Halloween 2013

Halloween 2013

Thursday

October 31, 2013

 

Halloween started off with us going over to Aunt Becca's house to make popcorn balls. We wanted the kids to help, and they did in the beginning but quickly ran off to play together.

 

 

This was our first stop of the night, which means Kin's first ever trick or treating experience! I was so excited for costumes this year, I had this big plan to have a matching theme. Then we went to Wal-mart one night where Brody saw a ninja costume and was dead set of being it, I couldn't say no so the search for a baby ninja costume began. It was a little harder then I had imagined, the only one I could find was a sack which Kinsley would NOT go for. Buying everything we needed to make it myself would have added up to more then we wanted to spend so I had to come to grips with no longer doing a theme. Next year!! 

 

Next we got together with Boaz and Adara and went to the rest of the houses.

 

We trick or treated around our teachers neighborhood first, then we headed over to the doctor housing which was insane!! I have never seen so many trick or treater's in one neighborhood!! We did two houses and left, it was just way too much for us. Next we hit up some other teacher housing.

By now it was getting VERY cold and all the kids were ready to call it quits. I of course wanted to snap a few pictures before we headed home.

 



 

After we got home Bro dumped the candy on the ground like all kids want to do and they went through their stash. As you can see Kin's thought this was pretty fun! A nice lady even gave her a teddy bear.

 

She was the cutest thing ever, she picked up almost ever piece of candy looked at it then put it aside 

 

She was eager to share with us :)

 

 

 

Bro was super excited to help pass out candy once we got home, It was so fun to watch him enjoy every minute of it. My little boy is growing up too fast!!

 

I'm not sure where he learned this pose from but I have to admit it's pretty funny!

 

Kin's trying to sneak some popcorn balls.

 

We had such a fun filled night!! Although I have to admit St George Halloweens are much more enjoyable...last year we were in t-shirts while this year we were in heavy jackets. I want to live somewhere warm again!!



10 months

10 Months

Monday

October 21st, 2013

 

 

 Weight

She was weighed and measured at her doctor’s appointment on the 15^th; those are the most recent ones I have. She is 17 pounds 12 ounces (which puts her in the 24^th %) and is 28 4/8 inches long (which puts her at 81%). Her percentages sure aren’t keeping up with her birth ones, especially weight!! She has only packed on 7 pounds and grown 6 inches in 10 months! It’s still funny to me how much bigger she was then Brody at birth but Brody passed her stats up pretty quickly.

 

Health
Once again a not so good month for poor Kins. She has a terrible runny nose and was just acting sick so I took her in and turns out she had an ear infection. We got her on antibiotics; it hasn’t seemed to completely go away, hopefully soon.

 

 

Sleep

Ugh, sleep. I swear this girl goes back and forth like no other baby I’ve known. Usually when babies start sleeping through the night they will stay that way at least for a while…not this girl. She is constantly switching it up on us.  And like I’ve mentioned earlier once she starts screaming she doesn’t stop. She has started sleeping better since she’s been on medication though, hopefully it lasts. Luckily she is still taking her 2 naps a day (someone told me she is getting to the age where she shouldn’t be napping at all….totally crazy women right!!!) I will keep her naps for as long as I can! She always goes down for a nap within 2 hours of waking up, although this nap used to be a guaranteed 2 hours and now sometimes only lasts an hour, but I will take it!  

 

 

 

 

Clothes
Miss Mae is mostly wearing 9 months, with some 12 months mixed in.  

 

Diet

Still the same diet as always. She is nursing regularly still, always before naps and bedtime. She is eating at least one full jar of baby food a day, usually two and lots of yummy baby snacks. I can never say which jarred baby food is her favorite because its always switching, she only eats the fruit though…wont touch the veggies or meats (honestly I don’t blame her). Her favorite baby snacks are strawberry yogurt bites, cheddar little munchers and baby Mum Mums. She is back to liking the little puffs but still prefers the others, oh and she absolutely LOVES cheerios!

 

 

 

 

Crying
This girl has a temper that’s for sure! I totally believe that children are born with their personalities, because there’s no way she could have “learned” to be this way at such a young age. If she doesn’t get something she wants she already throws a fit, I’m really nervous for the whole terrible 2 and 3 thing with her. She isn’t always bad though, in fact she can be really really good. But when she’s bad she’s bad. We went to the store once with my sister in law to get some baby food. I put Kinsley in the cart and of course she didn’t want to be there so she started doing her normal screaming. My sister in law commented that she wasn’t doing a normal baby cry; she was literally screaming at me like she was ticked off….that’s our Kinsley.  

 

Milestones

She if officially crawling, finally!! No more army crawling around here. She is also doing awesome at pulling herself up onto just about anything; she’s super stable to and can bend over and pick something up with one hand while still holding onto the couch with the other. She is also starting to walk along the furniture, not a ton but she’s figuring it out. A lot of teeth have come through this month, she has the 4 front one’s on top and three on bottom with one more coming through (on bottom). I don’t think she really knows that she’s saying, in fact I’m almost positive she doesn’t but she has started to say MaMa. It is the cutest thing ever; she puckers her lips out really far and keeps them pursed together while she says it. We are also noticing that she is starting to understand things, like if we ask her to come to us, or say no…things like that. She has also mastered pointing at things; it’s so cute to see what she’s curious about or wanting.

 

 

 

 

 

Products I'm loving

We really haven’t used any new products this month. I did finally find some more baby mum-mum snacks for her and she loves having them back! Our Wal-Mart must have quit selling them, so I found some at Albertsons.

 

Fun Facts

Well this little stinker now officially has figured out how to be mad at people. One night we were all together to say our family prayer and Brody accidently bonked her, she started crying which is normal but what happened next was not. Brody tried to give her a hug and tell her he was sorry but she wouldn’t let him, she put her hand right on his face and shoved him back, she wouldn’t even look at him. She wanted nothing to do with him; it was beyond obvious she was not happy with her big Brother. This has happened a couple other times since then. Another not so fun fact about her is that she is the uncuddliest baby I have ever met. The only person she cuddles with on a somewhat regular occasion is me, and this is only because I nurse her at nap/bed time so I get her during her sleepy moments. She will only cuddle when she is tired, which stinks because I LOVE cuddling, and Brody is starting to want to less and less the older he gets. My next baby better be cuddly or I’m doing to go through some major withdrawals. On a happier note she is a pro at waving, although she hasn’t quiet figured out to wave goodbye, but she will wave at people. Almost every time music comes on she starting waving, it’s pretty dang adorable. This little girl is so curious; she has to know everything that’s going on and has to check everything out…nothing is safe around her! But I’m more glad then anything about this one, I love to see her explore new things and check out the world around her. I know I said this last month but I just have to repeat…she has the cutest most precious smile and laugh. Seriously you can’t help but smile when you hear her laugh; it instantly warms my heart and makes me want to attack her with kisses. As you can imagine I love putting Miss Kinsley in dresses, she is my first girl after all. She on the other hand doesn’t enjoy them quiet as much; I can’t really blame her though. Since she’s still only crawling she hates being in a dress because she knees get caught in them and it always trips her and makes is almost impossible to crawl. So to work around this she will literally crawl on her hands and toes haha makes me laugh even talking about it. It’s pretty dang funny to see! She crawls on her hands and toes with her butt straight in the air. She also does this if she escapes from me before I get pants back on her after a diaper change or if she gets outside and the cement is really cold. I have to give it to her for being creative and solving the problem though!!

 

 

 



Sleep Over Fun

Sleep Over Fun

Friday

October 18th, 2013

 

It has been SO much fun having cousin Boaz live right next door. The boys are having a blast with it, we especially love sleep overs!!

 

 

 I wanted to get a picture of all three of them, this is what we got haha.

 

After we put the boys to bed they stay up for hours just talking, having fun with the dream light and being fun silly boys. I'm so glad Brody is able to be so close with his cousin, makes life for these little boys pretty dang fun!



Blankie Love

Blankie Love

Thursday

October 17th, 2013

 

You might think that this post will be about Kinsley, her being the baby in the house and all...but its not. Brody is the blankie lover around here. As a baby he always used blankets but was never attached to them, now its a total attachment. He loves blankets more now then he ever has! Everywhere Bro goes in the house he drags a blanket along with him. He eats with them, helps me make food with it wrapped around him, does school with them, does "science experiments" with them, he even used to try to bring them into the bathroom and that's where I put my foot down! If he doesn't have one he quickly realizes it and goes "OHH I need to get a blanket!" I fold and put away tons of blankets every single night (an example of one days worth of blankets is shown in the bottom left of this picture)! And it's not like our house is cold, we keep it very comfortable, he just loves his blankets. The biggest picture shows him in his bed, which consists of two comforters, one quilt and a big blanket. This boy is crazy about his blankets!!



Favorite Reason

Favorite Reason

Friday

October 11th, 2013

 

 

 

There has been A LOT of lost sleep around here lately, Miss Mae seems to have forgotten how to sleep at night. I will say it plainly...I like my sleep, and if something gets in the way of my sleep I'm usually a less then pleasant person to be around. So as you can imagine I have been having a very difficult time with all of this.

 

Last night Kinsley woke up hysterically screaming but instead of leaving her in her bed for a while to try and cry it out I immediately went and got her and brought her into our room. She usually calms down after I nurse her and she is laying next to us but tonight was a different story. Nothing would calm her down, nothing. Yesterday I saw another tooth coming in, so we gave her some teething tablets, I sat up with her in bed and cuddled her close. She closed her eyes and nestled into me.

 

As I held me tight I looked down and saw one of the most beautiful sights a mothers eyes could ever lay upon. My arm was snuggly wrapped around her head, which laid on my chest as she breathed in and out in a sound sleep. The love I felt for this little girl was almost unbearable. I didn't care that it was 2am, I didn't care that just a few seconds ago she was screaming her head off, I didn't care that I would be tired as heck in the morning...all I cared about was the precious moment we were sharing.

 

Then I realized how little we do this, how much I am missing out on. It's not like I don't have opportunities to sit and enjoy these tender moments in life, but I choose to pass them up. There is always something else I could be doing. There is always dishes to be washed, laundry to be folded and put away, messes to be picked up, floors to be swept, and bathrooms to be cleaned...and there always will be. But my baby will not always be a baby, she will not always want to fall asleep in my arms, she will not always "think" she needs me, in fact she will not always be in our home with me. So I came to a realization last night, I need to cherish these moments when they come and not quickly pass them by for something else that needs to be done. I need to slow my life down and realize what truly is important to me.

 

I cannot think of a better way to lose sleep then watching my precious baby sleep away the night :)



Already

Already

Thursday

October 10th, 2013

 

 Snowing...in October...so not ready for this!

 

 

Other Random's From The Day

 

First time I've ever seen a wood pecker going at our place, so had to snap a picture of it.

 

Kin's has now gotten to the stage where she gets into every cabinet, every drawer and just plain everything. Good thing she's so darn cute while she's doing it!