Monday

Jason had to go back to work while the girls stayed back to take care of Kennedy.  That morning, Kennedy's cord detached during her sponge bath.  Rachel saved it for Jason to look at when he got home from work, but we got rid of it as soon as Jason had a chance to look at it.  That afternoon, Mallory came by the house to take newborn photos of Kennedy.  She brought all kinds of props and tools from Midland.  When Jason got home, he was surprised to see how the house had transformed into a photo studio.  Kennedy behaved herself pretty well too.  She didn't fuss much as we molded her into several poses, changed bows and snapped all kinds of photos.  There was one point, though, where she pooped on the blanket she was on.  It made quite a mess, but don't worry, we got at all cleaned up.  The props and poses were very adorable so we're excited to  see how they all turned out.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, Whitney and Rachel took Kennedy to the hospital for her PKU test.  That's the one where they have to prick her heel for genetic testing.  She was a real trooper though, only a little fussing and she quickly settled down.

Wednesday

At lunch time, Nina came by to see Kennedy.  Nina is Matt's mom and the HR director at Rachel's office.  She also brought lunch by, which was a real treat.  Mallory came back by for a few minutes to pick up her blanket that we cleaned up.  That evening, we gave Kennedy her first submerged bath.  Since her cord had fallen off, we had the green light to give her a submerged bath.  At first, she didn't seem to like it too much, but then we remembered about a bath time frog that we had gotten at one of our showers from Whitney.  That seemed to calm her down.

Thursday

Thursday was a pretty lazy, uneventful day, but we have a couple of photos of Kennedy wearing her ladybug outfit.  You can tell that she prefers to lay down on her side.

Friday
Friday was a good day.  We went out to dinner with Kennedy for the first time.  We didn't want to wait for a long time and expose her to too many people so we went to a little pizza place in Coppell.  After dinner, we went to the mall to pick up some hand soap.  On our way out, we realized that it was the first in what will surely be a life filled with trips to the mall.  That evening, we all had a nice time just visiting with each other.

Saturday
We realized that we'll get to dress Kennedy up for Halloween so we spent some time brainstorming different ideas for her costume.  We thought of several ideas, but we're not quite ready to commit to anything yet.  We'll keep you posted.  We also spent some time cleaning the house that afternoon.  We have several photos from just lounging around on Saturday morning.