Crawling and some G-Ma time

Well she did it. She FINALLY did it. Kenzie started really taking off with crawling this weekend. She had been taking a crawling step or tow for over a week now but then she'd fall flat on her face and just lay on her belly. Well Saturday afternoon we were just sitting there watching tv and she was playing on the floor and she took off! So now my new favorite words are Don't touch that, No, come back here, oh no what does she have now? LOL. It's great though and I'm loving that if she wants a different toy now, she'll go and get it!
I called my mom to let her know that Kenzie started to crawl and she told me that she was off on Monday and wanted to get out of the house and was going to talk to her husband about it but wanted to come up for a weekend visit! So they drove up here and we had dinner with them last night at Don Pablo's and plan to spend the day with them today after church too. I'm so excited! Even though we are only like 4 or 5 hours apart i don't get to see my mom very often and she hasn't seen Kenzie since she was like 3 months old, LOL.
Anyways....in the past weeks Joel has started school and is loving it. He wants to treat his speech class like a debate class....well he wants to treat every class except math like a debate class, LOL. I had a feeling THAT would happen. I actually enjoy working with him on his math homework since i'm probably a LITTLE better than him with math, LOL. We took IQ tests this weekend and Joel got 116 which is on the highest end of average, but he still felt like he was dumb. So i decided to take it too and got a 136. I didn't want to tell him but he asked. :( But it made me feel good to score that high after being out of school for so long. hehe
Kenzie is so cute over there on the floor chewing on all of her toys. A tooth may finally be on the way soon since she is chewing like crazy on everything in sight.
We had our friend's little girl's bday party yesterday and it went great. She got tons of little girl clothes and i painted her the letter's E-L-L-A for her room. Thanks to Vanessa for the inspiration!
Vanessa and I also started talking about Kenzie's birthday and what we're going to do and we've pretty much decided that she will fly up here for Kenzie's first birthday to meet her and bake her an AWESOME and yummy cake! (Thanks Gian for letting her come and hopefully you can come too!)
Well i have to start getting ready for church and chase the baby around for a while. I don't even know what to do with her anymore while i'm in the shower. CRAP!


Oh yeah one more thing....not to try and brag but our child is a genius! Kenzie can say both mommom and dada. At the party i would point to Joel and say Kenzie who is this? and she would say DADADADADA! Then Joel would point at me and say who is this!? And she would say mommomomomomom! We are in for one heck of a wild ride with this one. yummmm cake!

Quick break...

We'll see how much i can get in here while the munchkin sleeps. I have the day off today since we didn't have anyone else to watch Kenzie. Kenzie FINALLY had her 6mo. check up last Friday and is now officially 20lbs7oz and 28.5 in.long. She's over 92nd% for height and weight and her head is like 50th %. My big girl.
I had a girl's night out with Jami and her friend Stephanie on Friday and we had a great time. Went down to 4th Street andate at TGI Fridays and then went to a few different bars. I probably drank more than i should have though. :( yikes.
Anywho...Saturday we did the grocery shopping and relaxed, watched a movie. Sunday was church and then a BATS game because our Pastor's work had a bunch of extras. It was great to get to hang out with everyone from our church and Kenzie was so well behaved. It was like 90+ degrees out but she did great. I think i was more fussy than she was!
Joel is all set and ready to start school next Monday. I can't believe it's finally here! He's sort of excited but also a little aprehensive i think because he'll be getting less sleep and lots of extra work. Hopefully when i start staying home it will really help things out though.
I'm loving being at home today and didn't mind one bit cleaning up the kitchen and doing laundry and cooking lunch. I oddly enjoy these sorts of things. Hopefully Kenzie gets a good nap now though because earlier she only slept for like 45 mins.
Well i'm gonna go and relax now for some mommy time. :::Ahhh:::: this is the life!!

S-L-A-C-K-E-R

I'm getting really bad about updating here huh? Ok well this past weekend was nice....Friday i got off work at 1pm and met Joel at the YMCA pool. Kenzie was tired so she enjoyed it, but was not so much 'happy' as just over-stimulated by EVERYTHING that was going on. It was great weather though and so we had a good time. Headed home in the afternoon and had dinner and relaxed for the night. Saturday AM we woke up and decided to go out to downtown New Albany and explore. While getting ready our washing machine hose detached from the wall and leaked water ALL over the hallway. We discovered this after about 3 gallons of water or so soaked the carpet. We used the wet-vac and sucked up TONS of water, but the carpet is still soaked. We kept fans on it all day but decided today to rip up the carpet and make sure that everything dries all the way through. Oh well. I guess one day soon we'll have to replace that portion of carpet....maybe wood...dunno. Anywho...so now we have a destroyed hallway, LOL. Anyways, on Saturday night i brought Kenzie over to her great aunt's house and she stayed half of the night with her while Joel and I met up with some friend's at a restaurant for some drinks and to watch the UFC fight. We stayed until about 12:30 and knowing that Kenzie wakes up around 6am, we called it a night at that point. Sunday was church and then lunch with a friend and then home. Joel's mom and I went out to a consignment shop and got Kenzie some toys and shoes and a little 'rocking caterpillar.' It's an adorable little caterpillar on rockers that she can grow into. She loves it already though. :)
Below i posted a video of her new 'word' that i guess she has decided to start saying, LOL. We aren't really sure what she's trying to say because she just busted out and started doing it. We call bottles ba-ba, but it's not like she was hungry or anything and wanting one when she said it. MIL also oddly calls Kenzie Ba-Ba-Loo as a nickname (not sure why lol) so maybe that's where it's coming from? Dunno...
Sorry this is sideways from my phone...



So now she is in bed but having a rough go at it since she had hardly any 'good' naps today she crashed into bed at like 7:15 tonight....so she's has woken up 2x since then and it's not even 9pm yet. Hopefully since Joel is up late tonight though i'll be able to sleep.

Joel is heading out on a hike this week since he had some vacation days to use up so he's getting everything together and thoroughly enjoying himself.
Kenzie FINALLY has her 6mo. check up on Friday this week...at over 7mos old. I called forever ago to make the appt and this was the earliest they had available. Oh well. She'll also get checked up on her UTI and get an u/s scheduled for her kidneys. Hopefully there is nothing painful involved or anything. With a baby everything is so different, doing anything is more difficult.
Kenzie continues to be spoiled rotten with clothing from Grams and aunts and mom. I bought her a cute pair of pants at Target in 12 mos thinking she'd grow into them...well she is wearing them now. LOL. My girl is so big!!!! Grams bougt her two more dresses and then 2 pairs of pants plus the shoes and toys today...she also went from 0 pairs of shoes to about 6 pairs of shoes in the past 3 weeks. I heart buying baby shoes, they are so cute and CHEAP!! for the most part. Well i'm going to head over to the couch to relax and soak up some tv before bedtime. Ugh...laundry calls my name though. Hopefully no more leaks! i'm so paranoid now, LOL.

Goodnight!!

(trying to eat spaghettiO's but she was NOT a fan. Oh well...it wasn't even fun because she just got mad and fussy, LOL)




Getting in some evening reading....Martha style....