Kennedy at 9 Months

Kennedy turned 9 Months old October 29!

• Size 9-12 month clothes
• Weight: will have to wait for your 9 month appointment in a couple weeks
• One tooth on the bottom coming in finally
• Can stand up, and can stand alone for short periods now
• Bear crawls super fast
• Into everything already! 
• Your favorite place to go that you arent supposed to be is in the bathroom, going after the plunger. 
• You love baths and are much braver in the water than Jack- you stick your whole face in the water or under the running faucet
• You LOVE your brother. You can be asleep in the morning and if you hear his voice you literally jump up and start laughing! 
• You like to wrestle
• You dance and bounce and clap when music comes on
• You are a HORRIBLE sleeper. Like, the worst. Jack at this age was sleeping from 8-7 with no waking up. You however... sleep from between 7-8:30 to about 6/6:30 with anywhere from 1-5 times a night of waking up. And the times you only wake up once are heavenly. Seriously kid. Get a clue. I'm exhausted. Love you... but not at 1 in the morning. Or 2, or 3, or 4, or 5.
• Still exclusively nursing. (say what?!) No bottles for you yet.
• You love your blankey
• You are a mischevious little thing 
• Love to smile and laugh
• Still are a cuddler with mommy 
• Taking 2-3 naps a day, although sometimes 4 if you take 2 little cat naps.

Kennedy's 8 Month Update!

8 MONTH STATS!

• Size 6-9 month clothes
• Size 3 diapers! Moved up a size this month!
• Eating baby food and oatmeal much better now~ there hasnt been any blend that you havent liked yet.
• Love the baby mum mum rice crackers- but you tend to stuff too much in your mouth!
• Are pulling yourself up onto everything
• Climbing
• Trying to stand up from sitting
• Playing with toys, banging things together
• Ga-Ga gave you a little baby doll the other day and you LOVED it!
• Still NO teeth!
•  Love to jump in the jumparoo
• Love to swing outside
• You love Duke and you really love cats
• Sleep at night is "slightly" better- you're waking up between 1-3 times, mostly twice but sometimes its every two hours. Bleh.
• Napping is getting better though- typically 3 naps a day
• We moved your bedtime earlier to anywhere between 7-8pm and that seems to be helping.
• You are a smiley, silly little girl and you love to laugh!

 

Kennedy's 7 Month Update!

I dropped the ball at updating Kennedy's 6 month stats, and she turns 7 months in a few days, so I'm just going to go ahead and go with the 7 month update! :)

• You weigh 15 lbs- 20% percentile haha!
• You are in 6-9 month clothes
• Size 2 diapers
• Started eating solids (hardly any though because you're really not that interested)
• You've tasted sweet potatoes, apples, pears, rice cereal and bananas
• You will take sips of water out of your sippy cup or bottle but still wont really take a bottle yet
• You are teething and it has been miserable
• Your acid reflux went away for awhile but seems to maybe have come back a bit- mommy's having to cut out things again.
• You can scoot/roll your way anywhere. You're almost full on crawling.
• You love to be around people
• You love to bounce
• You think your brother and your cousins are hilarious
• You can sit up on your own now
• You love people and are super smiley
• We love you tons sissy boo!!!!

Kennedy's 4 & 5 Month Update!

I cannot believe 5 months has gone by! Seems like Kennedy was born just yesterday. Time has flown by MUCH faster than it did with Jack. I felt like it was the longest 5 months of my life with Jack (Ha!) and with Kennedy it's just been so much faster and easier. :) Getting pictures has been a challenge the past two months in her crib because she can't sit up yet but is super squirmy! She is such a joy to us, rolls with the punches, puts a smile on everyone's face, and I love being her mommy!

4 Months

5 Months

• Size 2 diapers
• You weighed 13.4 lbs at your 4 month appointment
• Size 6 month clothes
• You love to smile and laugh
• You smile at everyone
• You roll all over the place
• You blow bubbles, babble, and say "dada"
• Have started to teeth the past few days
• Your naps have gotten better- You nap about 8:30am, and then about every two hours. You've been taking 2-3 hour naps in the afternoon.  You nap in your swing still.
• You go to bed between 9:30-11:00 pm
• The past two weeks you have slept until between 1-4:00 am, moved to bed with me and went back to sleep until 7 or so! 
• You start out sleeping in your sleep sack, in your swing.
• Still taking your acid reflux medicine but I think it's getting better.
• We've given up on giving you a binky
• Still working on getting you to take a bottle
• Your brother can make you laugh the hardest and you always smile at him
• You love your grandparents, your cousins and aunts/uncles
• You like to go for walks in your stroller 
• You play in your exersaucer now
• You are super squirmy
• You are much better in your carseat now, although still dont want to be in there long if your not asleep
• You get toted around with me and Jack a lot and tolerate it well
• You love to be held 

Kennedy's 2 Month Update

2 Months Old!

Super sweet, super cute, super loveable little girl!!

• You weigh 11 lbs 15 oz - 80th percentile!
• You are 23 inches long
• You're in size 2 diapers
• You wear 3 month clothes and can fit into some 6 month clothes!
• You're starting to coo and try and "talk" 
• You smile lots!
• Your throwing up is better, but depends alot on what I eat too. No dairy, coffee or tomato sauces for sure.
• You take most naps in yours swing and prefer to spend most of the evening on or next to me
• Everyone is in love with your hair
• You love your brother
• You like to sleep in the front pack
• You hate your carseat
•  You still wont take a binky
• You nurse ok, but still dont have a great latch, But good enough to keep breastfeeding!
• You are a light sleeper
• I haven't got you into a solid routine yet but I probably should start- it's a lot harder with two of you now to get on the same schedule.
• Most of the time you still seem to wake up 30-45 minutes into a nap which is frustrating, but sometimes you'll do a long 2-3 hour stretch in the middle of the day
• A few days ago you went 6 hours at night! 

Kennedy at One Month

 ONE MONTH!

• You weigh 10.5 lbs
• You're in size 1 diapers
• Size 3 month clothes
• You like to eat!
• You refuse to take a binky, and will take a bottle a little
• You've got bad reflux and spit up and gas issues we are working through :(
• You're not a great sleeper yet, and you take a lot of short cat naps which makes it hard to get anything done
• You have a fussy period from about 8:00-11:00 pm where it is extremely hard to get you to sleep
• You sleep with me at night
• You like to be held out in front of me and bounced. My arms are tired!
• You turn your head to look at me when I'm talking
• You are starting to smile and coo more
• You are just a cutie patootie and cant wait to see you grow!

 This pic was taken a few weeks ago, but it was too cute not to share. :)

38 Weeks Bumpdate!

How Far Long? 38 Weeks, 3 Days

Size of Baby?About the size of a swiss chard

Total Weight Gain? Around 35 lbs

Maternity Clothes? Maternity...and those are starting to get tight! 

Sleep? Very uncomfortable at night, up 2 or 3 times to pee and my back HURTS so bad when I roll over.

Food Cravings? Doritos, Sweets, Turkey/Cheese rollups, Mexican food.

Stretch Marks? Yes.Ugh.

Gender? GIRL! 

What I'm Looking Forward To: Not waddling, swelling, back pain, or feeling like I'm 90!

Highlight Of The Week: Late last week I got to see baby girl at a growth scan ultrasound! She's happy as a clam in there!

Milestones: Full Term Now!!!

Belly button in or out: Out!

Symptoms: Severe back pain, swelling, peeing alot, hard to breathe, waddling, super tired but with spurts of nesting energy. 

38 Week Comparison With Jack:

36 Weeks!!!!

36 WEEKS BUMP UPDATE! 

(This pic was technically at the end of 35 weeks, but close enough)

It's getting close now!! Starting to feel anxious and nervous and ready all at the same time. I have a severe urge to nest but just do not have the energy or physical ability to get everything done and cleaned that I want to, while taking care of a 2 year old as well. Kind of sucks and makes me freak out, but I'm trying to except the fact that I'm just not going to get everything done I might want to. The next couple weeks are going to be crazy, i'm trying to take it easy as much as I can, but I sort of have a feeling she might come early! 

 

How Far Long? 36 Weeks, 2 Days

Size of Baby? Size of a honeydew! 

Total Weight Gain? About 30 lbs

Maternity Clothes?  All maternity

Sleep? Very uncomfortable at night and wake up multiple times

 

Food Cravings? Pop, sweets, grapefruit

Stretch Marks? Yes.

Gender? GIRL! 

What I'm Looking Forward To: Getting my body back to normal- with Jack I was not this uncomfortable and achy, but this time around I feel yucky all the time. 

Highlight Of The Week: I've got a lot done in the nursery- clothes washed, baby gear is out, babies bag is packed, starting to stock up on other household things I'll need!

Milestones: Baby is considered "early term" by the end of the week.

Symptoms: Very hard to breathe- she pushes on my ribs all the time. Back hurts super bad all the time, and I am finding it really hard to roll over or get out of bed, hard to walk/bend down, feet and ankles are swollen. Braxton hicks- lots of tightness!

Belly button in or out: Out!

35 WEEK COMPARISON WITH JACK

(Jack on the left- baby girl on right)

 

 36 Weeks with Jack

 

31/32 Week Bump Update!

31 Weeks

32 Weeks

How Far Long? 32 Weeks, 3 Days

Size of Baby? Size of a head of cabbage! 

Total Weight Gain? About 27 lbs (Thanks a lot holiday food!!!)

Maternity Clothes? Mostly maternity

Sleep? Very uncomfortable at night- she is super active right when I lay down which also makes it hard to settle down.

Food Cravings? Pop, sweets, grapefruit

Stretch Marks? Yes.

Gender? GIRL! 

What I'm Looking Forward To: Getting the nursery painted! Picked out a really pretty light coral color and am going to put gold sparkles in it. :o)

Highlight Of The Week: Unrelated to baby, but getting our house ready for Christmas! :)

Milestones: Babies all five senses are now in working order! 

Symptoms:  Very bad vericose veins that are making my legs swell up and hurt and thus have to wear support stockings/leggins which SUCK. Hard to eat sometimes because my stomach is so squished. Calf/foot cramps- had those with Jack. Starting to get tired again like in 1st trimester. Hip and thigh pain is pretty bad at times too. Hard to eat and breathe sometimes as she's getting bigger and pushing on my diaphragm more! Had some bad braxton hicks contractions yesterday that lasted all day/ every time I was standing or walking.

Belly button in or out: Out! 

32 Week Comparison With Jack

And for fun... this was almost exactly 3 years ago! Nine Weeks along with Jack!  Crazy how small I was!

30 Weeks!!!

  30 WEEKS

How Far Long? 30 Weeks tomorrow

Size of Baby? Size of a head of cabbage- and about 3 lbs!

 

Total Weight Gain? About 20 lbs

Maternity Clothes? Mostly maternity

Sleep? Very uncomfortable at night, hips hurt and it's hard to roll over! Getting up to pee at least once usually, and sometimes get restless leg.

Food Cravings? Pop, sweets, grapefruit

Stretch Marks? Yes. :o(

Gender? GIRL! 

What I'm Looking Forward To: Getting the nursery done

Highlight Of The Week: My family threw me a wonderful baby shower and thanks to my hubby and his dad, we got the crib put together! Room is getting closer to being ready!

Milestones: She's now strong enough to grasp a finger!

Symptoms:  Very bad vericose veins that are making my legs swell up and hurt and thus have to wear support stockings/leggins which SUCK. Hard to eat sometimes because my stomach is so squished. Calf/foot cramps- had those with Jack. Starting to get tired again like in 1st trimester. Hip and thigh pain is pretty bad at times too. Almost to the end though!! 

Belly button in or out: Out! Just in time for Thanksgiving. Turkey's Done! haha!  

 

30 Week Comparison with Jack

 

Jack at 27 Months

• You weigh 31 lbs
• Size 2T or 3T clothes
• Size 9 shoes!!!
• You go pee in the potty very well if you have your underwear on but are not really close to being fully potty trained yet
• You talk ALL the time now and talk in sentences and most of the people close to you can understand you, although mommy knows what you say best. :)
• You love to snuggle in our bed and watch cartoons now- just like mommy!
• You like going to daycare now, but sometimes you still say "stay home!"
• You love to play with play dough now
• Cheeseburgers are your favorite food
• You seem to be excited about the new baby, and insist that you have one in your belly
• The binky is still a comfort, but I'm not too worried about it
• You still love your brown polka dot blankey and take it everywhere 
• You take one nap a day, anywhere from 2-3 hours long
• Swinging is a favorite activity of yours, especially now that we have a swingset in the backyard!
• You still love golf and can hit it pretty far now!

We just love you to pieces little man! I cannot imagine life without you and can barely remember what it was like before you! 

23 Week Update

 

 23 WEEKS!!!

 

 

How Far Long? 23 weeks, Day 2

Size of Baby? Size of a grapefruit

Total Weight Gain? Not sure exactly- probably around 12 or 13 pounds

Maternity Clothes? Mostly maternity

Sleep? Sleeping fairly good but starting to get uncomfortable at times. Definitely need the body pillow now! 

Food Cravings? Pop, chocolate chips and peanut butter, fruit. Exactly the same as last pregnancy.

Stretch Marks? Yes

Gender? GIRL!!

What I'm Looking Forward To: Getting the nursery ready and a baby shower for little girl! :)

Highlight Of The Week: Baby girl is moving around like crazy now! Jacob felt her kick this week.

Milestones: Her face is fully formed now- just needs a little extra fat to fill it out! She's listening to mom's voice and heartbeat, and loud sounds like cars honking or dogs barking! (Which I'm sure she hears alot with Jack and Duke around!)

Symptoms:  Hard to breathe at times, heavy feeling in stomach, vericose veins.

Belly button in or out: Almost out- haha!

23 Week Comparison: 

20 Weeks~ It's a Girl and Ultrasound Pics!

IT'S A GIRL!!!

PREGNANCY STATS UPDATE

How Far Long? 20 Weeks, 2 Days

Size of Baby? Size of a mango- usually about 10 oz. (Ultrasound showed baby weighs 12 oz!!!- oh dear Lord, we may be in for another big baby...)

 

Total Weight Gain?  11 lbs~ I was at 7 lbs this exact time last pregnancy. 

Maternity Clothes? Both although most jeans and shorts can't button or zip.

Sleep? Sleeping fairly good.

Food Cravings? Chocolate and peanut butter stuff... but that's typical. :)

Stretch Marks? No new ones yet

Gender? GIRL!!

What I'm Looking Forward To: Getting the nursery ready! It's so much harder this time around. Too many options for girls!

Highlight Of The Week: Obviously seeing baby on the ultrasound and finding out it's a girl with friends and family!

Milestones: Hair is growing on babies head! He can hiccup now. From here on out, my uterus will grow approximately one centimeter each week until I deliver! Get ready baby bump!

Symptoms: Bleeding gums every night while brushing, bloody/stuffy nose, hard to breathe at times, foot cramps.

Belly button in or out: In

We got to see our little girl sticking her tongue in and out, swallowing, and hiccuping in my belly during the ultrasound! She was pretty content hanging out in there and is laying horizontally. We told the tech we didnt want to find out during the ultrasound but wanted to wait to find out with friends and family later that night. So she hid it from us  and wrote it on a piece of paper and put all the pictures on a disc for us to view later. It's a little disconcerting that the tech put a question mark on the gender shots- but comparing it to Jack's it definitely looks much different. haha! I wasn't too impressed by this hospital's ultrasound room/tech, and even the clarity of the photo's, but oh well. Baby looks happy and healthy so that is all that matters.

This was Jack's gender shot! A slight difference. :)

I took the piece of paper to the store and picked out a boy outfit and a girl outfit and told the clerk to open the piece of paper and wrap whichever gender was written on that paper and that I was going to open it later!

We had a small group of friends and family over- and facetimed in my parents and my friend so they could be a part of it too! Jack helped us open the present, which I think he thought was for him, and at first he was excited and hugged my neck as everyone cheered that it was a girl, and then he burst out in tears. So funny! I dont know if he got scared, was upset it wasnt a toy for him, or if he was just disappointed it was a girl. Haha! Never the less, it was classic. I wish we had gotten it on video- totally would've made Funniest Home Videos for sure! :)

18 week's with Baby #2!

18 Weeks!

 

 

How Far Long? 18 Weeks, 5 Days

 

Size of Baby? Size of sweet potato

Total Weight Gain? 4 lbs

Maternity Clothes? Mostly maternity clothes now- at least for pants.

Sleep? Good

 

Gender?

Dont know yet- two more weeks!

Best Moment This Week? Finally feeling good, real distinguishable movement in there! Yay!

Food Cravings? Pop, chocolate/peanut butter things, iced coffee

 

Food Aversions? 

  None at the moment

What I'm Looking Forward To: Finding out the gender!

Emotions: Just like last time around my patience has faded. And I can't mask how I'm feeling very well. Whatever I'm feeling, it shows!

Symptoms: Get winded easily. Foot cramps, vericose veins (ugh- didn't have to deal with this last time around and this time it sucks!), carpel tunnel (had this last time around too)

 Comparison Pic!

17 Weeks with Jack

Week 16 with Baby #2!

How Far Long? 16 Weeks, 4 Days

Size of Baby? Size of an avocado

Total Weight Gain? 4 lbs... at least. Lol!

Maternity Clothes? Definitely maternity pants for work clothes now.

Sleep? Better, but restless leg is starting and I can't have caffeine or chocolate close to bedtime or it's a disaster!

Gender?

Dont know yet- one more month!

Best Moment This Week?  Technically it was last week, but Jacob brought home a super sweet, soft baby blanket from a cool boutique he found on his work trip. :)  

Food Cravings? Pop and salty chips

Food Aversions? 

 I can't quite figure out what sounds good ever yet. And when I do make or get something, sometimes it doesnt taste good. Lol!

What I'm Looking Forward To: Feeling baby move more- I think I've felt it a little bit here and there but not certain yet. The movement has been very different this time around and is starting to freak me out that I'm not feeling kicks like I did with Jack this early. Also looking forward to finding out the gender in a month!!!

Emotions: Just like last time around my patience has faded. And I can't mask how I'm feeling very well. Whatever I'm feeling, it shows!

Symptoms: Get tired easily. Can't eat a ton- get full fast. Restless leg, vericose veins (ugh- didn't have to deal with this last time around and this time it sucks!), out of breath easier, carpel tunnel (had this last time around too)


Comparison at 16 weeks:

16 Weeks with Jack

         

Weeks 13 and 14 with Baby #2!

Week 13

Week 14

 How Far Long? 14 weeks, 4 Days

Size of Baby? Size of a lemon

Total Weight Gain? 4 lbs

Maternity Clothes? Sometimes

Sleep? A lot better now that I'm in the second trimester

Gender?

Dont know yet- thinking girl though! :)

Best Moment This Week?  Hearing babies heartbeat! Sounded nice and strong at 156 beats! 

Food Cravings? This week- Doritos and finally iced coffee!

Food Aversions? 

 I can't quite figure out what sounds good ever yet. And when I do make or get something, sometimes it doesnt taste good. Lol!

What I'm Looking Forward To: Feeling baby move! I think I've felt it a little bit here and there but not certain yet.

Emotions: Just like last time around my patience has faded. And I can't mask how I'm feeling very well. Whatever I'm feeling, it shows! 

Symptoms: Get tired easily. Can't eat a ton- get full fast.


Comparison at 14 weeks, 4 days: Left is with Jack, Right with Baby #2!

Jack's 2nd Birthday!

I can't believe you are two years old my little crazy Mr. Jack! You are my world and I cannot even put into words how much I love you and how blessed I am to be your mommy.  Daddy and I both love you so much!!!

•  You weigh 28 lbs
• You're in Size 2T Clothes
• Size 5 diapers
• You're in size 7 almost 8 shoes
• You've started to potty train- love to pee outside. If you are naked you will go stand on a stool and pee in the toilet all by yourself! You have no interest in going #2 on the potty though...
• Everything is "Me" (as in me do it) right now
• You hate getting dressed and anytime we are outside you want your clothes off
• You talk a lot now and other people are starting to understand much of what you are saying. (or yelling mostly, haha!) Saying a lot of two word phrases. 
• You know the number 2 very well. Mostly from mommy counting to 3 before you get in trouble. Now when I say 1 you say 2. Ha!
• Your favorite show right now is Bubble Guppies still (which you can say oh so adorably!)
• You finally gave up your nighttime bottle right after your second birthday!
• The binky might be a bigger problem.... one I am not quite ready to tackle yet!
• You are still a mama's boy and super clingy to me. But most of the time I dont mind. :o)
• You love your grandparents. You ask to see them everyday.
• You take one nap at 1:30 now. On occasion you will fall asleep early or take two naps, but not very often.
• Sleep from about 8:30/9:00-7:30/8:00.  Not too bad!