Extry! Extry! Kenya outgrows cousin Harmon*

For all you nay-sayers and worry warts, Kenya is now 2 feet long and weighs 11lbs 4oz! Still growin' healthy and strong! As a matter of fact here are some pictures to show just how grown up she is! Enjoy! She gains about a pound and just under an inch each month.


















*=Harmon's birth height and weight

Posted by Robert

Kenya on the move.

Here is my baby! She scoots around and so strong. She is a good mover, but of coarse once I got the camera out she stopped moving around. When we leave her on the floor to play often times she will turn more than 360 degrees and scoots off of her blanket. Watch out world here she comes!

Kenya plays with Hannah Hildebrandt.

We were at our friends house and our girls were been so cute together. Kenya has now developed a little yell/scream when other babies are around that are bigger than her. It is kind of a warning system when they get to close to her. She gets unsure about other babies now. I am sure she will learn to love them as see gets more confidence.

The latest at the Draper home.

Yesterday evening I discovered that Kenya was go from the sitting to standing position with out anything up my hand for balance. Not that she can stand on her own, but if she is sitting on my lab and she is just holding onto my hands she can up herself to a standing position. Really, at 4 1/2 months. Kenya!!

These are pictures of Kenya when she was asleep in her bed. Robert just thought she was so cute he had to take a couple pictures.

This is Kenya chewing on her new toys that go everywhere with her. She loves her feet!! She plays and sucks on them whenever she gets a chance. So cute! I love that girl!

Our friends the Johnson came to visit!! YEAH!! We hadn't seen them in a long time. They got to meet Kenya and we all went to Applebees. As you can see Kenya thinks she can drink form a straw and in the next photo she was ordering from the menu. What a smart baby she is!!

I put Kenya in a shopping cart one day and she did rather well. At least for about 10 minutes. This is the first and only time that I have tried it!
This was at the Melaleuca Summer Picnic. It was hotter than Hades!! I am pretty sure it was the hottest day of the summer so far! Kenya enjoyed 2 snow cones with me to keep cool. The picnic was great and I got to eat all the cotton candy that I wanted! and boy did I!

This is a ward camping trip that we had on July 10. We had fun! Kenya's second camping trip.

Kenya Loves the Hooch!

The following are pictures of Kenya enjoying some, of what Robert calls, Hooch! Okay, not really, but she was having a good time with the jug!

Update on Kenya.

Over the past few weeks she has been developing a ton. She rolls over both ways. Goes to sleep on her own, some nights. She loves anything that is frozen so she can put it in her month (we think she is in the beginning stages of teething). She can scoot her way around a little bit, she gets off of her blanket often when on the floor and we have to strap her in her chair because she will turn over in it we don't. In just the past week she has begun to discover her feet. She holds them, but they have not gone in her mouth yet, at least from what I have seen. All in all, she is a health baby and developing just fine. She loves to play with both Robert and I. She is reaching, grabbing, and moving towards toys, and of coarse anything she gets her hands on or is near her goes straight into her mouth. She started to pull on my hair a it too, this is one habit I wont let form. What a great baby! We love her, we do!

Patriotic Pictures

This are some photos taken by a friend last Saturday. Kenya would not smile, but what can you expect from a 4 month old. She was a trooper and didn't cry much at all! Enjoy! These are our patriotic pictures for the month of July.

4th of July

Our day was full of fun. We took Kenya to the parade here in Rexburg just after 10am and then went into Idaho Falls for a BBQ with some friends. We then went to the Green Belt to set up and wait for fireworks. Because of all this running around Kenya really didn't ever take a good nap, just 20-30 minutes here and there. So, I was feeding her about 1 hour before the show began and she fell asleep. I thought she would wake up because of the sound of the fireworks, but nope. This girl slept through it all. She then woke up as we were walking to the car afterward and cried most of the way home. Gotta love kids! Sometime, they just don't know/care what they are missing. She was a trooper all day and we had a great family/friends day! The show was put on by Melaleuca and was amazing. We really enjoyed it. Here are some shots of the fireworks.



Our family shot that evening. It is not flattering to any of us, but at least we got a picture.
This is Jeff Hildebrant. We went to his family's for the BBQ! Thank you Hildebrandt family for welcoming us and making us feel like family there!! And thanks, Jeff, for the wonderful pitcure.
Kenya and Robert just chillin out on the grass!
This is Kenya playing with me at the parade. She sure is a cute one!
I thought this was a good picture. They had a fire ladder extended and hung an american flag at the very top. I loved to see all those flags waving!! Thank you God for this wonderful country!
Our family shot at the Rexburg parade. We were all dressed in red white and blue!

Kenya and mommy! I can't get enough of that little girl!

Random Happenings

Kenya on the bed just playing. I let her take a nap on our bed the other day. When she started to make noise I thought, I will wait a few moments to see if she will fall back asleep. I went back into the bedroom from the kitchen in only a few minutes (maybe 2 tops) and she had rolled to her stomach and across the bed. When I laid her down she has her feet on the edge where I sleep and when I came in her head was about 3-4 inchers from the edge where Robert sleep. I canlt do that anymore.


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All these picture were taking at Smith Park. It is Kenya being cute and daddy playing with her. She is actually quite mobile now. She is rolling from stomach to back and back to stomach. When on either she is scooting around quite well. She is so strong!
This is a typical site at our house. This comes up and cuddles all the time when I am feeding Kenya. What a cute cat! It can get annoying.
She fell asleep in her swing. Look at how cute her hands are! (Sorry, I don't know why this picture didn't turn) Robert said she looks like she is praying. Maybe she was.
This is the first time that Kenya cried herself to sleep in her own bed. She wants to be nursed to sleep all the time. So, when we got back from vacation and her being almost 4 months old, I decided it was time for her to have her own bed and not need mom to go to sleep. The progress with this has been good. The first 2 nights she cried for 50 minutes and then only slept like an hour or less. Now, we are at around 30 minutes and she will sleep til about 1am. Then she wakes up and I nurse her right back to sleep. The purpose was not to make her stay in her own bed ALL the time, but just so that she would not need me to fall asleep and so that she was comfortable sleeping in her bed. We had amazing results because the picture right before this one is of her sleeping in her swing. This is the second day of her putting herself to sleep and she went to sleep in her swing. This is something she has only done once before. What a trooper she has been. She sure is amazing!
There is a small splash park in Rexburg and we went one day last week with a few friends. Kenya, "nothinged" it. Robert and I use that expression when we do something and she just continues to stare blankly at use. For example, if Robert or I give her a kiss and she does not react, we say, "She nothings you/it." I do think that the water was tickling he feet a bit though.