Doctor Visits, a girly girl and fun world

Well, it was bound to come sooner or later - tonight we had to fill our first prescription for Kaiya. But I have to say at 19 months, I think we have done well!!

She has pink eye in her right eye. It came on VERY quickly and I'm worried it is spreading to her left eye as before she went to bed it had some discharge too. We think she got it at the YMCA where she goes to play with kids when mommy/daddy workout. On Friday there was a sign up stating a case was reported on Tuesday... We are hoping Mommy and Daddy don't get it, but I won't be surprised if we do!!



And NO, Mommy or Daddy didn't beat her up!!



This is our new look, little pig tails! We think she looks adorable!! What do you think!? Now she actually is starting to look like a girl!

Fun world! Mommy and Kaiya took a trip to Fun World in Germantown recently. They have games for kids/adults to play - kinda like a chuck e. cheese. They also have a mini bounce area for toddlers and a large and small indoor play area. Kaiya had a good time, not as fun as Big Backyard though. She wasn't too comfortable in the bounce house, falling down a lot.

She wanted to play on the big kids play house - so mommy went up with her - we had fun going down the slides together!

WE MADE IT A YEAR!!

Well, we all survived Kaiya's first year, and what a great year it was!! I am knocking on wood but Kaiya was only sick a couple times and when she was, it was just a cold - we were only at the doctors office for well baby visits. She is growing and changing on a DAILY basis - its very fun to watch her discover new things and watch things click in her head. Its also sad, my baby is growing up, I just sat and orgainzed her baby clothes and my maternity clothing tonight, ugh looking at the clothes that fit her when she was a newborn just brought tears to my eyes. The hat she wore home from the hospital, how small it is. Awh the memories.

But here we are, a year later and many, many, many milestones later! Kaiya has 8 teeth with a 9th coming in - one of her year old molars is peeking through the back gums. She is walking like a champ, she started at 11 months. She eats all table food now (I wouldn't expect anything less with almost 9 teeth!!), drinks juice from a sippy cup, and tries to use forks herself. We are going to be working on transitioning her off bottles for her milk too, slowly but surely. She will be getting cows milk tomorrow!! I am so excited for her to try it. I am very proud of myself that I made it a full year of giving her mothers milk for her first year of life but let me tell you - I am happy to be done!! FREEDOM!!

She is growing good - 29" and 19lbs. 12oz - so 50% height and 25% weight. She has learned how to go down the one stair we have in our house without a gate on it - she now will go down on her tummy. What's funny about this is we were at Chuck E. Cheese for her first birthday and when she would go down the slide, she would go down on her tummy too - she would get up to the top then turn around and get on her belly like she does for the stairs - it was very cute.

She is into everyting, she is a very curios child. Has to see what is going on everywhere - some call her nosy. She loves my tupperware drawer, we find covers and tupperware all over the in many different spaces.

We will be going on our first airplane ride in September to head out to California to visit Uncle Brett and we couldn't be more excited!! We will get to go to disney (probably) and do some other fun stuff in California - Kaiya will be doing all this WAY before I ever did as a kid!! So we will be there about a week and we can't wait! Though mommy is not looking forward to the airplane ride with a one year old - gulp....

All in all we have a happy, healthy one year old. This past year was a blast, watching her grow and learn and we can't wait for what the rest of the years have in store for us!

Who's that baby?

My mom founda picture of me when I was 6 months old - I think Kaiya and I look a lot alike at 6 months!!!

We found one we think of Josh as 6 months - some features I can see of his - but I think more so like me! What do you guys think?

Thanksgiving Weekend

Josh, Kaiya and I headed up to our house in Eagle River for the Thanksgiving weekend. Although no one else in our family could join us, we still went to just relax and get away from the hustle and bustle of our lives in Milwaukee. Kaiya and I literally sat around in pajamas most of the weekend while Josh sat outside all bundled up hunting deer. He saw about 5 doe but in our county up there, this year you had to shoot a buck, and he dind't see any of those. Maybe next year.

Kaiya is SSSOOO close to rolling over on her own (unless she has for Tiffany already and she is being very nice and not telling us!!). She was practicing a lot up north - her arm just keeps getting in the way!! Once she does I'll try to get it on video to post here.

She has found her voice and uses it a lot, I think its cute. Below is a video of her just talking away as well as one of her watching Baby Einstein - or 'Baby Crack' as Tiffany affectionally refers to it as. Kai loves the Baby Einstein videos.

Talking to Myself

Watching Baby Einstein

She also has figured out how to pull the cord on her bouncy seat to make the music play herself - a big accomplishment, only problem is now we hear the same song over, and over, and over, and over ;) So I tried to cut this video down a bit to spare you the same song over and over!

Playing the music on my bouncy seat

(yes, I sound like I"m praising a dog - lol)

Kai's first attempts at feeding herself...

Daddy - why are you paying more attention to the computer than me?



This picture was snapped at a bad time - she really isn't scared of the dogs!

Enjoy the Videos and Pictures!

1 week old

Well Kaiya turned a week old yesterday, seems hard to believe she has been with us for a week already!! Man time flies. Things are going good, she wakes up two times at night and usually goes right back to bed, so I can get some sleep. Josh is a big help, he is getting good at changing diapers!! She is a pretty happy baby, she usually eats, sleeps and sometimes is awake to hang out with us.

Yesterday we went to a baptism class together and she did really well, we caught it in between feedings but she was up for the majority if the class and did great!

Here are some new pics of her.