We survived Christmas

It was touch and go there for a little bit but we survived. Kenna did as well as expected. It could have been a lot worse. Christmas eve night we went to my dads house for that side. It was loud and busy but fun. We stayed upstairs for most of the night since it was quiet. Kenna wasn't all that interested in opening presents. She did one and since it was a toy, she just wanted to play with it and nothing else. So I opened most of her presents. Thats pretty much what she did every time. We didn't get home until 9ish. She went straight to bed when we got home. Little girl was exhasuted.

Christmas morning was done at our apartment. We got up around 9:30. Kenna ate breakfast then we tried to get her to open some presents. She did alright. She opened about 2-3 and then she was done. We didn't get her a whole lot because well she doesn't need it and I knew she'd get stuff from everyone else. Here are some pics from our Christmas morning.

 The wire for the beads on top light up. She likes it a lot.

 This is her playing with toys she already has. :)

 Ryan got her glow sticks. She enjoyed them very much.

 She also loves her Leaptop. Its one of her favorites I think.

Our little load. She got a lot of great stuff though.

Christmas afternoon was spent at my moms. She cooked us breakfast and we hung out. Kenna opened about one of her presents and she was done. She got a light up drum that she just loves. She played with it the whole time we were there and she still loves to sit and play with it. And its not loud and obnoxious so I enjoy it. This is the only family pic that we got. Its nice luckily.

Then Christmas evening we went to Ryan's family. It was nice. Kenna took a little nap while we ate then she roamed around. She had some fussy moments. She did not want to open presents at all. I think she was just overwhelmed. She went through a lot in 2 days. Once we took her into a quiet room and let her play she was much happier.

Sunday we just relaxed a bit before taking Ryan back down to the train. We got to sleep in a little since we didn't get home until after 9 Saturday night.

Today I was ridiculously productive. Since we took almost everything out of the boxes as we got them and she didn't get a large amount of stuff, we didn't have a lot of garbage. I took out about 3 loads. I also did 3 loads of laundry plus have one left to do tomorrow. I went through my closet and took out a garbage bag of clothes to send to Goodwill to make room. I took down our little tree and put away decorations. Finally I swept and steam moped the kitchen floor with my new Shark steam mop. My next project is to tackle her closet and pack away smaller clothes and hang up all the new ones. Hopefully by the end of the week, our house will be back to normal.

Its almost Christmas!

6 days until Christmas? Really? This year has gone by super fast. This weekend Kenna went to my dads house for a night. We dropped her off at 12 on Saturday and went out to enjoy our "us" time. We went to the mall to have lunch at PF Changs. It was delicious. I wish I could eat there all the time. Then we did some shopping. We had to finish Kenna so we picked up some toys and some outfits. Then we came home to rest. We ate our leftovers for dinner, which were still amazing, and then set off wrap. She didn't have a whole lot so it didn't take long. I learned that Ryan is a very precise wrapper where I just do it to get it done. She won't notice so I don't need perfect corners. :) But then we wrapped all of the presents and by then it was like 11. I decided to go to bed to get as much sleep as I could. It was nice.

Today we just ran some errands then hung out at my dads with Kenna. They took her to see Santa. She did not like him very much. When I get the picture, I'll post it. Its so sad and adorable at the same time. I love it. She didn't nap today so as soon as we got home from dropping off Ryan, she went to bed. Hopefully she'll sleep peacefully for me. I can dream, right? 

I ordered my new phone this week and I got it Friday. I'm in love. I got an HTC Incredible. Its amazing. I love everything about it. Ryan has phone jealousy but hes trying to find things he doesn't like about my phone to make him feel better. Silly boy. I'm just excited to have the internet on my phone again. I've missed it for almost 2 years. I got a few apps for Kenna and we tried one out today and she loved it. I'm hoping this helps when we go out in public but we'll see.

Ryan is coming home again Friday morning for Christmas. I can't wait. I love Christmas. I'm not looking forward to trying to find places for all the stuff Kenna will more than likely get but it'll be fun. I hope she enjoys it. I bought bright, metallicy type paper for her presents so she should at least enjoy that part.

Now I'm going to enjoy the rest of my quiet night and watch football. :)

Its been a week?

Wow. I can't believe its been a week. Kenna has decided not to sleep past 6am when I'm home with her. She'll sleep til 8 or 9 when hes home. I don't get it. Oh well.

We haven't really done much this past week. Ryan came home Saturday to give me a break. We just hung out at home. It snowed some on Sunday so we didn't go out but to drop him off at the train. Monday was the OK GO, Switchfoot and Cake concert. We missed OK GO but saw the rest. It was definitely an experience. I don't like Cake but Ryan enjoyed it. Thats all that matters. Yesterday Ryan took off work so he stayed home with Kenna while I ran some errands. It was nice to get out of the house alone. This morning a salvage yard came and got Ryan's car. We got $250 for it. I was surprised they offered that much. Its a nice little extra before Christmas.

Thats pretty much it. An exciting week for us. ;) The only thing I'd change about it is that I'd get more sleep during the week. Hopefully soon.

We had Kenna's doctors appointment today!

We had her 18th month appointment. She is still super tiny. She is now 19lbs 3oz and 29 inches long. She is under the 5th percentile for height and weight. Her height is following her own curve but her weight is starting to level out. I'm hoping once she starts eating real food with substance, she'll gain some weight. We'll see!

Kenna has a few interesting loveys that she likes to bring around the house with her. One is the plastic pouch that I've posted before. Yesterday was a soda bottle that she played with almost all day.

 

Then today she played with part of a CD case. She must have found it under our bed and decided to play with it. 

She's so damn cute. Ryan took some pictures of us on Sunday before he left. They are cute.

And then one of her in a laundry basket for good measure.

Shes been sleeping better. The only bad thing is that she climbs up onto our entertainment center to look at the TV.  I can't watch TV during the day unless she is sleeping. She did let me watch a few episodes of Buffy last night. I think because its not bright and fun. I guess I'll have to watch depressing shows from now on. :)

Free beer and wine makes everyone have a good time!

Last Friday was Ryan's holiday party. It was fun. We hit a few snags in the traveling but overall it was fun. ** the only pic I have of me is from my cell phone. It sucks**

The Metra was running a little behind so I didn't get there until 5. Then we had to rush to his place to change and drop off my bag. We made a transfer from one train to another. The second one was experiencing technical difficulties so that put us 20ish more minutes behind. So we didn't leave his place until after 7 when the party started at 7. We got there around 8. It was jam packed full of people. Everyone I met was amazingly nice. I was honestly shocked that I liked everyone. It was cool. They pushed back the party an extra hour so we stayed until 11.

As soon as we started walking back to the train I realized I had to pee. I thought I could hold it. When we got off the first train and ready for the second, I decided I couldn't hold it. It hurt so bad. So here we are at 12:30am in downtown Chicago trying to find an open bathroom. Nothing was open. Even a 7-11 we found didn't have one. I was waddling around ridic slowly trying not to push on my bladder while Ryan ran ahead looking for a bathroom. We went down into the subway and luckily found a security guard that let me into one. Ahhh relief. Then we set off for another train station and found a 24 hr restaurant. So we stopped and ate. This was around 1:30. It was delicious. We finally got home and ready for bed around 2. We were suppose to get up at 6 and get on a train to Kenosha to pick up Kenna and take her to the holiday party for the center. Yeah that didn't happen.

We got up around 10 and looked outside to find a few inches of snow on the ground. Awesome. I only had high heels and a pair of flats. Off to Target we went to buy myself some boots. We walked to the bus stop that wasn't a bus stop anymore then decided to take a train. Meanwhile my feet were freezing and very wet. We finally get to Target after oh an hour or so with wet, cold feet. Stopped at the cafe to eat some lunch and change my shoes. I was much happier with my warm feet. Then we rush home to pick up Kenna and head home.

Sunday was suppose to be a lazy day. But Ryan's parents had to come get him at 10 to take him to pick up the bed we ordered and then back to his place. :( Instead of doing the errands I needed to do, I had to say goodbye to Ryan early. AND he won't be back til next Monday for a concert. I have to go over a week without seeing him and a break. Its going to be rough. I have some cute pictures of Kenna that I'm putting in a separate post. Stay tuned for some adorableness!

I suck at curling my hair

Everything is alright now. I had a rough few days but everything is okay now.

Anyway.

Ryan's holiday party is Friday night and I want curly/wavy hair. So last night I rolled it and pinned it and slept on it. Well when I woke up and took them out it was a hot mess. The left side turned out decent. The right side however was bad. The very top somehow got really frizzy and just crazy.

I went out and bought foam rollers and put them in now. I dampened my hair and rolled it. We'll see how it turns out. If they fail then I'll just use a curling iron. Hopefully that works. I'm not good at hair so this is stressful. If I had the money and time, I'd pay for someone to do it. Maybe next time. :)

Kenna was good today. She was semi cranky and kept climbing up the entertainment center. It snowed today and I tried to get some pictures. Here are my lame attempts. I need a better camera for real.

 Kenna kept bothering me while I was taking these so I got a few of her.

We drove to Oconomowoc this evening as well. Some WI ladies adopted a family to get presents for and I got to buy for a 1 month old baby boy. It was fun. So we drove out there to drop off the presents. I can't wait til the family gets them. I wish I could be there to see them open it. Then we made a short Target trip to get some more supplies for my hair and came home. I tried putting her down at 7:30 but she wasn't ready I guess. I went in there at almost 8 and rocked her for a little bit. It was nice to cuddle. Hopefully she sleeps through til tomorrow. :)

Now I'm going to finish Hope Floats then do the dishes.