real quick

I have some pics to post later, but I had to share this little conversation:

Kenzee - Mom, look I dropped some toast
Mom - Oh, you better pick it up off the floor
Kenzee - Ummm No
Mom - Mckenzee Kathleen pick it up right now
Kenzee - Mama Kathleen, YOU pick it up right now

Yeah, try not to bust out laughing at that!!!

Sneak Peek

Since our Christmas cards are late (They supposedly shipped Friday), here's a little sneek peak. I think I eventually got 3 decent pics, but I thought these were abetter representation of our joy! As any parent knows, even though you are the one with the camera, they are the ones in control! Hope everyone is having a merry holiday season!

Cute Pics

Thanks for the "Kelly" dolls Grandma Janet & Grandpa George!! I love them!!

These are a few of my favorite things!!

I have no explanation for this, but it's pretty cute!

Kenzee getting ready for her photo shoot??

Kenzee with her Grammy and cousin Caitlin

Slow month

Not much new around here. We went to Mattoon for 4 days to spend time with Chad's family. It is always so much fun. It's usually rushed so we spent an extra 2 days there. It was a great time, we had time to relax as well as visit. Here's some cute pics from this Sunday. Uncle TT was here raking leaves so Kenzee had a great time playing in them. The first one is my favorite! And I love the last one too: Where'd TT go?

Halloween - better late than never

Here are a couple of pics of our little monkey with her witch and pumpkin friends. We met up with Amy, Haylee the witch, and Maddie the pumpkin for a quick dinner and some trick or treating in Nan's neighborhood. Then it was back to our neighborhood after Chad called to tell us that there were "hundreds of kids over here". We had a great time despite the killer sore throat I ended up with.

A little bit of everything...

Not a whole lot of good news around here. Evan de Mello passed away the day after we lost Kylie. They are playing together in heaven I am sure. Beth also found out yesterday that she has a new tumor in her lung. She had just finally gotten some good news earlier in the week. The cat scan showed that all of her other tumors had either shrunk or disappeared from her treatments. They gave her the okay to do another round of the treatment but just wanted to check out her lungs as a precaution. So now she will do radiation on the lung tumor before the treatments. Not much else going on around here. I just added a couple of songs for Kylie. They make me smile. Just getting ready to go back to work. I have worked from home a little bit this week. I will do the same next week, along with a few dr appts. Then back at it!

Kylie Sue Zike

Kylie Sue came into the world at 8:02 AM Wednesday October 3. She was 1lb 12oz and 10 inches long. The last hearbeat we heard was around 7:oo this morning. Sometime during the quick delivery she passed away. We were able to hold our beautiful baby girl and spend time with her while surrounded with our friends and family. It was very peaceful for me as well as Chad I am sure. The hospital gave us a beautiful memory box with a couple of things in it. They were able to get good little tiny feet and handprints. There was also a local photographer that volunteers to come and take pictures of the baby. He gave me the cd, I haven't looked at it yet. If anyone would like to see them, feel free to email me. Thank you everyone for thinking of us whether it was in your prayers, in person, sending flowers, calling. Whatever it was that you did, we felt everyone's presence and it meant so much to us!