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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Kailey and I go on tour...

It has become apparent that I must leave the house on a regular basis to keep my sanity. A couple of days cooped and I am a total head case. Today I packed up the little one with a few toys (she loves to hold on to things now) and we headed off to Wal-Mart and then to the mall. Instead of using the shopping carts I brought her stroller along, as we were not getting anything major...do I ever prefer doing that rather than lugging her into the store and trying to find a cart that undoubtedly will have something wrong with it. I found a nice flannel sheet for the playpen...an actual fitted playpen sheet. She has all her naps in there now so I wanted a way to make it more cozy and to protect the mattress from any spit ups since you can only sponge clean it. :-(. Zellers is carrying mostly HBC (Best Beginnings and Carters are my fav's) items it is my favorite place to shop for Kailey's pj's. I found the sweetest sleeper than has Princess Frogs all over and the feet are frog heads that each have a little crown applique sticking up...very cute. Oh yeah....Kailey's new trick when we are shopping is to reach her hands out of the bucket and grab whatever she can on the way by. She has easy access to do this when she is in the stroller as she is lower and the side are open. She grabs mitt fulls of clothes off the racks. She ended up with some sort of bib type thing in the bucket and I had no idea where it came from. She must have pulled it in when I wasn't looking. What is disgusting though is the fact that EVERYTHING goes in her mouth so I have to really watch for two reason....I don't want to be accused of shoplifting and I don't want Kailey munching on some germ infested item...yuck. I almost forgot...I picked up Kailey a one piece finding Nemo bathing suit and some swimmer diapers since we may be going swimming...if I find the courage that is. Her cousin Robbie loves it and it is another way to get out of the house. I really wish Heather and I could go together. :-( She looves her baths so maybe this would be a hit too. She has the sweetest bikini from Old Navy (thanks Heather for picking up some summer clothes for her) but it will be too big until Summer...then look out....it has ruffles on the bottom and the top is a halter style.....very baby chic...hahahaha. You know I will be putting her in this as soon as it is washed and you all will be seeing the pictures. ;-) I cannot wait. She is totally crashed out from all the excitement today. I managed to have an hour and a half nap with her today so I feel much better. I am still having some sleepless nights for whatever reason. Moving the monitor where I can hear her breathe back into the room seems to help some. I think I became so used to her sleeping next to me in the bassinet that I use her breathing as my 'grey noise'. The best sleeps I have is when she is next to me in the playpen or if she is in bed withe me....I crash without a problem at all. Last night I got up at 2am and stayed up until 6am...not good. This must be some sick joke...I am lucky enough to have a baby that sleeps through the night and I now develop Insomnia issues?! I'll wake up and my heart is racing and I cannot catch my breath and then my brain turns on and that is it...I am stuck tossing and turning or staring at the ceiling. I am hoping my Doctor can shed some light on this issue as I have a check up in a couple months along with Kailey's 6 mth appointment.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Weekend Visit...

This weekend My Dad and Diane (Gido aka "The Gido Man" and Grandma D) came to visit. Kailey was a little shy at first, but it did not take her long to warm up and once she did, it was all smiles and hardly any naps (didn't want to miss out on anything). She loves the excitement of visitors (once she is comfortable) and fought as hard as she could to stay awake. Her eyes were red and puffy and she was rubbing them and yawning. She crashed at 8pm last night and I woke her for a 9pm bottle and then she zonked out for the night and woke up at 8:15 this morning. She was totally exhausted. She watched some Baby Einstein with them, played in the Jumperoo, talked her little head off, got many tours of the house (exciting when other people give her a tour), fell asleep on Dad and even took the last few ounces of her bottles from him in her lounger. They brought her some summer clothes that I cannot wait to see her in. I am so glad that she got some bonding time and it was nice to see Dad so happy to see her. Thanks so much for all the goodies and a great visit.

Kailey loves when you whisper in her ear ;-)

Friday, February 23, 2007

4 Months Old Today!!!!




My little girl is 4 months old today...already. It seems like yesterday that I was writing that she just turned one month old. She is dressed up for the occasion. This little one loooves wearing dresses. Dresses come in very handy as she uses them as a face cloth and they accommodate her persistent need for putting something in her mouth..hahaha. The other picture of her in the Snugli was way too cute not to post, plus she is sporting a hat (much too big for her yet but I am way too excited) from her Great Nan aka NANA. She handmade this along with a matching sweater that is equally adorable. I cannot wait until she can wear this. The little dress and tights are from Jack's parents and the hat that happens to match perfectly is from Amanda and Brent...thanks so much!!. Her super cute Minnie Mouse onsie is from her Gido and Grandma D (My Dad and Dianne) from their trip to Disney World.


Thursday, February 22, 2007

Just some more pictures...




This is one of the sleepers her Grandparents in California got her. Thanks!

Kailey's toes




I just love her little feet and I cannot believe how strong her little piglets are. She can pinch me with them and wrap her feet around my arm like they are a set of hands. What is cool is you can see her little birthmark in the one picture. That fine dust you see is in her cream. Like a baby exfoliate I guess. These were taken just after her morning bath.

**UPDATE: Thes pictures look so much better in black & white. :-)

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Other End Of The Tub

She is now having her baths at the infant/toddler side of the tub. Since she can sit up quite well I think she is ready for this. You can tell by the pictures she is thrilled with this 'upgrade'. Just wait until I upgrade her to the big tub...WOW!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Ready for Summer!!!

Well, I am pretty much DONE with this winter nonsense...so is Kailey. Bring on Summer!!!! I took her to Wal-Mart today for an outing (WOW...exciting) and bought a weather shield for the stroller. It will block out 97% of UV rays and best of all will protect her from wind and snow. It is completely see through too so she will still be able to take in all the scenery. This is our planned activity for tomorrow weather permitting. I did a test today. She is getting a tad big for the car seat bag so I thought I would take it out and put her in a snowsuit then strap her in...I TOTALLY know why these were invented now. It is so much easier to just put a sweater on her and zip her into the bag. WOW!! Her feet do not touch the end of the bag yet so we are ok but I wanted to see how much more room the seat had without it. Quite a bit more room but so not worth the tears of trying to strap her in with a bulky snowsuit on. She gave me this look like..."you could have asked my opinion on this matter and I gladly would have told you not to remove my bag!!". Off we went...binky, hat with flaps, facecloth and back up binky in my pocket. She usually is awake for these trips it seems now. She finally fell asleep at the checkout. She wasn't very talkative but massive blue eyes taking everything in. There were so many Moms with babies there today. I guess everyone in town was having cabin fever. I felt for one new Mom...her baby was maybe 3 weeks old and was shrieking and you could tell this was her first time out and she looked like she wanted to cry. I remember how scary it was when I took Kailey out alone for the first time so I recognized the look of fear. She had a ton of gear with her too...2 diaper bags...toys..bottle...snugli and then the infant car seat in the cart...WOW.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Piglet is a Blast!!!

Thank You Mr. & Mrs. Meating for the huge piglet you got me for Christmas!!!


Time For Grobags!!!

It would appear that Miss K likes to kick all of the blankets off of her at some point in the night. The past two morning I have come into the nursery and she is 'naked' (just in her sleeper) and cold. She also likes to 'crab-walk' herself to the very end of the crib and has her head jammed into the bumper pad. If she keeps doing this then she will have another flat spot on the top of her head that may counteract the one on the back of her head...hahaha. I guess that is why I believe in bumper pads, can you imagine how that would feel to have the hard crib rails pushing on the top of your melon...ouch!!! I bought two grobags (sleeping bag that they wear) before she was born and she wore them for the first month of her life but I later decided that it was too much of a pain to get her in and out of it for a diaper change in the middle of the night and was too bulky to feed her in them so I packed them away. Now that she sleeps through I think this will be a great piece of 'gear' that will ensure she stays toasty warm. She is napping in it today to see if she is ok wearing this rather than the usual three blankets she has on her. I need to get Zoe one too...just kidding.
I took these pictures a few minutes ago. Both of my girls snoozing and both of them suckling?!

Yesterday Kailey had two visitors, Jackie and her Mom. Kailey was great and manged some pretty big full body smiles* at both of them.

*Definition of a 'Full Body Smile': When Kailey thinks that a plain old smile from ear to ear just wont cut it she puts her hands into fists, pulls her legs up and tilts her head to one side. Very funny.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

My Little Doll...



Here is Kailey wearing a dress her Daddy got for her from Disneyland before she was born. I know it is premature especially when I look outside and all I see is SNOW...booo. I wanted to see what she looked like in it so the poor kid had to endure yet another photo shoot. I loooove the panties that match...they have ruffles around the legs and on the bum...soooo cute. More photos on the bucket site. The onsie she has on underneath matches this set and the cool thing about that is, it was a gift from Brad and Cheryl from before she was born and before we knew she was a girl. Wearing a dress totally fascinates her especially if she is not wearing anything on her feet. She is amazed by her toes.

http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p220/sjrugg/17%20Feb%202007%20-%20dress%20time/