July 31st...our last morning with Grandma & Grandpa

Our last morning with Grandma & Grandpa was spent watching the news, sipping coffee, packing up the truck and taking a few pictures! It was sad saying goodbye, but we enjoyed our week together soooo much and will hopefully be visiting their neck of the woods for Thanksgiving!!! Thanks for everything while you were here Mom & Dad!!!

On Sunday July 20th, Kendal was getting ready for a week long trip to Washington State! I was very anxious and nervous about him leaving because this would be his first trip away from home since Kennedy was born! He would be gone from Monday-Friday and wouldn't get home until after his family would arrive for their week long visit! I needed to be able to pick up the house, mow the lawn, grocery shop, and take care of the baby all by myself! I was venting to my mom one evening on Skype when she informed me she would have the same week off of work while Kendal was away! I begged her to come stay with me for the week! And of course she came! (she needed some serious Grandma time!) I was so relieved while she was here. She spoiled me rotten ( as usual) and let me catch up on some much needed sleep! We had the best time laying around in our pajama's, cuddling with the baby and not getting dressed until well after 4pm everyday! Kendal bought me and Kennedy a plane ticket this morning for the next time he is going out of town! We will be visiting Grammy & Papa for 24 days and I can hardly wait!!!!

The Twins
Taking a nap w/ daddy
Drying off after her bath!


We had a pretty full weekend again! Kendal's supervisor, John, and his fiaPublish Postnce' Tara have been re-stationed in Kansas and this was our final weekend together! So Friday night we went to dinner at Yokoso Japanesee steakhouse with about 20 of our closest friends! We had such a great time and Kennedy was very well behaved. Much to our suprise She loved the sound of the drums and all of the loud noises! On Saturday we headed over some friends house for a goodbye party for John and Tara as well! There were about 25 people there and Kennedy was spoiled rotten, because everyone wanted to hold her! We were there until about mid-night and then headed home because mommy & daddy were pooped. But our party girl was wide awake! We finally went to bed at 1:30am! We spent all of Sunday laying around the house in our pj's and snuggling on the couch! It's been a fun-filled busy weekend! We hope all of you have a great week!


Watching Tv with Daddy
Hanging out
Our dinner group

We had another great night of sleep! Kennedy seems to love her "straight jacket" She slept for 4.5 hours last night, woke up to eat and went back down for 3 more! Yay! We thought we were going to have a great day but Mommy had to call daddy home from work this afternoon because her incision started to bleed! We raced to the Dr's office AGAIN and had to get poked and cleaned back up. Back on antibiotics for infection and staying out of the water. I will go back in next Thursday to be checked again! This is really starting to annoy me! I have been following the Dr's orders and doing pretty much nothing and every week its the same thing! I can't wait to get out and exercize, I'm going nuts! But I did loose another 5 lbs! So that was good news! Well, I uploaded a couple of pictures! Hope everyone has a great day... back to being a bum! lol!



I was on a mommy's website yesterday and saw this really cute idea. We have to choose a stuffed animal and every month on your child's birthday take a picture of her next to it to see how she changes and grows! Yesterday Kennedy turned one month! So Kendal and I choose the chimpanzee that papa got her (since we all call dad "Chard" short for Richard, we named the chimp "CHARD-PANZEE"!) As of right now, they are the same size! lol!

So as most of you know little miss Kennedy has been giving mommy and daddy quite a hard time in the evenings. She is such an angel during the daytime but once the sun goes down she turns into a completely different baby. She won't sleep in her bed because it isn't as soft as our bed or the couch, she hates sleeping flat on her back because she is very gassy and uncomfortable and when she does sleep on her back she wiggles her arms around so much she smacks herself in the face and wakes herself up. Well, we all know what a problem solver Kendal is, so we headed to BabiesRus yesterday when he got home from work on a mission. $75.00 Later we had a solution and Mommy & Daddy got the best nights sleep in 4 weeks! Here was Kendal's solution!







Specially designed swaddling blanket -aka- STRAIGHT JACKET:-)

Memory Foam Pad with elevated neck and head OH AND a heart beat simulator!

New, gentler formula for gassy and fussy babies!

Happy 4th of July!

We had a blast celebrating Kennedy's first holiday! We slept in until about 11:30am because our party girl stayed up until 6:30 in the morning and mommy & daddy were exhausted!! Once we rolled out of bed, Kennedy got dressed in the cutest little dress ever, we packed up the cooler and headed over to a cookout/pool party with about 15 other families. The weather was awesome ( not too hot for once) and the fire works were flying. Our daughter decided to pee through her out-fit about 2 hours into the party...I told Kendal there was a good reason I had to buy two spare red, white and blue out-fits!!! LOL! We hung around the cook out until about 9pm and then headed down the road to some other friends home for some yummy dessert! The boys stared playing video games and it was well after 11:30pm by the time we got home! It was a long day but we had a great time! We wish we could have made it to the fire works but decided we would rather wait until next year when KT is a bit older and would be way more fun:-) We hope everyone has a great & RELAXING weekend!!! God Bless America!

She's Three Weeks Today!!

I can't believe how time flies once you have a child! These past three weeks have gone by so quickly. Mom, Dad and Carli left yesterday morning and Kendal and I were both pretty bummed! It was so nice to have family around and not to mention all of the extra help! Kendal is on nights this week, so I'm still pretty spoiled because he gets home around 4-5am and he doesn't mind staying up until 7ish with Kennedy so I can get some zzzzz's. And then he's up and keeping me company around 2:30pm! She will be a month old before I am ever left completely alone with her! LOL! Kennedy is doing great! She is sleeping a little bit better and looks like she probably weighs over 8lbs by now! She is focusing on our faces and watching bright lights! Kendal and I used to be BIG tv watchers but we find ourselves not even turning on the tube as we now have much more exciting entertainment! When I was pregnant I couldn't count the days fast enough but now that our angel is here I wish I could just keep the clock from ticking so quickly! We can't wait to share her in person with the rest of our families! Love to all!

Hi Everyone! So I guess 1am will be my new blogging time. Kennedy has been on the same schedule since last Friday. She seems to wake up around 9pm and stays pretty fussy until around 1-1:30am! Daddy goes to sleep around 10:30pm and KT and mommy stay up rocking and listening to the country music channel. I had no idea I knew the words to so many songs! LOL! We took Kennedy to the doctor this morning. She gained a whole pound in the last week! Clocking in a 7lbs 3 oz. She has a little bit of baby acne which the doctor says could stay with her for up to 3 months.We are watching her birth mark for any changes just because it is so large but other than that she is doing excellent!! My doctor also called this morning and turns out I have a pretty bad infection in my insicion, so I'm on an antibiotic and go in on Thursday morning again! I feel great and have a pretty good amount of energy, so hopefully that will all clear up soon! Papa and Aunt Carli are driving in tomorrow in the middle of the night and should get here sometime Thursday afternoon! I know they just can't wait to get here and visa versa! Well, motherhood is calling...the swing only works for so long...LOL!

Daddy's Girl!!

We are having a great week so far. Grandma has been spoiling mommy and letting her sleep lots and lots! Kennedy is doing great. She has little chub rolls in her thighs now and lost her belly button yesterday morning! We went to print pictures on Thursday and after looking at 97 pictures, I have two pictures of me and K.T. and we have over 30 pictures of her and Kendal. Every chance he has he is holding her. I've dubbed him "the baby hog" She perks up everytime he talks to her, he's the only one who can get really great burps out of her, and they are always falling asleep and cuddling together. It makes me smile and well up with tears and I catch myself staring at the two of them constantly! I love watching them together! Its such an amazing feeling to have such a happy family and I never knew it was possible to love two people SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!
Hope you all have a great weekend!

Complete Exhaustion!!!

Sorry I haven't blogged in so long, but as you can imagine we've been quite busy! Kennedy is growing more and more everyday! Just in the last week Kendal and I have both noticed how different she is looking since we first brought her home! She sleeps through the night pretty well. Only waking up about every 2-3 hours to eat and be changed and then she falls right back to sleep! Although she sleeps so well, I was starting to feel the effects of the lack of sleep at the beginning of the week! Thank God grandma Peck arrived Tuesday morning! She wasn't here for more than 30 minutes when Kendal headed upstairs and took a 2 hour nap! I fell asleep soon after that as well! Kendal was headed back to work the next morning so to ensure he could get an ample amount of sleep that evening Kennedy and I moved into the spare room with Grandma! After an hour and a half of Grandma getting out of bed every 4-6 minutes to make sure Kennedy was sleeping, I couldn't take it anymore. She was making me
so nervous and anxious! So I got up, grabbed all of my pillows and pulled the bassinet back into my bedroom! It was so halarious so I've been told to watch me limp with a stack of pillows dragging my child in her bed across the hall, waking up my husband, yelling I'm sorry Mom but I just can't sleep with you...you're a nut! Since then, Grandma and Daddy sleep through the night and I wake up with K.T. through out the evening so that through the day I can take little cat naps and Grandma can watch her! Its working out quite nice and I am trying not to get too used to it because Grandma is going to go home eventually! I'm very blessed to have such a wonderful baby and such an understanding mom and hubby! We should have more pictures up this week! But I have to go eat my birthday cake...The years are only going to fly by now!! Hope you are all having an awesome week!

She's Finally Here!
Well, its been a very long week but our angel is finally at home! We couldn't be happier (or more exhausted, lol) I will write more later, but I have to go tend to a poopy diaper for now! So enjoy the photos!

The day has finally come!

It's midnight, the eve before we go in to get this event underway and of course I can't sleep. However, my husband is upstairs right now snoring away! I've wanted this day to come for so long and now I think I'm having a minor heart attack. I'm not nervous about being a mom what so ever, I'm not over whelmed by the exhaustion I am soon facing, I'm not even worried about the adjustment of having a new born at home. BUT... I am panicking about the severe pain I am about to experience.
At this point most woman resort back to being little girls and are asking for their mom's. But I want the one person who I know can make me feel secure and calm...
I want my daddy:-(
Growing up, I was very accident prone. Always had some sort of a stomach ache, sore throat, or a twisted ankle! And even though the mere sight of a needle can send my dear old dad straight to his knees he was the one who always took me to the doctor or E.R. He would hold my hand, cheer me on when I had to drink some nasty medicine, and play with all of the instruments in the room to make me laugh so I wouldn't think about why we were there in the first place. Even when I was practically on my death bed with my stomach split open for two weeks, he was with me everyday making me laugh, sneaking me milk shakes, and even pouring a quarter of my barium down the sink for me and telling the nurse I drank it, just so I wouldn't have to suffer anymore! My poppy has always been my comfort blanket when I have been in pain and I'm going to admit I secretly wish he was w/ me tomorrow. Although I'm sure Kendal will do an amazing job holding my hand and telling me everything will be okay, he has never been a witness to me when I have been in severe pain or feeling super ill! I'm afraid he's going to think he married a devil woman! lol! He will do great! I just want my dad to know I wish he was with me too and I can only hope Kennedy will have the same kind of relationship with Kendal that I have with my daddy! Well, I suppose I should go try to get some rest, next time ya'll read this I'LL BE A MOMMY!
Love to all:-) Especially you grandpa!!!!!

TGIF!


Well, its our very last weekend before becoming parents, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my husband for putting up with me for the last 9 months! I know I have been difficult (to say the very least) and he has been wonderful through it all! Whether it was bringing me a tissue because I was sitting on the couch crying for no reason at all, running out and getting me strawberry smoothies almost every night for 2 months straight, rubbing my feet (even though they smelled like rotten eggs after work) or attending EVERY SINGLE doctors appointment with me, Kendal has been the worlds most supportive husband/daddy-to-be every step of the way! When you read this, if you would, please keep Kendal in your prayers or send him a little sympathy e-mail...he needs it. Just the other night I had another, what I like to call, "hormone overload" and I told Kendal I needed to wash the kitchen floor. He looked at me and said, then go get the bucket and wash it. But I looked back at him with the most pouty face possible and said "I don't want to use that bucket anymore, I want a new one, and I want it to be pink!" He jumped up and said very loudly "Well then, by all means woman, lets go get you a flippin PINK bucket"
So we got in the car and drove to wal-mart. He held my hand and led me to the cleaning supply area and showed me a variation of cleaning buckets. I looked at them and then looked up at him and said "but they're not pink!" So he grabbed my hand and practically drug me to another area of the store and found me another group of buckets! But guess what...Those weren't pink either! So off we went, still on a mission. He found me, pink glasses, and pink bowls, a pink basin, even a pink shoe, but no pink bucket. As we continued on our hunt I found another group of buckets in the car area. These buckets were yellow, blue, green even orange. And after looking for a pink bucket for over an hour I was content to settle on the orange bucket. But not Kendal, he put that orange bucket down, grabbed my hand and tugged me the other direction. He said, we aren't leaving this darn store until we find you a pink bucket. After still searching for another 20 minutes and not having any luck, he let me buy the orange bucket. We laughed the entire time and on our way home Kendal looked at me and said, "its my turn to blog, I'm going to tell everyone how I spent my entire evening looking for a pink bucket because my wife is pregnant and crazy"
So, needless to say, I have decided to tell on myself for my hubs, because he's just to nice to rat me out! It just goes to show, that I do really have to worlds greatest husband and I couldn't have asked for any better! I love you so much honey, and I can't wait to see how well Kennedy gets you wrapped around her little finger too! J/K You're going to be an amazing daddy!
Have a terrific weeekend everyone!

BABY UPDATE:

We went to the doctor this morning and guess what everyone...This was the very first appointment when doc didn't have anything to say about my weight! I only gained 1 LBS this time...Waaahhhooo! I know, I know, you're all saying "its only been a week since your last appt" but I was pretty excited! Any how... we have to be at the hospital by 6 am on Monday morning. After about 2 hours of paperwork and admitting my doctor should arrive around 8am! She will then start me on an antibiotic for the "b bacteria" and then cervidal to help me start dialating. She said some women react great to the "help" and have a baby within several hours and others may lay there for a good 16 hours before anything happens! She has a feeling I will be one of those 16+ hour girls! If she still isn't with us by noon on Tuesday, Dr Orr assured me she won't let me be tourtured anymore and we will re-evaluate our options! But as of right now, the plan is to go all natural... we'll see how long I can take it!
Thats it for now...I think Kendal and I are off to the pool today, its too beautiful outside to spend one more minute in this house! Happy Tuesday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

Well, today is a big one! Mom is 50!!! Whoa! Just kidding ma!
Not too much going on this week! Kendal is on alert so we are pretty much stuck at home! We have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning at 9 am! So I will have a baby update for everyone in the morning! Other than that, we are just enjoying the quiet of the house for one more week! Only 6 more days...HOLY COW!