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Kensington was the BEST baby today!!! She was so happy and took lots of naps. We planned to go see Casey and Harper after K’s morning nap…and that “nap” lasted until 1pm when I finally got her up and changed her. No complaints here. It felt so nice to relax with my sweet girl for a few hours this morning after being so busy lately. 

Her new thing is to always be holding something. She loves the wubanubs (the pacifiers with the animal attached) because she likes to hold on to them! 

She’s started holding the legs and when I burp her she grabs the cloth off my shoulder and takes it with her! Haha!

This afternoon we went to see miss Harper and Aunt Casey before the gym. Love watching these little girls grow up together!

What their photo shoot was really like…

Tonight she hung out at the gym, came home and took her bath and ate and put herself to sleep in her crib at 8pm! 

Here’s one more photo today for good measure – because I can’t get enough of her sweet smiles!! 

Phew! What a weekend. I started this blog last night and kept dozing off…but better late than never!

I was supposed to workout at 8am Saturday morning but figuring Kensie would get me up between 7-7:30 like usual, I didn’t set an alarm. I woke up at 7:59, oops. We still made it there in time to workout and Kensie just rocked her PJs again for the morning. Hey…whatever works! 

After the gym, Kensie helped mom and Aunt Shell run errands to get ready for the evening out and our coaches dinner on Sunday night! She was such a good girl. We are starting to see her personality more each day and it is so much fun! I’ve also started to figure out her little quirks. She usually doesn’t care much about her pacifier – unless she’s going to nap. Otherwise she’s perfectly content just staring and sitting and trying to talk! 

She is also starting to try to put her pacifier back in when it falls out. She uses the back of her hands and shoves it toward her mouth. She usually ends up getting the side of it close enough and just starts chewing on it. Haha!

She did finally have a meltdown around 4pm, but the white noise phone app called “SoundSleeper” fixed it! A friend recommended it to me after I posted about how the vacuum calms Kensie down and sure enough, I put the noise on and it worked!

Chris and I had a night out with Rob and Char for our annual Christmas dinner! We had a blast and I didn’t even worry about Kens once!! Aunt Shell always takes such great care of our sweet K. 

Sunday we were all pretty sleepy! We tried to get some relaxing done in the morning before we spent the afternoon cooking and getting everything ready for the coaches dinner. While we prepped, some friends were over watching football. K loves having company because she gets even more spoiled with attention! 

They say it takes a village…and I’m pretty sure we have the absolute best village there is! There’s no way I would have gotten everything done this weekend on my own. 

So thankful for all the amazing friends we have that love miss Kensie Brooke and always help us without even asking. We are so lucky and K is blessed to be raised around such great people! 

We have a busy busy weekend (which is why this post is also a day late)! I posted this photo to my Facebook page but while I was getting ready K wanted attention and I put her in my bed like this as a joke…and she passed out!

We ran lots of errands to get ready for the Christmas throwdown and party at the gym! I had to feed her in the parking lot and when I showed up to coach the 4pm K was actually still in her PJs…but we put her matching flamingo hat on because it was chilly for once!

Kensie had a great time at the gym party! She had so many babysitters that carried her around all night – which is her favorite. This girl has serious FOMO so she stayed awake the whole time with heavy, fluttering eyes. I thought she’d either be cranky or passed out by the time we got home – but she was alert as can be (and happy, luckily) trying to wind down for the night. We ended up bringing the mamaroo in our room and she slept in it until 6am without waking up once. HALLELUJAH! 

I’ve been stupid busy this week adjusting to going back to coaching and trying to make it work with K’s schedule (or lack there of) , running errands and getting ready for a gym throwdown and coaches dinner this weekend. This morning the plumber came to replace our leaking faucet so Andrea covered the 9am class for me and I took full advantage of some extra snuggle time with my little girl. I could have been prepping things for the party or addressing our Christmas cards or doing one of the 4 loads of laundry or cleaning the house – but today I just needed some Kensie snuggles. 

Overall the last few days I think the probiotics and Mylicon have really worked for her! She is rarely fussy during the day anymore and other than her nightly breakdown she always has after her bath, she is back to being my little happy baby! I also think I may have discovered a solution to ending her nightly scream sessions tonight…but I’m going to wait a few more nights to see if it keeps working before I jinx myself. 😉

This afternoon Kensie was watching Megan workout and she felt like everyone needed a little dance party break from lifting…enjoy the sweet moves. 

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Kensie Brooke is 7 weeks old today!

Pretty sure she’s going through a growth spurt. She slept completely through the night last night, without waking up once to eat! Today she napped most of the day as well. 

She was a great shopping buddy while I ran lots of errands to prep for this weekend’s events! I even used my “mommy clip” for the first time. Thing is brilliant. 

K was awake most of the time she was at the gym this evening, but she was super happy! 

When we got home it was a different story. I fed her, gave her her bath – and sure enough she LOST it. When I held her upright she kept sucking on my collar bone. I thought there was no way she could be hungry since I just fed her literally everything in me – but sure enough…I took some milk out of the fridge and she chugged almost 3oz and then was out like a light! 

Here’s to hoping she doesn’t grow out of her PJs overnight…

Kensie spent a lot of time in her mamaroo this morning, which is her happy place in the mornings, but if I was out of her sight for too long she’d start to fuss. So, I made a mom office. 

I was able to get some stuff done around the house and after her morning nap we ran some errands and then Kensie went to the gym with me this afternoon so I could coach! She was a great little nugget and chilled the whole time in her swing. 

She was a happy camper all day until after her bath. When I was about to put her in her PJs she had a meltdown. I turned on the vacuum and sure enough she stopped; however, I guess I didn’t wait long enough because once I turned it off she started back up again. Luckily she calmed down enough to eat and that did the trick because this was the aftermath…

The Mylicon seems to really be working for her. Other than the one complete breakdown at night some times, she is rarely fussy after she eats now and throughout the day – even when she has gas. WIN!

We went over to Will & Ashley’s for Taco Tuesdays this evening. K was fighting off sleep so she got fussy when I put her in her car seat. I downloaded an app a friend recommended called “sound sleeper” and played the vacuum sound on the way there and sure enough, she slept! 🙄 

Once we got there, Uncle Will put her right to sleep while we the rest of us ate.

She’s basically living the dream. 

Today was such a great day for mommy and Baby K! She was the happiest she’s been in a while. I got a ton of work done this morning while she napped and once she woke up, we played and read some books!

During Tummy time today, KENSIE ROLLED OVER! I so wish I had been videoing it. She was pushing up on both arms like she normally does but was getting a lot higher. I leaned over to grab my phone to send a video to Chris. Next thing I know she shot up with her right arm and threw her head back and there she went! From her belly to her back at 6 weeks and 5 days old. 

She was such a great baby today. She barely fussed this morning when she had gas and stopped as soon as she went potty. She started crying on the way to the gym and I thought it was game over. But, after about 2 minutes she stopped on her own and was great while I coached! I did have to feed her a bottle as the class warmed up – but it worked out. 

After the gym she got her bath and ate and went to bed for a little in her crib. She woke back up and as she was fighting off going back to sleep she started screaming for the first time all day. Chris turned on the vacuum and she stopped instantly. It’s like a magic trick!

Oh, and a few people asked me today what happened to the tree. I said it fell but I never said how…it did it completely on its own! The dogs weren’t even near it. Just a slow timber.

It’s all better now!

What a day!! This morning I finally had some time to decorate our Christmas tree and ran to the store quick before I had to be at a baby shower. In the 15 minutes I was gone, I got this photo sent to me from Chris with a text that said, “well this just happened”:

At first I thought he was referring to Kensie crying; but if you look closer, that empty corner was where the tree used to be…

I walked in a few minutes later to the sound of the vacuum, Kensie in her mamaroo, and Chris trying to fix the tree. I thought he was vacuuming until I realized he was using it as Kensie’s sound machine. 

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While it’s on she sleeps. Every time we shut it off she’d wake up. Haha!!

Chris was on daddy duty while I went to a friend’s baby shower. He brought K over to watch football at a her Uncle Rob and Aunt Char’s house and unfortunately she had a huge screaming meltdown while they were there. The good news? Daddy finally got her to settle down!

Once that was over Kensie had a good rest of the evening. 

We left around 7:30 because Kensie was fighting off sleep hard and it was starting to make her really fussy. Aside from the craziness of being out of town, we are trying to get her into a nighttime routine. Last night she ate, got her bath, and then we rocked her to sleep without a single cry the whole time! I tried to lay her in her crib and she immediately woke up. Daddy rocked her back to sleep and got her to sleep in her crib no problem – and she wasn’t even swaddled (she’s never slept in there without her swaddle).  He definitely won the Kensie battles today! 

I didn’t get many Kensie photos today because we spent most of the day driving. We went up to the St. Augustine outlets and met my mom to pick her up from her first overnight stay! 

While on the way, my little brother sent me a snap chat of her and I didn’t recognize the outfit Kensie was wearing. He had picked out a new one for her and they made sure to get her a matching bow as well. Haha! 

I hope I don’t jinx us, but the Mylicon really seems to be working.She still gets fussy throughout the day and has little fits when she has a gas bubble but we haven’t had a screaming outburst since Thursday morning! Woohoo!!!

To top it off, she slept from 11-5:30a, ate for 10 minutes and went back to sleep until 8:30! Thanks for letting me get lots of rest, little boo!!

Tonight is K’s first night away from us!! Chris was the best man in a wedding in Daytona so Grandma is keeping K overnight. 

I soaked in LOTS of extra snuggles this morning because I knew I’d miss my sweet girl – but she’s in good hands! 

Tonight was an adventure having to make sure I still pumped, but I made it work! 

Looking forward to seeing Kens tomorrow – but had a great night with my love!