Diapers and Bargains

The first thing on my mind right now is that stupid Huggies Jeans diaper commercial! Every time that thing comes on Kenzie runs into the room or drops what she's doing to watch it. Maybe she has a crush on the boy who, in my opinion, is too old to go without pants....

I think I saw that commercial 15 times TODAY! Damn TLC for playing it too much!

I bought this awesome carrier at the PPB surprise outlet sale this morning. (Yes, I am already preparing for another peanut even though we are months away from trying for one!)
It was on sale for $65 originally $110! I thought it was a steal and I HAD to have it! :) I got my current PPB Touring Tote for $44 when they're originally $145! I can't pass up a good bargain when I see one.

I found Kenzie in the hallway reading books after lunch time.
It's because her play room looked like this:
These are all her toys in this room....
And these are her toys in the living room:

This is Kenzie mad at me for not letting her have my phone because I was trying to take a picture of her.



Now that she's napping and I blogged I better go get myself cleaned up....I just got called into work, gotta be there at 5 since I have to wait for the hubby to get home. The nerve of someone to have their SIBLING call in sick for them 2 minutes AFTER their shift started. What is with today's youth? No work ethic AT ALL!.
If you're feeling like a Starbucks bev, come visit me at St. Rose & Seven Hills, the best one around! :) I promise I make OUTSTANDING beverages for NICE people!

I was going to try and catch up on True Blood since I am now 2 WEEKS BEHIND! AHHH! It's eating at me, I just might have to watch without the hubs tomorrow......

Oh yeah. This is what our house looks like now!!!

This is the inside, all dry wall!

I'm so excited! It's not the house of my dreams but it is a HOUSE! It will be perfect for us for the next few years until we can afford the house of our dreams! :)

Potty Messes and Rompers

I'm sitting here writing this blog while listening to my stubborn little monster who is refusing to take a nap. She's babbling and giggling...maybe the cat Charlie is in there visiting her....oh well!

Today I bought a plethora of rompers for Kenzie. Why you ask? I can answer that.

Yesterday I got her dressed all cute in her adjustable waistband shorts (12-18 months and 4 slots in the waistband) from the gap and a cute blue/turquoise tank.

**I feed my child, she's just freakishly skinny, I swear!**

She was busy in her play room and she was too quiet so I went in to check on her. She had her hand down her pants, like usual, and the room smelt like poop. I yelled at her to take her hand out and she did just that, looked at her hand and proceeded to wipe it on her shirt. Poop. She wiped poop on her shirt!!!! Seriously Kenzie?? I thought only boys played with their crotches and their own poop!

Rompers are the best way to keep her hands out of her areas and keep her looking stylish. My husband thinks I should just dress her in onesies 24/7. That's okay for an infant, but not an 18 month old!

(I know, I'm snobby.)

The second poop story is similar to the first. She had her hand in her pants and I yelled at her to take it out...she proceeded to run over to me(I was sitting on the floor) and put her poop covered hand on MY FACE!!! I didn't know she had pooped so I was incredibly surprised and disgusted. It was a frenzy after that. I made Russ grab her hands while I ran and scrubbed my face off.

Seven rompers for each day of the week. Nice.

Yesterday afternoon we were practicing potty time. She ran in and sat on her chair then switched to the ring on the big potty. She sat there for a good 5 minutes and got up. ( I had the water running in the sink and a book for her to read.) I got on and showed her me going potty and she wasn't interested. She ran over by to door and proceeded to pee on the floor and stomp in it like a rain puddle.

We will try again another day, when my patience returns. :)

Here's another picture from the past that I love<3

Little Miss Attitude from the beginning :)

Anniversary and Boring-ness

I have nothing to write about really. Nothing exciting anyway. I spend way much time on my iPhone playing Battleship. It's addicting.I have sank 316 ships at 5 ships per game. Sad.

I'm usually on Word With Friends but I need the new version and Russ needs to fix my jailbreak. So I'm stuck playing battleship or Where's Waldo.

We did a walk-through with the superintendent on Friday and our house is passing inspections and looking awesome!

Kenzie likes to be outside.

My cats make me sick.
Paige on the Left. Charlie on the right.

They lounge and sleep all day long. Sometimes in my bed. They cry ALL THE TIME. They are spoiled rotten. Cats. Spoiled. Ugh.

Russ and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary yesterday along with Father's Day. I worked in the morning and had a nice evening with my sis, sister-in-law, mom, dad, Russ and Kenzie. The whole Fam (my favorite times). We made our own personal pizzas for dinner and chatted. Russ and I went out to dinner Saturday night just the two of us. It was heaven!

You take for granted going out to dinner until you have a child and that luxury is gone. A hot meal. I had a nice glass of blackberry sangria and I got to sip it, enjoy it. I wasn't flustered and I wasn't in need of another deodorant application like I am with Kenzie around. :) All-in-all I had a nice weekend and now it's back to the weekly grind. Doing nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I think I am going to sign Kenz up for swim lessons, mainly for my sanity. I need to get out of the house and talk to other moms and other people who can talk back to me!!
I need some sun too. I am incredibly pasty. Yuck.

I think that's all the "excitement" I can handle for today.

I wanna squeeze her. I miss this age :(

(4 Months)

Bruised [and Broken?]

I want to completely forget about yesterday.

Work was horrendous....worse than normal.
A horrible morning, decent mid day and an evening ending worse than I expected.
My baby toe got wrecked by the kitchen chair while I was running and hiding from Kenzie last night. In the picture you can see the blue-ness of the entire left side of my foot. I cried. It hurt and still hurts right now. I have to walk all sideways and crazy and it still hurts like a mother effer.

My nice mid-day I got to spend with the family hanging around Gram's pool. It was nice to be in the sun and swim in the pool. Kenzie fell twice while running after we told her to walk and now she has 2 little asphalt "burns" one on each knee. They're scabbed over already. Just adding to her already bruised up chicken legs.

Over the weekend we experimented with sidewalk chalk. She loves it. She mainly likes to draw over my drawings.

I am pretty irked about Kenzie's pediatrician. I called to make her 18 month appointment (I know, I'm a lilttle behind...) and the next available appointment is JULY 15th!!! I love Dr. Carrie but I'm kinda glad we are moving across town so we are switching Dr's after this appointment. I need to do some research on Pediatricians. I was also thinking about switching my "woman doctor" but I love Dr. Burns and Dr. Docasar too much and I think the drive to see them will be worth it when I get pregnant again. Is that weird? It's hard to find a good woman doctor let alone a good gyno....I'm probably gonna stick with them :)

I came across this, it's one of my FAVORITE pictures of her! 11/09

We went and checked out our house yesterday. There are windows in and all the plumbing is done! We got the master shower with a second shower head, one on each side of the shower...it's going to be so nice!September can't come soon enough :)

Can't a girl be sick without being pregnant?!?

I don't know how I got through yesterday. I had THE headache of all headaches and a daughter who tested my limits the entire day! Not only was I queasy as eff...I had to feed her food, change her diapers and be all involved with playing when all I wanted to do was lay down and close my eyes...I guess this was just a test to see if I can take care of Kenzie and have another baby.....I'm a big baby.

I always get asked if I'm pregnant when I say I'm not feeling well. I get horrible migraines that result in horrendous nausea. NO! I'm not pregnant! I'm on the pill, not by choice, and I take it religiously. I have an app for that. I really do, Pill Reminder.

I was sick ZERO days when I was pregnant with Kenzie. I remember feeling better than I have ever felt...seriously! I was extremely lucky to be able to experience my pregnancy with only hormonal side effects and no tummy issues. I was mean. I cried on the spot. I could not be pleased in any which way. I had heartburn CONSTANTLY and I felt like somebody crushed my tailbone (when I gained TONS of weight), therefore I waddled horribly....
My luck, next time around I will be sick as a dog and hating life. Let's just hope by the time it happens again Kenzie will be easier to manage.....

Potty training is on the top of our list. I definitely want Kenzie to be potty trained by her 2nd birthday. That's a goal . So far we are just testing the waters and seeing if SHE is ready, even though I have been ready since she started eating solid foods! (Yuck!) Any time she stick her hand down her shorts I try and take her to the potty. Next step, probably strating next week, we are going to go to the potty right when she gets up, before lunch, before nap, after nap, before dinner and before bath time and maybe before bed time. This is a test for me to see if I can take the challenge of potty training. My mom had my sister and I (17 months apart) potty trained between 18months and 2 years. I get a lot of advice from her so I'm hoping this stuff will work on Kenzie, my evil twin! She is the spitting image of me when I was a tot, temper and all :)
Kenzie still has the "binki." I was bound and determined to take it away at 6 months. That was BEFORE the horrid teething days. I don't even know what I was thinking wanting to take it away so early. Now we are pretty good at offering it only at nighttime and when she first wakes up in the morning or nap time I let her have it for a while. It's her comfort. I'm okay with that. Being the nerd I am I have researched and they say by 3 it should be gone because until then the roof of their mouth is still soft and it starts to form around 3. Our goal is by 2.

We did nix the bottles at 12 months and that's the best thing I ever did. She drinks out of cups. It was actually easy because she never really like bottles anyway. She preferred the boob until I failed at my end when she was hospitalized. Long story short, she wasn't a fan of the bottle and that made it soooo easy on me!

This is Kenzie's first injury of the day. Another trait she inherited from me...prone to injuries. Although she has only been in the hospital once at 4 weeks old for Whooping cough (pertussis) and all other injuries have been minor.

Right between the eyes. That's what I looked like a few weeks ago when we were moving (except my nose was SWOLLEN, Kenz has a red bump/scratch.) I dropped a computer monitor on my face, Kenzie the copycat fell face first into her toy crate. This is the best picture I could get because she refused to hold still. She wanted to look at picture of herself. Oh geez.

90% Mom, 10% Barista

Saturday nights are the worst. I dread Saturday nights because I have to be up at 4:30am Sunday morning. I have to be the last place I want to be, work. Not my rewarding, non-paying job, but my annoying-dealing with rude people-wanna punch people in the face-I hate my life job. Starbucks. It's not all it's cracked up to be.
I swear you will never know how to treat others serving you until you have a job doing so. SOME, but very few, people are just naturally nice and friendly. Others (like 90% of our customers) just like to ignore you and treat you like shit. I hate being a barista. Life guarding was so much easier. I got to yell at kids all day. (I yelled for their safety!! I swear!) Now I am the one getting yelled at because, You, SIR, are too important to hang up your phone conversation, while in the drive-thru, therefore ordering your beverage wrong and taking it out on me and holding up the line. (DECAF.)

OR lady with the twenty kids in the backseat. Thanks for ordering 32 sugar-loaded, not good for you, frappuccinos for your kids (the most annoying drinks to make) and 15 breakfast sandwiches that take a minute a piece to heat up all through the drive-thru so the man behind you who ordered one cup of coffee can wait because you are too lazy to come inside....and don't tip, a $50 total at Starbucks is normal. UGH!

(Can you tell I hate my job yet?)

On a lighter note, my Kenzie girl went pee in the big potty for the first time tonight! I was WAY excited! She was sitting there all naked and cute, I got her a magazine to flip through when I heard the little tinkle and saw a HUGE smile on her face! :D She got to wipe and flush the potty and she managed to slam her thumb in the toilet lid....an awesome moment ruined by thumb-smashing. :(

Here she is drawing, her new favorite activity :)

We stopped by the house today and this is the progress:

Second floor is framed and I got to walk upstairs! I was excited :D

Let's hope I make it home tomorrow without punching a customer in the face. :/ Knowing I get to come home to this little bratty patty gets me through.

A Day (or lifetime?) of Disobeying

Kenzie has seriously been the naughtiest little shit lately. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone. She is definitely testing her limits and entering the "terrible two's" a little early. Here are the latest acts of naughtiness:

• Unplugging the lamp and scratching the wall with it. This has happend countless times always with the consequence of a hand slap or even a spanking. Immediately after she will look right at me and go do it again. Seriously?
  
• Climbing onto the kitchen chairs, then onto the table then to the bench seat which Papa blocked off because she has fallen off one too many times. Or she will sit on the kitchen table and play with/pull apart the flowers in the middle.
  
• Touching (or banging) all the buttons to the tv, dvr and surround system. Again, she knows she's not supposed to so she gets that little smirk and looks at you and does it anyway. Ugh! It makes me so angry just talking about it!
  

She literlly climbs on everything! Chairs, desks, tables, couches, stairs.....That little monster is covered in bruises. I am embarrassed to put her in shorts or even take her out of the house beacuse she looks like she's been beaten.

So I am now completely convinced it's time to start potty training for reals. She is CONSTANTLY putting her hand down her pants. She is starting to "hide" when she goes poo. I will find her behind the couch or under the table and she covers her face if I find her. I'd say those are some pretty good signs it's time to get rid of the diapers! We have one potty book and 2 different types of potties. We have the chair and the ring. I need to invest in a dvd or something. Hmm.

She's just too darn cute to stay mad at :)

Summer!

We FINALLY got all our crap moved out of that ridiculous apartment! We are all moved in with my parents until our house is done! We stopped by there yesterday to see the progress from last Sunday.
I'm hoping we can go by there every Sunday to check the progress week by week. It's so exciting seeing it be built up from nothing. :)

Kenzie sleeping in the car while we were at the new house

Kenzie was a handful this weekend while we were trying to pack up, move and clean the old place. BUT, for an 18 month old she was awesome. Russ and I rewarded her with the Handy Manny Tool Box. It's super cute, they jump around in the box to the "jump in" song and they can be taken out too!



Kenzie LOVE LOVE LOVES the water. We have a little turtle pool in the backyard for her splash around in. Yesterday it was warm enough so I got it out and filled it with some freezing cold hose water. She was so happy! I let her swim/run around naked because I don't want to waste a swim diaper in the privacy of the backyard and if she goes potty I can just hose it down! :)

My Crazy Little Lady :)
I don't know what I'd do without her.