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Well, Kensie didn’t make it to the main event tonight! I guess we will have to find another day to rock her American flag romper and bow. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This momma is NOT complaining, though! We had such a fun day at Aunt Ashley and Uncle Will’s pool party. 

Safe to say Kensie had a blast with some of her favorite people! She is over her pool float (prefers to be held while she splashes) but Aunt Ashley got her to tolerate it for a few minutes. 

Then she kept drinking the pool water so we took her out. 🙄😂

Kensie took a break from playing in the pool to watch Moana and take a nap. We actually got 2 naps out of her in the middle of the party so that was a solid parenting win! 

We came home around Kensie’s bedtime to feed the pups and bathe K and she was heavy eyed. After she ate she went right to sleep without a sound so we cancelled our firework plans! Luckily we had enough neighbors blowing things up that we basically missed nothing. 

Thanks to her sound machine (and being exhausted from playing) Kensie slept through all of it! Maybe next year she’ll make it to the fireworks.

KB spent her Monday in recovery mode!!

We had a longggg morning nap and a long afternoon nap to go with it! By we I mean her. Not sure if she was recouping from the busy weekend or from not sleeping through the night. 🙄

Kens had a special lunch date with daddy and some friends! She loves to “participate” now. (That means climb all over and try to grab things off the table).  I gave her some bread and she was extremely pleased with her situation. 

This afternoon Aunt Emmy came to play with Kensie while I coached a few classes! K was happy as could be to have someone watch her play. 

(I couldn’t find K’s gold bow again after lunch so we switched to pink.)

Kensie made a guest appearance at the end of class to run the cool down. 

One thing is for sure: KB loves being the center of attention. She was ALL smiles as she crawled into the middle and looked at everyone. 

Today was an extra special day because it’s Aunt Shell’s birthday!!! Go figure we got a sweet gift in the mail from her today. 

Now that we are back home and her schedule was normal, we gave the whole “cry it out” thing another shot tonight. K didn’t even make it to crying! She fussed some and was out in less than 10 minutes. Phew! She cried real tears last night and I couldn’t let her do it. I felt too bad from the long day she had so I picked her up and let her sleep with me instead. Oops. 🤷🏼‍♀️

It was competition weekend for mom & dad Kensie was our number one fan! I probably should have posted the days separately but since I didn’t, get ready for a photo overload. 😏

Having a baby to feed in between WODs was quite the experience. We were extremely thankful that Grandpa and Grandma came to cheer us on and help and watch K while we competed! 

Kensie had a slight meltdown on Saturday as she fought off a nap and was hungry and flat out wanted her momma. I was in the middle of a workout so thankfully my mom walked her around where I couldn’t see her so I wouldn’t have an anxiety attack! Lol 

When we finished, my mom powers kicked in and I went from trying to breath and recover on all fours to having to hold this babe and feed her. Becoming a mom really improves your recovery time. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Kens was our team mascot so she had to jump in on some photos in between crawling all over the place. 

After competing Saturday, we had a gender reveal party to go to for one of my best friends! We were late – but she loves us so she waited before they did the big shebang!

On Sunday morning we got to watch Coach Murii in her weightlifting competition before we competed. She was the WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!!!

Kensie was such a great babe for having to “sit” most of the day when she really just wanted to play, play, play (aka crawl)! I’m pretty sure Gramma and Grandpa are going to sleep well tonight after all the energy they spent keeping K baby entertained and distracted from wanting to get down and explore. 

Kens didn’t sleep well in her pack and play (up every 1.5 hours Friday night 😵) and just wanted to be in bed with mommy and daddy. I was extra thankful for daddy taking over bath duties and bedtime on Saturday so I could have some time to relax!

KB finished off the weekend by hanging with her boyfriend, Jake. He shared his Cheerios (her first ever and she loved them), she grabbed his cheek and smooched him as usual and they posed in their Gym onsies. 

It was an awesome weekend competing after a year and a half off! Super proud of this crew and thankful for their support, hard work, great teamwork and the memories we made! (So sentimental, I know). 



I already posted our twinning photo, but it’s worth adding to her blog, too. 😉

I lucked out with the BEST version of KB on Friyay!! 

We are heading out of town for a competition this weekend and she was not only a trooper while we ran errands and got packed, but she slept the whole drive to Jacksonville! We made a quick pit stop at my High School for my 10 year reunion weekend! 😳

Kens didn’t eat much before we went in and it was close to bed time so I was prepared for a cranky baby. Thankfully, it was quite the opposite. 

Kens also fed herself a bottle in the car. How the heck did she get so good at that when she rarely has a bottle?

K was pumped that she got to sit in the “big girl” part of the stroller while we ran errands today! 

Kensie had so much fun rearranging the closet and crawling ALL around the house. I was trying to wear her out before she had to sit in the car for 3 hours and I’d say it was a success. 

Hoping this bugaboo lets me get some sleep tonight because I’m surely going to need it!! 

Today, Kensie confirmed 2 things:1. The necklace is working

2. No afternoon coffee was also working 

I got brave yesterday and figured it would be fine to have a coffee while I coached the 4pm class. How wrong I was!!! This nugget woke up FIVE freaking times last night. 

It also kept me up until 1:30am. I had a ton of things to get done before this weekend so that was sort of a good thing – but now I’m running on fumes. 

KB was down at 7:30. Up at 10:30, 12:30, 2, 3, 5 something, and ready to start her day just before 7am. No. Just noooo. Lesson learned!!!

As for the necklace? I had to coach this morning so it threw off our normal routine and I forgot to put her Teething necklace on. I didn’t notice until we got to the gym. 

Kensie started the day out great and playing in her baby jail longer than she ever has all alone and with no fussing! 

While I was coaching she was ready for her nap so I picked her up and had a sweet (heavy) cuddle bug. 

We had some errands to run before going home and that’s where the happy streak ended. As I was finishing up, K was tired and starting to get hungry and she lost it. Real tears and all. Kens always relaxes on a car ride but the whole way home she was screaming (same as Sunday). Better believe I put that sucker back on the second we got in the door! 

Kensie got in a long afternoon nap and all was right with the world again. 

Tonight I let her (sort of) cry it out for the first time. 😔 She’s definitely at an age where I can tell she’s crying for attention and she knows I will come get her. While I don’t mind that she just wants mama, it makes it a lot harder for Chris to get her down when I’m not home and she’s starting to do it more and more and it just enables her to keep fighting sleep (as she rubs her eyes). 

Luckily, it didn’t last nearly as long as I thought it would! She did her “give me attention” fussing for a while then it turned to real tears. At first I picked her up and laid with her. She kept going back and forth from being ALMOST asleep to wide awake playing. After 15 minutes of that I put her back in her crib and decided she needed to put herself to sleep. She played for a bit then the fussing started again, followed by crying. 

We held strong and waited it out a little bit. I gave myself tasks to do and decided I wouldn’t go in until I was done, if she was still crying. I mainly needed the tasks for distraction or I would have just given up and walked in. About 30 minutes later, I realized it was quiet. I went in to check and sure enough she gave it up and went to sleep. I feel slightly guilty about it and do love snuggling with her…but it’s nice to know she’ll give it up before too long! I was pretty certain that she would stay up all night and scream so I fully intended on giving up before she did. Haha!

Here’s to what’s hopefully a better (and much longer) night of sleep for us both!!

Holy chow cow! Other than eat, Kensie didn’t do much today. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Kensie rarely “cluster fed” even as an infant; so, she made up for lost time today. She usually goes 3-4 hours between eating. Today? Maybe 2. (Excuse her blue bib and lack of bow. She told me to stop filming without it but I was too busy feeding the bottomless pit to dress her appropriately for photos.)

Kensington kicked the morning off with a blowout. Maybe that’s why she was hungry. She emptied the tank! (TMI?)

Other than about 6 gallons of breast milk, Kensie had a pretty fun lunch! I made her the corner of a peanut butter sandwich because I really just wanted to see what she’d do. 

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😂😂 So there’s that. Good news? She’s not allergic? Great news? Definitely my child. 

She sucked the peanut butter off and possibly swallowed parts of the bread. The rest was just a soggy mess. She also had her favorite zuchinni (we added yellow squash today) and some puffs. Well balanced, eh?

This afternoon Kensie Brooke coached the 4pm class. 

She also got to see Miss Amanda for the first time in a few weeks! K must have missed her because she rarely gives hugs to anyone but momma and Amanda got quite a few long ones!!

Kensie didn’t take her eyes off her while she worked out. The photo doesn’t show it all, but she was staring at her and then started sticking her tongue through the gate. 🤦🏼‍♀️

And to thank you all for reading down this far – this video is for your entertainment. 

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If you’re STILL reading, I’d also like to share my mom struggle of the day: My current phone doesn’t understand the need to take way too many photos of Kensie each day and keeps making me miss all the good ones with the stupid “cannot take photo – you dont have storage” notification. (Sidenote: I load everything to Dropbox and only have a few apps I actually use on my phone. I delete photo texts daily too and my phone still says that 😩) So, Apple, if you’d like to sponsor Bows of Kensington, we will take a rose gold 7+. Thanks! 

I’m officially crediting the Amber necklace for the smiley girl I had today! 

Kensie was happy as could be and chatted allll day long.  She also learned how to pull herself up all the way to standing. 😳

K was getting into EVERYTHING today. Luckily her good mood kept her from pitching a fit when I kept telling her no and relocating her but why is it that she wants to be in literally the ONE spot in the room she shouldn’t be and out of the 72883 toys she only wants what isn’t hers? And thank goodness I just covered the outlets because she wanted to play in those today as well. I always thought that was a stupid thing. Like “cover the outlets so babies don’t stick their fingers in there!” …umm what? Why would they do that? No clue but apparently they do. Or at least mine does…🤦🏼‍♀️

Kensie also has an obsession with shoes. Not a good one. One where she likes to put anyone and everyone’s shoes in her mouth. 

It’s official the only food K really likes in her mouth is zuchinni. 🤷🏼‍♀️ She tolerates the other things I feed her but zuchinni is the only food she will finish and want more of! 

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Kens was a great nap taker today and while she fought bedtime for a bit tonight, I’d say ultimately I won. She finished eating and literally ROLLED off of me and went to sleep like this. 😂

Either the necklace is working or I got lucky today! Kensie was back to being a happy girl and she even has a (sort of) new trick. 

If we’re Snapchat friends I’ve already spammed you with one too many videos of this so here’s another for good measure.  😉 (Sidenote – my newest obsession is Instagram story; so basically, RIP Snapchat.)

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​K now knows that “yay” goes with clapping!! She even says it sometimes! (Well it sounds like that anyway.) 

She had a great morning playing, going for a walk and she took both of her naps without a fuss!

Since Kens was in a good mood I wanted to see if she’d eat lunch on her own. I gave her puffs so she could feed herself and I was so excited that she ate them all!

Haaaa got me good. She didn’t eat them all. I was so impressed until I discovered the truth. Lol!

This afternoon Rob brought popsicles to the gym!! 

Kensie was still a happy babe this afternoon as long as I didn’t put her in baby jail and ignore her. I needed to set her down, so I put her in her car seat and she went straight to sleep! 

For now, I’m a believer in this necklace! We shall see how tomorrow goes…

Holy cry baby Day!! We purchased an Amber Teething Necklace and I am really hoping it works for this poor babe because today was ROUGH (for the both of us). 

Kensie didn’t want to eat before church so I ended up having to leave in the middle to feed her. When I brought her back to the nursery I got her distracted enough with toys to sneak out but by the time I got back K was losing it. 

 Kens continued to cry when I put her in the car seat and the ENTIRE drive to brunch. It was a super sad cry and she kept pulling on her gums and the side of her mouth. 😔

I finally got her to settle down and she passed out right before our food came. She took a solid nap; slept through brunch and the entire ride home. Thank you sweet baby Jesus for the 90 minutes of peace today. 

I totally get the “it hurts me more than it hurts you” phrase now. Her teething drama gave me a killer headache and wore me the heck out! 

We got her the necklace but she only had it on for about 2 hours before she went to bed tonight so I’ll have to see how it goes tomorrow. I know a few people that have tried them and they swear by them! 

Oh – and we’re holding off on that whole “sleep training” so she’ll sleep through the night attempt. I figure she’s going through enough right now and I don’t think any of us can handle another dramatic life event. 🙄 

If you don’t hear from me tomorrow it’s safe to assume the necklace didn’t help and Kensie’s crankiness officially did me in. 😝

What. A. Day! Kensie had a lot going on today and my favorite part is that she kicked it off by sleeping in!!

Thankfully, I had a much happier baby today! After the first 45 minutes at the gym she was over playing by herself. I still had an entire workout to get done, so I got creative!  

Afterward we had to hang at the gym a little longer than usual for a Nutrtion Seminar. Kensie didn’t seem to mind…

This afternoon we had a pool party/baby shower to attend. Kens had a BLAST. I don’t have many photos – but this girl loved hanging in the water. She doesn’t love her float because she feels restricted. K is all about sitting on the stairs or just being held in the water so she can splash. Her swim lessons finally start in 2 weeks and I can’t wait to see how she does! (More survival than swim, but you get my point). 

Kensie was extra sweet and snugly tonight so I decided we are having a slumber party. Maybe this will be the magic trick to her not waking up in the middle of the night. 😉 This is sleep training, right? 😝