Thursday, October 29, 2009

Sick

Well it's official---Kenzie is now sick for the first time.

My mom called me on Tuesday and said "So I'm sick, you might want to keep an eye on Kenzie to make sure she doesn't get sick." Not only is my mom now sick, but one of my nieces that spent the night with Kenzie Friday night is sick! I kept thinkin, yeah right she won't get sick. Well I was wrong!

All day yesterday Kenzie was just whinny! I thought it was because she was teething---she's been chewing on EVERYTHING! and she wouldn't go down for a good nap. When Clay got home we went up to the church for their harvest festival. The church did a cool one where the different stations were characters out of the bible---they had the empty tomb, someone reading the creation story, a "booth" where they gave away free kid bibles, a bean bag toss that was Daniel and the Lion's den (had to get it in the lion's mouth), and many more that I can't remember. The whole time we were there Kenzie was just chillin'. We didn't think much of it since she hadn't taken good naps, it was pretty much bed time, and that's usually how she responds when there's a lot of people.

This morning at 6:30 (may I also point out---she usually sleeps till 8:30) she woke up crying and when I went to check on her she felt HOT! I tried to take her temp in her arm (99.6) but she was squirmy so I wasn't sure it was accurate. So I went to the favorite----the butt. Yup, 102.6, definatley knew we needed to go visit the dr. It was about 7 am though, so I was doing the hurry up and wait. I called about 9 (kenzie had fallen back asleep and I didn't want to wake her up) to see if she could get in and they said bring her in as a walk in. We arrived at 9:30 and didn't get out till almost 11! Since Kenzie had been exposed to Strep (from my niece) the dr decided to test her for strep. It came back negative. Since there weren't any other "symptoms" other than high fever we got the diagnosis of Swine Flu! Oh boy! So we are now definatley stuck in the house for a few days! We had so much to do---Football tomorrow, Halloween Carnival tomorrow, hadn't been at church in 2 weeks! and now I get to stay home with a sick baby!

Well Betty Sue borrowed a lion costume from a friend of hers for Kenzie for Halloween. Well turns out it's a good thing we went last night to the Harvest Festival so Kenzie could have some "dressed up" pics. They aren't the greatest, but atleast you can see her in her costume!




Well Kenzie is calling, better get going! I have decided 2 things are going to happen in the next few days---Kenzie will be spoiled and my arms are going to be buff! Oh, did I mention she weighed 18 lbs 5 oz at the dr today?

San Angelo and Fort Worth

The past two weekends we have been out of town and I can honestly say, I am glad to be at home!

Two weekends ago we went to Angelo for Travis' housewarming party. It was a lot of fun and good to see some of our Angelo friends! On Sunday we went to the Wall Festival. I have known about this for the past 5 years, but somehow I was able to avoid it until this year! =) J/K I wasn't trying to avoid it, just different things always happened at the same time.

We arrived home at about 6:30 on Sunday and I left town again on Thursday around lunch to head to Fort Worth for my friend, Valerie's, Bachlorette Party and Lengerie shower. I, of course, fit in A LOT more into the weekend including: Seeing neices, visiting my mom's work, visiting my friend Lauren and her two boys, Will and Van Allan (Kenzie left her "mark" there (spit up and #2 out of the diaper---good thing Lauren has kids too!)), Visiting Sam Moon's for the first time, seeing dad and step mom, church with my mom, seeing people we hadn't seen in YEARS, lunch with the girls in my mom's family (plus Jeffrey), then the LONG 6 hour drive home. Let's just say I was very happy to be home!

Um---so I don't think I took any pics during these 2 weekends, so I will work on finding some to post!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Teeth

After hundreds of tries to get a pic of Kenzie's new teeth---I finally succeeded!


(If you can't tell they're teeth---pretend you can! Its pretty IMPOSSIBLE to get her to smile to where they show!)

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Even Newer things!

Man, doing the 7 month post was hard considering how much new stuff Kenzie has done since last friday! Im trying to keep it all seperated in my head!

Here are some pics for you to enjoy! Last night when I was trying to watch The Biggest Loser Kenzie decided she wanted to talk to me. So I pushed "pause" and continued with this special conversation consisting of oohs and aahs! And lots of laughing and smiling. She then realized that Dalton was near and wanted to have a convo with him. I finally set her on the ground and called Dalton over so they could bond!

(I have a video to add, but it was taking FOREVER to load, check back later for video)



The other day I realized that 1--I never took a pic of Kenzie in the bath! And 2--if I want Kenzie to sit and relax taking a bath we should revert back to the baby bathtub so she could sit and play with toys. Here are some pics.
Just after I had dumped some water on her head to wash her hair!



Although this pic doesn't do justice, she really does enjoy laying down in the water and just relaxing!

7 Months

Sorry this is late, but I’ve been working on it since Friday!

Wow! I can’t believe that my baby is 7 months old already! It’s funny how you can look at a baby and think, “wow they’re getting big!” but the past few days I have REALLY been noticing! Kenzie has definitely picked up personality! Just today I noticed that she is closer to being a year old than to being a newborn! I realized that she has been that way for over a month now, but it just hit me!
I know that yall have seen the pic of her from when she was 5 months old and she ended up sideways in her bed








Well look at her now:



Not quite sure how this is comfortable, yet every morning this is how I find her when I go to get her. I must confess, this is the moment I realized how big she has gotten!


New things this month:
-- Food: Sweet Potatoes, (attempted Green Beans), Corn and Sweet Potatoes, Mac and Cheese,
and Apples and Blueberries.
-- Kenzie is now enjoying our Baby Mum Mum’s and our Sippy Cup for snacks! We have also
tried Nilla Wafers and Refried Beans (see previous posts for pics)
-- Noises: Kenzie has discovered how to squeal! And she does it often!
-- Introduced to Sesame Street and we like it! Especially when Elmo is on
and they are talking about the weather! (see previous posts for pics)
-- First two teeth about a week before turning 7 months!
-- Learned to sit by herself (see previous posts for pics)
-- Enjoyed her first Meadow Bronco Football game
-- First COLD weather football game and wearing a coat on her 7 month Bday!


-- A few days before her 7 month birthday I weighed her on the Wii and it said she weighed


almost 17 lbs!







The theme for the game on 10/9 was "Lei out the Dragons". Daddy gave me his cool prizes from the pep rally!







Trying out Leg Warmers for the first time!



First time to stay in my Pack N Play at a hotel! And first time in the lower section!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

More Firsts

Baby Yum Yums (or something like that). Aren't you just jealous you dont get to eat something like this?

And First time to watch Sesame Street