22 Months!

How is this little baby 22 months old?

*I just cried while looking at these pics
*I now also have baby fever
*bad

Okay on to the post:

Kennedy you are simply THE BEST little girl I have ever met! In the last week you have started putting several words together and repeat everything you hear (we have to be careful). In the car yesterday we were listening to Christmas music and you starting singing, "pa rum pa pa pum" with the little drummer boy! Are you kidding me? I melted! Today I said, "girlfriend, are you ready to go to school?" and you responded, "girlfriend READY!!" Oh my stars! You know all of your colors now but get red and orange mixed up a lot. You love TO color! Here is a random list of all of the amazing things you are doing:

• You wear size 4 diapers during the day but size 5 at night (will switch to all 5 soon)
• You wear 24m and 2t clothes but are more comfortable in 2t's
• You wear a size 6 WIDE shoe which are IMPOSSIBLE to find
• You go to Kingdom Kids Weekday 2 days a week at our church and you love your teachers Kim and Traudl and always talk to me about all of your classmates.
• You love chips. 
• You nap for 2-3 hours a day 
• You typically go to bed around 8:30pm and sleep until 8:30am (amazing)
• You love your toy Vacuum and you also love to help sweep 
• You love to read
• You yell, "amen" after we pray and add the names of anyone I might have forgotten to pray for
• You are so sweet and cuddly
• Right now you mostly only want me if I am around. 
• You are friendly. 
• You think daddy is so funny
• You love your dog Belle
• You love to blow kisses
• You talk all the time
• You always want to watch Rella, Occhio, Monkeys, Dogs, Toys which translates to Cinderella, Pinocchio, The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians, or Toy Story
• When we cover you up at night you say, "cozy!"
• You love going to Sonic and Chick-fil-a 
• You eat mostly anything except pasta. You don't like pasta at all (weird)
• and the list could go on and on and on

Kennedy Kate, 

You are pure joy! I cannot believe that you have already been in our lives for 22 months! Every day is just amazing with you and I cannot express the love that I have for you. You are so funny and sweet and your daddy and I adore you. I pray that you keep your determined and sweet spirit and that you Love the Lord with all of your heart. You are a gift and I love you!

PS: We have a great time together :)

Parrot Head

Kennedy spent the night at my dads last night so we could go train new teammates in Fredericksburg, TX today. We got back to their house to pick her up and when we walked in the door she waved and said "HI-IIIII" SO PRESH!
She was also wearing my dads Jimmy Buffet hat :) At least she wasn't wearing the "it's 5 o'clock somewhere" one. What a fun day!

6 Months

Dear Kennedy Kate,

You turned 6 months old on Tuesday!You weigh 18 pounds & 2 ounces: 90th percentile
You are 27 inches tall: Also 90th percentile
You are a very happy baby who sleeps through the night.
You are learning to sit on your own with the help of mommy or daddy.

Highlights

You love to play with your toys but right now your soft flower rattle is your favorite one.

You take 6 ounce bottles and love rice cereal and bananas.

You are so sweet and strong and have made our days have great purpose.

You love to read your book of prayers with your mom.

You love to jump in your jumper.

You no longer like your swing and have out grown your bouncer.

You wear size 3 diapers.

You throw your shoes off as soon as we put them on you.

Every single day more of your personality comes out and we just love being your parents.

Love,

Mom and Dad

25 & 1

Yesterday was a VERY eventful day so I didn't get a chance to write my weekly pregnancy post:

Here's how it went

9:30AM: I'm drinking my "fruit punch" for my glucose test and it's not so bad.

10:00AM: We arrived at Hay's Women's Health for my appointment and received a call from Mark Wittenburg and my friend Beth (his wife) telling us that she has been having contractions every 10 minutes since 6PM the night before and her doctor told her to come on in.

10:30AM: The nurse calls me to the room and takes my blood for the test. Not fun

11:00AM We happily leave the appointment after hearing a great sounding baby heart beat, having a few questions answered, getting a names of local pediatrician, and setting my next appointment (the last monthly appointment) for November 10th.

11:15AM: Text from Mark that says "Beth is 5cm and the baby will be here today"

11:15-11:30AM pure excitement in our car! That baby isn't due until November 12th! My last blog post was about this! We pray for baby's health and for Beth's and get home to change and head to the hospital.

11:30AM: We arrive home to a big box of KENNEDY'S BEDDING on our porch :) :) Oh I wish that crib were here! It is so pretty and I can't wait to set up her room!

12:00PM: Hospital, wait, Beth decided on epidural, wait, more waiting..........

6:06PM: ..........

Nathan Robert Wittenburg is here!! He's healthy and doing great and so is momma! 5.7 pounds and 18.5 inches long. All of the nurses in the nursery are ohhing and ahhing over him and of course we are too!!

Proud mom and dad

On Saturday Beth and I were talking about how she probably won't be at my first baby shower on November 13th because of Nathan's due date. Oh how we were wrong. Thank you Lord for reminding me that its Your time not ours!! He is precious.

So with that:

How your baby's growing

Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Her weight — a pound and a half — isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but she's beginning to exchange her long, lean look for some baby fat. As she does, her wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and she'll start to look more and more like a newborn. She's also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture.

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 25 Weeks & 1 day

Size of baby: Baby K is the size of a Rutabaga???

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 22 lbs

Maternity Clothes: Jeans ordered online should be here any day now. I'll model them for you

Gender: Girl

Movement: getting kicked several times a day :)

Sleep: Had a HORRIBLE nights sleep Monday night but last night was better

What I miss: sprinting ;) I can't wait to train for a race or two

Cravings: Milk, Fruit

Best Moment this week: Her bedding arriving. Purchasing maternity jeans (can you see how much I miss my jeans ;), Nathan Robert being born!!!!! Her first friend is already here and waiting for her!