Happy Easter!

Here comes Peter Cottontail, Hoppin' down the bunny trail... Bringing every girl and boy baskets full of Easter joy...



















After pictures, it was time to hunt for eggs! Tyler was more than excited to find eggs this year as he'd point and say, "Look, I found another one!" each time he found one. :-)

















Confetti egg fun~











Happy Easter!!

Kinley is 1 month old

Our little Kinley is already one month old! Life has become a little more difficult now that I am working again and Tyler is still testing our patience at every turn. Kinley is turning out to not be the happy and easy baby that I've been bragging about. She likes being on the boob or being held and moving around and if she's not doing either one of those, she's generally fussy. It's a very familiar story to another little boy I know, although she doesn't quite compare to how difficult Tyler was as a baby. The crutches I relied on to calm Tyler (the bouncer with the vibration on, the swing, a car ride, a walk in the neighborhood), don't necessarily work for her. Instead, they tend to upset her. What baby doesn't like to swing??? Seriously. If she's too fussy, I put her in the bathroom and turn the blow dryer on and that almost immediately calms her. We've been using the Moby wrap (a baby carrier) this past week. I bought it for Tyler, but I had trouble figuring out how to use it and being confined only upset him more, so it's been in my closet until now. Kinley seems to love it! We've been on a couple of walks, made a trip to Wal-Mart and she's even taken a couple of naps in it while I'm working(!). It's definitely helped in allowing me to get things done, so I'm excited about that!

She still sleeps a lot, but it's been very broken up during the day and she typically wakes up three times during the night. She's constantly grunting and I think it disrupts her sleep time (not to mention mine!!). She has done this since we brought her home from the hospital and we've been laughing it off as a weird quirk, but it seems to be getting worse, especially at night, when she'll grunt for hours at a time when she should be sleeping. It doesn't seem to be associated with any pain, but I started giving her Mylicon gas drops last night to see if gas could be causing this and I actually think it made an improvement in her. I also talked with Anna (our pedi) last night and she assured me that grunting can be very normal in babies, but we're going to monitor her over the weekend and we may possibly put her on an acid reflux medication next week to see if she's having heart burn issues. I tend to think she may have a little of that going on since she hates laying on her back and is more comfortable laying on her side or sitting upright in the bouncer. I guess my fingers are crossed that gas or reflux could be the cause for her fussiness and maybe we'll still end up with our easy baby. I can hope, right?? And I know you all want to know... yes, she's sleeping in my bed! Hey, we're in 'survival mode' here. It's easy, convenient and she sleeps better next to me and Anna says she isn't forming any bad habits... yet. :-)

She's changed a lot in appearance. I can't put my finger exactly on who she looks like, but I mostly see both of my brothers in her and I've had a few people recently tell me that she's starting to look like me. :-) Whoever she looks like, she is getting cute! Even Travis has changed his tune and says "She's going to be beautiful...like a model." haha. She weighs 9 1/2lbs now. For comparison purposes, Tyler weighed 9lbs 6oz at his one month pedi appt., but he was also 21 1/4inches. I'm not sure on Kinley's length and she doesn't have a pedi appt this month (since we're 'experienced parents'- ha), but I seriously doubt she's gained a lot in length. She has rolls on her thighs and I call her my little meatball. :-) She lost all the hair on top of her head, but it's continuing to grow in the back, so she looks like a little old man. She can hold her head up really well and is starting to notice objects that we put in front of her. It's exciting going through all of this again!







And bless his heart... he keeps wanting to help, but like before, he asked me to take her after a couple of minutes because she's just too heavy. :-)





These are from last week- playtime in the baby gym~





Tyler has been enjoying all the baby toys again!

Fishin' in the creek

Travis wanted to get Tyler out of the house today and he was hoping to do some fishing, so we went down to Camp Ben McCulloch to play around. That's pretty much all we did... they didn't have any luck fishing in the creek, but we had fun playing around. :-)

Bluebonnet Fail

Despite these few cute pictures of Tyler in the bluebonnets, this was definitely what I consider a bluebonnet F.A.I.L. First, when I scoped out this location, there appeared to be more bluebonnets from the road than what there really was. Oh well. Bluebonnets are bluebonnets and I bought my first dress for Kinley, specifically for the bluebonnets, so we were committed at this point! I bribed Tyler beforehand- that if he took some pictures with baby sister in the flowers, I'd get him a cherry limeade from Sonic, so he was pretty excited and more than willing to take the pictures. :-) After these first few pictures, he started picking flowers/weeds and either something stung his thumb or he grabbed the wrong type of plant (?), which turned into a mess as his thumb had welts on it and he cried. I tried to pack it up then, but Tyler quickly shook it off and wanted to take the pictures with Kinley so he could still get his cherry limeade. He would have gotten it either way, but since he was willing, I was willing. We put a blanket down to protect them... just in case. Kinley sat still for one picture and then Tyler started complaining that she was too heavy, so we shifted positions. She started screaming, Tyler accidentally let her roll off his arm and she face planted into the blanket. She really started screaming as I scooped her up in panic and then Tyler started crying hysterically because he thought that he hurt her and he thought that he wasn't going to get his cherry limeade because of it. He then realized just how much his thumb was hurting. It was complete chaos and I think it's safe to say that I was a little too ambitious in trying to get bluebonnet pictures with a three year old and three week old! Ugg... However, the cherry limeade was good. Not worth it, but good!









And here it is... bluebonnet fail~


I was still determined to get a picture of these two in their blue outfits, so we tried again at the house. And, well... this is what I got. ;-)