The Solano's

Monday, April 26, 2010

Grandparents.. YAY!!

Kennedy was very blessed this week! She got to visit with all four of her Grandparents!!! I'm a little sad because we were really bad about getting actual pictures with them!! RATS!

Grammy and Pa came this week and got to meet Kennedy for the first time! She sure enjoyed all their snuggles and kisses. We had a very blessed time with them and Ryan got a new BBQ so we ate fabulous! I even had time to bake some chocolate chip blondies.

My parents came up as well from San Antonio and got to spend time with three of their grandkids (Kennedy, and my two nephews, Anson and Landen.) We also had a blessed time with my parents and got to spend time with my sister Kirsten and her family as well. (Kirsten lives half a mile from me which is FABULOUS!) My mom helped finish out Kennedy's baby room. Looks fabulous! I'll have to take pictures later and post. I was also able to venture out to Market Street and grocery shop.

Kennedy slept through the night again one night but of course she's still a newborn so it's very unpredictable. We just take it day by day and love her to pieces.

Kennedy also had her 1 month appointment on Monday the 19th and weighed 8 lbs. 8 ounces! YAY! She did have to get her Hep B shot and that was sad. She stopped crying as soon as we picked her up though. I was able to run into my work and say HI and good luck to my kiddos (4th graders) on their TAKS test the next week. Ryan stayed in the car with Kennedy.

Sweet baby girl

She loves her paci

Her infamous face

How our sweet munchkin is when we peek at her in the morning

Swing Sleeping

Cutealicious!

Dreaming something good

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Goooo Kennedy and Daddy

What a fabulous Friday and Saturday!

Friday night Kennedy slept through the night! Fed her at 7:45 and she didn't get up until 6:15!! YAY! I think she did it for Daddy because he had a race that morning. What an awesome day! Ryan ran the 10k @ Stonebridge and got 1st place OVERALL!!! We were so proud of him! We also had our first adventure out to eat with our best friends. We went to Spoons in downtown McKinney and Kennedy slept the whole time. We even got to stop at Mom & Pop's Popcorn to get a treat after lunch. Just had to share the wonderful news!!

Friday night, playing with Daddy before she slept all night!

Good luck Daddy!

On the way to Spoons

She's out!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

1 month

Wow... I can't believe it's already been 1 month! She's growing up fast!

Daddy got to give Kennedy her first bottle on Saturday. She took it fabulous and gulped down 3 ounces. Daddy sure did enjoy getting to feed her.

I took her to the Pediatric Optometrist on Wednesday and we were very thankful that literally the spot came off her eye with a q-tip. Kind of humorous, although I was a little shocked that it came off so easy when we had been rubbing her eye when it was closed and trying to get it to move and it stayed put. She cried a little but went right back to sleep. Let's just say I think I was crying more and traumatized a little more. Very glad all is okay!

She's been sleeping fabulous, 6-7 hour stretches after her last feeding at night.

It's been awesome because we really do feel rested.

We've also been very blessed by friends bringing us meals. :) THANK YOU!!!

She loves her bathtime

I couldn't resist Ryan! :) Soo cute! This is after bath and before her last feeding at night.

She was already super tired as you can see and Daddy's singing sure soothes her!

Sprawled out

This face just cracks me up!

Walking

Hanging out with Mommy and Daddy while we put her bookshelf together

Daddy giving first bottle

Cracking a smile at Daddy

Dancing with Daddy

1 month old: How cute is this face!

Monday, April 5, 2010

Week Three

Daddy went back to work this week which makes Kennedy and me very sad. We sure miss him being around all day! He's such a big help and well we just like his company! Mommy takes me on walks every morning. I love them!! Wednesday night K did a 7 hour stretch! Yay! Fed her at 8:30 and she didn't wake until 3:30. Great job!

Thursday she went to her big cousin Landen's t-ball game. It was tons of fun but boy was it windy. We sure did enjoy watching him! Can't believe he is already 4!! Very talented boy, look below at a video to see him hit!

She had her 2 week check up at the doctor on Good Friday. Daddy took the day off work and went with us. She was 7 lbs. 6 ounces. Wooo hoo. Almost a full lb. more than her birth weight. Her umbilical cord is still there but almost falling off. A few days later we were able to give her first bath when it fell off. She has a small speck on her eye. Doctor wants us to take her to an eye doc. Kind of looks like a piece of white lint but it won't move. We will make an appointment and take her to the Pediatric Optometrist next week.

We then went out to eat lunch at Subway and kept her covered in her stroller. It was our first well kind of outing. We went to Baylor Frisco (where we had her) and she had her PKU test. She did fabulous! Got a little sugar water and it was her first time to have a paci so she was very excited. Not even a peep from her. I thought for sure getting pricked in the foot would make her cry but not Miss Kennedy! I was shocked! She did wonderful!

We took her to Good Friday service at our church, it's small get together with a small sermon and some worship. It was wonderful to remember what Easter really is about and celebrate our Savior dying on the cross for us and raising again! We decided Good Friday service was a better choice with less crowds and germs! :) hehe

Sleeping in her swing

Good Morning

Purple-icious

Ahhh sooo sweet!

First Bath

Mommy's Girl

Super CUTIE!

3 weeks old

She's like uhhh Dad.. GOOO Giants!

Landen's hit at t-ball game

Monday, March 29, 2010

Week Two

Two weeks already has flown by. I started going on walks to get outside and Kennedy LOVES it! She looks so stinking cute in her car seat. Thank you to Jon and Carrie for letting us borrow their Graco car seat. It fits on our new BOB stroller. Our Chico doesn't fit. Of course, we have to be safe and strap her in. Thank goodness she doesn't mind! She's sleeping great.

Doing 4-5 hour stretches at night. Yippee!!! Great job K!

Daddy goes back to work on the 29th. Kennedy and I sure will miss him. He is such a great help and I promise she gets her personality and mellowness from HIM! :)

Bundled for my walk

Good Morning

Spread out

Little Poopies sleeping

Big Eyes

Walking again

In her swing

Monday, March 22, 2010

First week home

Okay, so I realize I totally slacked on this whole blog thing so I've decided to give it a shot.
I'm going to post a few to get caught up to date and then hopefully I'll be good about keeping up with this!
Wednesday, March 17th (St. Patty's Day) was Kennedy's first day home from the hospital. She did great, of course all she pretty much did was sleep and eat. WE didn't really know what was to come! We were pretty excited and she was a very relaxed and sweet baby. She starting sleeping great from the time she got home. She was doing 3-4 hour stretches in the middle of the night for the first week already. Yay, go Kennedy!