She was without a doubt the biggest surprise of my life....and this is coming from the girl who 3 out of 5 of her pregnancies were a surprise! I've told this story a million times but on Logan's 3rd birthday we had a cookout/birthday party for him. I remember cleaning up at the end of the night and opening the fridge and the smell of the potato salad about knocked me over. I immediately felt nauseous. It struck me as rather odd, I couldn't possibly be pregnant, I have a 7 month old. That would be CRAZY! But I couldn't get it out of my head so I ordered a pregnancy test on amazon. A few days went by and I didn't think of it once. Lexi, the kids and I went to my Dad and Dee's house and went to the beach. When we got home the amazon box had arrived (Oh yeah, I ordered a pregnancy test?). I had to use the bathroom so I brought the box with me, didn't tell Lexi what I was doing or what was in the box and decided to take the test to rule out pregnancy. Much to my surprise it was positive! My legs went numb. I've never EVER felt that way before. I came downstairs where Lexi was feeding Kensington baby food (remember I have a 7 month old) and my legs were shaking so bad I could barely stand. Lexi looked up at me and I was as white as a ghost. Without a moments pause she said "You're pregnant!" That night Mike came home, gave me a big hug and said "Why do you look so pretty lately?" HA! "Wellllll about that...." I guess that pregnancy glow is a real thing. And we both just laughed. Here we go again! Funny thing is that day on the beach my Dad randomly turned to Dee and said "I think Kristen is pregnant." Don't worry, that glow is real for like a week and then I quickly get deathly ill. It doesn't last long!
Along came our Tenley James.....and she's kept us on our toes since!
Tenley is FULL OF ENERGY. I wish I could bottle it up and just take even 10% of it for myself. She hits the ground running and does not stop until her head hits the pillow. She has absolutely no fear! I keep saying we need to get her into gymnastics or something! I could just see her flipping and spinning without a care in the world. Tenley has BIG emotions. When she's excited shes off the charts excited and when she's sad shes devastated. Tenley loves BIG! She cracks me up because at dinner she sits next to Logan and pretty much every single night she will scoot closer and closer, tell him she loves him and give him a kiss on the cheek. He rolls his eyes, she's just giddy, its SO cute!
Tenley is so girly. Always wants a dress, is super opinionated on how I do her hair, is my only girl that steals make up and her favorite color is pink BUT! her two favorite things ever....dinosaurs and Godzilla! We are going on 3 years with the dino obsession and about a year with Godzilla! It won't let up! Her and Kensington share a room and her bed is covered in dinosaurs while Kensington's is covered in unicorns. It's so funny how similar yet different they are. Speaking of which, Tenley does not love ANYONE more than Kensington, or as she refers to her "my Kensie".
Tenley is very smart and picks up on things super easy. She starts kindergarten in the fall....HOLY MOLY! And I just know she's going to do great....if they can get her to sit still long enough. I do not think Tenley has ever sat still for longer than 20 minutes! LOL! Remember, full of energy. Tenley is super friendly and outgoing. Fourth child, first to tell you it doesn't matter. Tenley loooooves being the center of attention. God bless her teacher, lets all say a prayer together now for her sweet soul. Here comes our wild one!!
I'm excited to see Tenley mature and grow in this coming year. I know kindergarten is huge. They go from being so little to growing up right before your eyes. All of the kids have turned into even better versions of themselves after kindergarten so I cannot wait to see how she does! It's going to be a big year!!
T, we love you so much and cannot wait to see you take this world by storm!
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