A great week!

We have had a great week since I last posted!



Last Tuesday a broken seat belt forced us to buy a new car. It was something we had wanted to do, but were waiting for better timing. Well life decided the timing for us. At the beginning of September we finally paid off Shawn's Camry. The plan was that I would take the Camry for the baby and we would sell the Hyundai and use our tax return in January to put down on a new car for Shawn. Well me made that finally payment and of course something goes wrong with the Camry. It was a transmission problem and we just didn't have the money and weren't sure if we even wanted to put money into the car. So while we waited and decided what to do we put the car seat in the Hyundai and used that as the family car. It was quite comical trying to fit all three of us in the Hyundai Accent. The car seat was so big that the front passenger seat had to go all the way forward and Shawn had to drive while I tried to squeeze in the back seat that doesn't even have enough leg room for a four year old. I took the car seat out for the eye appointment that Jenn took us too and when I tried to put it back in the seat belt was broken. It seems that the guy who installed the car seat for me at the CHP pulled a little too hard on the seat belt and now it wont retract. Since that is the only place in the Hyundai that the car seat will fit we didn't have a car to drive Kennedy to her appointments. So we took the Camry down to CarMax in Ontario. They gave us a great price for it. A thousand dollars more than what we thought we would be lucky to get. We had planned on looking for a car, but not buying one. We were going to use my mom's car for Kennedy's appointments and use our tax return towards the down payment on a car. As fate would have it we found the perfect car for our family. And what does our perfect family car look like?
A 2005 Pontiac G6 GT

Sporty huh? But it actually has 2 more inches of leg room in the back than the Camry. It has a panoramic sunroof big enough to put a TV through, a V6 and all kinds of super neat features. Joe Burk was our salesman and he did an awesome job. Super friendly, no pressure, and able to answer all our questions. We would defiantly go to him again and so should you! If you are in the market for a car check out CarMax in Ontario and ask for Joe Burk.

In other news- We went for our first BPD clinic appointment and Kennedy has been doing so well they started weaning two of her medications. The Magnesium was reduced from 3.5 ml 3xs a day to 2.5ml twice a day and the Diuril was reduced from .7ml 2xs a day to .7ml once a day. We have another appointment next month and I am hoping she will be taken off them all together.

This past weekend I was a little concerned about Kennedy's poop (I bet she is going to hate me for this when she gets older) It had changed consistency quite suddenly and didn't improve over the weekend. She was eating well and seemed to be feeling fine, but still the change was drastic enough that Shawn and I took her to the Dr. on Monday. Turns out that the poop is fine; it was perfectly normal and what she was doing before was not normal. The Dr. attributed it to the fact that she has been eating more lately and has enough going through her to create normal baby poop. While we were at the Dr. office she got her first Synagis shot. That's the vaccine for RSV that she will be getting monthly until the end of RSV season. But the super great news from the visit is her weight. NINE POUNDS!!! I can't believe how huge she is getting! That is a 10 ounce increase from last Monday. She is also 21.25 inches long. What a big girl.

Yesterday we had our assessment from the Early Start program. It is a state funded program that helps with children from birth to age 3 that are at risk for developmental delays. Kennedy did pretty well on most of the assessment and is fairly close to her adjusted age. Her worst two being Gross Motor skills and Expressive language. She was in the 0-1 month range for the gross motor skills and 0-2 months for expressive language. They will be sending out a teacher once a week for an hour to work with her and give us activities to do with her to help her catch up. Hopefully she will do well enough that they can graduate her from the program before she is 3 .