The Beach and A Baptism

At the beginning of June we headed down to SC for a much needed get-a-way for the week.  We joined up with our good friends Jenny and Danny, her mom and their two little ones.  So I guess you can say we were really invading on their family vacation.  We had a great time!  We had never been to this part of SC before so it was great getting to go somewhere new.

This was the view from our condo.  To the left is the ocean and all together it was about a 3 minute walk to get there.  Needless to say all that goes into spending the day on the beach with a 15 month old can be kind of exhausting so we didn't spend too much time down there.

But we did spend plenty of time at the pool.  Squeaks was a little frightened of both the ocean and pool when she first got in but she got over it quick and had a ball in both!!

We also visited a stable/petting zoo where you could take pony rides.  Other than it being about a 100 degrees outside, we enjoyed that.  Kenley was a little weary of the much bigger animals but I did get her pretty close to the friendly deer that roamed free through the grounds.

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This past Sunday we finally got the girl Baptized!!!  What can I say but that it brought tears to both of our eyes and she was a perfect angel!!!  I thought for sure when Hedge came and took her out of Jim's arms we were going to have a screaming child on our hands.  But she didn't scream, she didn't cry, she just looked at Hedge, studied his face while he poured water on her head and kept checking him out even after she was handed back to Jim.

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Kenley had a behavioral hearing test last Tuesday and she passed with flying colors!!!  Lets just say I didn't have any worries with my girls hearing to begin with...the last time she was at the Developmental clinic, our doctor told us that they like to give this test to all babies born before 32 weeks.  No fluid in her ears and everything looked clear and she passed the test!! 

Our big appointment is coming up in August and I'd be lying if I didn't say I thought about it every day.  Not bad thoughts but I think I'm ready for it to happen.  I caught a lady starring at her yesterday, yes an adult, and it kind of ticked me off.  It's one thing when little kids stare but an entirely different thing when an adult stares.  I wanted to say to her, "Were you wondering what that thing was on her face?  If you were I would be more than happy to tell you what it is."  Thank goodness K doesn't know the difference right now and it will be removed before she'll ever know the difference.  Some people have no manners.

Not too much longer and her bump will be no more!!

I'm sure I'll look back at these pictures one day and have a hard time believing it ever existed.

New Developments

Between last times post and this one, it seems my girl has changed overnight.  She is a walking, talking, getting into EVERYTHING machine and I have no clue where it has come from. 

She had her second Developmental check-up a couple of weeks ago.  She's doing great and is right where she is supposed to be developmentally.

It was a two day trip to the beach where my gracious and always wanting to help father met me at the hospital for her appointment.  I knew we would be there awhile and I needed some help wrangling the wild girl.

She was such a good girl.  She is a meaty 23 lbs and 29 inches long.  While getting my info, the nurse kindly asked "And is this the daddy?"  Ummm, not quite.  We explained he was PaPa (grandpa) and we all laughed and she made the remark that you never know these days...very true!  We go back for her last appointment in Feb. of next year, which is crazy to think about because she will be almost 2 then!!

I'm pretty sure she used up all her patience on that day because the next morning we had the eye doctor appointment.  Lets just say she wasn't so willing to sit still and hang out as she was the day before.  But that appointment went well and we go back to see him in 6 months.


While we weren't at the hospital or the eye docs, we were hangin out at MeMe and PaPa's and lets just say we had a great time!

Especially when we got to feed the turtles!!

It was so funny...my girl had NO fear what-so-ever from these turtles.  Wish we had a pond like that behind our house, we would be out there everyday!!

We just got back from a weeks long vacation at the beach and needless to say I have tons of pics from that.  I'll be posting on that next but the last picture I want to leave with is a before and after.  Right after she was born, the nurse from my doctors office told me we needed to buy something to put in her isolet and take weekly pictures of her and it to document her growth.  Well that turned out to be a pink bunny, actually at first it was a mechanical monkey with two baby monkeys and one of the baby monkeys was ripped from his mothers arms to be put in with her...but we decided she probably didn't need wires and such in her isolet with her, hence the pink, wireless, bunny.  I just now took an updated picture of her with the pink bunny.

Before...

      *Here she was 10 days old


And After...

Amazing the difference a year and some months make...