We have been busy, busy, busy lately and that doesn’t leave me much time to blog.  Kennedy is an on the go baby and isn’t happy unless we are going going going.  We had a great trip to the lake for Father’s Day.  Kennedy had fun hanging out with Mary, Jennifer, Russ, Matt, Cristy, and Justin.  She had fun sitting on the dock with us while she was in her swing with the fan on her.  For Father’s Day she gave Jay a mouse pad with her picture on it, a picture frame that said “Daddy’s Girl” with her picture in it, a book for Jay to read to her, and a coupon organizer.  We went to dinner with Mom and Scott and had a great dinner.  Kennedy slept through the whole thing. 

Today we went to the zoo with our good friends Sarah and Jonathan and their son Lucas.  The kids really didn’t care for anything at the zoo, but it was great hanging out with old friends. I would post pictures from the zoo trip but my camera did not have the memory card in it.  oops!  We had a great dinner at Zas and even got to see Aunt Mere Mere and Uncle Kyle for a minute. 

We sent off the birth announcements this week.  I am still trying to track down some addresses.  This is hard work!  I hope everyone got them today!  I couldn’t decide on one to order so I ordered two versions.  Here they are in case you got the other one:)

Kennedy is finally growing up a little.  I actually took her to Publix the other day and set her in the veggie scale to see how much she weighs.  7.5 LBS.  She is getting so big so fast.  She can almost fit into 0-3 month clothes now.  I tried her 4th of July outfit on today.  She looked great in it.  I also made her an adorable headband to wear on the 4th.  I think I need to go into the infant headband making buisness!

Other big news: Kennedy is sleeping in her own room in her own bed!  Here is the proof!

I had a great visit yesterday with my grandfather (Kennedy’s great grand-father.)  We have decided that she looks like him!  He used to have beautiful red hair (or so I am told) so we are wondering if she will get that gene.  We had so much fun hanging out with him all day.  We had a great dinner at Cracker Barrell until they were cleaning up around us as our sign that it was time to go.  We loved sitting there listening to GranGran’s stories of WWII.  I really liked the story about him and his friends going to eat in the Chinese mess hall that turned out to be a Japanese dining hall.  ooops!  We took a great picture of 4 generations together.  Click here to see family pictures.

On to the developmental (sad for mom) news: Kennedy took her first bottle.  Since we are getting close to the six week mark and that means I will be able to work some at ESY, I decided I needed to see if Kennedy could take a bottle.  I pumped a few ounces off and sanitized a bottle and gave it to Jay.  He looked shocked!  Lucky for us (and sad for me) Kennedy took the bottle like a champ and didn’t even hesitate.  Click here to see pictures of her taking her first bottle.

Kennedy and I had a very nice day.  It started at 6:00 when she woke up and I fed her then allowed her to sleep in bed with me until I was ready to get up.  We watched TV and snuggled for a while and then I actually put her down for a real nap in her new swing.  (I know I am setting our day care lady up for failure!)  When she woke up we watched a lifetime movie then had a visit from her Great Aunt Sarah and Great Uncle Jerry.  They bought her a super soft monogrammed blanket.  She loves her new blanket.  Needless to say by the time Jay got home I needed to get out so we headed to Ballentine to visit Grandma at the library and eat Mexican. Yummy!  When we got home Jay was going to watch her while I took a nice relaxing bath with my good book.  Unfortunatly she did NOT want her daddy.  She wanted Mommie instead.  Bye bye relaxing bath.  I just can’t relax when I hear my baby girl crying.

Lately I have been critiquing baby products and consider myself an expert on them (yes after one month with one baby)

Pet Peeves:

Pacis that you can’t hook a paci clip to

sleepers that only button down one leg

car seats that don’t come with big head rests

bouncy seats with really wide legs (that I always trip over)

Dresses that ride up in the back when I hold her

Pants

Socks that come in sizes 0-9 month (hello different size feet there!)

Poops that come as soon as you put her in a fresh diaper

Pack and Plays that are too heavy for Mom to carry

Things I love:

Onesies that look like dresses

Big swings that swing in different directions

Disposible changing pads

My bad ass diaper bag from Mary

My super cute posh stroller/ carseat

My glider/ recliner

Butt paste

Huggies diapers

headbands

cute pacis (even though Kennedy really likes the ugly one)

Swaddle Sleep Sac banket

Purrell

Diaper Genie Deluxe

Video Monitor

anything made by Mudpie

OK ninja googler.  You officially have me laughing (you know who you are!)