I did some Christmas shopping!

I got a little carried away Monday when I got online originally to buy a extra camera to go with our video monitor that we bought before Kaylee was born. Right now the camera is mounted on the wall by her crib... the problem is, at night we put her in her play yard to go to sleep and have to turn the tv in our room down really low so that it doesn't wake her up. So I finally found a extra camera that we can put in our room to keep an eye on her when she is in her play yard and be able to go upstairs and watch tv with the volume turned up loud enough to where we can actually hear it!

So after ordering the camera I was looking around on the Babies R Us website and saw a convertible car seat on sale for $100 off! We have noticed that Kaylee has been getting a little big for her car seat... it says it can hold up to 30 pounds but there is no way that she is going to fit in that thing at 30 pounds when at 16 pounds she is already squished in there! So... I bought this:


I loved the flower design padding and after doing some research it seemed to be a good car seat. The weight limit is 100 pounds so we shouldn't have to worry about buying another seat for a while! Another reason I wanted to go ahead and get this is that while most babies love their car seats, Kaylee doesn't really care for hers. According to the GI doctor and her pediatrician, the angle that she sits at while in her car seat is uncomfortable for a reflux baby... this seat is adjustable and can recline at different angles so we will be able to adjust it to make Kaylee more comfortable.

After buying the car seat I started looking at toys. Something doesn't look right with no presents under our Christmas tree (speaking of which... I really need to take some pictures and post them on here!). So I ordered these toys:

Izzy the Inchworm

Little Fishbowl

Freddie the Firefly

It doesn't look like it from the pictures but the toys are actually pretty big... The inchworm even has little measurement marks on the back of it and is 2 feet long! I just have 2 or 3 more things that I want to get for Kaylee and then my Christmas shopping for her will be done. I just hope I can wait until Christmas to give her the presents Daniel and I got her... I am the world's worst about not waiting until Christmas day to open presents!

Nicknames

Just the other day I realized something... we have way too many nicknames for Kaylee. I don't know if this is normal (I'd like to think that it is and that most parents have many nicknames for their babies) or if Daniel and I are just 'nickname kind of people.' I mean, we even have several nicknames for our dogs, Liza and Remi. I'm sure a few of the nicknames might stick around for a while and there will be some that we forget about, so I thought I would make a list of all of Kaylee's nicknames that we have called her!

It all started out with 'Peanut.' When we saw her for the first time at 9 weeks on the ultrasound she was so tiny and looked like a little peanut. When she was born she wasn't very small (9 pounds) so Peanut didn't really seem like it fit her anymore... Then somehow we came up with Kaylee Bug which is sometimes turned into:

• K Bugs
• K Buggy
• Boo Bug
• Baby Boo
• and at times she is 'Little Monster'

No matter what nicknames we give her over the years she will always be our 'baby girl.'

What nicknames do you have for your baby?

Catching Up After Thanksgiving

Whew...what a week! We had Thanksgiving at our house this year and everyone from my side of the family was able to come up. Tuesday night Kaylee's great uncle Bubba came up to stay with us. Wednesday we got up and went to lunch at Cracker Barrel before going to Target to do some shopping. The rest of the day we pretty much hung out around the house and finished cleaning up before everyone got here.

Thanksgiving morning Kaylee was so excited to see everyone that she woke up at 3:30 am! Daniel laid down on the couch with her until around 7:00 when I got up to take care of her while he went back to sleep. After feeding her and giving her her meds I started cooking chocolate pies for our Thanksgiving dinner. Kaylee's grandpa and uncle Quinten got to the house around 8:00 am and played with her while I finished up cooking. My mom and grandma arrived around noon and started cooking. Christen came over around 1:00 pm and we finally ate lunch around 2:00. Kaylee had her own little Thanksgiving dinner... she had her first solid food! We fed her some pears and she loved them! I was surprised that she actually opened her mouth for the spoon and didn't spit the food out everywhere.

After we recovered from our food coma Daniel, Christen and I went to go pick out a Christmas tree. When we got back home we decorated the tree and finished putting out our Christmas decorations before going to bed. The next morning I was up at 4 am to go shopping with my mom while Daniel stayed home with Kaylee. Mom bought Kaylee her Christmas dress from Macys and I can't wait for her to be able to wear it!

We also went to Target where mom bought Kaylee's early Christmas present... a activity jumper. Even thought it's not Christmas yet she went ahead and gave it to Kaylee so that she could play in it. So far she loves it!

Her feet barely reach the ground so we had to put a blanket under her so that she could push off of it

While at Target I also bought Kaylee more clothes and a few new toys for her to play with. She has really been a handful for the past few days because she started teething. She is always wanting to chew on something and there are times when even the Orajel doesn't help. When that happens we usually have to sit down with a glass of really cold water and keep dipping her pacifier in it. It has been so nice having my family here and being able to get a break from Kaylee. Friday and Saturday night Daniel and I were able to go out to eat supper by ourselves and could actually eat at the same time instead of taking turns holding Kaylee while the other one would eat! Of course, Kaylee was spoiled by her great grandma who rocked her to sleep several times!This morning mom and grandma went back home and it was back to just the 3 of us! Kaylee and Daniel took a nap on the couch after lunch for several hours while I got caught up on a few things that I haven't had a chance to get around to. Kaylee has been in a pretty good mood tonight but still has her moments when her teeth are hurting her. I took these pictures earlier tonight when she just kept smiling and laughing. I just love her little stockings!

Her shirt was soaked in drool!

There's my happy baby!

So that was our Thanksgiving week/weekend... I have so much to be thankful for this year... a beautiful little baby girl, our family, friends, my blogging friends and so much more!

My early Christmas present!

Today I went to Best Buy to get my early Christmas Present... I had been wanting a photo and video editing software and finally decided on the Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 8 combo. I even got lucky and caught it on sale for 50% off @ BestBuy.com! I'm slowly learning the features of each program but had to share my first 2 edited pictures! I have always loved black and white pictures that have a little color added in so that was the first thing I wanted to figure out how to do! I think the second picture is my favorite. It was fairly easy to edit these pictures so I am excited to see what else the program can do!

Kaylee's Christmas Tree

Back at the beginning of November I went to Target and saw these cute little Christmas tree kits. It came with the little pot and 5 seeds to grow your own Christmas tree! We planted the seeds on November 7th, and two weeks later (on the 21st) this is what they looked like:

Only 2 of the 5 seeds actually came up but that's better than nothing! The plan is to plant them separately in bigger pots once they get a little bigger and then eventually plant them outside until they are big enough to actually be our Christmas tree one year. I will try to get updated pictures within the next week to put on here... it has been a week since I took this picture (I'm so behind on blogging!) and the trees are already much bigger!

The day before Thanksgiving, Great Uncle Bubba bought and decorated this Christmas tree to go in Kaylee's room.
She loves staring at the shiny ornaments and the pink lights that are on the tree. Hopefully sometime this weekend I can get pictures of the rest of the Christmas decorations that we have put up!

little kaylee bug

my little kaylee bug is not so little after all, she seems like she is growing up to quick. she already seems to be ahead of her age by a couple of months. its like when did she grow so fast, i know it did not happen over night but it sure seems like she did. she keeps getting more cuute as every day goes by and every day it seems like she discovers something new. just the other day her little sounds she use to make got alot louder, i think she discovered that she can change the the tone of her cute little voice, but we still dont have any clue as to what she is saying but its so cute cause you dont know what kind of sound she will make next. i feel so bad for her, i dont know if its the fact that her voice has just got louder but when she cries now its horrible sounding and it seems as if she is just in so much pain or if she is just that much fussier, but we did find out today that she is starting to have a few teeth come in so it wont be to much longer that she will be a little snaggle toothed baby till they all come in. i cant wait for all that to happen, its not gonna be fun for any of us. just this week she got to have her first thanksgiving, she was a little fussy all day but once it was time for us to eat she calmed down while we all got to sit down and enjoy thanksgiving dinner, i think she was sitting there wanting to eat atleast one of everything. she has become quite the little pig, she has got a huge gut that is gonna take her forever to work off. here lately she has been picking up her little toys when we put her in her little chair and of course they are all directed straight to her mouth, she is gonna eat us out of everything i just know it. lol but that little baby girl no matter what she does every day she fills up a little piece of my heart and she gets wrapped around my finger more and more. im really going to enjoy playing with her and introducing her to all kinds of different things as she grows older.

What a week!

Last week was been one of those that makes you wonder what's next... it started out with Daniel losing his job Tuesday... then on Wednesday after having stomach pains since Monday night I took him to the ER where we found out he had appendicitis and had to have surgery at 10:00 that night to remove his appendix. This was one of those times where I especially hate being so far away from family. After dropping him off at the hospital I rushed home with Kaylee. Thank goodness Christen was able to leave work and come stay with her. I went back to the hospital to stay with Daniel for a little while before finding out it would be a while before they would be able to do the surgery (it was only 1:00 when we got to the ER). After sitting there for a while I had to rush back home again to give Kaylee her night time meds and get some things together to bring back to the hospital.

Just when I finished feeding Kaylee and got her to fall asleep Daniel sent me a text message saying he was going to have the surgery soon. I ran and jumped in the car trying to make it back to the hospital before they took him back but I got there about 5 minutes too late. Mom made it to our house around 1:30 am to stay with Kaylee so that Christen could go home. I had planned on going back home that night after Daniel fell asleep but I ended up staying at the hospital with him until they let him go home around lunch time on Thursday.

When Daniel and I got home Thursday afternoon Kaylee was asleep. Mom had told me that she had been playing with her toys. I have been trying to get her to play with her toys for what seems like forever. She would never grab or swing at them and usually after only a few minutes of them being in front of her she would start crying until I took them away... so of course, I didn't believe her. When Kaylee woke up from her nap we put her in her chair and gave her a toy. I couldn't believe it...she picked it up and tried to put it in her mouth! I was only gone for a day and she had grown up a little more!

Playing with her toy!

Today while cleaning up her room I put her in the glider to watch me clean while she played with her toys. She did great! It seems like only a few weeks ago she would fall to one side or the other every few seconds but she sat there for about 30 minutes and never fell over! I can already tell she is going to be a handful once she starts crawling. Anything her hands touch usually goes in her mouth. Last night we went to Olive Garden for supper and after I finished eating I sat her in my lap and held a piece of a breadstick in front of her. First she grabbed my hands and pulled them to her mouth to chew on the bread, but when she figured out that I wasn't going to let go of it she tried to take the bread out of my hand. We will slowly be starting her on solids next month. I'm excited to see how that goes but paranoid at the same time because I know how easily she gets choked! My little girl is growing up so fast :(