Here is a better pic of the cute teeth that are growing in:
Kyla's baby book has pages for baby's first holidays and I fear we have little to fill in! For halloween she visited her friend Laili where we carved pumpkins and the mini-folk posed amongst them (hopefully I'll get the pics soon!), so that was quite festive.
For Thanksgiving we had dinner with one set of grandparents instead of the usual two (but one is enough to write about!).
For Hanukkah we typically see the Jewish grandparents but they were on an amazing tour of Egypt and Israel so there was no dinner this year.
For Christmas, grandparents from the east coast arrived late in the day so there was a less ceremonial gift exchange (not that Kyla suffered!). And finally, we didn't properly observe Kwanzaa!
However, we dragged Kyla to a New Year's event and here is how she rang in the new year:
Of course, as soon as we went back to our room she woke up and then proceeded to spend nearly an hour playing with the noisemaker! At that point we old folks were just ready to go to bed...
A few weeks ago Kyla almost made it to her first football playoff game. I was skeptical about whether or not it was a good idea to take a baby to the game and then because it was a rainy day here in San Diego the decision was easy! Baby stayed with friends where it was warm and dry while we donned ponchos and cheered on the Chargers. Kirk is not even really a Chargers fan but he riled up his brother-in-law and was perhaps one of the rowdier fans at the stadium...
Even though Kyla didn't make it to the game, she is the only one of us with a jersey:
Note the attempt to crawl...
We never used to be such football fans, but Dan has gotten quite caught up in it now that he is back with what has always been his favorite team, the Chargers. Kirk certainly encourages this behavior. :)
Perhaps our active little girl will end up being much more athletic than her parents and happy about the early influences!!
