Father's Day...a little early!

This comes a little early because of VACATION! :)

I wanted to make a little slide show of Greg and Kennedy over the past year. She has grown up so much! She really loves her DaDa. When he's gone, I hear "DaDa?, DaDa?" to which I have to explain where he is. She adores all the things he does and I can see as she grows how much she will enjoy learning about his "favorite" things! We've started on golf and have a lot of daddy's hobbies to take up!

Looking over the past year makes me look forward to what the future holds for my family. I have seen Greg change from the man who didn't realize we were having a baby until he held her in his arms to a wonderful father. He loves his Kennedy and I know that he will be a great dad to our son! I may fuss a bit (just a little) about you Greg, but you are a wonderful father! Kennedy and her brother should be proud to call you DaDa! I love you!

Happy Father's Day!

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SHOWER!!!

Baby brother's shower was so wonderful!! Baby brother got lots of great diapers and some other great things! I came home and put it all away in his closet. We hung all the little clothes and oohhed and aahed over all of it. You really do forget how tiny they are. I should remember, it hasn't been that long for me! It was so nice to spend time with friends and celebrate him for a little bit! Thank you so much to my sweet friends Jen and Sarah. I cannot put into words how special you two are to me. I am so thankful to have you in my life!

The countdown is starting until his arrival! I can't believe it is so close!! Only 6 weeks to go!!!WOW!

Bye, Bye dear mullet!

Kennedy had her second hair cut today! I will say that I let it go a little long between hair cuts and the back of her hair grows so much faster than the rest. She had grown quite a nice little mullet! Poor redneck baby! I am sure people were talking bad about her behind her back. My goal is to have a cute little bob so we had to go pretty short to have the sides catch up with the back. It turned out really cute! It is kind of stacked in the back. It looks adorable with a bow, but she would not cooperate with that for my picture taking. So here is before....

And after! See you later mullet!
Baby brother is being showered tonight by Sarah and Jennifer and I am so excited! It is fun to celebrate him too! Check back for pictures. I will try to load them up tomorrow because we leave for vacation after that! His room is also well on its way. It is painted the absolute perfect shade of green and has a crib! :) I will post pictures when I finish putting a few more things up! Have a good day!

As Kennedy calls it, WATER!

We had a great time with MeMe and Pops! Kennedy is such a little water bug! Every day at the beach she would get there and say, "WATER!" She just loves the ocean. I will say that I spent way more time in the water than I ever have before. I am not so into the sea creatures that live in that nice water my Kennedy loves so much. She loved it so much, that out I went into that nice not so clear water of St. Simon's Island. Her favorite things about the beach so far are the sand, the waves, and going out into the deeper water and floating in the waves. She would even dunk her head back into the water when a wave came. She is also a little too brave in the waves. Mom and I let her walk out as far as she would go by herself, with me right behind her of course (She had no idea I was there) and she went past her knees in the water, a huge wave (to her it was huge) came and knocked her over. I grab her and she comes up smiling like it was the best thing ever! We are off to a week at the beach this weekend so I am sure she will have TON of fun! This time she gets to play with her Dew in the sand and I think she will enjoy showing him all the things she learned!



Kennedy loved spending time with MeMe and Pops. She woke up every day we were there, looked at me and said, "MeMe?" She would say this over and over again until I went downstairs to find MeMe and Pops. So much for sleeping in! I was amazed that she remembered where we were and knew to ask for them. It just shows how grown up she has gotten lately!

I spend my days at the beach armed with 50 sunblock for Kennedy and spray and spray the entire time I am there. She ends up coming home with a nice tan! She refuses the hat and loves to be in the sun. I also put sunscreen in her hair which explains the greasy hair in all these pictures! No tent or umbrella for this baby! Then I go and buy her a bathing suit with barely a back! What kind of mommy am I? It is really cute isn't it? She also has a bikini we will be sporting on vacation. Girls are so fun! Next year baby brother and K can have matching Bailey Boys suits! What fun I have ahead of me! :)

I would also like to add that I was very far away from her when I took all these pictures. I am so grateful for my nice zoom lens and that fabulous camera we invested in! I would miss so many moments if I didn't have them. To my SLR friends who don't have a zoom lens yet, when your baby starts running, it is the best thing ever! I was mad at Greg for spending money on it, but now I am going to say I was wrong about that! Did you hear me greg? I was wrong....that doesn't happen very often! :)

33 Weeks! WOW!

Today I am officially 33 week pregnant! Oh my goodness! It is starting to get scary! I did have a huge freak out moment today about not being ready for his arrival. I seriously am not ready at all. Not even a little. So, Greg talked me back into the world and after I was done with my huge pregnancy tears, we went out and got a few things done. We picked out paint for the room and the dresser. I am distressing his changing table/dresser like the one in K's room. I have also been very stressed about the crib situation in this house. Upon great contemplation I decided to not kick Kennedy out of her crib yet. She is just still too small. She can't even climb on the couch yet, she is so short. The thought of her in a big bed scares me a little. So we decided it would be best to get another crib. I found a fairly inexpensive one that I like so we bought that today! I was standing in the aisle as we were looking at cribs and said to Greg, it doesn't really matter which one to me, we just need it for about 6 months, and the lady next to me looked at me like I was crazy and said, "6 months?" I tried to explain I have another baby and she will be out of her crib, etc.. but she just looked at me like I had lost my mind and walked away. Did she really think I was going to put a 6 month old in a big bed? Anyways....we now are the proud owners of two cribs, which means we will soon be the proud parents of two little ones!!! WOW! It makes me feel so much better knowing I have a bed for him. The plan is to use this one until K turns around 2 and is ready for her big girl bed. Then he will graduate to Kennedy's crib. The room is getting painted tomorrow and Greg is also going to pick up the dresser from Uncle Patrick. He has the matching dresser to K's and I want to use that for a changing table. He just wants something to put his TV on to replace it. So weird! I offered to get him a new dresser and he says no, just something to put my TV on. Where does he put his clothes? I have not sent off my window treatments to be made, but we do have the fabric. The office is cleaned out and moved into the cabinet in the living room. It turned out very nice. We got a new cabinet for our TV and I love it! It amazed me how much we had to move around and buy this time! I have spent a small fortune getting ready for this baby and I don't feel like we are anywhere near done! It was harder this time because we now have no more spare room here! Kennedy just fit into the empty room that had been waiting on her forever.

K and I are headed to Darien tomorrow for a much needed beach break. We are leaving Greg to get all the nursery stuff done! We'll see how much changes by the time I get back! Sorry to bore you about all the nursery stuff. I will post pictures when I get back with what we have done. We go on vacation the next week and then I will be able to do a little decorating. It will need a little flair to it after I get everything positioned! I am homebound in July, no more travel for me, so I will have a little time to do that. I hope he doesn't decide to come early! I am not ready for that. He must stay in until 39 weeks. I say that now, my mood might change the bigger I get! :) I am worn out from our day of working hard so I am off to bed! Have a good week, what day is it? Is it ok to start the week now? I LOVE not knowing what day it is! Summer is wonderful!!!

I loved you before I knew you

I have been thinking today about how grateful I am to have my children. Being pregnant with my son has brought a whole new meaning to my life. I spend my days chasing around my first hold it baby God gave me, but when all is quiet I get time with just him. The gift of becoming a mother has been something that suited me right from the start. I knew from forever I wanted to be a mom. And now, as my family grows I am continually blessed with so much! It is amazing how you can have a bond with a baby before you ever see his face. I know so much about my precious son already. I do know my true love for him. I can really say that I loved him before I knew him. As my crazy life spins around me, I can still find those moments of calm, of times with my unborn son and the moments only we can share and begin that bond that will last a lifetime. I get so worried about things like how in the world we can afford 2 children, how will we fit in this house?!! How will I love both my precious children and find enough time to devote to them? I ran into a couple at church yesterday that had in-vitro to get pregnant with their first, tried 2 times unsuccessfully to get pregnant with their second and then a month later got pregnant on their own. It gave me chills, and she said to me, "We just have our God babies, only God can do this!" Ah how true. It brings it all back to being loved before we were ever known. God loves us before we are ever created. I think I have a tiny glimpse of that now. And to think, He loved me enough to bless me with a sweet husband, a beautiful daughter, and now a sweet son! Life is full of obstacles, as I well know, but it is also full of great joy. Every day that I wake, I hope I learn to appreciate all I have been blessed with. My world is not perfect, but it is full of so much love that I don' t think the worries are worth worrying about! So to my baby _________, I loved you before I knew you, and I cannot wait to see your sweet face, hold you in my arms, and show you the world God has given us! You are surrounded by love from the very beginning, may you always know how loved you are!