29 September 2010
Big Girl!!!
Last night Kaylee started walking!!! I'm so excited and sad at the same time. My baby girl is growing up so so fast. Any suggestions on how to slow her down a bit? :)
26 September 2010
11 Months
My Sweet Little Monster ~
I've been calling you Monster off and on all month because you are becoming so busy and independent. It makes me a little sad, but it's also just so so funny. My favorite (although it can be highly annoying) is when you grunt and reach and grab at me until I pick you up, just to have you squirm out of my arms three seconds later. Make up your mind, dear one!
You are still crawling as your primary mode of getting from Point A to Point B, but you are cruising the furniture like crazy and starting to take a few tentative little steps. Your daddy and I watch you and laugh because we know that you are just so close to walking, but you don't seem to trust yourself. You spend more and more time standing on your own, though, and can now play with a toy or clap while you're standing. It seems like just yesterday that you were starting to stand on your own and would do so with your eyes wide and your arms out to the side, just waiting for the inevitable fall.
This month you started really eating like a big girl! When you're at Amanda's house, you eat what the older girls eat for lunch and drink formula in your sippy cup. We're trying to adjust our diet at home as well so that we can all eat together. We want to eat foods that are healthy for you and easy for you to chew with those two little teeth. Soon we will be saying goodbye to baby food all together!!!
I've noticed a lot of change in the way you "talk" lately, and you seem to be developing a more mature speech pattern. It's so fun to listen to you...as if you're really talking, just in a language that I don't quite understand. We have noticed a few things that you seem to be saying more frequently and with purpose..."hi," "mamamama," and "bye". I love that you finally seem to have a name for me and I almost tear up every time you reach for me and say "mamamama". Your daddy would be very happy if you could extend the same courtesy to him. :)
This is your last month as a baby. Before we know it, we'll be celebrating your birthday and be rushing into toddlerhood. Please don't feel like you have to go too quickly...
I love you!
Your Mamamama
I've been calling you Monster off and on all month because you are becoming so busy and independent. It makes me a little sad, but it's also just so so funny. My favorite (although it can be highly annoying) is when you grunt and reach and grab at me until I pick you up, just to have you squirm out of my arms three seconds later. Make up your mind, dear one!
You are still crawling as your primary mode of getting from Point A to Point B, but you are cruising the furniture like crazy and starting to take a few tentative little steps. Your daddy and I watch you and laugh because we know that you are just so close to walking, but you don't seem to trust yourself. You spend more and more time standing on your own, though, and can now play with a toy or clap while you're standing. It seems like just yesterday that you were starting to stand on your own and would do so with your eyes wide and your arms out to the side, just waiting for the inevitable fall.
This month you started really eating like a big girl! When you're at Amanda's house, you eat what the older girls eat for lunch and drink formula in your sippy cup. We're trying to adjust our diet at home as well so that we can all eat together. We want to eat foods that are healthy for you and easy for you to chew with those two little teeth. Soon we will be saying goodbye to baby food all together!!!
I've noticed a lot of change in the way you "talk" lately, and you seem to be developing a more mature speech pattern. It's so fun to listen to you...as if you're really talking, just in a language that I don't quite understand. We have noticed a few things that you seem to be saying more frequently and with purpose..."hi," "mamamama," and "bye". I love that you finally seem to have a name for me and I almost tear up every time you reach for me and say "mamamama". Your daddy would be very happy if you could extend the same courtesy to him. :)
This is your last month as a baby. Before we know it, we'll be celebrating your birthday and be rushing into toddlerhood. Please don't feel like you have to go too quickly...
I love you!
Your Mamamama
26 August 2010
10 Months
My darling little love ~
You have had a busy month, there's not doubt about that! You are now crawling like a big girl on your hands and knees, pulling up on anything that will stay still long enough, and cruising along furniture. You move so quickly and hate to be contained. I can't believe how it seems like all your large motor milestones have happened in just the last few weeks! You are practicing standing by yourself and can balance for 10-15 seconds at a time. Not I'm just waiting for the day that you stand up and walk across the room...I know it will be any time.
This month you finally outgrew your infant car seat. You're doing a great job in your new big girl seat, but I think it's taking some time for you to get used to it. I don't think that you like the fact that it stays in the car all the time. Even though we try to keep it covered from the sun, I think it's a little hot when you get into it, and you seem a little bit uncomfortable. Luckily, cooler weather seems like it should be just right around the corner!
You have been eating more and more table foods, and even had your first all table food meal last weekend! You seem to enjoy most of the foods we give you, but I think you love avocados the most. We'll just keep giving you new and different foods and hope that you aren't a picky eater someday like your mommy and daddy.
We had some issues with sleep this month. There were a couple nights that you woke up and cried until I came for you. One night, you even got to get in bed with us because I wasn't sure what else to do. I wish that there was some way for me to know what woke you. I really wonder whether or not you dream, and beyond that, if you have bad dreams. It's been a week or so since you've woken up, so I hope you're back to being the best-sleeping baby ever again.
Every month that passes brings so many new things and so much joy. I can not dream of what my life would be like without you in it. I love you, baby girl!
Your Mommy
You have had a busy month, there's not doubt about that! You are now crawling like a big girl on your hands and knees, pulling up on anything that will stay still long enough, and cruising along furniture. You move so quickly and hate to be contained. I can't believe how it seems like all your large motor milestones have happened in just the last few weeks! You are practicing standing by yourself and can balance for 10-15 seconds at a time. Not I'm just waiting for the day that you stand up and walk across the room...I know it will be any time.
This month you finally outgrew your infant car seat. You're doing a great job in your new big girl seat, but I think it's taking some time for you to get used to it. I don't think that you like the fact that it stays in the car all the time. Even though we try to keep it covered from the sun, I think it's a little hot when you get into it, and you seem a little bit uncomfortable. Luckily, cooler weather seems like it should be just right around the corner!
You have been eating more and more table foods, and even had your first all table food meal last weekend! You seem to enjoy most of the foods we give you, but I think you love avocados the most. We'll just keep giving you new and different foods and hope that you aren't a picky eater someday like your mommy and daddy.
We had some issues with sleep this month. There were a couple nights that you woke up and cried until I came for you. One night, you even got to get in bed with us because I wasn't sure what else to do. I wish that there was some way for me to know what woke you. I really wonder whether or not you dream, and beyond that, if you have bad dreams. It's been a week or so since you've woken up, so I hope you're back to being the best-sleeping baby ever again.
Every month that passes brings so many new things and so much joy. I can not dream of what my life would be like without you in it. I love you, baby girl!
Your Mommy
23 August 2010
Of Table Food and Independence
It seems like every day Kaylee finds a new way to express her growing independence. This weekend, it was all about table food.
We've been slowly introducing new foods to her over the last couple months. It started with Gerber baby puffs, continued on to soft fruits and cooked veggies, and now pretty much includes anything that Mike and I eat. While Kaylee still eats her baby food and seems to enjoy it, she is so interested in the food that we make for ourselves.
Saturday evening, Kaylee had her very first meal that was completely table food. She and I shared a grilled cheese sandwich (with Horizon Organic American cheese slices), she had some deli turkey breast (from Herman's Meat Market), and she ate half of an avocado. Whew!
At the beginning of the meal, she would let me help some by putting pieces of food into her wide open, waiting, insistent little mouth. That didn't last very long, though. Once she get rolling, she turn into Little Miss Independent and waved my hand away every time I tried to help. Funny girl. She did a great job, though.
I did have to be careful and just give her one or two pieces of something at a time. Pretty much whatever was within reach would disappear into her mouth. After one little coughing fit, I figured out that I needed to hold things back and make sure she was really chewing and swallowing the food. I guess this is a learning process for both of us.
Like every other milestone and memory, this is just so bittersweet. I love watching her and taking it all in as she slowly becomes the person she's going to be, but I do miss my little baby too. All in all, though, I just feel so lucky to be a mom and get to experience everything as her life unfolds and her personality develops. I can't imagine anything else I am meant to do or be that is more important that being Kaylee's mom.
We've been slowly introducing new foods to her over the last couple months. It started with Gerber baby puffs, continued on to soft fruits and cooked veggies, and now pretty much includes anything that Mike and I eat. While Kaylee still eats her baby food and seems to enjoy it, she is so interested in the food that we make for ourselves.
Saturday evening, Kaylee had her very first meal that was completely table food. She and I shared a grilled cheese sandwich (with Horizon Organic American cheese slices), she had some deli turkey breast (from Herman's Meat Market), and she ate half of an avocado. Whew!
At the beginning of the meal, she would let me help some by putting pieces of food into her wide open, waiting, insistent little mouth. That didn't last very long, though. Once she get rolling, she turn into Little Miss Independent and waved my hand away every time I tried to help. Funny girl. She did a great job, though.
I did have to be careful and just give her one or two pieces of something at a time. Pretty much whatever was within reach would disappear into her mouth. After one little coughing fit, I figured out that I needed to hold things back and make sure she was really chewing and swallowing the food. I guess this is a learning process for both of us.
Like every other milestone and memory, this is just so bittersweet. I love watching her and taking it all in as she slowly becomes the person she's going to be, but I do miss my little baby too. All in all, though, I just feel so lucky to be a mom and get to experience everything as her life unfolds and her personality develops. I can't imagine anything else I am meant to do or be that is more important that being Kaylee's mom.
19 August 2010
What a Big Girl!!!
Today Kaylee took her first morning commute in her brand new, big-girl car seat. This seat will let her stay rear-facing until 35lbs, front-facing with the 5-point harness until 50lbs, and then act as a belt-positioning booster until 80lbs. In all likelihood, this will be the last seat that we need for Miss Kaylee. It fits just perfectly in the new CR-V (with tons of room for the infant seat to be put back in down the road a few years), and so far, she loves it! I just can't believe how quickly she's growing up!!!
09 August 2010
Early Morning
This morning, Kaylee decided that 4:30 was the appropriate time to snuggle with me. For the last couple weeks, she's been waking up around 4:30-5, but she usually just fusses a little bit and goes back to sleep...enough to wake me, but not enough to get me out of bed. Today was a different story!
When Kaylee started fussing, I just listened to see what she'd do. When she progressed to full-blown crying, I got up. The first time I went into her room, I just patted her back a little bit. Kaylee calmed down and snuggled back in. She stayed quiet when I stopped patting, so I assumed that it was safe to go back to bed. Wrong.
The second time I went into Kaylee's room, I decided to rock with her a little bit. She was clearly still sleepy, because she just curled herself up on my chest while we rocked. Before long, I felt certain that she was asleep. She even stayed quiet and curled right up when I put her down in the crib. Back to bed for mommy. Wrong again.
The third time I went into Kaylee's room, I decided to commit the ultimate crime (in our house, anyway). I picked up my warm little ball of baby and took her to my bed. We both snuggled and snoozed until it was time for me to get up and around and into the shower. When I put Kaylee in her crib this time, she did fuss a little, but it was short-lived and I was able to leave her there and take my shower.
Needless to say, it's been a long day already and I'm thinking about a nap. Would anyone really blame me if I just put my head down on my desk? Just for a little while?
When Kaylee started fussing, I just listened to see what she'd do. When she progressed to full-blown crying, I got up. The first time I went into her room, I just patted her back a little bit. Kaylee calmed down and snuggled back in. She stayed quiet when I stopped patting, so I assumed that it was safe to go back to bed. Wrong.
The second time I went into Kaylee's room, I decided to rock with her a little bit. She was clearly still sleepy, because she just curled herself up on my chest while we rocked. Before long, I felt certain that she was asleep. She even stayed quiet and curled right up when I put her down in the crib. Back to bed for mommy. Wrong again.
The third time I went into Kaylee's room, I decided to commit the ultimate crime (in our house, anyway). I picked up my warm little ball of baby and took her to my bed. We both snuggled and snoozed until it was time for me to get up and around and into the shower. When I put Kaylee in her crib this time, she did fuss a little, but it was short-lived and I was able to leave her there and take my shower.
Needless to say, it's been a long day already and I'm thinking about a nap. Would anyone really blame me if I just put my head down on my desk? Just for a little while?
Mommy Car
Today I'm going to say goodbye to my sweet little GrandAm and get my very first Mommy Car!!!
After much research and deliberation, Mike and I decided that the Honda CR-V was what we've been looking for. While it drives and feels very much like a car, it has the additional space that we've been missing. We're looking forward to no longer asking to borrow other people's vans and knowing that there will be plenty of space for two car seats (not anytime soon, though...we're not crazy!!!).
Mike is very relieved that I'll have a far more reliable car for the commute. I'm psyched that it has keyless entry and a rear defrost (the GrandAm's hasn't worked since I've had it)...our needs are simple. I'm also excited about the hatchback as opposed to a trunk. I'll be the first to admit that I carry way too much crap in my car, and I keep most of it hidden in my trunk. I'm hoping that having a hatchback that's open for anyone to peek into will keep me from making it my own personal locker. We'll see how that goes!
I'm so excited! I can't wait to pick it up and head home!!!
After much research and deliberation, Mike and I decided that the Honda CR-V was what we've been looking for. While it drives and feels very much like a car, it has the additional space that we've been missing. We're looking forward to no longer asking to borrow other people's vans and knowing that there will be plenty of space for two car seats (not anytime soon, though...we're not crazy!!!).Mike is very relieved that I'll have a far more reliable car for the commute. I'm psyched that it has keyless entry and a rear defrost (the GrandAm's hasn't worked since I've had it)...our needs are simple. I'm also excited about the hatchback as opposed to a trunk. I'll be the first to admit that I carry way too much crap in my car, and I keep most of it hidden in my trunk. I'm hoping that having a hatchback that's open for anyone to peek into will keep me from making it my own personal locker. We'll see how that goes!
I'm so excited! I can't wait to pick it up and head home!!!
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