Happy Birthday Baby Girl!! /10 months 2 weeks adjusted

Kayla is now 1 year old.
I am having a hard time calculating where all the time went, how my baby went from bump on a long and barely mobile, to up and runny in such a short amount of time. I feel like we skipped all the hard parts? I mean, there we a lot of hard parts but they were over quickly, where as with Isaac it seemed to drag on forever. I wonder if its because of my own outlook of time, that it goes by faster then it did the first time.
Kayla had her first birthday. We celebrated as a family on her actual birthday. We had her favorite meal, chicken anything, for supper and she opened her presents, no cake though. Then on the following Sunday, we had a big birthday party for her, with cake. She is noramally very quiet and reserved and plays shy, but at her party, she was all over the place, chatting it up with other babies, playing. She didn't even melt down when I slipped into the kitchen to get things ready.
Her one year stats were 17 lbs, 28 inches. She has grown an inch in one month and gained 1.5lbs. She is fitting into some 9 month clothes and even some 12 month clothes.

11 months old/9 months 2 weeks adjusted.

Kayla is walking up a storm now! She is even running from one end of the house to the other. She had 5 teeth break though all at the same time. She has grown and is quickly growing out of all of her clothes. I am hoping she will finally fit into 9 month clothes by the end of the month, but she has just grown out of 3-6 months, so I am sure its going to take another month. Not much else going on around here to tell. Its been a boring month.

10 months/ 8 months 2 weeks adjusted.

Children are so interesting. Honestly the awe moment highlight of my month was changing batteries in the kids toys and them being absolutely mystified. I think it is adorable that mom and dad are magical beings that have the ability to fix and save anything. We are the superhero. If mom can't fix it, no one can.

So we have hit a little snag on the development scale. I am not concerned, but the doctor seems to be, a little. Kayla has not grown in height since she was 4 months old. She is still only 26.5 inches tall. She is still the size of an average 4 month old. She is 15 lbs and 12 oz. It is very bizarre to watch such a tiny baby cruising furniture. She is so ready to walk, and she wants to, but her top half is still so much bigger then her lower half. Her feet just grew to a size 2, she still fits in her size 1 shoes, just barely. She is still just barely in size 3-6, she is mostly wearing 6 month now. Anyhow, she has to go in for monthly size checks, so I am not concerned. She is definatley mid growth spurt, she is eating solids every meal time, eating off everyone's plate, and drinking bottles every 2-4 hours. She is constantly hungry. She now has 3 teeth on the bottom, they all came in crooked, the first tw started off in a t shape instead of side by side, but they have since moved, the doctor said it was because her jaw wasn't fully developed, but they should all align eventually.

This is what we can do now.
>Crawl like a champ
>Cruise furniture like a champ
>Balance on our own for atleast 10 seconds
>Independently play
>Plays peek a boo
>Has a sense of humor
>Blows kisses and raspberries
>Can stack nesting cups
>Can put a toy in a box and repeat.
>Open and close cupboards
>Attempting to climb stairs.
>She plays strange but is getting more used to people.
>She understands the word no
>She can say, mama, dada, Ida (Isaac), baba, tootoo (soother), Nigh nigh, more, and this morning she said Auntie.

She had dark brown eyes and beautiful red hair.

Go Baby Go!! 9 months/7m1w adjusted

Wow, my little monkey has sprouted like crazy over the last month!

On New Years Eve, we had some friends spend the night, their two children also spent the night, their youngest is 19 months old and can walk... Well, this made Kayla quite angry that she was the only one here who couldn't do that, so guess what she tried to do!

Our month has been a fun month of placing things above 2 feet, childproofing anything and everything, finding new places to place the baby gate. She is ever cruising the furniture now! She keeps coming to visit me on the couch. She crawls up to me and like a pro, stands up and walks among the furniture.

We have also reached a few milestone and got so excellent news. First thing first. She has teeth now. i don't have a good picture of it or I would post it. She is now getting her second as well, both bottom front teeth. So cute. She is crawling on all fours now instead of the army crawl she was doing before. She can also say some words! Momma, which she says and know what it means as she never stops saying it. She says Dada, sawsaw, which is Isaac, hi, hello, yeah, ok.. And she waves like a champ.



As for the excellent news. We went for her 6 month check (8 months since it was the only time she could see the pediatrician) for her liver. And, the sonagrapher MD came in and spoke to us and showed us that all that is left is a teeny tiny 1x1cm scar left over from her horrible liver mass she had 9 months ago. I am so happy or her and for me of course, but for her not having to live with limitations. She is so smart and so beautiful and deserves only good in her life.

All is well, we are finally setting into a routine and getting our lives back in order. Her is a beautiful picture to end my update with. Kayla playing with her comb.

2012 Comes to an End.

What a year we have had! Kayla is now 8 months old, and Isaac is one month into being 4 years old. This year has been so pack full of ups and downs, I am so excited to burst into 2013.
Kayla has reached many milestone in December, she is crawling, eating solids 3 times a day, doing baby sit-ups teaching herself to sit up on her own. She has said mum, dada, Aaay (I think its Isaac), hi, okay, yay. She plays with her musical toys, reaches up to things like she is trying to stand. She is just amazing us! She has also grown out of most of her 3-6 month clothes and is fitting into the smaller of her 6 month clothes. We are still working on a sleep schedule, but I really don't see a full nights sleep in the foreseeable future.
Isaac is starting to recognize letters. We were at Co-op the other day and he spelled it out and told me we were at co-op, he can also write I, S, A, H, W and the number 3. We are getting him slowly ready for kindergarten, which is probably going to happen this coming September, if he is ready.
The year brought us so many challenges.
> Bedrest
> Isaac's night terrors
> Pregnancy related infections an illnesses
> Pprom and preterm labour
> Infant illness
> 7 weeks stay in the NICU
> Kayla's Heart Murmur
> Car accident
> Job loss

But, we are coming into 2013 with a positive prospective and a happy healthy family. Its been a tough one, but we have had tougher, and we can only go up from here.

To healthy, love and happiness in 2013!

Kayla is 7 months old and Isaac turns 4.

Kayla has turned 7 months old! How crazy is it that over half a year has passed so quickly! I forget that she is so old because she is so tiny still. Last weigh in i think she was 12 lbs, or 13 lbs. She is getting bigger every day, growing quickly out of her size 3 month things, still in 3-6 month though. She is eating all kinds of things, but she isn't too keen on sweet things, she closes her mouth tight to thinks like pares and apples. She likes cereal and squash and potatoes. Her feet are finally big enough to fit in her Robeez and they look so cute on her, she has an a vast shoe collection and just scored some new sketchers from her Auntie Lu. She loves to play in the exersaucer, her feet touch the ground on the lowest setting and she loves that she can bounce and play. She has reached almost all of the 6 month old milestones, the only thing she doesn't do is repeat sounds and she doesn't have the dexterity to sit up alone, but shes getting there. She can rolls all over the floor and she can get her butt up in crawl mode, but she just does her own thing.No teeth yet, but the irritable baby has started. Her favorite game right now is throwing her soother and making you pick it up. Growing and learning every day.

Isaac has a birthday on the 25th, he turned 4. He amazes me every day, just over the last few months he has mentally grown so much. He understands so much more, and he has learned manners and respect. He is potty trained now. He is getting prepared for preschool in the next few months. He had a tooth pulled and he was such a brave little boy for the dentist. And he healed up really quickly.

As for us. We got into a car accident in October and Chris got laid off due to the medication he is taking, but we are some how getting by. Not really supposed to talk about it all that much. Seeing the chiro every few days and getting it slowly dealt with. Its been nice having Chris home, but hard on me, as I don`t get to experience being alone with the kids as I normally would be, and I have become fairly dependent on having him home helping out. Whatever. Working it out.

6 months old

I seriously can not believe that Kayla is already 6 months old. This has been the most chaotic year, will past 18 months, of my entire life. I am so grateful to have Kayla in my life, in our family. She brings me so much joy and happiness.

She is doing so well, she is healthy, happy, growing. She is approximately 12-13lbs now, I will know for sure Nov 7th. She loves being on her belly, its her favorite place to play. She loves her brother, every morning they have a good 20 min chat together after we wake up and before I bring them downstairs. She is attempting to army crawl. She is grabbing for things, like her fishes on her mobile, her soother in her mouth, blankets. She is very interested in food, she has tried some adult foods like chili broth, tomato soup, baby cereal, iced tea drips. She loves it. She is officially in size 2 diapers even though she could fit in a 1 if she needed too, and she is also now in 3-6m clothes.

It has snowed here, so the season has changed. We are prepping for my dads wedding, Isaac's forth birthday, Christmas. It has been very busy around here. We also were recently in a car accident and got hurt pretty good. Both hubby and I got whiplash and Isaac got a low back strain. Kayla is perfect though, she was snug as a bug in her cushy rear facing infant seat. We are working through the pain every day and hopefully it won't be long before we are back to 100%.

anyhow. If i think of anything else I will edit this post, but so far that is all I can think of.