4 months old!!

Her 4 month birthday picture!

Her first pair of shoes from Grandma Nan, many more to follow. It looks like she's gonna have a shoe fettish too.
She love to hold and chew on her feet.

Holding her head up really well now.

She loves to give us a big smile. Especially daddy and his funny faces.

Well, our baby is growing up so fast. We had her 4 month check up last week and it went pretty well. She is now 14 lbs, 24 inches and in the 75th percentile for her age. The doc said she is very proportional. We are so proud!!

The milestones are: She's able to play with a toy while on her tummy, roll over to her tummy, but hasn't mastered rolling from tummy to back. (she gets frustrated easily) She can transfer a toy from one hand to the other and blows rasberries all the time. Kayla has a small laugh when she is really happy and smiles really big. She is more interested in toys and can interact with them more. We really need to get her a bouncer b/c she loves to bounce when we hold her up. I read something that said that their brain is a little more advanced than their movements so they get frustrated b/c they can't do what they want to do. We've definately experienced that. She's so much fun to be around nowdays and is sleeping through the night more. It really depends on how she feels and how much she's eaten before she goes to sleep.

We're having to take her to get an ultrasound on her left hip b/c she might have hip displatia. The doc says that this can interfere with her walking later on. Also, she still has a heart murmur and we're sending her to the AR Children's Hospital Cardiac Clinic here in Lowell in Dec to check that out further. By then she'll be almost 6 months old. The doc says its not a big deal, just need to keep an eye on it. Surgery could be possible. EEEK!!

The Cereal War

What the heck is this stuff???!!

She's warming up to the idea. Sh'e messy though!

We've now taught her how to feed herself!! :) She like to hold the spoon. I guess that means she likes it.

On Kayla's 4 month birthday, we started to introduce rice cereal to her diet. She protested greatly and quickly told us that she would not have any part of it. At first, I just made a little bit (what the package told me to do) and fed her the cereal and the bottle. Alternating the bottle and cereal to calm her down, but still get some cereal down her. I was really tempted to feed it to her through the bottle, but quickly learned that you have to have the special nipple to do that. Since then, I've gotten alot of advice in relation to the cereal eating event, from family, friends, coworkers, and our doctor. He said to just be gradual and have fun with it. So, since then, thats what we've been doing. I just give it when its convenient for us and she's in a good mood at home. Someone told me to do it about an hour after her normal bottle feeding time so she's not crying for food, but still could eat. That seems to work out great! She'll now eat 1 oz of cereal in about 5-10 minutes and will let me know when she's done. As you can see from the pictures, she's still messy, but cute with it. They are even trying it at the daycare.

War Eagle Craft Fair

The family at War Eagle. 10-20-07. It was a really pretty day and pretty scenery.

Mom, Me, Brittany, Kayla and Tristin. This was the first time we put Kayla in the stroller and not her in the car seat sitting on the stroller. She liked it alot, she got to see all the people. I learned how good those strollers work on gravel. They really make those things well for people like me who beat them up.

Kayla in her crafting outfit. She loves to stand up on your lap nowdays and is laughing and smiling really big.

During our hour and a half wait in traffic to get to War Eagle we had fun in the car with the babies. Kayla had a really stinky diaper that we had to change in the front seat of the car, and Tristin was as crazy as ever. They we're both really good babies and we had fun.

We went for brunch at IHOP before War Eagle.

My mom and sister can in town for this year's craft fairs and to visit for a weekend. It was so fun to have the babies together again. They really interact with each other more nowdays. Tristin is scooting and will be crawling then walking in probably another month. She's always on the move, compared to Kayla who is more mellow and content with just lookin around.

Going Home in October

The family at the reunion picnic wher we got to show off Kayla to all his old classmates.
Kayla and Tristin playing together. Tristin would put her mouth on Kayla's head and roll aroud with her.

Kayla and Nan at Grandma's house.

It really makes me sad that I haven't posted any blogs in a while. It just takes time, and between work and being with Kayla in the evenings, its just not possible. I vow to catch up today though.

We went home Oct 13th weekend for Chad's 10 year high school reunion. It was loads of fun to see family and friends we haven't seen in a while. Kayla stayed at my sister's house with her cousin Tristin the night of the Homecoming game. They played together so much that they shared their sicknesses. Kayla got Tristin's cold and I had to hold her in an upright position all night so that she could breathe b/c of her stuffy nose. We got her some Little Noses and took her to the doc when we got home and he confirmed it was a cold and to just keep doing what I was doing. Thanks doc, thats why we pay you the big bucks. Kayla has been sick most of October. She started out with a virus and had to stay home from daycare a couple of days before we went home. It lasted about 2 weeks. So, for a while, she had a stuffy nose and loose bowels, but still really happy baby. I thought she would never get over it and that it was just the norm of her bowel movements to be loose. She finally had a few days of normal poop and then we got shots. But, thats another blog. Nan had alot of fun keeping Kayla. She had so much fun that she opted to follow us home and keep Kayla for 3 days to keep her out of daycare in order for her to get well. It worked pretty good.

Bikes, Blues& BBQ

We had so much fun dressing Kayla up in Harley clothes and going to the annual Bikes, Blues, and BBQ festival here in Fayetteville. Chad's parents came up to join in the festivities since his dad likes bikes too. There were so many people there that we didn't stay very long. We just enjoyed being with Nan and Papaw and dressing Kayla up in the matching onsie, hat and socks. I've loved baby Harley clothes ever since I saw them.

Nan and PaPaw in town

Nan and PaPaw likes to sit at the Promenade and watch Kayla suck her thumb. It was a really nice day on Thursday when they were here and I was off b/c Kayla was sick and couldn't go to daycare.

She has to wear bibs all the time now b/c of her frequent spit up and drooling. We're looking for a Razorback bib if you know where we can get one.

Chad's parents have been at the house alot lately. They came last weekend to the Razorback game, went to Colorado for a couple of days then came back this past Thursday and are staying through this weekend. We're really having fun hanging out and they love spending time with Kayla. They are getting some really good bonding time. It was a blessing that they came in town b/c they got to keep Kayla at the house when she was sick. They may stay till Monday and keep her then. It depends on if she gets better over this weekend.

On a Roll

Storytime with daddy. This book is cute b/c it has different textures that she can touch. She loves hearing our voice and will have a "conversation" with us in her own cooing language. She likes to rattle her voice and smile at us on the changing table. She rather enjoys having her diaper changed nowdays.


She's holding onto anything you put in her hands nowdays. I think I've got her trained pretty good to wipe her own mouth after eating. She likes to hold burp cloths, pacifiers (pulls them out of her mouth) and her new silky blanket. Also, she will hold our finger when we're feeding her the bottle. Its so cute!!


She's rolling over alot better nowdays. One day she rolled over about 4 times and ended up off of her mat. Still gets frustrated with it though.



She found her thumb!! Pretty consistenly sucking her thumb nowdays. We try to redirect her to the pacifier.


Kayla is 3 1/2 months old now and doing so many new things. She's finally sleeping throught the night consistently now, but wanting to got to sleep earlier. She alway's seems to go to sleep around 7:00 nowdays and sometimes doesn't wake up until 6-7 hours later. That means that she doesn't get her evening bath for that night. Oh well, as long as she's sleeping. I say yeahhhhh!!! Now if only I can sleep. I've been doing better about being able to sleep. We've got a pretty good routine down.
This week the daycare called me at about 2:30 and said that I had to come get her b/c she had alot of loose BMs. She's been sick for about 5 days now. She's been vomiting her formula and having yellow, liquid diapers. Its gotten a little better over the last couple of days, but its still there. She doesn't act like she's sick though, b/c she's still smiling, cooing and being really good. The doctor just said to give her Pedialite and wait it out. Apparently babies that young can't have any medicine. I even asked a pharmacist hoping he would tell me something different, but he told me the same thing. I guess we'll just see what happens. This is the first time she's gotten sick and its a little un-nerving. Dr. says that its a virus.