Swimming time!

 

Kaylie is now 7 months old! 

 For her seven month birthday I took Kaylie over to the pool so I thought I would take pictures of her in her cute swimmy! She was so excited to go...can you tell? LOL She is now about 18 pounds and 27 1/2 inches long! She is getting so big and doing so much! Most of her clothes are 6-9 months but she can still fit in some 3 month clothes! Her pants are just more of capris now!



Kaylie practicing her swimming! This is exactly what she did in the pool. She would get her bum so high and froggy kick so fast! She loved being in the water and didn't want to get out! I had to go get her a floaty so that she can sit in it and kick!

 She is now a sitter! She sits up so good! She loves to sit and look around. I often come out and she is just staring up at the TV. She loves to watch Doc McStuffins and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Sometimes when she babbles it sounds like she is singing along with the show!

She also loves to play with toys. When something is out of her reach she will practically bend over in half. Definitely my little gymnast! She's not crawling just yet but she rolls everywhere and can move around in a circle. but not movement forward or backward yet!


Kaylie is also my good eater! She loves all kinds of foods now. She eats solids better than the bottle. Her favorites so far are chicken and rice, vegetables, and bananas. She also started drinking out of a sippy cup. She holds it pretty good but is still practicing getting it into her mouth. She loves when it has water in it! At restaurants she loves to drink water out of mommy's straw!

 Last month we got to see my mom again for Mothers Day! It was a weekend full of family and we loved it! I'm glad my mom was able to see Kaylie so much these past few months cause I'm not sure when we will be able to get out to California for a visit.

 A few weeks ago Derick finished out his 3rd year of teaching! YEAH! So while I am working for a few more weeks, Derick is now Mr. Mom! He gets to hang out with Kaylie all day and she loves it! She loves her buddy-Daddy!  Derick is quickly learning how to feed her and how cranky she gets without a nap! I'm glad that he gets to have this time with her but I am sooo jealous when I have to get up and go to work! Luckily I only have 2 more weeks and then it's summer time! I can't wait to spend time with my two favorite people!

6 Months Already

 I can't believe that 6 months ago I gave birth to this amazing little girl! She is one of the best things that has happened to us! She is growing like a weed and has such a funny personality. The picture with the bear is the only one I could get without her attacking it!

Here are her 6 month stats:

Height: 26.5 inches-77th percentile

Weight: 17 lbs-70th percentile

Head: 44cm- 84th percentile

Clothes size: some 3-6 months but mostly 6 months

(But her pants are all getting too short!)

She did so good with her 6 month shots. She absolutely loves the one that you drink and didn't even cry for the first one. Then when the second one came she cried for a few seconds and was done! I guess they probably feel a lot better than those IVs. I also can't believe how tall she is. I can already mark her height on the growth chart!

 She is able to do so much now! She loves to bounce in her exersaucer and bounces even when she isn't in that thing now! Everyone says she is so squirmy! She loves to reach for things with both hands now including her doll (which she loves to eat!) and anyone's face! Then she just slobbers all over you! I also love that she doesn't need a pacifier! She is so calm and hardly cries. I'm glad she's finally feeling better. I still think she has a little allergies but we'll see as she gets older!

She also loves to roll now. But only when she wants to. The other day I had some plastic bags by the door and she rolled 4 or 5 times so she could get over to them. Which then she got her arm and leg stuck in the handles! Silly girl! She will also roll all the way to me if I sit anywhere on the floor! She is also becoming a great sitter! She still will flop once in a while!



She has also recently found her toes! She loves to grab them and eat them! She likes to sit in her swing and wiggle all the way down so she can either grab her toes or touch the ground! She also smiles all the time! And gabs and gabs! Sometimes it sounds like she is singing with all the gabbing she does! Fingers crossed she says mama first! LOL


 She is so good at getting her head up now so she is doing much better eating solids. She loves oatmeal, peaches, green beans, rice cereal with apples, bananas, and mangoes. We have recently switched to formula and she is such a little grazer. She sure does like to take her time eating a bottle sometimes and then other times she will gobble it down in no time! She is also such a good sleeper! She still sleeps through the night and goes down with no problems. By 8:00 she knows it's bedtime and zonks right out!  I know I only seem to blog when Kaylie gets a month older but there is always so much going on that it's hard to find the time. Next weekend we are headed to Manti for our annual Memorial Day camping trip. I can't wait to see how Kaylie does. This will be a good test for the bow hunt I think! I am also excited to take her swimming. Our pool opens that weekend too and think she will just love the water! So many fun things coming up!

5 months now!

Kaylie turned 5 months on Easter! I can't believe how big she is getting. Everytime someone sees her they can't believe how big she is getting! She definitely doesn't look like a newborn anymore! She is now 16 pounds (50-75th percentile) and 27 inches long (95th percentile!) She is my tall little girl.

She can now roll from back to front like a champ and can do front to back but only when she wants to! She can sit for a few seconds before flopping over and is getting so much better at lifting her head!

She loves when we stand her up so a friend of ours let us borrow their exersaucer and she loves it. She sits and talks nonstop. She doesn't quite bounce and at first she wouldn't put her feet down unless she had socks on! Not she is getting the hang of it!

She also loves to suck on everything and anything that comes near her mouth! This includes her new doll, hands, toys, blankets, anything! She also is getting good at eating solid foods. She loves bananas and pears and still takes her bottle so good!

She still fits into some 3 month clothes but mostly wears 3-6 months because she is so tall and lean! She does through sleepers like crazy because she can't stretch her long legs out! Where did this height come from?

Here are a few of my favorite pictures of her over the past month!

What does Easter and Arizona have in common?

So the answer to the title question is....family! I am so glad that my track break and Derick's Spring Break came around Easter time so that we could head down to my sister Terra's house in Arizona. It was Kaylie's first trip, first Easter, and her first time seeing a lot of my family!

It was also the first time we have all been together in a long time! Kadin's blessing was so awesome. My brother Donny blessed the baby and Kadin looked adorable in his blessing outfit. I was so excited that I got his blanket done in time and it matched his outfit perfectly!I'm so glad we got to see these guys!

Kaylie had lots of fun with all of her aunts and uncles and cousin! Easter was lots of fun and the Easter Bunny spoiled Kaylie! She got to dye eggs, hunt for eggs, and got lots of stuff in her Easter basket


Sarah and Miranda dyeing easter eggs! Love these girls! Sarah kept coming up to Kaylie and saying how pretty she was! She also loved to hold her! It's fun to have Kaylie's big cousins around!






Of course Kaylie really had no clue what was going on for Easter but mommy and daddy did! She looks super happy to be finding eggs right?

But she did love all the eggs in her basket and her new dolly! I have so many other pictures but of course blogger is being dumb so I'll post more later!

4 Months Already!

Kaylie turned 4 months old today. Too bad she spent the day on oxygen and at the doctors office but luckily mom got to spend the day with her! She is getting so big and everyone mistakes her for a 6-9 month old little girl! She is now 14 lbs 9 oz which is the 72%percentile and wears mostly 3-6 month clothes. Except for her sleepers. She is quickly outgrowing those because she is so long! She measured at 26 1/4 inches long! Thank goodness Andrea sent us a bunch of clothes for her! That is the 97%percentile! She is so tall! We all wonder where she is getting it from! Derick says she will definitely be a basketball player! Her head is about 43 cm which is the 91% percentile. See...big girl!

She is still on breastmilk bottles. Thank goodness my milk supply has held up, especially with being back at work. It's a pain to pump but I'm so glad that I'm doing it and she's getting milk instead of formula. This weekend we are going to start giving her rice cereal and see how she does with that.

She's been doing a lot better at not spitting up when she eats and still sleeps through the night! Thank goodness! It really amazes me that she can sleep that long. I put her down around 9pm and she doesn't wake up until around 7am! Yes we are lucky with this girl! She does so good at church and everyone thinks she is adorable! There were a lot of babies born around her birthday so I can't wait until she is big enough to play with all the kids. She talks all the time to Derick and loves to tell him about her day when we get home! She loves her daddy time! She also loves the TV she just sits and watches sports with Derick. If I try to change her she wiggles all around until she can see the TV. She loves cartoons and would lay so still in her crib at the hospital and watch them!

She still doesn't roll all the way over. She gets to her side and is content to just lay there. Lazy little girl! :) She also puts everything in her mouth! Fingers, blankets, toys, everything. She also licks anything around. She will lick the couch, the carpet, fuzzy blankets, and yes even mom and dad!

She also loves to kick and hates having things on her feet. That includes socks and blankets. She even kick you if you are sitting close enough to touch her feet! (yes she is doing this to my left arm right now!) oh and she is really good at blowing bubbles! She does really good at the sitters and the boys all love her. They all call her baby K. She is such a happy baby and I can't believe she is already 4 months. Next month we are going to Arizona to see Terra's new little guy Kadin Riley who came on the 2nd. I am so excited to see everyone and have everyone finally meet Kaylie.

I realized that all my post are usually about Kaylie but that is pretty much all that is going on with Derick and I. We are both still working. My next track break is April 4th and I can't wait to be home with Kaylie again. We had our friends Ben and Misty come up from down South with there little girl Aspen and son Hunter. It was fun to have them stay with us and to see the kids. We also went up to the Hunting Expo but decided not to go inside this year, especially since Kaylie wasn't quite cooperating that day! Other than Kaylie getting sick, it's been pretty quiet around here!

Hospital visit

We've had a pretty intense week and it's only Wednesday! Kaylie has been sick for about 3 1/2 weeks now. It started off with a stuffy nose and Flem in her throat. Of course I called the nurse at the pediatrician's office and she said that it could be a cold or normal congestion for a baby. She recommended saline drops, a humidifier, and sleeping upright. We did all those things and it seems to clear up a little bit. The whole time she was such a happy baby so it didn't seem like she was sick. But then it came back with avengence. After 2 weeks with it I felt like I needed to take her to the doctor to make sure she was ok. They found that she had a small ear infection in her left ear and we started giving her amoxacilin. After a week of that (still a happy baby though) she got a small cough. At first I thought she was just trying to clear her throat and then she got worse. So once again I took her into the doctor and they said that she had RSV. YUCK! That was the worst thing I wanted to hear. Cause thats all you hear about when you first have a baby and how you hope they don't get it. The doctor gave her a breathing treatment at the office but he said that only 10-15% of kids respond to the treatments. He listened to her lungs and said he didn't think she would respond. He sent us home with a prescription to the respiratory clinic at the hospital if she needed to be suctioned out but that was all we could do for her besides everything we were already doing. Well Saturday night she actually started to get fussy and was having a hard time breathing and sleeping. Over the passed few days I noticed her eating had gone down as well as her wet diapers. She was also very sleepy and lethargic on Saturday so I knew something was up. After spitting up her food and LOTS of mucus. We decided to take her to the respiratory clinic at the hospital. We thought they would just suction her and check her and send us home. Oh no! They suctioned soooo much out of her and her oxygen levels were really low so they decided to admit us to the hospital right then. They immediately put her on oxygen and sent us to the Peds wing. So far I was doing alright but when they took her into the treatment room and started her on an IV I lost it. They poked her about 6 times and there was lots of blood spilt before they finally called NICU and had them come down to try to get it in. She was crying and kicking so hard that by that time she had no fight left in her and they got it in no problem. It was so sad.

They took some blood and chest x-rays and found out that her white blood cells we very high. Which means that she had some kind of infection in her blood that her body was trying to fight off. They thought it might have been pnemonia but her x-rays came back normal and didn't have anything in her lungs. Later we found out that she came back RSV positive as well as positive for the Rhinovirus so each one alone and she probably wouldn't have had to go to the hospital but together it was just too much for her little body. They added some antibiodics to her IV to help fight the infection. At this point she was hooked up to so many things it was hard to just hold her. She finally got use to it all and even loved her little crib. She loved to lay there and watch cartoons. It was funny cause every nurse that came in asked the same question. Is she really 3 months? She looks like she could be 6-9 months old! And all I would say is yes she is my big girl. And she was such a brave girl! She hated to be suctioned out and afterwards she would just lay there and sleep for hours!She looked to cute in her little hospital gown and started to feel better on Tuesday. She was sleeping through the night again and only had to be suctioned a few times. She struggled to breathe room air mostly when sleeping so they decided it was ok to go home but we would need to have her on oxygen for a while. It was so nice to finally have the IV removed and she started to perk up and be her happy self! I hated seeing her in the hospital and it was so good to get home. Today she was such a happy baby. She wasn't very stuffed up and was only on oxygen when asleep. Tomorrow we go back to the pediatrician to follow up and hopefully he says she's doing better and might not need the oxygen at all or much longer. thanks everyone for you prayers on kaylie's behalf and for the meals that our ward and friends have brought us. We love you all!

3 months!

Last week Kaylie turned 3 months old! I can't believe how time flies. I think I say that every time I post! I am loving this little girl more and more, especially as she starts to figure more things out! She now weighs about 14 pounds and is still about 24 inches long! She is definitely our big girl as everyone says when they see her. She changes constantly and is so smart! She absolutely loves the TV. She can't take her eyes off it sometimes and loves to watch cartoons like Mickey's Clubhouse and Peter and the Neverland Pirates. She just sits in her swing and giggles the whole time! She smiles all the time now and talks up a storm! She will coo and babble to Derick every time he holds her. We switched to 9:00 church and Kaylie does pretty good each week. Last week I was feeding her during Sunday school she pooped so loud and as I was getting up to go change her she burped! Everyone was laughing and she started to giggle! Little stinker!
Her new thing has been eating her hands. Derick says I taught it to her but she found them all on her own. She started off by licking her fist and now opens her hand and sticks her fingers in there. She also had her first little cold the other day. Luckily it was just a stuffy nose but she had a tough time sleeping one night. She usually sleeps through the night so when she woke up at midnight crying we knew something was wrong. Needless to say I think I had a harder time with it all than she did. I hate that feeling of not knowing how to help them when they feel miserable. But she seems to be doing a lot better now.
While on track break I took Kaylie over to my friend Jenny's house so we could scrapbook. I layed her on the floor next to Jenny's little boy Austin and she couldn't take her eyes off him. She loves to look around and interact with people. She does so good at the babysitters. There are 3 other little boys of varying ages that go to the sitters and they all love Kaylie. I'm glad that she has a chance to be around so many other kids and get use to being with people. Going back to work stinks when I'd rather be home with Kaylie but atleast I have track break in April.
The other day she rolled over on the couch. Once from front to back and once from back to front. But when she is on the floor she seems to be able to make it only half way. But boy does she try hard. She is also starting to blow bubbles and hold her head up. She is still a little wobbly but we think it's because she has a pretty big head to hold up! LOL she'll get there soon. Thankfully she is still sleeping through the night and eats well! I can't wait until her 4 month check up to see how much more she has grown! We love this girl!