My blue eyed girl.

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Now.  For the more interesting part.  This little goober is getting soo good at sitting up!  She can pretty much sit up all on her own, but if she jerks then she usually topples over - which makes for a mad Kayden, so we're working on that.  ;-)

 The dogs are always close by!  They lof her.

Kayden loooves the mirror!  I was trying to get a good one of both of us (I can only make her smile for the camera in the mirror, other wise she's too distracted by the camera), but I ended up looking like a freak.  She's cute tho =).

Her new favorite thing to do is lay with her tiny bum against the bottom of the book case, and slide her feet across the old VHS's.  There is a little extra room, so they make a loud obnoxious noise.  She thinks this is superb.  Other favorite things:  1.  Grab.  Anything.  Your mouth.  Your nose.  Your eye ball.  Your eye ball lid with her razor sharp nails and grip of a cobra.  Mommy's hair, which is getting thinner and thinner by the day because of this.  Anything really.  She, in a whole, is a danger zone.

She can stand!!  (For about .3 seconds but hey!)  She was doing it all by herself for about .3 seconds, but I wasn't quick enough with the camera.

Haha!  Heyyyy girrrrlfriend.  You look super cool!  This is on the way to the park last week.  Her cool shades lasted about 15 seconds and she was breaking them/stabbing herself in the eye trying to eat them. Bummer!  We'll try again soon.

But she still loves the swing!!

Ohh its so fun! =D

Grandpa and Grandma Kitts got her a little bears jersey.  (Daddy is not happy about this -- he is a Bills fan.  100%)  Anyway, she wore it on Sunday, and Josh had the same exact jersey on, so I, of course, had to get some pictures.  And yes I realize her bow doesn't really match, but she needed it, to look like a cute little girl.  haha.

She is soooo white!! HAha!! 1/2 of the people are paying attention:

1/2 of the people are paying attention again ;-):

She's so close to crawling!! =)

She matches the room ;-)

Kayden and Daddy watching the game.

Daddy had to go out of town for work for a couple days this week =(.  So Aunt Chris came to hang out =).  We've always liked to color and chit-chat.  So that is what we did.  =)  (Kayden hung out and gib-gabbed.  ;-) )

Haha this one just cracks me up.  It's getting so hard to take pictures of her!  She is constantly trying to grab the camera!  And those eyes... ohh girl I love those eyes.

I like how you can see her mouth through the toy here.

Hey little cutie.

All three, rolling on the floor.  =)

Still loves her bouncer!

Grabbing for the camera again.  Little stinker! =)

Heyyy!  Why you keep doing that and not let me touch it!

This is really a happy face-- haha she cracks me up how she uses her WHOLE face to smile! =D

We weighed her last nite finally.  18 POUNDS!  My little chunka munka!  And about 27 inches long!!  She's growing so fast!

Hmmm..what have we been up to?  She's been rolling like a crazy thang.  And is soo close to crawling.  She can almost hold her bottle all by herself - but can't figure out how to tip her head back.  This weekend we just pretty much hung out - a much needed kind of hang out family weekend.  I love those.  This week has been kinda busy and weird.  Dominic was gone for a couple days and one night, so it's made me confused on what day it is all week.  I've been job searching, working on some more mail art, and trying to get some crafts up for sale.  (Again-please check it out, and custom order anything your mind can imagine.  I will be keeping it updated with new crafts, and new options.)  Other than that, just a busy same ol type of week.  TGIF though!! =D  Wahoo.  Maybe it will be nice enough out for us to have a picnic or something.  I've been trying to get us to go to the park more, and even just a walk...we're getting there.  Haha.  Gotta get in bathing suit mode...after pregnancy...I'm not sure if that will EVER be possible again.  =/  We'll see.  Either way, I'll figure out a way to dig in the mud with Kayden at the lake this summer, if it's the last thing I do.  ;-)

He's a great one. So is she.

 Just a few quick ones from my phone lately.  Don't have any new one's on the camera yet, since I did the world's longest blog yesterday.  Just a few of her playing with toys.. as that is what she is usually doing if she's not sleeping or eating.  =)  She absolutely loves this frog.  Her face lights up every time.  It is connected to those little hook things, that allow you to move toys to hook onto pretty much anything.  (Totally amazing).  I hook them on her toy for the floor, her car seat, the top cabinets and put her in her bumbo when I'm cleaning the kitchen and they dangle.  I put them all over, anyway, they get moved around, so when lil froggy comes into sight from where ever it was last, she is very excited! =)

When we went Christmas Tree Shopping, we thought it was going to be freezing, so we tried to put her in this.  She quickly got frustrated because it was so hot while we were still in the house, trying to get her in her car seat.  We ended up taking her out of it because her car seat had this padding this-for when she was a newborn- to help support her head.  I finally took that out of the car seat the other day, so we'll have to try this cool little baggy thing again.  I had to take a quick picture with my phone before we took her out of it though.  Too cute!!  I want to go some where freezing just so we can really use this.  I love how I caught her looking up at him too.  That look she does is precious.

This was a couple weeks ago, watching educational YouTube.com Videos =).  

And this little cutie.  I just had to put this one up to help myself remember just how sweet, and handy, and amazing he is.  He even is smiling when he's doing things that I know aren't his favorite, but he does it.  =)  Up on the roof doing one of the million things he has to do on the roof.  (We've had a LOT of issues with the roof lately, not to mention getting the cooler ready for summer (when I was a crazy hot preggo lady), and getting the cooler ready for winter.  This guys is such a trooper.  Gotta love him! =) )

I've been in a mood of admiration towards him lately.  I don't know if that's the right word exactly...but I just think he's incredible.  I feel like we just started dating again for some reason.  He makes me so giggly, and silly.  Anyways, the story I am getting to, that is another one to add to the list, just happened today.  It's Friday, it's been a busy day for both of us.  A busy week, month, year.  Anyways, Kayden was in quite the mood.  Quite the horrific mood.  To say the least.  He was being so patient (as always) and trying to put her down (for a looong time--she was being very difficult).  I had just been sitting in the living room, doing...nothing particular.  Enjoying the quiet finally, I suppose.  And he came out, relieved, and then suddenly...embarrassed.  He quickly looked for the monitor and sheepishly asked, "Were you listening to me??"  Right away I knew; I wished I had been.  I asked what he was up to? (That silly goose is usually up to something, I've learned this.)  He replied with a big 'ol smile, "I was singing to her. =D" And without me even having to ask...he broke out in example.  "You are my sunshiiine, my little sunshiiine..."  Boy I love this guy =).  I am so lucky to have him as the father of my daughter.

Once again, I had something else I was going to write about but now I've forgotten.  We've decided we're starting a new tradition.  (We were reading a list of them, and picked this one)  That each year we will get little missy a special ornament and jammies.  I think it should work out well =) because we will be having family day on Christmas Eve.  "She" will open her jammies on Christmas Eve evening, put them on, and put her ornament on the tree.  This will hopefully happen every year, and when she moves out she'll have her own collection to start her tree with. =)  I think it's a cute idea.  That and that when we have more little kiddos, I think it's a fun idea to have them all sleep in the same room on Christmas Eve, and they must complete the puzzle we give them before they can wake us up for presents. =) (I'm getting the 5000 pieces, I don't care if they're only 4.  Haha, juuuust kidding.)  I am very excited to start having these family traditions, and fond memories.  I hope the kids think they are fond memories.  I suppose time will tell...

Back tracking

to bath time.  She loves bath time!  We use a cup to pour water over her tummy and a little soft brush thing we got from the hospital to suds the shampoo and her face is priceless.  I get jealous at times, she looks like she's enjoying it so much ;-p  These pictures are from her first bath when she wasn't so sure if she liked it yet or not, I'll take new pictures of her loving it soon.

Cuddled up in her robe.

Here's one of her holding her rattle a few days ago! =)

And my little sweet pea all dolled up and crashed out.

She is starting to roll around and almost roll over.  Cant quit get all the way tho.  She accidently vibrated her tongue on her lips today and was so shocked at that crazy feeling haha!  Speaking of, she just woke up from a nap and is all smiles...toodles!

Catching up.

Alright.  I've joined the blogging world.  I feel kind of silly, but decided that after 5 weeks of meaning to journal, scrapbook, and write Kayden a letter in her baby book, and instead spending time on my computer (as well as lots of feeding, changing, rocking, goo-ing, ah-ing, and the list goes on but thats another story ;-) ) that I needed to figure out how to start doing..something to remember this precious time.
Oh little miss Kayden Elizabeth.  You are adorable.  For those who haven't met her, she's a cutie I must say.  She is starting to pay more attention and smiles at us when we play with her.  I've discovered that tickling her with my hair under her chin makes her smile and make an excited/fascinated face.

Yeah-These ones.

She held her rattle for the first time the other day, and played with daddy on her "activity mat" today.  Dominic is very good about making sure she gets her tummy time, and she's starting to figure out all those limbs are good for movin n groovin.  Dominic thinks she's close to crawling, but I'm thinkin it's a little early still.  Her last check up was administrated by none other than mom n dad in the produce section of walmart =) ...the verdict?  Already over nine pounds!  We've been taking stroller rides around the neighborhood, to the park, and to walmart a lot lately, as well as finnnally finishing up those birth announcements!  (They're on their way, soon, promise!)  We're enjoying getting used to being at home.  We can't wait until Dominic can get some time off again, but appreciate his hard work so we can fill our tum tums.  Last night Kayden slept for almost eight hours, a new record!  She had her first day of babysitting, the weekend before last at Grandpa Conn's house so we could go to a movie (Rated R-wahoo-real grown up time haha) and did great.  She was sleeping when we got back, which made me feel like.. "whew!" haha!  Then this past weekend was Grandpa Kitts' turn.  He said she did great too, thank goodness!  The dogs love her, and follow her where ever she goes!  I'm so thankful they have been so good.  

I'm sorry that this isn't the most eventful post, but its mostly so that I can record and remember my new role as mommy! =)