Unfortunately I didn't get any other pictures than that because we were first-time parents worried as her eye was starting to gunk. My sister's friend Cheryl is a nurse, so we asked her about it. She had us wipe the eye and then see what it looked like 15 minutes later. Sure enough, gunk again, so she suggested calling her pedi because it looked like conjunctivitis (no clue where she got it). By this time, the pedi didn't have anymore appointments since they closed at noon, so suggested we either take her to an urgent care that weekend or come in first thing Monday morning.
After the birthday party, we had big plans to race at the Texas Men's Basketball game. Her eye didn't seem to be bothering her, so we decided we'd see how she was doing afterwards and make the call then. She didn't get much of a nap as she barely slept on the way to the game, so we were just crossing our fingers that she even moved.
Almost to half-time, we headed down to the locker room to wait. There were more babies in this race, six total, so it was a lot of parents in the locker room. Kennedy wasn't her normal self, kinda fussy, but I attributed it to her not getting a good nap or her eye starting to bother her, but looking back I think she was hungry. I feel terrible and wish I could go back and feed her! Poor baby....
But the time came to head out onto the floor and Kennedy grasped her little remote control toy tightly.
They had cute little intros for all the babies, playing a different song for each and showed a picture Nelson had submitted when applying to participate.
Then came the time for me to take the toy to the finish line... and she was NOT happy about that. You could hear the crowd go, "Awwww" and the big screen showed her in tears.
Competitive me knew she could still do it. When the race started and none of the babies moved, I strategically crawled up the lane and waved the remote right in front of her. The other parents soon followed, and the race was on! I didn't notice another baby in lane 1 was just barely ahead of us, but when I did, it made me nervous. (This is terrible, I can't believe I'm admitted how into it I was.)
Kennedy would crawl a bit, and then sit and cry, then crawl some more, then cry. It was really so sad thinking and looking back on it now, but I was just really in the moment. I need a new hobby.
But she pulled through and made it across the finish line! We won! Even though, as you'll see in the video below, the finish line was pulled back further for the other baby, she still wouldn't have crossed it regardless.
You can watch the whole video here. We had a lot of friends texting us because they were either at the game or knew someone who knew us that was at the game.
And then we had a lot of people message us because it was on TV! I had a friend video it for me.
After the race, we had a little fun in the stands with my family who came to watch before heading out early to take Kennedy to get some antibiotics. So.... you think this is a preview into our / her future? Ha!
