Hats, Pups, and Daddy.

I found this hat a couple weeks ago in the Target $1 bin.  I couldn't resist.  I'm glad I didn't.

She's so stinkin cute!  We were just getting her dressed last weekend and had to play around for a minute. =D

But this quickly happened =p :

Kourt has been in town for spring break so we went out to lunch for her birthday.

It was a mission to get everyone to show up this much, but Dominic still is covering up Kayden.  Whopsie.

And we can't wait til Kayden's new little baybay friend gets here!!! =D

I looove this picture.  They are having a blast!  Laying on stuffed animals .. =) .. Dominic is such an amazing daddy!  Riley loves Kayden so much, it's so sweet.

Zoom out a little bit.  Doz is parked by mama. =)

Lots of play time this week =).  Yesterday Kayden and I made white chip chocolate cookies again for Matthew's birthday.  Then we went to the park.  When we left it was perrrrfect, and literally, one block away to the park, we got there and it was soo windy!  But we hung out a bit, played on the swing and sat on a blanket and just enjoyed the nice spring weather, and slobbered on some toys of course ;-).  Pictures soon to come! =)

Kayden weighed 18lbs 14 ozs on Monday and was I think 26 1/2 inches long!  =D  Whoa girlfriend!

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.  ;-)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Lil miss chompin on her froggy.  She loves this lil guy, we got him for a couple bucks a couple weeks ago and I'm glad we did.  =)  He hangs from her car seat and vibrates when she pulls his feetsies but she likes it more when she can just hold him and eat his feetsies.  She gets them all soggy and it makes the funniest noise when she sucks, sucks, sucks.

We took her to the Dr. yesterday.  Well actually we took her last Thursday but when I got there they said that all the Dr's had left...!?  Who does that?!  They called me the day before to "remind me of my appointment and let me know that I would still have to pay for the visit, in the case that I did not make the appointment."  Oh nice to know, thank you for not letting me know that you were taking the afternoon off to skip through the park.  Just kidding, it may have been an emergency or something of the sort, but I was very frustrated that I had showered, Kayden had a bath, we got all ready, set, fed, napped, and drove all the way down there.  Out of the car, through the building.  And then...back home.  Haha, I know-I'm being a cry-baby about it but I was really irritated.  So irritated that we went yesterday with no bath ;-).  We showed them.  We did change our Dr. though.  We have been four times now, and the Dr. that we had, has only shown up once.  So I just went ahead and switched us over to the Dr. that we have met more anyways -- Dr. Gladwell.  She's great.

Anyway--Kayden's Dr. Update: She weighs 14 lbs. 12 ounces.  My precious chunky monkey.  Everyone likes to call her fat.. and I just don't get it.  And don't like it.  Fat seems so...gross. and mean. and not cute.  Chunky on the other hand.  Oh, so cute!  She's in the 60% for weight..which really means she isn't all that chunky I suppose.  She is 23 3/4 inches long -- 40%.  (Surrrrrprising to me.  Everyone kept saying how loooong her fingers and toes are, and how she is so big.  And the fact that Dominic is her daddy.  I'm just so surprised she's in the bottom half.  But.. we "remeasured" her to the little marks that the nurse makes on the paper, at her head and foot.. and she was much bigger than that.  She must have moved or something..so who knows how big she really is lol.)  And last but not least.. her head. is. 16 1/2 inches.  It's in the 75%!!  Holy crap kid!!  Maybe I'm lucky I got a C-section ;-).

Here's some of her enjoying her beautiful cradle again.  =)  She loves that thing.  She just hangs out in it. Feeeeeeeels the sides.  Looooooks around. ;-)

Wahoooo =).

I like this one cause her arm =) moving so fast cause something is so exciting.

HAHA!  Ohhh man!!  We bought these little glasses when we were pregnant.  We tried them on her when she was a few days old... and clearly they were wayyy too huge then.  Obviously they are still way too huge.  I put these on her again on Sunday and just put the camera back there and took a picture. This is what I got.  Hahahah oh my god.  It kills me.  I guess they should still fit when summer rolls around.. if they aren't still huge! =D  (I better knock on wood, I hope she doesn't outgrow them lol.)

On Sunday we went to Dominic's Stepmom's (Annette) side of the family's house for their Christmas celebration.  They play White Elephant and there's like 30 people, and it is so much fun.  I love it, I can't wait to start traditions with my family.  =) Dominic and I are deciding on them asap!  Here's some of her in Grandpa's lap chewing.. of course.. on her blanket, and "unwrapping" her first present. =) (Which was really Grandpa's.) ;-)

The other day she had woken up from a nap right when I had to get ready to go.  I laid her on the bed with a few toys next to me and she was totally content!  For like 20 minutes!!  Awesome!  She just played with her toes and gibber-gabbered.  We would smile at each other and she would go back to gibber-gabberin and toe grabbin.  Repeat.  She's too funny.  And such a good baby.  Tara told me that you only get one cute baby and one good baby, Kayden is both, so no more.  I think I might have to take that into serious consideration.

The girl rolled over!  On Saturday.  We were all just hanging out on the couch and over she went.  I'm glad Dominic was there for the first one! =)  She also got her first stocking this week.  I will soon be glitter gluing her name on ;-p.   We still have to do her handprint ornament.  We've been busy with decorating the tree, getting back into the swing of things after vacation, laundry etc, not to mention all the everyday stuff.  And I've still been working on way too many crafts.  I have that habit.  I do crafts the same way I do everything.. last minute.  It's ridiculous, but for some reason I can just do it no other way. I'm working on that.

We went to pick out a tree, when we got there we realized that we didn't like them as much and they were outrageously expensive.  And when I say didn't like them as much, we totally knew, we just did.  The fact that the Walmart one's were wrapped up and you had no idea what you're getting, and the one's we were staring at you could see, study, poke, touch, did not stop us from simply knowing that the one we got from Walmart would be beautiful.  Ok I'm joking, we basically walked in, they guy chillin by all the tree's said, "Hey, hows it goin?  Nine bucks a foot tanight 'kay guys."  We looked around.. for like less than a minute.  Said "Five foot tree for $45 bucks, nah we'll go to Walmart."  Haha.  Hey what can ya do.  More Christmas presents. =)  Our tree is, in fact, beautiful.  Just like we knew it would be.  It is beautiful because we decorated it together, with all our combined home-made ornaments.  With a trio tree topper.  A tree topper consisting of;  a weird silver thing, that I'm not even sure is supposed to go on a tree, Dominic's "first home"ornament, and (my favorite) a "best teacher" ornament that was his mama's, our little angel ornament for the top (it is on the tippy-top...we have a weird tree this year, it has many tops haha.)  =D Underneath this weird top of our beautiful tree, we have our little family ornament trio.  We have a "Most Loved Dad", "Mom", and "Baby's 1st Christmas", little snowmen that I got for us, and that I love =).  We put each of ours on a branch, and the baby one on both branches, so they all hang close together.  Cheesy, I know.  But it's so cool.  =)  We also have our ornament - "Today, Tomorrow, Always."  That we picked out our first Christmas living together (last year).  I love that thing too.  Most of the home-made ornaments are from her too.  I'll have to post some soon.  Adorable little penguins made with almonds as the body and popsicle sticks for skies.  I love them.  The other ornaments, Carol and I decorated our first Christmas together.  I crack up at those silly painted things.  We're apparently not the best painters! =D  Well, now that I've explained all the ornaments...I'll decide in 20 years when I come back to read this if that was necessary haha!

Welp, I think that's the update.  I already have more pictures on the camera and am thinking of pictures that I need to take.  But for now..crafts take precedence ;-) .. (Kayden is taking a nap.. and Dominic is playing video games.  This is my life, and I love it =).)

Time's a-flyin!

Alright.  I'm a slacker.  Well.. not exactly a slacker, just super busy.  But here's the update.

Halloween! Came and went.  Quickly.  We couldn't figure out costumes for the longest time.  The morning of the 30th (the day we were going to a baby halloween party with our friends), our friend Stephanie, who has a baby boy 5 days younger than Kayden, texted us saying her mom would so kindly make Kayden a little girl toga outfit.  She matched with Isaac, and it was stinkin adorable.  I wish I would have gotten more pictures, especially of them together.  We ended up being Twister, I was the board and Dominic was the spinner.  Also, here's a picture of the pumpkin we carved for Kayden =).  It was one of those that come in a bag of 3/$1 or whatever, I had them out as decoration, and we decided that she must have a pumpkin too!! =)  Not the best carving ever but it did the job ;-).

Here's one of her 3 weeks ago already, trying to sit up.  Not happy about it haha.

And some of Grandma Kristi's visit.

Passed out with Daddy.  I love this one, she looks so comfy with him.

Tummy time and learning to feed herself. =) And just some randoms.

Looove this face. =D Mama loves you punkin.

And this one cracks me up.  Daddy trying to make her do the YMCA. =-p

Her in her new little chair.

And how she feels about her new chair. lol!

Whew.  There's the picture update.  I have got to keep up with this.  We've been very busy lately.

Daddy has been finishing up the YAFL little kid football so we get to spend more time with him which is so great.  He moved up in the company at work and we are so proud!  He has been working so hard, and is sucha trooper.  None to mention the coaching, playing football, housework, baby time, relationship time, friend time, errands, etc.  I don't know how he does it, but he does.  And he deals with me in the mix as well.  We're very proud of him for working so hard at everything he does, as well as being the best man, and daddy ever!

We had Grandma Kristi here last time I posted, and really enjoyed that time with her.  It was so good to have her here.  We just did lots of hanging out, and shopping, and snuggling ;-).  Grandma would barely put Kayden down.  The visit went fast, but we are excited we get to go up there in just a couple weeks!  Kayden's first trip =).  The drive should be interesting...

Halloween was fun.  We went to the little baby party and enjoyed our first venture into the new world of baby parties haha.  There were a couple older little girls there, that made me very excited for what is to come.

We weighed Kayden on Oct. 31st and she was 13.5 pounds!! I can't believe it!  And measured her today-24 inches!  She is growing so so fast.  She's been practicing her sitting up and trying to crawl and roll over.  She's too much fun when she gets talkin and giggling.  I need to figure out how to post videos soon.  Not much else is new.  Just been hanging out and enjoying our time together.  I will have to go back to work.. asap really.  And school hopefully soon too, so that will make things crazy.  Im sad to leave her. =(

I can't wait to go on our first trip as a family.  We will have many obstacles I'm sure.  Tara and Ryan also came to visit last week.  It was so much fun to have them as well.  Lots of shopping, and walking, and eating, and laughing.  They're too funny.  I had obstacles while they were here too--making me sure we will have many on our first trip.  We were at the Mall and I quickly learned that they only have the auto sinks that only give you freezing water.  Why is this a problem you ask?  Ice cold water sure doesn't work for a bottle.  Neither does absolutely no water, which is what I came across at the Uptown (outdoor) Mall.  Anyways, we got it figured out with the help of the sweet lady at the coffee shop at the Mall, and the nice friendly old man at the Apple Store.

Anyways, I'm babbling.  Sorry such a long post. And sorry I'm such a slacker.  Off to hang out with Uncle Chris and play some Mario Wii.  Soon Kayden will be able to play soon =).  Happy almost humpday.. we're almost half way through the week!