Tree

We bought a Red Oak Tree.  I think it is so sad all these neighborhoods without trees, it is just not right.  Growing up in SA in a gorgeous neighborhood, it is hard for me not to have trees.  It makes me sad that we have to buy a swing set for Kennedy because there is not tree to hang a swing from or the fact that Kennedy won't be climbing any trees in our yard.  But, that is not just our new neighborhood, that is tree-less Corpus.  So, we finally bought a tree and are excited that in 20 years it will be big.  I know Kennedy will be excited to climb it when she goes off to college.

 Barrett highly enjoyed digging this hole in our clay/rock soil.

 And now we can measure Kennedy's growth with her tree.  We officially call it her tree.

 Check out this outfit that daddy came home with from Academy.

 Cutest butt I have ever seen.

Bible Class

 Kennedy is such a big girl that Sunday March 18th she went to big girl Bible class.  I was your typical first time mom and stayed to take some pictures of her in class, plus I wanted to see her reaction to it all.  Barrett and I stayed for about 5-10 minutes and she was loving it.  They were singing songs and Kennedy thought it was so cool....for about 30 minutes that is.  As I was leaving her class to go to class, my shoe broke.  I contemplated going barefoot in church, but decided I didn't really want to go that route so headed home to change me shoes.  (I had been meaning to buy new shoes since Christmas and just never got around to it) I text Barrett that I have gone home and race to make it back.  I get back to our class and literally am there for 5 minutes when Barrett and I hear our child screaming in the hall at the same time someone comes to get me.  Her teacher said that all of a sudden she looked around and realized that momma wasn't there and got upset.  It didn't help that she hadn't had a morning nap either.  You can tell class was a packed house that Sunday.

 Kennedy kept trying to touch Ethan and he was not having it.

 Kennedy loved the cars.

 She is just so big.

 This is the family car headed to Bible class

 Her teacher zoomed the car across the table to Kennedy and Kennedy just laughed.  She thought that car moving was so funny.

 Look how excited her face is for that finger puppet.

 She was digging those finger puppets.

Since this weekend happened, Kennedy had her second Bible class.  She cried while we were leaving, but they said she got over it quickly and enjoyed class.  Kennedy we are so excited to share stories of Jesus with you and can't wait until to see how He molds your heart throughout your life.

Aquarium

As an early Easter Bunny present Grammy and Pa bought us season passes to the aquarium.  Barrett gets a discount from work and we were going to buy the pass when my parents informed us that they were planning on buying us that for Easter.  But we had already planned to go on my Spring Break because it fell on Barrett's Friday off.  So we bought it and ruined the Easter surprise, whoops.

  It was packed, literally a line from the door to this whale's tail, which was about a 45 minute wait.  Luckily if you are a season pass holder we walked right in to the madness that was the crowd at the aquarium.  But, it was worth it because Kennedy was in heaven.  She loved people watching and LOVED the tanks.

So, we get her ready after her nap to go to the aquarium and I have a bottle ready for her.  Barrett feeds about 2 of the 6 ounces to her in the car and then hops out of the car to see how long it would take to get in for season pass holders.  Well, he put her bottle in her carseat with her and somehow it got flipped over.  By the time I have parked the car she was soaked and the bottle was empty.  Which meant she had no more food and I couldn't nurse her because i was empty from just pumping. But i thought, ok I have lunch solid food for her and 2 ounces of formula for her cereal so she can eat that and we will go through really quick and then head home.  It is no problem right because i am a well prepared mom who has an extra outfit in her diaper bag.....not so much.  her outfit was for 3 months of age which was 2 sizes ago.  Great, she is soaked with 4 ounces of milk with no food...fun.  But I just thought that we had driven all the way out there and she was gonna see at least one fish.  So I took her in, poor baby with a soaked bottom.  But, she was happy as a lark and the 2 ounces of her milk snack held her over until she ate her lunch and the day was perfect after that.

I love this picture of daddy and Kennedy gazing at the fish.

We are trying to get better about being in pictures with Kennedy.  We take tons of just her, but are trying to get in the pictures with her so we have proof mom and dad were there.

This was her favorite tank, we stood there for about 20 minutes and she would have stayed longer but we needed to keep on going.  She was mesmorized.

This summed up the day...she had a blast.

look at those chunky legs, I can't get enough of them!

i am so excited to see the turtles

This turtle was fond of Kennedy for some reason and kept checking her out.

This is what she did the whole time at the aquarium.  You can't tell really this far away but she would kick her feet out, scream, and wave her hands because she was so excited.

This was our happy girl, even though she was up for 4 hours!  After the aquarium we concluded our family date with lunch at Barrett's favorite place, Drunkin Noodle.  Kennedy enjoyed her prunes and cereal and was one tired girl.  Barrett tried so hard to keep her awake the whole way home so she could take a good nap in her bed and she almost made it.  When we got home she stayed asleep until i lifted her out of her car seat (which NEVER happens, she wakes up at the smaller bump on the road) but laid in her crib and slept for over 2 hours.  She was exhausted but happy!

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!