Crazy December!!!

Okay, so we've been a little busy and I have not been blogging very regularly. Since I last blogged we've moved!!! We are finally out of my parent's basement and into our new house. It is wonderful and so far we love living in Niverville. The move went quite smoothly as we had been recruiting movers (0ur friends) for a while. We ended up with a lot of wonderful friends who came out to help and even started unpacking for us. THANK YOU!!! We got busy right away unpacking everything and by Wednesday (we moved Saturday) we were almost completely finished. Of course we didn't sleep much but there were no more boxes around! Some fun started Dec 1st, the day we moved in. Kevin went in to the city that evening to do some running around and to return the moving truck. Kennedy and I were upstairs and I was trying to set up her room so she could get to bed at a decent time. Well, I left her alone for too long and she found all our vitamins and minerals which I had left on the floor in our bedroom. She managed to open up the iron pills and tried them out!! She came to me with red slobber everywhere and pieces of iron pills that she had been trying to spit out. I started the calm panic of trying to find a phone. We just moved in so we didn't have a working phone and I could find my cell phone! I finally found it, called 911 (something I had hoped I would never have to do) and they told me to go to the nearest hospital. So I pack her up and get her to St. Pierre Hospital where they do an xray. They found it inconclusive so they made arrangements to send her to Children's at HSC for 24 hour monitoring. Our first night in the new house and we wouldn't be sleeping there, ugh. So, we were transferred by ambulance to Children's. We got there and found out that we wouldn't have to spend the night (she still wasn't showing any signs of having taken too many pills) but we would have to wait for blood work to get back. They started an IV on Kennedy (she didn't even cry!) and we played. Kevin met us at the hospital by then so we all just played in the waiting room. The results of the blood work showed she only got about 1/2 a pill. I guess that first one she tried just didn't taste like the smarties she had been eating earlier in the day. All in all not a fun experience, but it could have been much worse.
And that was only December 1st!! After that nothing too exciting happened other than all the unpacking and settling in. We had been anticipating a difficult month with Kennedy because she didn't handle moving to my parents place well, but she's been doing great!!! No adjustment needed, she seems to know this is her house and has been her regular wonderful self since moving day. We are so grateful for this as she was quite high maintenance for quite a while after the last move. I suppose she recognizes all our furniture etc and realizes that living with Grandma and Grandpa wasn't "normal".
Kennedy has been changing by leaps and bounds since the last blog posted. She now has so many words and understands us so much better. It is amazing the developmental progress that happens in a month and a half. I don't think I can even remember all her words now, there are so many. A sampling are some of the following; "up" "down" "cookie" "eyes" "poopoo" "mine" and many more. She is definitely a toddler...everything is "no!" or "mine!". Another exciting thing is that she has started to tell me when she has to poop and I have tried putting her on the toilet a couple of times. Sometimes she doesn't tell me until after the fact and only once has she actually pooped on the toilet but it is a start! Wouldn't it be fabulous if she was toilet trained by 2??? I can only hope and dream and work at it...
So, that has been our life. We are officially ready for Christmas and are very excited for it to get here. We've had the decorations up since the Wednesday after we moved in and the Christmas shopping has been completed. Now all that is left is to finish wrapping. The only sad part about Christmas this year is this is my first Christmas ever to work. I'm on for 4 nights and I'm not looking forward to it but this is my profession and I need to deal with it.
a few pictures for you all to peruse....random pictures taken over the last month or so since we posted. Hopefully the next time I post we'll have pictures from our fabulous vacation in Mexico! Feliz Navidad everyone!!!! Now, of course since I've uploaded them they are up at the top of the blog and not down at the bottom where I wanted them. And it is too late at night for me to care enough to try and move them so they stay where they are. I need some blog education.