Giving Mom a Fix

We felt the need to get an early start on Halloween this year..LOL! Really though, we bought this last year around then simply because it was just too cute. It seemed like a good cuddly outfit too to wear on Sunday during the crazy snow storm. It also is great in getting us into the Disney mood. Not that I need any help in that category. For those that don't know, we are going to Disneyworld in May. Yep, taking our then 10 month old..and nope, we're not insane. My parents are taking us and my brother and his wife for a week. It will be Jay and Meg's first trip...and of course Kayla's! It will be our third trip now. So excited to share the "World" with them :-) Yep, I am a little OCD when it comes to all things Disney these days. But anyhoos...so the little one was "helping" mom get into the spirt by being a tiny little Eeyore! I was even cuter from behind if that's possible cause it has a little Eeyore tale too! Too bad it will be too darn hot to actually wear this at Disney...oh well, she has an entire Disney wardrobe for then already!!

But onto other wonderful Kayla news-she went to bed entirely on her own tonight! I am soo thrilled! She sleeps through the night these days (which is WONDERFUL!) but we had still been putting her to bed (bottle, rocking, etc...) She totally could put herself to sleep when she wanted to, but that was never really at bed time. But I decided she needed to start. So tonight when she started getting tired I put her in her crib and tucked her in. She cried for like 30 seconds and then was sound asleep. Hopefully we're on to a new trend!

Kayla's New Ride

Check out Kayla's new ride-lol!! We needed a good umbrella fold stroller for Disney and decided on this. She seems to like it :) It pushes soooo easily, Mom loves it too! We'll be able to use it tons, hopefully until we no longer need a stroller! I will still love my large Graco for the mall and things because of the huge basket and ability to hang bags on it, but her Maclaren will be great for trips to the Zoo, the park, etc, where we want the ease!

First "Dr's" Visit

On Monday, we had to take Kayla for her fist doctor's visit outside of her baby well visits. I had noticed while getting her changed that she had a bump on her left eyelid. It didn't seem to bother her any but being an over cautious first time parent, I called her doctor's office anyway just to ask about it. Having had styes in my eyes often, I thought this was what it was, but wanted to be sure. And the office did as well, especially since we don't want to mess around with little one's eyes, so they had us bring her in. And yep, indeed the baby has a stye. Which apparently is totally not common for baby's and the doctor seemed rather shocked about it. But she said that usually the little one's don't have very many eyelashes yet so that's usually why. For any who have seen Kayla, you know she definately breaks this rule as her eyelashes are incredibly long and people are jealous. But guess she wanted to be different. Poor little girl. She so doesn't seem to notice or care, so I guess that's good. We are supposed to try and put a warm washcloth on it when we can and keep an eye on it..lol. And it might take 3-12 WEEKS to clear up. Glad I know that..or else I'd probably start freaking out! Besides that, she's just great! Still no crawling, but she's starting to really show an interest in moving about...so we shall see..keep your fingers crossed!!!

Advancing Right Along

As you can see, sitting up is just about mastered :-) And the last several nights she has totally slept through the night! It's sooo nice. However, we seem to be more tired than we were getting up during the night?? Lol. Now if she can only figure out the whole locomotion thing, we'll be good to go. But then again, I love not having her mobile yet ;-) Both looking forward to and dreading when that day comes. This week, the new thing is talking. Well, not talking in real english words, but "talking" in baby language. Not just making noises, but it seems like she is indeed trying to carry on an entire conversation. It is just too cute! Now only if we figured out how to understand "baby"?!