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I’m tired of recalls…

Every girl needs a best friend. Or how about three? After Kennedy’s dearest Giraffee got recalled, we were lucky enough to find three replacements. These friends sleep with her every night. In the morning she asks to bring 1, 2, or sometimes all 3 into our bed. I wanna take this time to introduce you to Blink the monkey, Pat the bunny, and Dollie the doll.

There has been a lot of talk about milk lately. Mainly, how do we get baby-k to drink it. Some even thought she may be allergic to it and that is why she wouldn’t drink it. She sometimes sounds raspy and dr d thought maybe this was from the milk. I must say I’m not a fan of soy so I really didn’t want to go that route. Finally today I found the charm. She has drank 3 whole cups and keeps asking for more!

Ps: she is still raspy

Some pictures just say it all…

Baseball tonight! Who’s watching?

5 years ago I married my best friend! I love you Jay! We are heading “home” (yeah we still call the ‘burg home) for a nice dinner and jay’s 10 year reunion tomorrow! What a great weekend! Hopefully we will make it home to see the tigers play!

Click to see what Kennedy thinks of us turning her car seat around…20100619_1

I must admit that this is becoming more of a record keeping blog than deep down thoughts and pictures.  I have looked at several times to find out exactly how many words Kennedy has or on what day she learned what skill.  With that said, I am blogging right now just to keep my scrapbook up to date on all the words she is learning to say.  Pretty soon I’m just going to have to give up counting!

• Cheese – “Teese”
• ouch – “ouch”
• fish – “ish”
• Peek a boo – “Pee boo”
• more – “moe”

Kennedy loved watching Uncle Kai’s fish today.  There was one that kept going under a rock and spitting out sand.  Gross.  Kennedy loved that fish.  Kennedy also thought that Aunt Lauren’s dogs were very funny.  Kennedy’s favorite part of Aunt Lauren and Uncle Kai’s house was not the fish, dogs, or people there.  It was in fact Aunt LaLa’s closet.  Kennedy had love in her eyes when she saw all of her Aunt Lala’s soos.  Tall soos.  Shiny soos.  Beautiful soos.  Sorry K-bug, your mommy does not wear those kind of soos! 

Kennedy’s favorite thing to do now that I am home is go outside and walk around the yard.  It is SO hot I can’t stand to be out there more than 15 minutes at a time.  We go out, walk around, come back in, have a drink, and head back out.  The good news is that by doing this all day I got her to drink 18 ounces of milk today!

Kennedy met with Dr. Joey today for her 12 month check up.  He was very happy about her development.  He said she was in perfect help.  I had a few a bazillion questions for him about shoes, sippy cups, summer, and skin.  He put my mind at rest about most of my concerns.  My first huge concern was how to get her off the boob and on a sippy cup.  He gave me some tips to try.  He also told me it is ok if she never takes a traditional sippy cup.  He agreed that it is better for her langauge if she stuck to the sippy cups with a straw.  She wasn’t going to not learn how to drink from  a real cup if I didn’t teach her to tip a sippy cup.  He also said that it is ok if I have to add a little chocolate or strawberry to her milk to convince her to drink it.  He also told me that I didn’t need to force her to like juice.  Water and milk are completely ok.  He did say that when she is weened he wants her drinking 16-20 ounces of milk per day.

  I also had questions about her scalp, birthmark, and red slotches on her skin.  He told me that I needed to use selson blue on her scalp (she still has cadle cap).  He told me to use it twice a week and just to make sure I avoid getting it in her eyes.

As for her skin, those blotchy spots are eczema.  He told me just to use cream and hydrocortison cream on them.  The birthmark is another story.  He referred us to a dermetologist.  The birthmark is neutral in color, just a little raised spot.  Off we go to yet another specialist.

Shoes.  Shoes shoes shoes.  Oh shoes.  Now that is a whole other problem.  I told Dr. Joey about Kennedy’s love of shoes.  She loves all shoes.  My shoes.  Her daddy’s shoes.  Strangers shoes.  She wants to wear shoes all day every day.   She loves the shoe section of  Target and shoe stores.  She calls them “soos”.  Before she could walk I would let her wear the most impractical shoes.  I didn’t worry if they were uncomfortable or too big.  Now that she can walk it is a whole different story.  I have been going to stores for days trying to find shoes that fit her that she can walk in.  Dr. Joey told me my best bet would be to go to striderite and let them measure her.  I decided I would suck it up and let them measure her and also buy an expensive pair of shoes for her.  The man helping us was SO nice.  He measured Kennedy’s feet then frowned.  He then had me stand her up and re-measure.  No go, they don’t sell shoes in that store that will fit her.  He told me to come back next year.  We then went to the Target and BINGO we found the cutest pair of shoes that she can walk in!  She has her soos!   

I also found a great sippy cup at Target.

She loves it and has already drank a cup of milk!

Here are the inportant stats:

Weight: 19 lbs 10 oz 17th %tile

Length: 29 inches 32%tile

Head circumference: 17 inches 42%tile

She also got her MMR, chicken pox, hepititis A, and one other vaccine.  So far no Tylenol needed!  She’s such a little trooper!

I think we are up to around 30 words that Kennedy uses spontaneously and often.  Her latest words from this weekend are get (gee- ut) (said to Potter when he hopped in her pool) and no ma’am.  The funny thing about a one year old is they learn from imitation and their environment.  Typically when Kennedy touches something or points at something Jay and I tell her what it is.  I typically say the word three times because that is what we do in my classroom.  It is called echoic trials.  This said Kennedy sometimes messes up on words.  For example, any animal that has fur is a dog to Kennedy and any animal without fur is typically a duck to her.  This said some of her mistakes are pretty funny. 

Kennedy’s dictionary:

uh-oh – verb  to throw food onto the floor

no ma’am – verb   to hit an adult

Another funny story:

We went to the zoo on Saturday morning.  It wasa great time to go.  It wasn’t hot yet, the animals were all awake and playing, and they were feeding several animals.  The were letting people at the zoo feed the giraffes so I had to get in on that.  We took Kennedy up to the giraffes and she was able to feed and pet them.  What we didn’t expect was the giraffe to pull her hairbow out of her hair!  Kennedy at first just said “uh oh, but upon seeing her precious red polka dot hair bow hanging out of the giraffes mouth she started yelling “BOW, BOW, BOW!”  I bravely removed the bow from the giraffes and we quickly walked away before the zoo keeper could fuss at us.

New story:

While I’m blogging Kennedy was nicely playing with her bath toys in the kitchen (they were all in the kitchen because we let her play with them in the pool earlier.)  Kennedy was playing so nicely and Jay was laying on the couch watching TV.  We were having a great night.  Kennedy stopped playing and walked over to the table and around the kitchen.  Finally she made her way over to where Jay was watching TV.  I noticed she had a dot on her mouth.  I asked Jay what it was.  His responce… “was she playing in the bath toys?”  “Yeah she had fun.”  Jay then informed me that her bath crayons were in the bucket.  That dot was blue bath crayon.  All over her mouth.  All under her nails.  All over her hands.  But wait there’s more….. she drew the most beautiful blue artwork all over the kitchen floor.  At least I could easily wipe it up with warm water!