thankful for

*A great first check up for Kendall.  Here is our "first trip out" picture.  Yes, cheesy I know

*My mom and her great help last night with Kendall.  We are still struggling with sleeping ALLLL day and not so much at night...so it was nice to have her help.  She is also in the middle of making us a yummy dinner

*An awesome day at Disneyland for Chris and Cam.  New favorite ride for Cam, Autopia

*Tivo:  Very relaxing to wind down the day with a nice show. Last night: Southland

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*Good nap:  I generally don't nap at all, but today I was able to fall asleep for about an hour and it was heavenly

*Grandma's (Chris's mom) amazing chocolate chips cookies she left us.  Here is Cam helping her bake them when they were here:

strike a pose

some highlights and lowlights

Thanks for all of your comments!  We are happy to be be home and are attempting the two kid transition.  Here are some of my thoughts after a couple days:

Highlights:

*Chris's parents left today but were amazingly helpful in not only caring for Cam while we were gone, but helping out once we got home.  My mom is coming tonight to stay for a while so we feel very lucky to have so much help.

*Cam did much better than expected with Kendall.  He'll peek over her crib and definitely knows she is "sister" as he'll say this when we ask.  He doesn't get upset when we are holding her or I am feeding her, which is HUGE!  He has yet to experience her hard cries, but hopefully the more used to her he gets, the easier that will be for him.

*Breastfeeding as gone amazingly smooth which I'm SO thankful for.  I had a rough first month with Cam, so it is nice to not have that as an added worry and I realized how much I missed the bonding part of it.  :)

*Cam has been great at playing independently, which obviously is helpful since I can't do much.

*Chris has been awesome at the new endless amounts of laundry, unpacking, and playing with Cam.  I haven't felt as much guilt as I thought I would for not being able to play with him, due much in part to how much fun I see him having with Chris.

*Lastly, what could be better than just staring at Kendall??  :)

The lowlights:

*Last night was rough (I obviously didn't expect it to be easy!) with sleep.  It is very frustrating for me to not be able to participate in the walking, bouncing, etc. in trying to get her to sleep.  I feel quite useless.  Luckily she slept pretty well once we took turns sleeping her on both of us, but that meant not as great for us.  Once I'm healed, we'll nip that in the bud, but for now, whatever gets us the most sleep is what we'll do. :)

*I thought maybe I was remembering the recovery pain as worse than it was.  Umm...not so much.  It bites.  Last night was miserably painful.  I've been better today about taking my pain meds right on time and that has helped.  But again I HATE not being able to do much of anything...something I'm very not used to.

*Cam has been pretty sick now for several days, coughing harder than we have ever seen.  We are washing our hands a ton for fear of Kendall catching it.

Well, that is about it.  I know this post probably isn't too interesting if don't have kids, so thanks for sticking it out.  I'll have more pictures soon I'm sure.  :)

Welcome Kendall Susan!

This is Chris. I’m typing this while my wife is laying in bed and baby Kendall is off with a nurse for her first bath.

The surgery went well and we’re excited to announce the arrival of Kendall Susan Petinak, born at 9:31am on May 7, 2009. She’s 8lbs., 9oz., and 19” long.

In case you’re wondering, we really liked the name Kendall as it rings well with Chris, Kelly, and Cameron. The middle name comes from Kelly’s sister, Susan.

Here are some pics.

Will write more when we get home after a couple nights here.

concerts

I've never been THAT into concerts. They are fun, but I've decided that unless I pretty much have front row seats and am VERY familiar with the artist, it just wouldn't be worth it to me. I've been to a few in my life:

Shania Twain: Pretty good however we were REALLY far back
N 'Sync: Yes, laugh if you want, but this was actually quite a fun concert
Phil Collins: By far my favorite as he is my favorite
Third Day: This was before they were famous and was very good except we had to stand the whole time :(

I guess if I had to choose a concert right now, it would have to be some sort of country concert, as that is what I am mostly listening to. I really like Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, and Rascall Flatts. Not sure why I'm even thinking about concerts as we are about to enter the next phase of our lives that isn't exactly conducive to concert hopping!

heart attack between bread

Chris listens to Kevin and Bean a lot. Last week they were talking about a grilled cheese cook off. Chris was inspired.

What could be better than sourdough, lots of butter, lots of cheese, and bacon? Not a whole lot! Thank you Chris. :)



p.s. The only thing missing was strawberry jam on top. Don't judge until you try it!

preferences

I prefer:

*Drinking soda from a can rather than pouring it in a glass. I feel it keeps the fizz more.

*Ranch with my fries over Ketchup

*Target over Walmart

*Hot weather over cold

*Chocolate candy over sour candy

*Dogs over Cats (kittens are cute, but it ends there)

*Stick shift over automatic. I have never owned a stick shift, but I think they are so fun to drive and one day, when the kids are older, I will own one!

*One story over two story houses

*Showers over baths

*Fruity sprays over perfume smells