More Prehalloween Fun

We have partaken in a couple more Halloween festivities. This weekend was absolutely gorgeous – upper 70’s, no wind, perfect! So we had to get outside because this will probably be one of the last weekends to get out. So Friday night the Meirowsky's and Maus went to Tanganyika in Goddard for Pumpkins in the Park.

Saturday we were at the ballpark all day for a Duck Soup Tournament that Kevin and I participated in (got 2nd!). There from 10am to 8:30pm...long day! Parker was trying to take a bit of a rest mid-day and was laying down. Then he got thirsty and decided to try to drink red Gatorade while still laying down. I probably don't need to tell you how that ended up. Silly boy was STAINED! We had to take nail polish remover to him to get it off.

Then today, Maus, Parker, Kendall and myself headed out to Applejacks Pumpkin Patch in Augusta. What a wonderful weekend!

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Kendall @ 2 Months

What an easy baby!!! I started back to work last week and of course every mom doesn’t want to leave their baby, and I’m no exception! I love holding her; she is so content just rocking in the rocking chair – gotta be facing out! Kendall will fall asleep just about anywhere too. She prefers her crib and will take some really long naps if she is there, but she falls asleep in her car seat, bouncy chair, or in the swing.

 Tammy (the babysitter) has truly appreciated her laid back behavior. She is still eating about every 3 or 4 hours and still eating about 4.5 ounces. And she sleeps ALL NIGHT! YEA!!!! She goes to bed around 9:30 and then we wake her up to go the Tammy’s around 7. This weekend she slept until 9:30 when we had to wake her up to go to the ball fields.

During the day she isn’t quite on a schedule yet, but takes several naps some up to 3 or 4 hours long. She hardly ever gets fussy and is always entertained by her big brother!

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Right now, Kendall enjoys sitting in her bouncy chair and looking at the funny animals hanging in front of her. She doesn’t show very much interest in rattles or anything like that. Parker goes 100 mph, and Kendall just goes with the flow. Whether it be going to the ball fields so Mom and Dad can play ball (yesterday we had a tournament and we were at the ball fields from 10am to 8:30pm- long day), or going somewhere so Parker can burn some energy, or to a Maize football game, Kendall just does it all without complaining. Parker was pretty easy when he was a baby, but I think that she might have him beat!

Lambie

Parker was chosen to be Star of the Week. Something he has been REALLY looking forward to! Each Thursday at school one of the kids name is drawn and they are the Star of the Week the next week at school which includes taking their class mascot, Lambie, home for the weekend. He actually cried the first week when his name wasn’t drawn, so this week Parker was SO excited! He and I filled out a form that told his classmates all his likes and dislikes and Parker played with Lambie all weekend. Parker also got to take a snack to share with his classmates on Thursday (Puppy Chow – YUM!) and I got to read one of Parker’s favorite books to his class. It worked out perfect that one of Parker’s favorite stories is Mator’s Tall Tales is about Mator being a fire truck and they had a firefighter come talk to the class. It was a great week for Parker!

Prehalloween Fun with Grandpa Kirk

Grandpa Kirk and Dana took the grandkids last weekend for some prehalloween fun. Poor Parker was not feeling his best and later found out it was croup. It started on Friday – the coughing, runny nose, and a sore throat. But he made the best of it; he couldn’t wait to go to Grandpa Kirk’s house! I’m not quite sure what all they did over there, but he had a blast and came home with a scary looking pumpkin, Halloween tattoos all over his body, and face paint. What a great time!! To end the evening both Dana’s family and our family (including the Smiths) went bowling and had pizza. It was great to get both families together. Dana’s oldest daughter has 2 boys close to Parker’s age and a daughter around a year old. So they had a lot of fun together.

Preschool Pictures

Parker’s preschool pictures came back too cute. It was tough to decide which one we wanted!

Big Scary Monster

We ordered some new books from Parker's preschool. Before I read any of the stories to him, I asked him to "read" them to me. He said "MOOOMMMM...I don know how to read yet!" Silly me! I told him to look at the pictures and tell me the story. He was okay with that! Once I read him the story, he thinks he has to tell me the exact thing. I just wanted to see his imagination at work!

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Kendall's 2 Month

I can’t believe that 2 months since Kendall was born has already passed by. Time goes so fast! She is really getting on a routine of things which Kevin and I love. During the day when she wakes up she wants to eat, then “play” for about 45 minutes, and then she wants her pacifier and rocked to sleep. How long she sleeps is pretty random still. Usually it is for at least an hour, but the other day she slept for 7 hours! We don’t expect that to happen too often. Kendall enjoys her swing and the bouncy seat that vibrates. Many times while I’m cooking dinner she will sit in her bouncy seat on the counter and watch me cook. It never fails though; she always wants to eat when dinner is ready. Thank goodness for microwaves!

Yesterday we went in for her 2 month checkup. And boy did Kendall have an opinion about being at the doctors! Her opinion was “get me outta here!” For the most part Kendall doesn’t do a lot of crying so I’m thinking she wasn’t feeling 100%. She cried almost the whole time at the doctors and then later that evening threw up A LOT (way more than usual). And she didn’t like her vaccines either. I hate seeing the real tears roll down her cheeks! 


Dr. Tsang couldn’t believe how big Kendall was. Just like her big brother – I guess we know how to raise some chunky monkey kids over here! She weighed 14 lbs and 11 oz. To quote Dr. Tsang “she is off the charts!” She thought that we might be feeding her too much and should cut back on the milk supply (maybe that was one reason Kendall was crying?). Kevin and I talked about it and made the decision to go against doctor orders. She suggested we feed her every 2 hours again with less milk. Right now she is going about 4 hours between feedings and neither one of us really want to go backwards in the nursing process. So in the end Kendall, if you are really messed up somehow, you can blame it on your mom and dad and your feeding habits when you were 2 months old. Because Kendall was crying so much I didn’t get to hear how long she was, but I did catch that it was in the 80 percentile. I will have to measure her here at the house in the next day or two.


Kendall loves sleeping in her crib at night and during the day for naps. Her smiles keep getting bigger and bigger and she likes holding on to things. She is a wiggly thing which only foreshadows the days ahead. She isn’t a big fan of the pacifier and ONLY uses the green one. I hope we never loss it because it is the only one we have like that. Kendall loves looking at her big brother and Parker loves helping her out – getting her toys, “shaking” her hand, and being silly trying to get her to laugh.

And I know I've been a terrible mommy when it comes to pictures! My excuse...life is busy with 2 kids!!!