Wiggles Concert

Saturday night, Mandy and I took our kids down to Nokia in Grand Prairie to see the Wiggles. The boys were having a "guy night" at my house so we were looking for something fun to do with Kenna and JD. JD really likes the Wiggles and Kenna really likes music so we thought it would be fun to see the Wiggles in person. JD was excited about seeing the "big Wiggles in their house."

We only decided to go earlier in the week, so we were up in the balcony, but it ended up working out really well. We could spread out on our row and the kids just danced and danced. They were so much fun to watch!!

The concert definitely wore them out and they were both in a trance almost the entire way home. We had to work hard to keep them from going to sleep before we could feed them dinner!

Kenna and I spent the night with JD and Mandy and the cousins had a lot of fun playing together before church on Sunday. Fun outing!

Dancing Kenna

For the last few weeks, Kenna has been practicing her dance moves anytime she hears music. If she is not dancing, then she is clapping. Her dancing typically consists of stomping her feet while she "sings" along. Tonight, Daniel and I were watching the finale of So You Think You Can Dance (a great show by the way) when Kenna decided to show off her moves. Apparently she has picked up a few new things along the way!!

After she had been "dancing" a while, she started getting really dizzy and couldn't stand up straight. We laughed and laughed at all of her "whoas" as she was stumbling around the living room...we live with such a funny little girl!!

Rangers, Shopping, and Swimming

For the third year in a row, we had a 'family reunion' Crenshaw style at our house. We have made it a tradition to celebrate my Gran's birthday with a family trip to Dallas (aunts, cousins, etc.) and we always have a blast!

We started the weekend with a trip to the Ranger's game Thursday night. The Rangers won and we had a blast! Abbye particularly loved to eat some of her Momma's Lemon Chill. Once Amy decided to share, Abbye didn't want to give it back!

Kenna was very excited to get to see all of the fam and made the rounds sitting in everyone's laps. Here she is with Joey, my cousin-in-law.

She was also pretty excited to see the fireworks!! The Rangers hit several home runs throughout the evening and both Abbye and Kenna were very impressed with the fireworks. (I stole this pic off of Leslye's blog...check out her blog for more fun from the weekend.)It was free hat night at the ballpark so the girl cousins had to take a group shot with our hats...aren't we cute!

I thought this was a good picture of Charlie and Amy enjoying the game.

The rest of the weekend was spent with a little shopping, a little swimming, and a LOT of playing with Kenna and Abbye. One of the groups made a trip to IKEA and came back with a little igloo tent for the girls to play with. Kenna wasn't too sure about it to start with so most of the pictures are of Abbye inside. Kenna wanted to walk straight into and straight out without having to bend over or duck. It would make her really made when her head would hit the top of the door so she would just stay out. By the end of the weekend she had it figured out though. I think some of the adults enjoyed it more than the kids! :)

I love Miss K's grin in this picture (after she finally decided the tent was okay). They would just sit in the tent and read...they love looking at books!

We had a blast and can't wait for everyone to come back again!!

Stacking

Kenna has found a new game to play - stacking her blocks. She will sit in the floor for a good ten to fifteen minutes at a time just stacking the blocks up until they finally fall down. Yesterday, I think she got all the way up to seven or eight blocks before her tower fell over. Of course, when I tried to get her to look at me so that I could take her picture, she accidentally knocked her tower over. Isn't the look I got such a loving look? :)

Blocks are such a timeless toy.

Visitors from Lubbock

This weekend, my sister and her family, along with several of their friends from church came to spend the weekend with us. We had a great time just hanging out together. Last year, we went to Hurricane Harbor with this group but decided that we had too many pregos (no, I am not one of them) this year to make that trek! Instead, the boys went out on the lake with Nathan while the girls did a little shopping and let the little ones take naps. We had 9 adults, 3 little girls (15 mos, 15 mos, and 14 wks), 1 little boy on the way, and one other baby-on-the-way in our house this weekend....what fun!

Of course, we couldn't start the day without a little makeup! Amy let Abbye and Kenna play with her makeup brushes and they had a blast! I'm not sure if I should let Daniel see these pictures or not! :) Kenna was really tired after staying up late the night before waiting for Abbye to get to our house. She took a 3 hour nap yesterday afternoon. Abbye had done most of her sleeping in my arms at Babies-R-Us and then on the way home so she played most of the afternoon. She kept walking up to everybody and asking if "nenna" was still "night-night". She was very happy when Miss K finally decided to join the rest of the world! Abbye wanted to jump right into the crib and play, but Kenna was still trying to wake up.

Once Kenna realized that Abbye had come to join her, they both kept giving each other hugs.

We went out to eat for dinner and then took a nice evening dip in the pool. We had a wonderful time with everybody and can't wait for them all to come back again!!

Ketchup

To my knowledge, Kenna had never really had ketchup until she went to visit my parents a few weeks ago. She had 'tasted' it a few times, but never enough to really count. That all changed in Muleshoe. :)

Now, she loves it! She had already eaten her dinner, but I had stopped at Sonic for me and my cousin Leslye who was visiting. I handed Miss K a few fries to keep her entertained for a moment and she would not eat them without the ketchup. She eventually ended up dipping the fry, licking the ketchup off, and then dipping the fry again. This was one of the days she had been running a fever (roseola) and we had taken her clothes off at one point to help her cool down....good thing she was running around in just her diaper! Looking for more ketchup...she had plenty of fries in her other hand.

Success!

This blog is dedicated to my brother who sent me a text message last night saying I had gotten lazy on my blog. Cade, this one is for you.....

Update

Sorry, no pics!

I just noticed that I had not updated in a while! I know that some of you have probably been going through a Kenna withdrawal but she was not home for a few days last week. Kenna and I flew to Muleshoe last weekend and then she stayed to play with her grandparents for another 3-4 days. You can check out pics on my parents blog. Hopefully they will be posting some more pics soon from her latest adventures.

This weekend was spent with me and Kenna snuggling. Poor baby has had a fever for the last 3-4 days and has wanted to spend time cuddling in Mommy's lap, reading books, and watching Mickey Mouse and Backyardigans. I looked her over on Saturday and thought it was probably just a virus but my Mommy brain overrode my PA brain and we went ahead and took her to the doctor today where they told us it was a virus. Guess I should have listened to my PA brain! :) Hopefully she will be on the mend soon. She has to provide me with some more blogging material! I was really sad that she was sick but I really enjoyed the extra snuggle time with my busy, on-the-go little girl.