My last day...

Well, today is my last day on Maternity Leave - getting tears just now as I write this blog :( It will be ok, I'll go back to work to help out our family and Kaiya will enjoy her time with Tiffany and then I can see her when I get home from work - but its gonna be hard, I'm gonna miss my little girl during the day! So what are we doing today? We had our last mom's chat at the hospital - it was a costume party - a nice way to end our weeks with the new friends we made. Here is Kaiya in her not original costume - a pumpkin (I"m not big into halloween).

Then after the party we stopped by Tiffany's to drop off some last minute things for her and for Kaiya. Nothing else really planned for today, she's taking a good nap right now, then we'll probably read or sing together at the piano, just hang out together. (ok, I realize this is sounding like the last time I will ever see her - lol) So yeah, I'm a little sad but I know she will be in good hands.

More Random Pictures...

Random pictures of Kaiya - we took a walk today, nice day but cooler, so we put on her sweatshirt and purple hat - yeah, the hat doesn't match but it kept her warm!

Random Thoughts....

Things have been going really well with the family. Kaiya is sleeping through the night!!!! (knock on wood, someone, really quickly) Last night we went from 8:30pm - 7:30am when Josh went in to make sure she was still alive!! We have ranged anywhere from waking up around 4:30 - 7:30 in the AM after going to bed anywhere between 7:00 and 9:00pm. Our naps have been hit and miss lately though - some days she takes really good ones and other days 45 min at a time. And its hard to get her down for her naps but at night, I lay her down awake and she fall asleep on her own!! Its awesome - not yet there on naps but hopefully.

So, I go back to wok next week Wednesday, not looking forward to it at all. Why do we need money - why can't we just win the lottery so I can stay home with my little girl - why!? I don't know how I'm gonna be, I am going to miss her terribly :( The only thing keeping me going is knowing I am only working 4 days a week so I will be with her for a 3 day weekend!! Yesterday we were looking at the faces board I made and playing with a rattle, that is her new big thing - she does grasp it and shake it, doesn't hold it for very long but she is getting the hang of grasping things. (The video is a quick time video - hopefully you can see it - trying to work on converting to a windows media player file...)









Then, Josh came home and threw on the baby bjorn to hang out with her - some pics of him and Kaiya.





To end the night, I will sometimes give her a massage (lucky baby, I wish someone would give me a massage at night). So last night was a massage night :)

My brother

My Brother is currently on a web series on http://www.lg15.com/ called The Resitance (check it out, its a weird show if you ask me but I like it cause my brother is in it!) - they asked the cast of the resistance to paricipate in the get out and vote campaign - so check out his video below!

Kaiya's Big Day

Today Kaiya got baptized, she got welcomed into God's Family. It was a gorgeous day here, we couldn't have asked for a better day. She wore a gown that my Great Aunt made for me, so to her it was made by her Great Great Aunt, it was very special. She had the hat, and booties to match! She didn't like the hat much so she didn't wear it a lot but she was cute!! (Ignore the dates on the photos - for some reason it is not printing the right ones!)

My brother and my cousin Amy are her Godparents, my brother unfotunately couldn't make it home so my dad stood in for him.

She didn't cry much today during it, didn't cry when she got the water on her head, only cried when the priest took her from me :)

We then had a party at our house after to celebrate, had lots of family and some friends over. Here is a generation picture, my grandma, my mom, me and Kaiya.

Tummy time with the dogs

Today we were doing tummy time with Kaiya and the dogs decided they wanted to join in! (I just noticed that from the pictures it also appears Kallie was reading to Kaiya!)




Rocco checking her out more closely, but yet staying down on his tummy for his own tummy time!




We had our 2 month checkup yesterday - everything is looking good, she is growing good, in the 75th percentile for height and weight, we now weigh 11lbs. 14oz and are 22 7/8 inches long. She has good head control but has to work on her chest strength, so we need to do more tummy time, hence the tummy time today!! With the dogs helping, she'll be strong in no time ;)

Go Brewers Go!!

Well, 26 years later and we finally made the playoffs again!! Here is Kaiya all ready waiting for the game today!