Life With Kenedy

Stories For The Journal

This is at Kenedy's two year old appointment and she is telling me, "No Picture, Mommy!" She past the 2nd year appointment with good health, great verbal skills and a lesson on "How to Put Your Two Year Old In Time Out (DUH)!" Here are her Stats:

Height: 34 inches (50 %)

Weight: 26.2 lbs (45%)

Head: 18.5 inches (45%)

Loves: Rice, Babies, Cottage Cheese, ATTENTION, Outside, Trains, Popsicles, Music, Puppies, Friends, Biting, Arctic Circle, Cheese, Suckers, Books, Strollers, Princesses, Aladdin, Hitting, Cousins, Games, bath time, Jammies, Going to the Doctor, Scratching, dancing, Going For Walks, Cuddling with mom, bikes, planes, nursery, running, suckers, making messes, WATER, exploring, puzzles, singing, being with her family, Being rocked, Oatmeal

Hates: Time Out, Being ignored, When mom is on the phone, sitting still, Daddy being sick, getting her hair done, getting dressed, having her diaper changed, being pushed (eventhough she scratches, hits, and bites EVERYONE ELSE!)

New Things Learned: How to open doors; How to reach just about anything, climb; Colors: red, blue, yellow, purple, pink, green; Sings Ariel, Pretends to be a puppy and a kitty; what the elephant says; how to jump; what her shadow is; Where her elbow, forehead, armpit, eyelid, eyelash, ankle, wrist are; Happy Birthday Song; what the Rooster says; Talking back; to ease drop; A whole New World song; How to put lipstick on; Says prayers on her own; How to wrap your parents around your finger; pours water from teapot into cups; The Wheels on the bus song; Bumblee song; If you hit someome, they might hit you back; that Brady is on a Mission: That Mommy's belly doesn't grow babies like the other mommies; Grandma Net and Grandma Bird; What chapstick tastes like, Yum; How to say just about everything; Takes pictures with a camera, what an I-pod is, How much her mommy and daddy love her; and so much more!

This is a picture of why I have not posted forever! I HATE SICKNESS! We have all had our turn, one right after another and I am so done! Please bring the hot sun and get rid of the cold and the flu!

This is such a funny picture of Kenedy! It makes me realize that sometimes cameras really take bad pictures! Maybe I am OK and I don't really look as bad as the pictures portray. What do you think it means if you have more bad pictures than good ones? Anyway back to the picture, Kenedy picked up my I-Pod the other day and asked what it was. I told her it was my music I listen to when I run. She said, "I try?" So I put it in her ears and the she started running around the house. It was too funny! I wish I had a video camera on all day to watch all the funny things she does. You never get the best ones on camera or film and you have to admit, re-telling doesn't do justice.

POOP-POO ON THE POTTY!

YUK! Kenedy has been fascinated with the potty lately. I am not sure I am ready for this adventure, but I play along anyway. She is always asking to sit on the potty. Not her potty the big potty. So her little potty turns into a step and a smaller toilet seat. Normally she just sits on the toilet and pretends to go, wipes, flushes, and then does the whole sequence over and over again until I con her into doing another activity. She never actually goes and believe me we have played potty long enough for her to have peed 9,000 times. Of course the one day that I walk away to answer a question my cousins has, who I am on the phone with, Kenedy really GOES! All of the sudden she has followed me into the computer room, along with a very yucky smell. I tell my cousin I will call her right back and follow Kenedy back to the bathroom. This is what I found! YUK! YUK! YUK! I couldn't get mad, because she tried to go. I think she got scared and jumped off a little too soon! I told her good job and then said, "Next time, let's try to get into the little hole! Ok?" Next time, I will not leave my 2 year old on the toilet while I run for literally 30 seconds to look at something on the computer! I wish I could say she has gone again since, but I think this experience turned her off. Oh well, we still have a while until she HAS TO BE Potty trained. Right?

Here is Kenedy on Valentines! I am really behind! Can you tell. Today is the 14th of March! Oh well! We sent her on a little scavenger hunt for all her Valentine treats. We are practicing for the Bird Egg Hunt, so we can come home with some good treats this year! ha ha! Mike also brought her home the cute white lamb! He is the best, he never forgets me or Kenedy on Valentines! We love your face, honey! (That was for you, Heidi Blackner! Ha Ha)

SATAN'S GRANDMOTHER

Anyone who knows my sweet baby girl well knows that she is the sweetest, funniest, smartest thing you have ever seen, but she has some BAD HABITS (I call them habits because it makes me feel like they will go away someday. Right?). I don't want to get too negative about her because I love her more than words could ever express! But we had the funniest thing happen to us because of Kenedy's cute HABITS! A few Fridays ago we went to McDonalds with my cute sister, Kamie and her cute boys. I was having a really bad day because my sweet 2 year old has a very hard time keeping her little hands to herself. She had already sat in time out like 20 times, been spanked, lectured, and had to leave early from her friends at our workout class because she hit every kid there. We were having a day. So what do I do, reward her by taking her to McDonalds. Good job Mom, no wonder she hasn't kicked the hiting, biting, scratching, pulling hair HABIT! I think we went to McDonalds to reward me for not beating her! Ha Ha! Anyway, when we got there it was really busy and there were no tables left in the play area. So we sat outside right next to the window so we could watch our sweet kids hit, I mean play, with the other kids. I will admit, I was caught up into my bad day and was mot paying very close attention to my sweet 2 old. When all of the sudden, I notice a screaming 15 to 18 month old and a very mad mom. I thought, great what did she do? Bite? Pull hair? Scratch? Hit? Push? Scream in his face? I keep watching as this women gathers her things in rage. She then walks over and starts talking to an Older women that I have named, "Satan's Grandmother". They are talking and looking at us and saying something about all the moms "OUT THERE". There was us and a few others, but of course I think they are talking directly about me. After the mad mom gets her things she storms out with her children and friend. As she walks by us, I ask the dreaded question, "Did my little girl hit him?" (The little boy is still screaming) She says, "No, but she is really aggressive!" I wanted to say, "Really I hadn't noticed!' But I shut my mouth and apologized for something I didn't do that I didn't want to have happen either and have been praying about, reading about, asking about, talking about until I am blue in the face. Why again do I have to apologize? (Thanks for the little side vent! Back to the story!) Before I could say anything else, the mad women told us that if she had any advice for us, it would be to keep our children away from the crazy women (Satan's Grandmother) in the play area. The next thing I knew Satan's Grandmother was at my side telling me off because my kid had already hit THREE Kids! I wanted to say, "Only Three? Good job K! We are making huge improvements!" But I didn't, I just apologized AGAIN! While I was being told off, the mad women started explaining what was going on in the play area. Her little 15 month old hit Satan's Grandma's child, so the S.G. (Short for Satan's Grandma. I am getting tired of typing the whole thing and If I get tired I won't finish this post until April 14th and then no one will care how cute Kenedy looked on Valentines! Ha Ha) grabbed the little boys so hard that he had been screaming for 10 minutes. The mad women went up to S.G. and told her she had no right to touch other peoples' children. the S.G. told her that if all the moms "OUT THERE" (that would be kamie and I and three others) would watch their children, then she wouldn't have to grab other peoples' children. While the mad women is getting all the moms "Out There" worked up the S.G. stands up in the CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA and with both middle fingers flips off the entire play area and restaurant area. She was worried about hitting? She just taught every kid a new gesture that I don't need becoming one of our "BAD HABITS"! Well I got the giggles! Has this ever happened to you? At the worst moment possible? I couldn't stop laughing. It was that or cry after the day I was having. I chose to laugh, it feels better! Well the S.G. could tell the whole place was talking about her and I was laughing at her, so she grabbed her things and her PERFECT CHILDREN THAT NEVER HIT and got ready to leave. She comes out with the moms "OUT THERE" and begins to refill her drink before she makes her graceful exit. There was a mouthy mom among the moms "OUT THERE", (no it was not me, I was the giggly one, remember!). The mouthy mom was saying things really loud so that S.G. could hear which made me laugh even harder. Not helping the problem, I know! The S.G. finally leaves, but turns around in the window looks at me and pretends to laugh mocking me, which just made me, laugh harder! Good thing she left, I might have got shot! I laughed the rest of the day about this! Needless to say, S.G. must have been having a bad day and she chose anger and crude gestures (her BAD HABITS) to vent. She should try laughing, it is a lot more fun! (WOW it is really hard to tell a story like that when you don't know any of the key characters names. I guess my BAD HABIT after that story is, name calling! I will work on that one, I don't want Kenedy picking that one up too!) After we left I asked Kenedy if that mean old Lady (There is my BAD HABIT again) said anything to her. She said, "She /u/ push-ed me!" Kenedy only says this when she gets pushed, she has never made it up before, maybe this time, I don't know. If I had seen this women push my child, I don't think I would have been laughing.

CAN YOU IMAGINE ANY GROWN WOMEN PUSHING THIS CUTE FACE! SHE IS THE CUTEST THING EVER, BAD HABITS AND ALL! I LOVE YOU K-BUG!

TEACHING HER TO TALK BACK

The other day she got mad and threw everything off your dresser. I said in a very serious tone, "Kenedy Bird, we do not throw things!" I then gave her the mom look. She folded her sweet little arms and began to pout. She sat there for a moment as if she was thinking of a comeback and responded, "Heidi Bird!" I of course laughed so hard, which taught her one simple lesson: It is funny to talk back to mommy. Good job, mom! I guess the lesson of not to talk back will come in time, when I learn to turn my head or walk out of the room to laugh! After I was laughing she said, "I funny, huh mom?" What a character!

Kenedy's Favorite! Popsicles!

Today she informed me she wanted to marry a Prince in the temple like Cinderella. I told her she would find her prince when she was older, but for now she was my little baby. She said, "OK!" She is growing up way too fast!!!

Two wasn't enough, She needed some of Dad's! Why do they always think our food taste better than theirs. IT IS THE SAME THING!

I am finished with this post that I have been working on for 2 weeks! I am motivated again, so come visit us soon!


LIFE WITH KENEDY IS THE BEST!