We are back!!

Hello. Hello. Hello blog world. We have returned to give this whole 'blogging' thing another shot! I've got an app on my iPhone that will allow me to keep up with it at any time so maybe.. Just maybe I'll be able to keep this going! :)

Eric laughed at me when I told him I was going to do this again BUT you better believe I'm going to do my very best to prove that man wrong! ;) haha I had a friend talk me into it and give me a few helpful hints of how to keep it simple and easy while still filling everyone in! So..I'll try her idea and hopefully it'll keep me this thing going.. We shall see how this turns out! Exciting, exciting, exciting! :)

A brief update of what's going on in our lives...

Our baby boy, Cooper Allen, is scheduled to arrive March 18th unless he decides to come early! :) I am so ready to be out of this preggo body, E is ready for me to stop complaining all day about how bad my body hurts, and KK well..I'm not sure how she feels about Cooper. She knows that Cooper is in mommys belly, he has his own room with lots of diapers.. Clothes.. And cool toys but not sure she knows he's going to be a little baby that is coming to live with us! :p I have no doubt she's going to be a GREAT big sister.. Just wonder how jealous she will be at first!

Soccer season is coming to a close. Its been quite the season of ups and downs. Overall I have truly enjoyed the experience but being pregnant has made it a roller-coaster ride! There is a lot that comes along with coaching that nobody will ever be able to prepare you for but.. You live and you learn how to deal! :) I have high hopes for next years season!!

Well now that I've some what filled in about our lives right now.. I'll load some pics I have so far from yesterday and today and I'll start my 'picture blogging' process!

Tuesday:

When both of your parents are coaches this becomes a norm..


Playing with dolls and eating a snack on the bus!

No bus license=E being our chauffeur! :) isn't he handsome!



Wednesday:



Ash Wednesday .. We have decided to give up cokes for lent! Whew.. For those of you that don't know... We are diet coke addicts!! :p

Big news of the day: kayden got a prize at school today for going poo poo in the potty! :) She was so proud of herself and I have to say mommy and daddy were just as proud!!! Our sweet baby is growing up.


--That's all I have to share right now. Day 1 of jumping back on the blogging train = successful. :)

Much love*

Let's try this again! :-P

I have yet again failed at keeping up with our blog! I have said it in each and every blog about how i'm going to "keep up frow now on", BLAH BLAH BLAH! HAHA i'm officially done making that promise to myself but I am going to try and make it part of my weekly routine! 8-)

This Summer came and went in the blink of an eye. Probably because we were booked solid for the entire 2 1/2 months! The summer started off with my college graduation, my entire family came to celebrate which was awesome! We usually only get together like that once a year, usually at Christmas. It's tough having family spread out all across the country! :-( Not long after the graduation shenanigans ended Kayden and I headed to South Padre for a week long girls trip! She absolutely loved the beach and had NO fear of the water (for a mommy that is a scary thing!). We had a good time until about halfway through our visit Kayden got a knot on the back of her leg right underneath her diaper. I thought it was just a mosquito bite since those are so common around the beach. Well, after two days of it getting bigger, harder, and dark black we headed to the emergency room. What a vacation, huh? :-) She was given two painful shots in her legs and an oral antibiotic for a spider bite. It was definately hard for me to see my baby girl in so much pain and not able to fix it or take the pain away. Two weeks after returning from that beach trip Eric and I headed to Puerto Morales, Mexico for a delayed honeymoon. The day we left we decided to check the weather one more time on our iphones since we wouldn't be able to use them once we got to Mexico. Little did we know we were about to get some pretty sad news! :-( Hurricane Alex was scheduled to hit the day we arrived and there was a 60% chance of rain for the entire 5 days!!!! We landed in Mexico trying to be positive and optimistic about the upcoming days. The first night the weather was just unbareable, you couldn't walk anywhere without getting soaked, slippery floors, and cold buildings. We were pretty much stuck in our room the entire night. The next few days were cloudy, windy, and very depressing. Day 3 was about where we began to start pouting, haha. Although, that afternoon the sun poked through the clouds and we found a perfect spot behind some shrubs that blocked the wind and got some rays! In fact, we got FRIED!!! :-) I was never more excited to get burned in my life! The rest of our trip was wonderful and we got to enjoy all that our resort had to offer. Not to mention, Eric and I were Botche(SP?) Ball champions! 8-) After that trip, I had 7 days until Kayden and I left for West Virginia. I stayed in West Virginia for a week and Kayden stayed for 12 days after I left! That left Eric without seeing her for 21 days!!! Two days after I got back from WV, we headed down to San Antonio for Eric's coaching clinic. Talk about a neat and fun place! I really can't wait til Kayden is older and we can take a family vacation there.

Whew, well that sums up all of our "BIG" trips of the summer. I have to admit after all of that traveling I sure am ready to get back into a routine. Today marks Kaydens first day of school (daycare) at Peppermint Fence and my first day at the High School. :-) Dropping her off at school today was bittersweet, knowing that she will learn so much and make new friend was exciting. It was also tough because she is growing up and no parent likes to see their baby get older! Haha, it's a sad reality that we all have to deal with unfortunately. Eric and I went and peeked through her classroom window during lunch and she was doing so well just sitting there eating like a big girl with all those other kids. I could have looked through that window all day!!

The latest news of The Robinsons is...we are expecting our newest addition March 25th. Obviously from all my talk about Kayden "growing up" we are a little torn up about it so we decided it was time to add to our family! We are very excited, anxious, and extremely nervous! All of the emotions any expecting parents experience! :) The only downfall will be that I will be 8-9 months pregnant through my first season as head soccer coach. Ek, my last game is only two weeks before my due date. Haha, hopefully this little guy/girl hangs on until after season! As for the pregnancy, it is already totally different. I have experienced morning sickness that I never imagined was even possible. I did get some medicine prescribed by the doctor so I'm hoping for some relief very soon!!! :) Praying for a healthy baby but crossing my fingers for a baby boy :) We shall see what God has in store for us!

Here's to a new job, Kaydens new school, new friends, Eric a new season, and hopefully another new state championship!

(Also, please excuse any grammatical errors, sentence structure errors, etc. I have never been known for my writing skills!)

WHEW!

WOW! I must say it's been forever since I blogged. I am so mad at myself for not keeping up with this better. I had big plans to print and make a book. BOO! Maybe I can keep it up from here on out...ya right? Right?! HAHA I'll try the best I can..for Kaydens sake!

Well, a lot has happened in the past months. Kayden is growing like a weed and her personality is becoming stronger by the day! Where oh where did my baby go? Lets see a few "BIG" details that have happened in the past months to kind of catch up. Hm, lets see.....

We tried to potty train Kayden and she was really interested in her little potty. If we said "Do you need to go TeeTee" she would run to her toliet and sit on it. After a few days of training, we had this bright idea of maybe thinking if we put her in big girl panties that she'd do better. :-x Ok, yes typing that out it sounds a lot dumber than it did at the time!! We put her in these panties and she held her pee for an hour and 45 mins! We were consumed with it..taking her to the toliet every 15 mins and she just refused to go! Well..an hour and 45 minutes later I heard a scream and Kayden had finally given up holding it and just let it all go. She was traumatized!!! I'm guessing the sudden feel of water running down her leg scared her. Whatever it was she cried for about 15 minutes! That marked the end of potty training for the time being. With school and everything going on right now we just didn't have the time to be consistent with her. So we are still avid buyers of size 4 pampers! :-)

We went to West Virginia to see my parents over spring break. We had a great time, we took Kayden to the Columbus zoo which was so neat! It was a 3 hour drive there, 4 hours of walking through the zoo, and a 3 hour drive back. Needless to say..we were all dog tired by the time we got back to my parents house. Whew, just thinking about it makes me tired! Eric and I left WV on Sunday and Kayden stayed with my parents. We were about to be away from our baby for 10 days..the longest we've gone since she was born! Talk about an emotional day. :[ ..Well the 10 days felt like forever but it was nice to get a break! When Kayden FINALLY got home she looked like a totally different baby. She was so grown up and looked like such a big girl. Although my mother will disagree with this next statement..I can guarantee deep down she knows its true..but Kayden came back SPOILED ROTTEN!!! She tested us left and right with things she had never done! Talk about exhausting. Well about a week later she finally was done pushing the limits and was back to my sweet little baby!! :p HAHA Thanks Mom and Dad! <3

Lets see..what else..Kayden absolutely LOVES to be outside! Which I can't complain its better than her sitting in front of a TV all day. Not to say that she doesn't enjoy doing that..haha she LOVES tv!

I have every intention to keep up with this but I've run out of time today so I'll have to continue this "catch up" next time which will hopefully be in the next few days! Hoooorah! Later Gator.

Wild Thaaang!

What do ya know, another week has come and gone at the blink of an eye. The past few weeks have been very low key and uneventful. As for this week, the busy hectic days have found us yet again. School started on Wednesday which marked my LAST first day of school.

School and I do not get along very well. We never have and I am going to bet we never will. Something about SCHOOL, even just hearing the word school, makes me a huge stressball. I've always had to work really hard to do well at school, but who hasn't? Oh wait, I can answer that.. ERIC! I wish I could just put a wig on him and let him to take my classes for me. I am very impatient so the whole reading, studying, and trying to memorize stuff just doesn't come easy to me. Blah blah blah, I know! Any how, this first week of school was only a 3 day week since we started on a Wednesday. This being my last semester it is suppose to be an easy one. Only 12 hours, what a breeze compared to 19 last semster. Well thats what I went in thinking Wednesday. Unfortunately, of the 12 hours I needed to graduate I was only registered in 6! Two of the courses I needed had closed within 30 minutes of registration. I had to go find these two professors and ask for permission to get in their courses. Psh, how hard could that be? Well, you would think EASY but I made the mistake of taking Kayden with me. We were sent from office to office and from one side of campus to the complete opposite side of campus. Kayden hadn't napped at all and was hungry and just frustrated. I was frustrated, tired, and stressed which just made it that much better. :] We were a lovely pair that day. Well, as we're in a quiet office waiting to see the Dean of Education, Kayden begins to lose it. When I say lose it I mean, throwing herself on the floor screaming at the top of her lungs while kicking her feet. It didn't take long for people to start poking their heads in the doorway to see if I was abusing her. As I was trying to pick her up and stay as calm and collected as I possibly could a lady walks in and looks me dead in the eye and asks, "Do I need to get you a conference room?". Oh man, BAD timing lady!!! I said, "No, no, no we do not need a conference room. We are leaving!" It wasn't her fault but c'mon lady! So, we left. Got absolutely nothing accomplished and I didn't care. I was so upset with Kayden and I just didn't understand where I had gone wrong. It was like she had never been disciplined in her entire life. Great parenting, Jenna! After getting to the car and sitting there almost in tears, I called Eric. Eric is always good at bringing me back to reality and making me see the whole picture. It had nothing to do with discipline or how we parent, she was tired, hungry, and the last thing she wanted to do was sit in an office and have to be still! DUH! Thank the Lord for a "whole picture" kind of husband. ;)

That was our excitement of the week. Not too much else went on, we ate sushi, Kayden had her first krispy kreme donut, my back is officially broken, and Kayden almost tried to glue her throat shut with rubber cement. :) All is well with the Robinson's!

Over 'n out til next week! 8)

Hakuna Mutata

Well, now that i'm "caught" up I can begin my weekly postings! I'm still new at this and not too great at it, yet! The title of this post is in honor of Kayden's favorite movie the Lion King. :]

This past week was a crazy one. I felt like Kayden grew out of all of her shoes and clothes over night! I went to put an outfit on her and it looked like I it was 4 sizes too small. I went into the closet and pulled out a 2T outfit. I figured we were going to be hanging out around the house so it didn't matter if it was a tad too big. Shockingly enough, IT FIT!! She's growing so fast we just can't believe it. Not only is she growing out of her outfits but even her shoes. She usually LOVES walking around in shoes. She will bring you shoes and want you to put them just to walk around the house. The other day I put her tennis shoes on and as soon as I put them on her she fell to the ground and started fussin'. It didn't hit me until she would try and walk and start grabbing her toes..HELLO MOMMY wake up..they don't fit! These tennis shoes were only 1 month old! I couldn't believe she grew out of them so fast.

Two weeks ago Kayden was sick with the Croup. Wow, was it a scary thing for a parent to see their baby go through. She was almost hospitalized because her airways were so swollen but thank the Lord we were able to treat her at home. She was put on steroids for the swelling and we bought a humidifier for her room. She hadn't slept in 6 days and neither had Eric and I. Just as we thought she was on the path to a full recovery, we had a relapse! We took her to see her doctor to find out that her Croup had turned into Bronchitis and she was now at risk for a Pnemonia! We just couldn't catch a break. After 3 days of antibiotics, she was finally sleeping. Throughout the 10 days of on and off sleeping Eric and I let Kayden lay in bed with us which we have never allowed before. We just felt so sorry for our baby and we were so tired that it was just the easiest fix. Well, we have paid the price for that easy fix this entire week! Kayden has gotten so used to mommy or daddy coming and recusing her and letting her sleep in the big bed. After 4 days of just letting her "cry it out" she is finally sleeping through the night again. Whew, i'm sure we won't ever make that mistake again!

I love watching Kayden learn new things. Duh, what parent doesn't right? Well the other day we were stuck in the house with nothing to do. Daddy was at work and it was rainy, what a boring day! We were both getting stir crazy so I decided to paint Kayden's fingers and toe nails for the first time. She was so patient and still but she was very unsure about this new junk on her fingers and toes. It took about 2 minutes then she forgot all about it! Then I sung the Itsy Bitsy Spider and acted it out with my hands. She thought it was so funny! She caught on fast and next thing I know she was doing the motions with her hands while swaying side to side babbling! So stinkin' cute! The last thing I decided to try and teach her was how to answer the question, "How old are you?". It took her only 5 minutes to learn how to hold up a finger when I asked her how old she was. She is so quick to catch on, it amazes me! Here is a video that we made for my parents to show them how old their grandbaby was:

Let's Catch up!

This will most likely be one of my longer blogs. I'm going try and do an "overview" of the past year.

Ok, here goes nothin'. Kayden was born September 18, 2008 at 5:34pm. She weighed 8lbs. 5oz. and 20 3/4in. long! What a big girl! As soon as she was born Eric made sure he called and let everyone know our beautiful baby had arrived. He started out every converstation with, "Kayden is finally here. Her and Jenna are doing fine. She was 8lbs. 5oz. and has 11 fingers and 11 toes." Not many took this seriously because Eric has always been known to stretch the truth from time to time BUT he was telling the truth! Kayden was born with an extra digit (that's what the doctors called it) on her left hand and one on her right foot. Thankfully there was no bone in them so all they had to do was tie them off and they would fall off with time. Sounds pretty crazy? Well, what's even crazier is Eric wanted to keep them. We have them in a baggie and it is titled, "Kaydens digits". I'm not sure exactly what Eric intends to do with these digits but he insisted that we keep them. :0

Every single person that gave us advice on parenting told us, "It will fly by and you will start asking where time went". Yea right, right? What a bunch of exaggerations, how could it possibly go by that fast. I am here to confess that, they WERE right! I feel like yesterday was the first day we were able to feed Kayden rice cereal then we got to move onto Stage 1 baby foods, and on to Stage 2. Next thing I know she's sitting at the table in a booster chair eating dinner with us! I was one of those moms that just couldn't wait for her little baby to start crawling. We worked on it everyday, I was just so anxious for her to get moving. Well that day finally came in July. Oh, it was so cute and exciting...at first! I had NO idea what I was in for until she began to really get the hang of it. Next thing I know, she's got a mouth full of dog food, she pressed a button on the vcr that recorded over one of her daddys old videotapes (I still have yet to tell him :-x), and she discovered the toliet! It didn't take me very long to start wishing she would unlearn how to crawl! I'm kidding but at times I did wish she could forget just for a day! I learned my lesson and never pushed her to walk. She learned that ALL on her own time. She took her first steps at her 1st birthday party in September. It was bittersweet, my baby girl was growing up. Before we know it, she'll be off to pre-school, high school, then college! No no! I want her to stay my little baby forever!

The year 2008 was an amazing year for us! Eric and I got married, Kayden was born, we went to Vegas with Camille and Charlie, the Carthage Bulldogs won their first football State Championship in school history, we went to Destin, Florida with Eric's side of the family, we drove 14 hours to West Virginia for Spring Break to visit my parents, and we got a new car (Nissan Armada). Wow! What a year, huh? We are extremely blessed and way undeserving of it all!! Just as we thought it couldn't get ANY better in any aspect of our lives, it did! The bulldogs won their 2nd consecutive State Championship! ONE State ring was unheard of and now we have TWO!? To make it even better the bulldogs went undefeated and are on a 29 game winning streak. If that's not hard work, I'm not sure what is!?

I currently teach a boot camp for the women in Carthage. One of my friends gave me the idea one day when I was complaining about being bored. I was really unsure of how it would go or if I would even enjoy it. It started off slowly in August and there were many times that I told Eric I couldn't do it anymore! Eric is so patient and I am NOT at all! As the months went by the more clients I got, some that liked it and some that didn't! As much as I wanted to give up, I am so thankful for Eric pushing me to keep going with it. It has become something that I absoloutely LOVE, not because of the money but from the results. It is amazing how just working out can change a persons whole entire attitude. They are so dedicated and thankful. The results are so rewarding!

Well, that wasn't as long as I thought it was going to be. Like I said before, i'm not much of a writer. I know I left out a lot of things but my mind gets all boggled when I put it on the spot! :)

Step 1, Day 1.

Well, i've finally got around to taking the first step in the blogging process. Now the question is, will I be able to keep up with it? I really hope so! Before I continue, let me appologize for any spelling or gramatical errors that I will make in this and every other post from here on out. I've never been a good writer but I'll do my best! I really want to do this for Kayden. As a parent we have so much going on at once that we can't even remember what we ate for lunch let alone the cute stories about your child. I mean I have a baby book but those are generic and set up for stuff like, "first word", "first step", etc. What about all the other crazy things that will happen? A BLOG! :) I'm hoping to keep up with this at least once a week. I think it would be really neat for Kayden to read when she is older. I'm not sure how well i'm going to be with this thing but we shall see! :)