The Kenney Family: Happy Valentine's Day!

Time to catch up! We had a great weekend. Friday night we went to Aunt Pam's surprise 50th birthday party...lots of fun. Saturday we were LAZY....ok, the boys weren't as lazy as me. Patrick and Carter went to Lowe's to their build and grow workshop and made a music box and then they made a trip to the hot tub store. After that, we had lunch and all took good long naps. Patrick and I had our Valentine's date "in" on Saturday night. After the boys went down, we had Chinese food (take out), chocolate fondue, and watched Life As We Know It (cute movie). Yesterday was busy....church in the morning, Wendy's for lunch (We've eaten at the same table at Wendy's the last three Sundays), home to clean the house while boys took naps, back to church for small group and then Kerry and Greg (former minister at church who moved to Chicago and was in town) came over and we watched some of the Grammys. Fun times!

Max will be 11 months old next week. How crazy is that? He has four teeth now. The top two popped through the first week of January, but no new ones since then. He's trying more foods here and there, but sometimes he's just not crazy about some of the thicker foods. He loves bath time with brother. He had his first ear infection a couple of weeks ago. This was his first sick visit to the doctor, and Patrick happened to be out of town. That dr office visit was a circus. We waited about 45 minutes in the room and Carter was really good and played on my phone most of the time. Max was fine, as the only reason I knew something was up was a fever that lasted. Anyway, once the dr came in Carter felt the need to push the little dr stool all over the room, Max slipped from the dr and bumped his head on the wall, and then he was chewing on his fingers and gagged himself accidentally to the point of crying.....like I said....circus. The good news is it's all cleared up now. I was lucky to have plenty of help from Mom and Dad and Kerry that week.

Carter is doing well, and seems a lot older lately. Maybe about a month ago now, I saw him draw a picture that really looked like something...kind of like a deer, he told us it was a dinosaur. He knows almost all of his letters by sight, and knows some of the sounds that go with them. His napping is hit or miss lately, but when he doesn't nap he still rests and then goes to bed early so it's not that big of a deal. He was up the other night with what I think was growing pains. He was asking me to rub his knees. He tells me in the middle of the night "somebody hates Valentine's Day". "Who?" "Goliath, from my Bible."

We've been eating pretty well and working out since the beginning of the year. We're doing P90X 3-4 times a week. This was Kerry's idea, but it's helping that we're all doing it together. I'm back under my pre-Carter weight, which is a great feeling! The working out is paying off I suppose (though I know the diet is what actually makes me lose weight), but it sure doesn't leave much time for anything else...one reason why I haven't been blogging. I'm just toooo tired by the time the day is over.

Enjoy the pics!

Kerry and Max at Aunt Pam's party