Month: June 2017

Well if the stomach bug didn’t completely wear me out, this child decided to finish off the job! Kensie spent her day in Crank town USA. 

Please don’t be fooled. This is her “I don’t want to eat or play or sleep or be held or be sat down” face. And once you look at her she pulls a fast one on you. 

We had a few good moments but they were sandwiched with drama. K was loving her lunch…

Until she wasn’t. On the bright side – she LOVES pouches! K likes that she can put them in her mouth all by herself; however she also turns them upside down and pours all of the food out. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Kensie was pretty content at the gym in the morning. I can’t say the same for the afternoon. At least we got a quick workout in that she enjoyed. 

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After the gym I went to see Finding Neverland with Ashley for her birthday so dad got the night shift. Boy did she make him work for it. Kensie capped off the day with a full on meltdown before she finally took her bottle and went to bed. 😪

Not sure if she’s not feeling well, going stir crazy because we have been off our routine, teething, or just having a moment – but this momma (and dad) is ready for it to pass! 

Good thing you’re so dang cute, KB!

Welp, the plague has officially worked its way through the Hall house…and has emerged out onto everyone else. 😔

Luckily, other than being cranky and sleepy today, K dodged it. I’m convinced it’s the magic of breastfeeding. After being up most of the night with Chris being sick, we all spent the day in our PJs, washing everything in sight and taking extra long naps. 

Kensie was pretty short tempered this morning but she got better as the day went on. She did seem extra happy about daddy being home! They got some one-on-one time while I coached this afternoon and I came home to a super smiley baby!

I think we were both going a little crazy being cooped up in the house the last 2 days so K got dressed and we took the pups on a walk for some fresh air. Kensie had a HUGE smile on her face the entire time! 

Unfortunately that smile left when I wanted to take her photo. She had no interest in posing for me today. 🙄

Hoping for a healthy rest of the week and that all of our sweet friends kick this bug quickly, too! 

I officially earned my mom card today. Momming is the one job you can’t “call in sick” for and damn did I wish I could. 

I only got one photo of K baby today while we played this morning before I came down with the plague. 

I got a Snapchat video, too. 

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When I headed in to coach this morning my stomach felt a little weazy but not too awful. By the time I got home, I spent the better part of my day hovered over a toilet. 

Kensie was an angel baby today, considering. It also helped that I have the most amazing friends that went out of their way to help me today. 

Sam Sam came over with pepto, Sprite and crackers and fed Kens lunch and hung with her for a little. 

Shortly after Sam showed up the doorbell rang – a dude named Stephen showed up with all of this:

Michelle found a way to get it sent to me and make me feel better all the way from freaking Afghanistan!!!

Then, this afternoon Andrea took over my class and Ashley came by to help with K but when she got here we were both passed out napping. 🙈

Let’s just say it was a longgg day of waiting for Chris to get home and take K so I could relax…and Kensie seemed pretty excited about her extra daddy time tonight! 

To all my awesome friends that checked in and offered to come help me – you’re freaking amazing and it means a lot to me to have such a great group of people in my life! Being sick wth a baby is a whole new adventure and it surely takes a village. 

Well, going on 45 minutes of keeping down 3 sips of Sprite so here’s to what’s sure to be a fantastic night…🤢

Ohhh Kensie Brooke. My sweet little sleepy head. 

I’m covering some morning classes this week and had to be at the gym early so Chris could head into work. This child has woken up by 6:30am the last 3-4 days. Today when I actually needed her up? Of course she’s sleeping harder than she’s slept in a month. 

I tried to wake her. Nothing. Picked her up. She snored on my shoulder. 

Luckily she was a happy girl when she woke up in her car seat. It took a little creativity, but she was pretty content while I got some things done. 

This afternoon K had a TON of fun at the gym. She had so many friends and she was loving life!

Kensie was SO tired around 5p but even though she gave me and daddy sweet snuggles and pretended like she was going to pass out – it never happened. I hosted Bachelorette night so I was hoping KB would cooperate and go to bed even though she’s usually super cranky without a nap. 

I got her a sound machine today to see if it would help her fall asleep alone; I’m not sure that it worked for that but it was a life saver in drowning out the noise from us talking the whole time! 

Considering her extrmely short and nonexistent naps today, Kens went to bed pretty easily! I haven’t let her completely “cry it out” but I’ve learned her “fuss” vs her “cry” and while it feels like she’s fussing forever, after about 60-90 seconds she goes one way or the other. Either full blown meltdown or silence while she plays with something in her crib and falls asleep.

Lucky for me K was too tired to cry so the only casualty was the cupcakes I bought. Can’t win ’em all…

I mentioned her backwards crawl the other day…and today I got you guys a video of what happens when Kensie crawls the wrong way. 

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I’m excited for her to learn but I am really enjoying my last few days of her not being able to go too far from where I set her! Why do they have to grow SO FAST? 😰

KB had such an awesome, eventful weekend! She took her first crawl step FORWARD (she crawls backwards 🤷🏼‍♀️), talked literally ALL weekend, and got to try a few fun, new things!  On Saturday we drove to Jacksonville to celebrate Jake’s first birthday! We also discovered she loves kissing other babies…

If your child gets close to K, watch out. She grabs their face and gives a big, open mouthed smooch. 😂🙈

At least she’s a lover?

Kensie had so much fun playing with ALL the kids and was so good for the whole party! No fussing or crying or begging to be held for 3. Whole. Hours!!  

It was a baseball themed party so Kensie made sure her outfit was appropriate. 😉

And Bows of Kensington had the honor of making the party shirts, too!! 

After the party we met one of my best friends from home for dinner and Kensie had teething wafers for the first time!! She LOVED them and it was nice to give her something to eat to occupy her for a while so I could get a bite of my own food in my mouth without her trying to grab it. 

 

A friend of mine recommended these and they’re a hit in K’s book!

Kensie was an angel and slept on the car ride both ways! Phew!! 

Sunday K continued her baby kissing at church in the nursery. Let’s hope it’s just a phase…

After church of course we brunched! Kens had fun sitting in the booth like a big girl…and more fun sitting on the table playing with coasters. 

I picked up some squeeze pouches (I don’t know what they’re called) of food for “on the go” days and wanted to see if Kensie would eat out of them since she’s only ever been spoon fed. 

The answer is yes, yes she will. K LOVED eating from the pouch! She needed a little help squeezing since she kept trying to suck it, but she was a fan!

I bought these pouches that I can put her homemade food in – so I’m glad she loves them! 

This weekend flew by WAY too fast after last weekend being so long. Here’s to another night of hoping Kensie starts sleeping though the night. (I’ll just keep hoping for the next 8 years. Eventually it’ll happen, right?) 😜

Kensie had a LOT to say today. 

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I’m sure somewhere in her rambling she said “Happy National Donut Day!”

Kensie took the BEST long morning nap for me! She woke up early so she had a little meltdown before naptime and only wanted to sleep  in mama’s arms. Those days are quickly fading so I soaked it all in. I must still have the mama magic because instead of her usual 45 minute nap she was out for 2 hours!! #win

Caroline saved the day and came over to watch Kens so Chris and I could go to dinner with some friends baby free! K was passed out by 6:30 which is the earliest she’s ever gone to bed. The trade off was that she woke up at 9 and worked the tears hard…then I got this photo at 10:30:

K is going to be that kid in school that’s really good at tricking the substitute teacher into letting her do whatever she wants. 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

Mommas – help!!! How do you start feeding your babe “table” food? I’ve got conflicting info and I’m not sure what I want to do next. 

I’ve heard the “food before one is just for fun” phrase about a zillion times. At Kensie’s 6 month appointment our doctor said we can start once a day but it’s just to introduce taste and texture and told us to start with mashed avocado and rotate between orange and green foods. 

She also gave us this chart:

Well – this chart has a lot more food on it than the 1-2oz of puréed veggies K eats. 

Ped also said to follow it up with breast since she isn’t eating enough for it to fill her up; however, Kensie won’t feed after she eats solids for at least 90 minutes – so she’s obviously getting something out of it. 

I don’t want to introduce more food because I feel like she won’t drink enough milk, but I also don’t want her to get to one and not know how to chew or be familiar with table foods. 

SO – experiences? Suggestions? 

On to Kensie. She has a favorite food…it’s zuchinni! Haha K always makes a weird face at the first bite of everything. Today I tried to give her the last jar I had and it was “Oatmeal Peach Banana” and she made the worst faces and started spitting it at me. 😂 I gave her her zuchinni and her face lit up and she kept wanting more!! Go Kens!!

We had a MUCH better day today. K was so happy and sweet! She was the best at the gym this morning while I worked out and coached. She played the whole time and lots of clapping was involved!

Before our afternoon gym session we went over to Casey’s for a little bit and Kens got to show off all her new skills while Harper (Casey’s baby) napped. 

KB was such a good sport when we got back to the gym and got to spend some extra time with Daddy tonight! 

I coached a little later than usual so Chris took Kensie home and she went right to bed! WAHOO!!! 

Other than that – we successfully made it through one more day without Kensie completely starting to crawl. 😅

Welp, looking back on the photos I took of Kensie Brooke today I’m not actually sure how she is so happy in all of them because this child was SO CRANKY today. 

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​Such a boog. In between her crankiness, she got closer and closer to crawling!! She finally took ONE crawl “step”? (Is it called that?) Anyways, after that she crawled backward across the room. 🤷🏼‍♀️

She’s also pulling herself up on EVERYTHING (including in the bath, so that’s fun). 

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​K did have some sweet moments this morning. Actually, I think this started because she was fussing and wanted attention and it was before she completely wore me out. 

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Her giggles make everything better! She also fussed at me because she didn’t want to finish her lunch…then when I took out the camera she hammed it up. 

Kens woke up with a stuffy nose so we made a quick trip to see Dr. Christina (chiro)! Last time K started to get sick and we went, she kicked it in the next 2 days. The time we didn’t go, it was over a week and I had daily headaches from all the snot sucking I had to do. 

I spent way too long putting these super cute moccasins on K before we left…

And we didn’t even make it out of the house before she took them off her feet. 🙄

Again – these photos are seriously misleading. Kens spent most of the day fussing and fighting naps. Luckily she repaid me by going straight to bed after her bath. Phew! I’ll take it!!

OH – and I’m giving this “no afternoon coffee” thing until Sunday and if Kens isn’t sleeping any better they’re coming back because this mama was EXHASUTED today. 

As if I didn’t put enough videos in today’s post – I’ll leave you with this super cute one of Em and Kens “ballroom dancing”. 

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