6 months

How can this be....6 months already??  You are so much fun, every month is my favorite.  You just keep getting more and more funny and sweet and surely one of these days those cheeks are just going to fall off from being kissed so much.  You love grabbing your toes and sucking on your toes.  You love it when your socks come off.

You are sitting up, sleeping on your tummy as you constantly roll over.  You still hate being on your tummy during the day and still get so mad when it is hard for you to roll from tummy to back.  I am a little worried you may never crawl because you throw such a fit on your tummy.

 You love your dogs!  You have started babbling which makes this Speech Pathologist very proud.  You say "dada dada" all the time and still squeal.  You have also said /b/, /m/, /l/ and have played around with your vowel sounds.  There is no doubt you recognize and know your name and it is funny to see you learn more and more words receptively.  You know "all done" and when you get fussy in your bumbo and I say and sign "all done" you just smile with relief.

I am making you organic baby food and have had so much fun doing that.  There is so much pride in cooking and providing for your family I guess.  I love knowing that it is the very best and purest forms of food for your growing body and brain.  You love sweet potatoes, bananas, blueberries, pears, and recently your favorite is mango.  You are not the biggest fan of green beans or avocado, although you will eat them.  You will not even think about eating peas.  They literally make you gag.  You have peaches, apples, and zucchini left to try in the freezer.

You are still loving your hands and anything else that will fit in your mouth as you continue to teeth.  Oh teeth, would you please come in already!  I am praying they all pop out at once and the pain will stop for you.  Another pain that has come up is that you can't go to the bathroom now that solids have been introduced.  I didn't want to give you juice since I didn't see any reason to give you sugar, but alas you are now getting some pear juice to help you go potty....however it is not working.  You are also getting prunes, which surprisingly you don't seem to mind.  I pray everyday for relief for your belly.

Get a load of that drool.

Since the introduction of solid food you now make it 3 hours between meals which is heavenly for your momma.  From 6 weeks on you have eaten every 2 hours and 3 hours is such a treat.  You also are such a stellar napper now, taking at least 1 2 hour nap and occasionally 2 long naps.

You love being outside, you love swinging, your favorite song is "Skidda Marinky Dink" and "Animal Fair", you love sitting up on your own and no longer like the Bumbo, you love baths and get so excited when you hear the bath water running.  You also love the song "father Abraham" which I find really funny. 

You don't smile for strangers, you don't like being on your tummy, you don't like peas.....and I think that is about it.

You are about 15 pounds and 26 inches long.

Monkey Girl

She is moving as much as she can without being able to crawl, and pretty much is capable of getting most of everything she wants.
Kennedy has learned so many new tricks, like how to move her body in all different directions to get things she wants. She wants to eat all our foods and has spilled my drink many a times now. It is tough to get use to the fact that she reaches and grabs things now. Recently she has adopted a favorite feeding position. On one of the days I was working from home I observed her with the new position. Not only does she HAVE to see everything that is going on at all times, but now she wants to see it upside down too.
She tries to do this while nursing as well and doesn't work out as well for her!

Yummm

She is so big and ready to tear up some food, or cereal that it. This is our pretty girl before her first meal. 2.23.12After her first meal she decided to give Buddy some much needed attention and he was much obliged. She loves the dogs now. When she sees them she just beams and then will have the deepest conversations with them. It is funny too because Annie has started bringing Kennedy her toys and will drop them by Kennedy and whine like "why aren't you playing with me?". Kennedy is also loving to pull hair, earrings, lips, put her fingers in your mouth and up your nose.
This is a picture of our happy girl after her meal.
I love this one, pure joy! Could her mouth get any wider?
Checking momma's face out
Her first bite of cereal.
No funny faces at all, she liked it! Opened right up for the spoon and went to town. Who knows how much actually made it into her tummy but she was learning.

So I have been trying for 2 weeks now to upload a video of her petting Buddy and eating and it is not working again. What in the world? I am thinking it might be a blogger problem because it came up with this weird error message and asked me to contact support. Thanks a lot blogger for allowing me one day since I have had this blog to upload a video. geez. I am attempting one more time but if there is no video then that means I gave up. I have so many more things to blog about, I don't have time for this blogger!

February

So my mom came across this super healthy bread that is high in fiber from Whole Foods and I love it! She is so sweet that she orders it and brings it and we stock up our freezer with it. THe bread has all kinds of good grains and nuts in it. Barrett refers to it as "bird bread" and refuses to eat it. So as a joke one day my mom snuck some in his lunch and when Barrett sees it he sends a text that says, "I hope the birds are hungry". Cracked us up, except for the fact that he threw the bread away and it is expensive bread! He got in "trouble" with me for that.
Buddy Lee has been sick since December and so Barrett took him to the vet. We were nervous since he is over 10 years old that something may be seriously wrong with him and I think other than the fact that it is hard to get things done with a baby, we were avoiding really knowing what was wrong. Barrett said he was perfect at the vet and we are talking for a LONG time. I think Barrett was there for close to 4 hours. Buddy's lungs looked cloudy and the vet thought that he had an infection so gave him an antibiotic and cough medicine and he seems to be doing better. He even started playing with Annie again and his coughing is way better.
Barrett is pumped because he got a gun safe. Now this is going to go in our closet, don't worry it has to go on Barrett's side because I refuse to give us space for my stuff for guns that have to be in a fire safe place. Seriously though I am happy about it because it will be safer for the kids and I am tired of stubbing my toe on gun cases under my bed.
February would not be complete without the rodeo and the rodeo would no longer be the same without the Crafton kids. We started taking the kids to the rodeo when Hadley was 2 and this year Hadley, Linden, Channing, Pa, Gicki, Barrett and I loaded up and went to the grounds. In typical February fashion it was raining, but it was not too cold so i was thankful for that. Stacia offered to watch Kennedy since we had to get her kids anyways, so we did a kid trade. She was sweet enough to snap these precious pictures of Kennedy. I will post pictures from the rodeo later as I don't have those pictures and have other things I want to blog about. It is still difficult to go anywhere since K wants to nurse every 2 hours still. So by the time we got to the rodeo it was time for me to pump, so everyone went to walk the fair grounds and Barrett was sweet enough to keep me company in the van while I pumped. Then right after the rodeo I had to rush to the van to pump again. I am such an advocate for breast feedings and I love the benefits of breast milk, but I am seriously going to throw a party when I don't have to pump anymore!

Here is a picture of Kennedy's favorite posed. She loves sitting like a frog and grabbing her feet. She even has gotten her feet in her mouth before, which Barrett finds disgusting.

This was just a cute one I had to share with Kennedy wearing her tie-died onesie that Barrett's friends Josh's girlfriend made her.
And lastly, what Barrett calls "our little owl". Kennedy is not allowed to watch TV since all the research showing it is too much stimulation for their developing brain. So we use to be able to get away with turning her away and then we could watch a football game or something, well those days are over. Thank goodness for DVR! (which by the way is completely full and deleting shows we never have time to watch)

Day of Love

So one of our favorite pajamas are when Kennedy is a cow and yet we never remember to take a picture of her wearing it. One night after Barrett feed her the late night feeding he snapped this picture with his phone. Why is it that dressing kids up to look like an animal is so cute? Kennedy loves her exersaucer, that is for about 5-10 minutes. Then she gets frustrated because something won't do what she is trying to do and she will throw a big ol' fit. She will scream and yell and her face will get so red. We are doomed for terrible two's with that temper, but for now it is funny.
Grammy had a fun dress up day with Kennedy on Valentine's Day. I just can't get enough of these pictures. I mean really, how am I suppose to focus on work when I get a picture like this texted to me?
Check out this girl's outfit.

Look what I have...

I love this outfit from Nanna and I LOVE her chunky legs. She is starting to fill out that long body with some chunky legs, face, and her hands are plumping up too.
Barrett and I's Valentine's tradition usually is making Shrimp Paesano at home and having a romantic dinner. We don't do presents ( I know we are boringly practical), just cards and yes I expect chocolates and flowers! ha! Shrimp Paesano is a lot of messy clean up and not the easiest thing to make as everything has to be done at the same time. So instead I made lasagna the day before so it was a low stress evening, which in fact was absolutely just what we needed. We have never had a better Valentine's then a day playing with our girl and a peaceful relaxing dinner. I know everyone expects to go out to eat by themselves, but really with just one kid, we weren't really ready for that. We didn't have the desire to go out to eat by ourselves. Now, on the next child we will look forward to taking advantage of that time I am sure, but for now it was perfect just the 3 of us with nothing fancy.

Blast from the Past

So who knows why when I first got this computer that blogger wouldn't upload our videos? Maybe our internet was finicky at the time, who knows. So now I am wanting to document these special moments of videos that we have of Kennedy. Here are some oldies, that seem so long ago. It is amazing to go back to these videos and realize how much she has changed. Here is Kennedy Blair 3 days old, her first time to turn her head from side to side. Oh how she worked so hard at it and we were so proud. I just kept crying and crying because I knew she had worked and worked to turn that head!

This next video is funny. This was right after we brought Kennedy home from the hospital. Barrett was walking her around and the dogs just kept following him. Around and around and around they walked in circles, never letting their baby out of their sights.

This next one is one of my favorites. She was 2.5 months over Thanksgiving holiday and was talking so sweet to her daddy.

The next one is a favorite as well. This was a special moment in the morning one morning when Kennedy had just started smiling a lot. I remember when I would get one smirk a day and this was one of the first days where the smiles just kept coming and I couldn't get enough of them.

The last video, most have seen because it is on Facebook but it is a big laugh. Not good filming because I was by myself, but at least you can to hear her precious laughing.

And this post my friends is a result of a daughter who actually naps!

Yeah for videos

So I have so many videos to share and have been unable to for some reason. Now that the videos are actually uploading, I thought I would dedicate this post to some videos of Kennedy. This first video is a little clip of her blowing raspberries and bubbles. Not the best video but at least you get a glimpse.

This was her first day to really let the squealing rip

This video is awesome. My mom had videoed Kennedy squealing on her phone and then was playing it back and Kennedy would smile and giggle like she was so proud of herself!

So I have mentioned Elvis' magic power over Kennedy and here is a video of it. She wasn't that fussy but I love how you can just immediately see her relaxing and soothing like "ok everything is ok again". so far, it works every time.

Here is an older video of when kennedy was first able to rattle. It is short and seemingly uneventful, but at the time we were soooo proud of her. Look how tiny she is, makes me sad. I can't remember how old she was, guessing 3 months.