Daddy's Departure...

Daisy giving Daddy a hug good-bye.

Daddy reading to Daisy in her toddler bed.

Our last family dinner, we went to Old Chicago.

Saying good-bye to Daddy. :(

So this has been coming for a while. Matt is heading on his annual business trip for a while. We normally have an evening out before he leaves, so last night, by his choice, we ate at a pizza place Old Chicago's. It was a nice evening and Daisy even went potty while we were there. She has made huge progress in the week that we've been potty training. Sometimes it doesn't feel like he's getting ready to leave until he doesn't come home after work. I do know that's a part of his job, but it doesn't get easier with time. We love him and will miss him every minute he is gone. I know that God has his hands on him and his aircraft and that he will keep him safe. I plan to keep updates on here for him to check. One thing he doesn't like to miss is seeing how big I get when I'm pregnant. If you didn't know, when I was pregnant with Daisy he missed to same part of her pregnancy that he will miss with this one. Until next time...

Trip to the zoo!!

This was a duck at the zoo in the inside "bird" greenhouse...

one of Daisy favorite places at the zoo!!

Daddy, Daisy (and a cold Sprite), and Mommy...not pictured Baby K!!

Arin, Baby Nathan, and Daniel Johnston...they went with us to the zoo...
Nathan's first trip to the zoo!

Daisy in the "bird" greenhouse watching the ducks in the little pond!

Daisy sitting on the potty, during PT!!

Well it's been a busy week with the potty training and then yesterday spending all day in Nashville. We wanted to do something as a family for Matt deploys and we have a zoo membership, so we decided to take Daisy to the zoo. Friends of ours, pictured above, went with us. We first went to Babies R Us, because we don't have one in our hometown, to look at double strollers for after the baby is born. I looked at few. I have had my mind set on the Kolcraft Contours Options Tandem Stroller since I found out I was pregnant, but wanted to sit Daisy in it and see how she fit and all the fancy things on it. I really like it, but while we were there we saw a double, sit-n-stand stroller by Baby Trend. Matt really liked that one and it does have the sit-n-stand part for when Daisy doesn't want to sit in a seat. The Kolcraft one is a bit more expensive than the Baby Trend, so we'll see which one comes out on top.

After Babies R Us we ate lunch at this cute BBQ place that's been open since the 60s. The name of it was Barbie-Cutie. The food was really great as well!! Then finally we headed to the zoo around 1pm. It was pretty hot outside, but I knew Daisy would love all the animals. We headed to the farm animals part which has one cow, one horse, and many goats. It wasn't that great. After that we went to the "bird" greenhouse, which Daisy loves. It has a ton of these little parakeet type birds with lots of bright colors and they fly all over the place and are very friendly. After the birds, we saw the African animals...elephants, giraffes, zebras, etc. While walking to view the elephants from a different area, Daisy had a little accident. She fell on her face and got her first bloody nose, a few scrapes on her forehead and also on her knees. She made it through, but the rest of the day was pretty much a wash. Daisy had been up since 5:15am, had no nap and it was really hot, so around 4:15pm we headed home. It was a pretty good day with the family...tired and all!!!

Day 3 of PT!!!

Well this morning we got a little later start on the day, so Daisy had on panties around 9:00am. She had an accident early on. From about 10 to 11:30 she kept saying potty, so every time I would run her back to the potty and sit her down. I would sit on the floor and read her a book. Every time but the last time she didn't go. The last time though "pooped" in the potty!!! No accident before hand!!! Yeah...we are making progress!! The rest of the day went well with only one more accident. She took a really long nap, so that took up some potty time. We went to eat dinner at Olive Garden since Daddy is leaving soon and we put a pull-up on her. I checked it when we got home before putting her in the tub and it was dry. More progress!!! After putting her in the tub and going to get her jammies she was saying "potty, potty", so I put her on the potty and less than a minute later she was "tinkling" on the potty!!! Today was a very good day for potty training and has reassured me that she can do this with a little patience. Daisy was rewarded twice with M&Ms today...maybe tomorrow she'll get them 3 times. Here's hoping!!!

Day 2 of PT (potty training not physical :))!!

I thought day 2 of potty training Daisy would be better, but I was wrong. I had to wash her clothes and panties during nap time to make sure she had enough to get through the day. We have had many accidents today, though she did poop in the potty (partly)!! So she did get 2 M&Ms today. She has peed in very odd places today...on the side of the toy box, in the bathroom on the floor, and ON her books that are residing in the new baby's room (for now). I feel like all I've done today is put new panties on her and sit on the floor in the bathroom with her on the potty doing nothing. She has made some signs that she peeing and tried to get my attention, but just not in time. Hopefully tomorrow goes better since it is the third day of the 3 Day Potty Training!!
Until tomorrow...

First day of potty training

So today was our first attempt at potty training Daisy. This morning went pretty well. I put panties on her around 8am and she had an accident about 8:30. We changed her clothes and put on dry panties. I took a shower and she did fine watching cartoons. She did well all morning, though she never used the potty. She went down for an early nap at 11:15am, so I put a diaper back on her. When she woke up from her nap at 1:30 she had a dirty diaper, so I changed it and put her panties back on. We made chocolate chip cookies for daddy (Matt) and while they were cooking she had yogurt and a Capri Sun. Around 3pm Daisy said, "potty". I took her to sit on the potty, she sat there for a few minutes, but never went. About 30 minutes later she tee-teed behind the recliner on the carpet. She now has on a clean pair of panties. Hopefully the rest of the afternoon goes well. We will keep you updated as to how the training is going!!

August is here!!

Here is a picture of the new baby's room, completely painted! I painted it brown since her bedding will be brown and pink.

This is Daisy's room. I painted it purple to go with her new bedding and her big girl furniture!!

Matt and I before heading out on our date.

Baby K #2 at 21 weeks!!

This past weekend Matt and I had a chance to go to the movies. We haven't been to the movies since before I was pregnant with Daisy...over 2 years!! Our great friends Ski and Melissa watched Daisy so we could go see Transformers 2. I wasn't sure about it at first because of the Christian reviews it got, but it turned out to be really good!! The special effects and action figures were awesome!

Since my last post I finished painting the girls' rooms so I included photos of them. I think they turned out pretty well. The painting is finished, but they are still in shambles waiting to get the rest of Daisy's bedroom furniture. She will be moving into a toddler bed...it will be very interesting to see how well she adjusts to this transition!!

I have since hit the half-way point of my pregnancy...YEAH!! It seems like just yesterday that we found out. I have been feeling a lot better lately. This morning I didn't even take my nausea medicine, so we'll see how that goes. I feel the baby kick a good bit now...Matt seems to miss it every time I feel her though. Only about 4 more weeks until I start school. Daisy and I will try and make the best of the last of our summer days.

Well I have a list of phone calls to make this morning so until next time...

God bless your family!!

Family Update

Baby K's hand and all 5 fingers.

Here are her legs...she had them crossed most of the time.

Our beautiful Baby girls profile!

Daisy being silly at Grampa and Grammy Kent's!

Matt and Daisy swimming at the hotel's inside pool on our trip to Maine.

So July has been a very busy month for us. At the end of June we left for our trip to Maine for two weeks. Daisy was a wonderful traveller, all 1400 miles in the car! We had a great time visiting with Matt's family even though the weather didn't cooperate. My parents came up for about 5 days. It was their first trip to Maine and there were certain places we wanted to take them to get a taste of Maine. We took them to Bar Harbor which is a wonderful town on the coast. We rode through the Acadia National Park and did a little shopping and eating in town. We also took them to Freeport where L.L. Bean is located. It is the best place to shop in Maine. They have tons of outlet stores and it has such cute shops. To celebrate the 4th of July we went to Gene's "camp" on the lake, a cousin of Matt's dad. We took a boat ride around the lake, had hamburgers and hot dogs and watched the fireworks over the lake. Daisy seemed to really enjoy the fireworks, though she would not get on the boat. She didn't like it very well.

Most of the trip consisted of us just hanging around the house. With me being pregnant, I was taking naps with Daisy in the afternoons. I was able to get in the hottub this time, thanks to my wonderful father-in-law. He lowered the temp so I could get in and enjoy the warm water in the cool evenings of Maine. We had a bbq one evening with lots of family over and lots of food. JoAnna makes the best ribs! We were very greatful to get to make the trip, since originally we had thought that Matt might be deployed before the trip. Since being back home, I've working on getting Daisy and the new baby's rooms situated. That's something else..the Monday after getting home we had an ultrasound to tell us the sex of the baby...you guessed it, ANOTHER GIRL!! I wanted to paint the girls' rooms...Daisys' purple and the new babys' brown. Now I just have to get Daisy's furniture to finish them off. We are so super excited about having another girl! I think Daisy is going to be a big help when she comes along. Right now I am taking advantage of my last few weeks of freedom before school starts back at the end of August. This semester is coming to keep me very busy, taking care of Daisy, being pregnant, graduating in December and Matt deploying. I am taking the PRAXIS II tomorrow and hope it goes well. Anyways, until next time ...