Thanksgiving Day!

It was Kayla's first Thanksgiving and nothing went as planned! We had wanted to decorate our fence outside before we went to Aunt Sue's for lunch but that didn't happen as I am still feeling under the weather and time just got away from us. Kayla was spitting up all morning but we were smart and did not put her in her Thanksgiving outfit until we were ready to leave. We had wanted to feed her cereal off of a spoon for the first time today but what with all her spitting up and irregular sleeping patterns it just didn't happen. Here's one pic of her rough morning. She seemed to have fun at Aunt Sue's and here is a picture with her Great-Grandma on her mom's dad's side. After Sue's we went to her Great-Grandma's on Carla's mom's side and slept almost the entire time! She woke up after almost everyone had left and those still there got a kick out of her kicking up a storm. Well she's starting to cry so I guess that's all for now!

Kayla's 1st Cold

Well, Kayla was sick for the first time Sunday night. We had gone over to Carla's parent's house to have dinner with her folks and her brother who was in town and by the end of the evening she was very hoarse when screaming and kinda weezy. This kept up until about Wednesday. I stayed home from work on Tuesday to take care of Kayla since Carla wasn't doing so well either and then I ended up getting sick! It was not alot of fun!

Kayla's Stats

We went to the doctor yesterday and Kayla has grown some since last time. She's 24" tall/long and 13 lbs 9.6 oz. They measure her head too every time, I'm not sure why, and her head is 16 1/8". We asked the doctor about her drooling all the time and she told us that it was normal and she didn't see any teeth buds yet. When we asked about her sleeping patterns we were basically told we were enabling her because she doesn't need to eat at night for 8 hours and she needs to learn to fall asleep on her own which she can't do if we keep rocking her to sleep. So last night was our first night of "tough love." We put her down before she was asleep and let her cry until she settled down and went to sleep herself. She woke up once around midnight and I picked her up for a few minutes then put her down again and she eventually fell back to sleep. Then she woke up around 2am and we let her scream for about 10 minutes but then decided we should feed her since it had been about 5 hours since she ate and the last time she ate she had barely had 2oz out of her 5oz bottle. After we fed her she went back to sleep until 5am and then we decided to have her sleep with us in bed since she had fallen asleep at like 4:30pm and was probably done sleeping if we didn't hold her. Around 6am she woke up again and we put her in her crib and turned on her battery operated mobile (one of the best baby accessories ever for us!) to entertain her and we went back to sleep for about an hour. The doctor said it would take about a week and a half to get her on a good routine but only waking 4 times in the night is still WAY better than what she had been doing before so we're moving in the right direction!

Sleep, or lack there or it, and teeth!

I am finding it harder to try to keep this updated that I had hoped. So sorry for the lack of updating..here's some news :-)

We have had a rough week here. Kayla is going the wrong way with sleeping at night, as in she is sleeping less and less. She almost always starts off well at the beginning of the night and then she crashes and burns and is up every hour or so. Very exhausting on us to say the least. So if you see us and we're cranky, you know why. However, she has also started drooling TONS and always wants to chew on things now, and we think this is probably due to her starting to teeth. How fun..That's just everyone's guess though, but it's probably a correct one. We go to the doctor on Monday for her check-up and shots, so maybe we'll find out then.

On other fronts, so far the best baby purchase in Kayla's mind: her jumparoo. She just loves it! Her tiny self can't reach the floor, so we have stacked up magazines and books under her feet to jump on, but it works. She can sit in it forever and just laugh and jump and flail about...it's so cute!

Christmas Letter

This is an option for our Christmas letter picture this year. Being as indecisive as I am at times I couldn't pic just one ;-) Now if only I can actually get a letter written...

Mom baked :-)

Mom baked :-) Yes, I completely understand that monkey bread is easy to make, however, for me, it was quite an accomplishment. Most of you know I so don't really cook or bake so for me this was a big deal. So here is my pretty pretty monkey bread..and it was yummy to boot! I am trying though to increase my cooking skills...afterall, I am a mom now..and mom's need to cook :-)

Just a riot!

We are really starting to see Kayla's personality come through these days. She is starting to coo and giggle up a storm, and yesterday she absolutely laughed hysterically for quite a while when I was playing with her in her jumparoo. The flight of the parrott was just a riot to her! I made a video of it on the camera, but I can't seem to get it to upload here to the blog :-( Oh well..you'll just have to come here and watch it :-) Anyhoos, that's about it for now. She and I are home watching history today. I keep telling her about it. She can say she was there.

Warm, Sleepy Sunday

We had a warm, sleepy Sunday here. I don't know what the high was today but we opened the patio door and the front door to get some air circulating through the house. The day started off very early since Kayla didn't know about daylight savings so she woke up around 5:30am and was ready to be up for the morning. Around 6 I went downstairs with her and watched The Legend of the Seeker that I had recorded from Saturday. It's a new TV show based on the books by Terry Goodkind. One of the best series of books I've ever read and so far a good TV show too. After being up for a few hours Kayla went back to sleep and proceeded to sleep pretty much the entire day away. She'd wake up, eat, then go right back to sleep all day long. We're hoping she sleeps tonight or else she will have some very cranky parents Monday. Mom and the Little One, as I've come to call her, Carla calls her Small Fry, have gone upstairs for bedtime but I'm downstairs watching my Patriots on Sunday Night Football. It's the 3rd quarter and the Pat's are down by one. Go Patriots!

Growing up

They get so big so fast! She's already looking like a little person. Not that she wasn't one before..but she is so not the tiny little baby we brought home not so long ago. We really do have to cherish these times...she'll be all grown up before we know it!

Adorable pic

I just had to post this pic..it was just too cute :-)