Life With Kenedy!

Well Jonna gave me a good idea, to print these posts and glue them into my cute, empty book I made! Jonna, have you tried to print yet? Does your whole blog background come out also? Is there away to print just the text? If not I can just cut in paste into word. Anyway here I go!


Baby #2? Will I be sane by the time it gets here?
Friday our case worker was coming over to the house to do our final interview! Yeah, we are almost done with everything for our next adoption! I have been planning all week so that I made sure everything was ready for her. Thursday was my get scrapbook page finished so I can hand in on Friday. I got the first page almost completed, after two hours, when Kenedy came in and decided it was time for me to get off the computer. She climbed under the computer and turned it off before I could save and erased everything! I was soooo mad! I had to stick her in her room so I didn't loose it! After I calmed down, I had a good talk to Kenedy about how this is how mommy and daddy get babies to come to our family. She was so cute, she threw her little arms around my neck and said, "I sar (short for sorry) mommy"! I was done being mad at the very moment and got back on the project! I headed to my moms that night to find some more pics of Mike and I before Kenedy. Since we have been married for six years, only the last few years are digital, which means scanning pictures! We don't have a scanner because Mike thought it was cluttering the office and threw it away, so I needed to use my mom's. I searched for pics for 2 hours and by 11:00 p.m. was ready to scan when I discovered their scanner had broken yesterday! Are you kidding? I arrived back home by 11:30pm decided that I was giving up on the idea that my scrapbook page was going to get finished by Friday! However, I couldn't go to sleep until 3:00 a.m. obsessing that I wasn't going to get it done! Why stress when I already concluded this was not going to get finished? Who knows! So of course the next day, I was tired due to the lack of sleep and could not get going. Even though I knew I had a lot to do. I finally got up and got to work. After a couple of hours I realized I was making good time getting the house cleaned and prepared for our caseworker and Kenedy was taking an extra long nap, thank goodness! I thought maybe, I will get my page done! Yes! The the doorbell rings and there stands the little boy I tutor! I had totally forgotten! He usually comes on Tuesdays, but he had rescheduled due to a vacation. So I tutored him during the last hour of Kenedy's nap, which meant she would be awake while I finished cleaning! Once again the page got thrown out! After he left, I got back to work! I was making good progress and Kenedy seemed to be behaving! All the sudden I realized, Kenedy behaving? It was too quiet, what was she doing? I found her in my bathroom covering herself and the entire bathroom with lipstick as fast as she could! Anyone ever tried to get lipstick off a baby skin? Yeah, it doesn't come off. Into the tub she went while I started scrubbing the tile, walls, rugs, and her toy dog! I was very surprised how fast the lipstick came off of everything except the stuffed dog of course. However, I could not get it off Kenedy. I scrubbed with soap, then with a washcloth, then with a towel and finally with wet wipes. FYI: Wet wipes take lipstick off of baby skin! I was freaking out when I was scrubbing because the color of the lipstick made it look like she had bruises all over her body! Just what I needed, to have my little girl covered in look alike bruises the day my case worker comes over to see if Mike and I are fit to be parents! While I was cleaning up I called my sweet mom and asked her to come and entertain Kenedy while I finished cleaning. Good news, I did get the house all ready to be inspected, but I did not get the page finished. All I can say is, "Oh Kenedy I love you! And Thanks mom for saving me!!!!" Deadline: Everything will be finished in 1 week! Hopefully!!!!

Messes
Kenedy is the queen of messes! I think she can make the biggest messes ever until Trace comes over. Let me state the truth: Kenedy and Trace make the biggest messes ever! They feed off each other! How does anyone raise twins? Every time he comes over it goes something like this: I promise myself not to leave them alone and then the phone rings or the door rings or I need to take the laundry out of the wash. It only takes a second and the house is destroyed! They start in the playroom. Everything gets dumped, thrown and knocked over. While you clean up that mess the start another in another room. The whole time they are together all I do is clean up mess after mess! Well today was the worst one of all! They went in the playroom and started their usual dumping and then discovered I had left markers sitting on my table in the playroom because I was working on FHE packets while Kenedy played. BIG MISTAKE! They not only dumped them everywhere, but the opened and colored themselves, my FHE packets, and the carpet! Then They took a glue stick and dug out chunks and smeared it on the door and all over her tent. Then got up on the my craft table and continued throwing and spreading everything off the table including my eight million flowers and my scrapbook ribbon scraps! I know you are thinking, why do you have your craft stuff in her playroom, but I have situated it so that she most if it is in the closet and it is high enough she can't bug it. So I thought! I informed Mike today that the basement finishing project is going to start in the next couple of weeks. We need a separate playroom and a craft room with a lock! While I was cleaning up the mess, they headed into her bedroom because they were banned from the playroom for the day, and pulled books off the shelves and all the toys out of the bin in her room. I conned Tanner and Tyler into coming and helping me by giving them a dollar so I could get ahead of their messes and have things put back together before Kamie got there to pick them up. I wanted her to think I can handle four kids! I sent Tyler into the bedroom to tackle that mess while Tanner and I started in on the playroom mess. While the three of us were cleaning and Mike was studying for his test, Kenedy and Trace wandered into the bathroom and climbed into the bath with their clothes on and turned on the tub. By the time Kamie got there, Trace was soaking wet and covered in marker and Ketchup. Sorry again about his new shirt Kamie!!!! I hire out for babysitting, anyone want to hire me, I am so good at it! ha ha ha! Here are a few pics of their messes!

It is so worth the messes to watch these two interact! They have their own language, it's as if they read each other's minds! They love each other so much! Most importantly, they are so happy when they are together! Trace please come back soon, I love you!

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Going Out
Tonight we went out with Jeff and Beth Hunziker. I was so excited to see Beth since I use to get to see her every day and now I never get to see her! I told Kenedy that she needed to be super good and show the Hunzikers what a nice girl she is! Well since we had quite the adventure with her and Trace today, she did not get to take a nap before we left. So let's just say our daughter was a monster at dinner. If Jeff and Beth were thinking they wanted kids, I think they have now changed their minds! When we first got there we had to put her pigtails back in for the 14th time. This is a big sign that she is exhausted. Then we go to sit down and the waitress had to bring us not 1 but 4 different highchairs. Are you kidding me? Time to invest in some new highchairs Pizza Factory! You see all of the buckles were broken and Kenedy will not stay seated if she is not buckled! In fact she can even figure out how to got out when she is buckled half the time. So from the very first we looked like a three-ringed circus moving from one chair to the next! Each time fighting Kenedy to even get in the chair. Then during dinner she dumped her drink eight million times causing her pants to be soaked, threw everything you gave her to eat and let out numerous high pitch screams! Right before we left she decided that she hadn't already made a big enough mess on the floor and she threw a plate on the floor. Yes it shattered into a million pieces causing everyone to stare at our adorable little girl! Mike and Jeff hid their heads while Beth and I just laughing! When we got back in the car we decided that it was time to call it a night. Kenedy screamed all the way back to Beth and Jeff's house and was totally rude to them. The ride home for us from their house was not much more fun! The poor thing was so tired she couldn't fall asleep! When I got home, I first put my sweet girl to bed and then read my emails. I had the sweetest email from Beth telling me how cute Kenedy is. Yeah Right, but thanks for making me feel good Beth, I worried about how terrible she was all the way home! I hope we can make it up to you guys, next time she won't skip her nap, I promise! Thanks you two for being so nice and putting on a smile through that embarrassing dinner! We love you two!