Oh Hello

Did ya miss me? It has been a while since i have been in the blogging world. I think about it all the time and how much i need to update and then my 5 second attention span kicks in and i get distracted and forget i was going to do a post.
There has been so much that has gone on this summer. I started a new job the beginning of July and I am really enjoying it. Its full time and i have to go shuttle Kendall around in the afternoons when the daycare closes and take her to the sitter. But so far it is working out really good and we haven't run into any problems with it.

We decided that Kendall was going to have the eye surgery to correct her lazy eye. Its a very minor surgery where they cut the muscle and then reattach it to the correct place, she goes in on Sept 14th. I am a little nervous about it but it is a common procedure so i know everything will be OK. Oh and she broke her glasses, so she hasn't been wearing them. Most likely after she has her surgery her glasses prescription will change so she will have to get a new pair anyways so we are just waiting to get them fixed.

This last weekend was our local county fair. I wasn't super interested in going and i knew it wouldn't make a difference for Kendall if we did or didn't go, but my sister and I took her to go look at all the animals. She was a little scared of petting the animals but after she saw me do it she was all about petting them. She loved the cows and the mini horse.

 

Meal times are all sorts of interesting now. For a while there she would not eat if i was feeding her or if i was even in the room. She is pretty much over that now but she has to feed herself, she doesn't like it when people help her. She still loves fruit and will eat that over anything else. She is not a big meat eater but will make an exception for sliced ham and hot dogs. The messiest foods like macaroni or spaghetti automatically get put into her hair. Its easier to just take her clothes and let her eat naked then to keep a bib on her and try to keep her clothes clean. Guaranteed if you want to keep her clean she is going to end up a mess. She prefers yellow cheese to white cheese. Her absolute favorite food would be popcorn. She likes guacamole but will not eat avocados plain.



Every morning when she wakes up the first thing she wants to do is sit with grandpa and drink a cup of chocolate milk. She calls it her coffee. He is currently her favorite person. He gets her up every morning and gets her dressed. She wont let me do anything for her, it always has to be grandpa who helps her. When she needs her diaper changed she will go get him a diaper and lay down on the floor in front of him, when i do it i have to hold her squirming/screaming body down with one arm while i try to wrestle the diaper onto her. These next 2 weeks are going to be hard for her cause grandpa is gone and its just the 2 of us and she isn't used to that.

As you can see her eye is still crossed. She is all about getting her picture taken again. There was a small period of time where she thought it was hilarious to turn and run away from the camera and now she will actually ask me to take her picture. 

This is her friend Titus (he is going to be a big brother) they don't see each other often but when they do they are like old buds. I don't mean to brag, although i am very proud, but at Kendall's daycare they tell me she is the only kid in the class who knows all her classmates names and she will call them by name. She is very social and talks nonstop. A lot of times i cant even understand the words that are coming out of her mouth. For her age she communicates very well. I haven't been consistent about it but lately we have been practicing the ABC's and numbers with her. I know she will learn it all on her own but i would like to help her as much as possible.

 

I cant make any promises but i am really hoping now that fall is on the way and we are not on the go all week long that i will be able to get back into a blogging schedule. I have to wait until Kendall goes to bed or she tries to fight me for the computer, i am not sure you would be able to read what she has to say.

Ahhh, its good to be back......