Atlanta...and more

Thursday morning I left for Atlanta (for work), it was a good flight and we got to the city at about 4 o'clock their time, which, in my mind left plenty of daylight hours to get some sightseeing done.  Unfortunatly my boss did not see it that way, and we instead spent most of the afternoon/evening in a mall (I usually LOVE to shop, but when I am some place I have never been before I prefer to spend my time doing things that I cannot do around here).  And then we went to our hotel and watched a movie (good movie, The Changling).  The next day we were in our conference all day (which was fine since that was the reason that we were there), but when we were finished we still had plenty of daytime left to do somethings, but once again that did not happen.  We took the MARTA (Atlanta's subway/train system) to Midtown and walked around for about 20 minutes and then went to Old Navy and back to the hotel.  The next day we were in class until 3 then we went to the Olympic Park and the Coca-Cola museum as well as the CNN center.  The Atlanta Hawks happened to be playing that night and we were right next to the stadium (literally), but my boss did not want to be out after dark, so we went back to the hotel.  The next day we came home.  So I do not know much more about Atlanta than I did before I left, however, I do know much more about what were went there to learn about (the conference was very informative), so it all turned out ok, I guess.

Back to the main thing in my life, Kenzie.  She is doing well.  We started her on milk two weeks ago and all seemed fine, however she did have a hive outbreak and I am still not entirely sure what caused that.  We took her off the milk for a few days and the hives left, and we have since put her back on it and the hives have yet to return so we will see.  She is eating mostly table food now, she really likes whole wheat begals and yogurt.  We are having a problem getting her to eat pieces of fruit although she still likes the pureed versions of the same things.  She can feed herself with a spoon now, it takes quite a while and she is messy but she likes it, so we go with it. 

Her birthday party is this Saturday at McDonald's.  I would have perferred to have it someplace else, but with all the kids that will be there I needed to have something for them to do that did not cost too much.  Her acutal birthday is on Tuesday, wow I cannot believe that she has been around for 365 days, how time really does fly.  I am in the process of uploading some pictures from the past month, and I will post them tonight, hopefully.  Waylon and I are putting together her present tonight, so hopefully that does not take too long.

Playing Catch Up

So I realize that my dedication to this blog has dwindled in the past few months and I plan to remedy that sometime in the near future.  I think tonight would be a good place to start and I will update you all on the going ons of the Blevins' household, but you will have to wait a little longer for pictures as I do not have the patience to deal with my 10 year old computer and the speed of the upload. 

As for us,  Kenzie's babysitter had her baby two weeks ago, and the week before that her husband had emergency gal bladder surgery, so we have been babysitter-less for the past three weeks,  however thanks to my mom, grandma, great friends, and a flexible work schedule Kenzie was never left unsupervised.. :)  She will be going back to daycare tomorrow.  I think she really misses it as around here there are no other little ones to play with and she seems to enjoy that interaction. We are starting her on regular milk now as well as working on getting her mostly on table food and off of baby food.  She cracks my up everyday with the stuff that she does.  Lately she has been drinking water and she will pile a whole bunch in her mouth and then let it all run down her chin and laugh, she thinks its great.  Thursday when I was home with her she was kinda being a turd and I was putting dishes away from the dishwasher, I turned around and she had crawled inside of it, craked me up.  Later, she brought me a book and hit me on the leg with it until I sat down and read it to her (10 times, its only a 6 page book).  Wow, she is growing up so fast.  

I was able to get about 10 scrapbook pages done this week, so that made me pretty happy as usually I do not get time to do them except at scrapbook camps.  I am caught up to the beginning of February now, so I think I will be able to take a ton of pictures at Kenzie's birthday party on the 14th of March.  I really cannot believe that she will be a year old in 16 short days.  

On Thursday I will be flying to Atlanta for 4 days for work, I am pretty excited because I have never been there, but nervous because it will be the first time that I have left Kenzie and acutally went out of town, usually if my mom takes her Waylon and I just stay home. 

Waylon is now back to work, and I don't honestly think he is too excited about it.  After spending all those days with Kenzie he really bonded with her and if he could be a stay at home dad I think he would now, seriously.  

Well that's all for us now, more to come. 

A Day In The Life

Today is Wednesday, and it is my day off, usually.  It seems as though lately I work most Wednesdays.  Anyway, today I was home most all day (except for the 2 hours I went to work), and Kenzie and I took a bunch of pictures.  We were playing with her kitchen, reading books, looking through the changing table, shopping with the shopping cart, doing some laundry, playing with my purse, all within about 30 minutes.  Then, after a much needed nap we went to the park. 

The New Thing

So I am sure if I can explain this, but Kenzie does this thing now where she moves her lips and spits, kinda like a horse when it sighs, don't know if that makes sense but it is so cute!  Now though since we always laugh after she does it, she will walk around and make the sound (with spit flying) and then laugh, 'cause thats what we do!  Here is a picture to maybe explain better.

Dress Up

We went out to dinner on Sunday night with my mom, aunt, and grandma for my grandma's 81st birthday.  I wanted to put Kenzie in something cute, so I got out one of the outfits we received at her baby shower.  I thought she looked adorable, but Waylon and Kenzie weren't so sure.  She was playing with a rice krispie treat, it was the only thing that would keep her happy.  (see the picture where she isn't holding it?)

If you give Waylon some cookie mix....

One of the people I work with gave me a cookie mix bag for Christmas.  It had everything in it that you need to make chocolate chip cookies except the butter, vanilla, and eggs.  It had been sitting on our counter and one night Waylon decided that he wanted some chocolate chip cookie dough. (We had chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in the freezer, but that would not cut it).  Waylon has never made cookies in his life, but I was not in the mood to make it, so it was all up to him.  The directions said to mix together the butter and sugar, however he never softened the butter so he ended up with large sugar-coated butter chuncks.  He then added the remaining ingredients but instead of mixing it by hand, he felt the need to use the mixer.  We ended up chocolate chips all over the kitchen floor.  I never tried his cookie dough, but he sure was proud of himself.