute.

Here is part of her class as they were lined up getting ready to sing for us.

After they sang, they held hands while the other classes performed. Of course it was only calm and still for a couple minutes.

This video is the first of three songs they did. Kinley cracks me up with her checking out the crowd. She obviously knows the words, but she's looking at her adoring fans.

Sisters

One of the things I was most excited for was seeing Kinley's face when she got to meet her new sister. Here is the video of them meeting for the first time. We pulled into the drive way and she was waiting for us on the front porch. Her face just lit up and was so great to see.

We told her to go into the house, sanitize and then wait on the couch to hold her sister.

Kinley holding Kendall for the first time.

They have on matching shirts, but Kendall's cheeks are hiding the "little" part on her shirt.

So precious!

Kendall Everlyse Pappas

Well, she's finally here! I went in for my c-section yesterday at 11 and Kendall arrived at 11:32am. She was definitely ready to come out. Our precious "little" girl weighed in at 9 pounds and 9 ounces. She's 21 1/4 inches long and has huge hands and feet. Even our pediatrician joked that she took her first step in the nursery last night.
Kendall has been doing great. She is super sleepy - everyone knows how hard it is to be cute all the time. Kinley gets the most amazing look on her face when she sees her little sister. We've showed her Kendall through the window in my room since we can't have any visitors. She smiles, laughs, reaches for her sister and then wants to know how many poopy diapers she's had.

Here is Kendall just minutes after she popped out. I can't remember what its called, but her feet and her arms were purple for a couple hours after birth - nothing to do with breathing, although, she did have the cord around her neck loosely one time.


Here we are with our new daughter. Kendall was crying a little bit until her daddy held her and started talking to her. Can you believe how dark her hair is - I'm still amazed she has hair at all.



This is the cute night-night outfit that Kinley picked out for her little sister to wear in the hospital. You can't see, but she has matching socks, too.

Here we are with our new bundle of joy!

Kendall does have blue eyes, but mostly she's too tired to show them or her cheeks push them closed; I'm still debating:)

Here is Kendall on top and Kinley on the bottom. Just for those of you wondering.

Halloween Fun

Kinley is one lucky girl! The Saturday before Halloween the Manhattan zoo has a Spooktacular even where the kids can trick or treat and get to see the animals. Kinley chose to dress as a nurse for this day. Her "real" costume is a white witch, but at school they could only dress up as community helpers, so she decided on a nurse.

The family picture at the zoo.



Here is our precious nurse! She barely glanced at the animals, but she was on a sharp look-out for the next candy opportunity.

We had a great time walking around with our friends and looking at all the animals. We got to pet an opossum the size of a cat, a turtle, a goat and a snake (Tom and Kinley avoided this one).

Halloween was so much fun this year. We got together with friends and had a blast! Kinley was so much more into the trick-or-treating this year. She was so cute going up to the house and knocking on the door and waiting. A few times she would forget to say thank you until she started walking away, so she would just YELL it over her shoulder as she was running back to us.
I just thought the decorations were cute at this house. Too bad it was already dark.


And finally, here is the beautiful white witch!