Doing 360 in a highchair

is way more fun than eating bananas.

Look alikes

I can't decide who she resembles most...

and dare I show you this last one. Its a few years old (sorry Janelle)....

hey don't judge us--it was probably finals week.

P.S. GOOD LUCK NATHAN ON FINALS!

Even I can't wait 'til he's done.

Sticky Situation

What happens when I turn my back for 30 seconds.

yes that is glue. yes the lid was shut. and yes she is eating it.

oh and yes the camera was close enough that i didn't leave her eating glue.

Watch and enjoy...

We are thankful for...

Cookie-making-time at the Vasher house!

the bowl is still up for grabs.....anyone?

Know of any picture frame sales?

This last one is totally her typical expression. Love it.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Hate to be her mom when she turns 16!

Dani Yardley, a student here came over and took some pics of Kendyl.

Here are just a few. Maybe more later. She is sooo cute!

Look...no hands

and please--disregard the mess in the background

Halloween Party and Conference

Another Halloween picture...

And...

Nathan submitted a paper proposal and he was accepted to present it for the 2010 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (WPSA).

It will be at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Center in San Francisco from April 1 – 3, 2010.

The paper is called-- The Long Term State Level Benefits of Third World Urbanization.

We are both very excited. Now he just has to write it....

Happy Halloween

we call this Chubby Bunny

He got in...

to the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver

with a $10,000 scholarship

for fall 2010 (that seems like forever away)

but our future plans right now =unknown

we didn't get the tweet...

that Fall has been cancelled this year

the family puppy

begging for table scraps using her big blue eyes

I've gone crafty

With the new semester I've decided to use my wide expanse of time during the day to do something useful (besides sleeping in and watching Hogan's Heros reruns). These are easy projects and would probably take no time at all to do. Though Kendyl helps stretch the time out with only a few minutes here and there....so here's what I've come up with so far.

These are wood cut outs with scrap booking paper on top.

Kitchen curtains made out of 2 tea towels (this is the kind of sewing I can handle).

And remember these pillows. We got them when we got married and they've gone pretty flat since then.

Well I stole some stuffing from some other pillows and re-stuffed them and covered them in some fun fabric. Since we have such a hodge-podge of furniture I figured I would just do the same with the pillows.

So flip them over and ta-da!

Also I found this mirror at DI. It was green and had a birdhouse in the corner. I sanded it down and took of the birdhouse and glued the glass on the edges. I had a few other ideas but none turned out. Still not sure how I feel about it though.....

That's all. More to come later...maybe

The grass is always greener...

After all the coaching, coxing, prodding, demonstrating, bribing, begging and applauding to get our child to crawl, 

what do we do when she finally does???

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Put her in a box of course--so she won't crawl away.

Now if we could only get her to walk!

Problem

one cranky baby + one miserable and late mom who can't get ready

Solution

sink + running water + your toothbrush = happy baby

My Little Punchinello

Ever read this book...

And all day, every day,

the Wemmicks did the same thing:

They gave each other stickers.

Each Wemmick had a box of golden star stickers

and a box of gray dot stickers.

Up and down the streets all over the city,

people spent their days sticking stars

or dots on one another.

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The pretty ones,

those with smooth wood and fine paint,

always got stars.

But if the wood was rough or the paint chipped,

the Wemmicks gave dots.

My little girl--not even 6 months old and already forming an opinion about herself.

more pics if kendyl---because really--who cares about us now

just so cute!

here is "Cabbage-Patch Kendyl"
This is my favorite picture because it shows her playing in her room...quietly...without her mom...keeping herself entertained...for long periods of time. I just go in every few minutes and fill the white bucket up with her toys and then she tosses them out--slowly. I LOVE IT!
Not really sure what's going on here.

Sumo wrestling maybe?

Food and Fun

Kendyl had a very happy week!

She tasted some new delicacies--some she wasn't too sure about...
...but just at first.

To her mother's dismay and her father's delight she had her first taste of orange otter pop.

The carrot was a little too crunchy to enjoy.

But the monkeys were pretty tasty.

She also had fun at the park!

(well most of the time)