A bit of a catch up.

Ohhhh myyyy.  I have been so bad.  Seriously so busy with KG and then the stinkin blog told me I ran out of photo space so then I kept forgetting to buy more.  And whew.  I'm in between orders and Kayders is down for a nap so I'm going to try to catch up real quick.  

Here's some from a couple weeks ago, we got lunch and ate at the zoo.  We thought we remembered everything but quickly realized we had forgotten a hat and sunscreen!  So we got some in the gift shop! =D  Haha whopsie.  Now we know!

Dominic is so silly =) 

A couple weeks ago it was getting pretty chilly.  We have adobe walls so if it gets super cold at night - its pretty chilly in the living room in the mornings.  She loves to snuggle up and watch her morning cartoons and play with her basket =).  I know she looks like a boy but those are butterflies lol - oh Kayders, luscious locks are welcome anytime ;-).

We got this amazing Made 2 Match bow from Chloe Chic Bowtique (the most amazing bow shop ever!)  so we had a little photo shoot.

HAHA!  Mommy and Daddy are on the floor under the coffee table and baby is on top.  She got a KICK out of this.  (So did we.)  =D

We tried out formula in a sippy cup but she wasn't having it.  She would spin it right away and just get super frustrated.

Other things we've been up to:

• Kayder's new favorite thing is to put "Item x" in her mouth, and then try to shove it in your mouth.  She thinks this is hilarious.
• She sits like a big girl in her stroller.  (No carseat for infant attachment.  Just plop, right in there, buckle up for safety, like a big girl status.)  This is convenient and cute, but it also means she faces out and I can't look at my precious little munchkin, it also means she is looking out onto the big bad world like a big girl.  Psh, I don't care what way she faces, she's my precious little munchkin.  Always.
• She now wears big girl socks as well.  (We just bought her little ankle socks last night that are pink on the bottom like big girl one's.  =D  Her chunky little legs needed some ankle socks! haha!)
• We had a play date yesterday with little Isaac (Pictures soon) and Kayden loooves him.
• Kayden LOOVES puffs!  I'll have to post a video soon but she is so funny!  She loves to pick them up and put them in her mouth (also such a big girl thing.  omg! =( so fast!).  Last night I was feeding them to her in her bumbo and putting them on the little middle part and she was just bending over and picking them up with her mouth and I was crrrracking up!  Oh man, she's soo funny!
• We've been trying to eat better and go on walks - the other night we took the dogs too.  Little family walk in the evening.  Cute =).

Hmm what else?  Can't think right now.  Easter is this weekend so I'm trying to make cupcake toppers, and cupcakes for that.  Going to the post office today, shipping out a custom order birthday set =).  Also already planning Kayden's birthday in my head.  Must finish baby shower and wedding things.  A season full of happy!  Whoohoo =).  And working on orders.  Trying to finish up all pending orders before we head up to Colorado next week.  Clean.  Laundry.  Pack.  So.  Much.  More.  To.  Do.  Gah!  Will update soon!  Promise! =)

So big so fast.

Happy Saturday!  I'm doing my morning update while the kiddo is settling down with the Disney Channel for her nap, and daddy is still asleep.  =)  I'm not doing so great at updating more than once a week, I will keep trying!

Here's a few of the cute little munchkin!

St. Patties Day!  (whopsie, behind!!)  Me and Kayders walked to the park and sat on a little blanket on the ONLY patch of shade in the whole stinkin park.  Anyways -- it was fun =)  And it was gorgeous out!

I love this one of her little hand on my leg!

My computer color settings have been really out of whack -- so I'm not sure how this will turn out.

Anyways - on my computer, her eyes look amazing lol.

We went back last weekend to hang out with Daddy! =)

Kayden had her first "baby food" (not formula and not bananas--the nasty canned stuff)  last week.  We tried carrots first and she was NOT a fan!  It was the funnnniest thing ever!  We've not moved on to sweet potatoes and she likes to those much better! =p

I tried to attach a video but it's being difficult and I'm loosing patience with waiting.

And the little munchkin started crawling!!  Last Sunday she just took off -- to the dog bone of course!  Now she is constantly crawling straight to the dog toy basket.  I'm going to have to figure different storage out! lol

She refuses to stay bundled so she started sleeping like a big girl in her crib last week too.  It's been difficult because I think she was used to being bundled and staying asleep...now, if she wakes up a little bit - she's up for good and starts playing in her crib -- sometimes before she is ready to wake up!  Or before I am ready for her to wake up lol.

Seems like my little baybay has become a big girl in a lot of ways this week!! =(

Love you munchkin!  Don't grow up too fast on me!!

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!

Woohoo we went to the ZOO!

Kayders has officially been to the zoo! =D  We went last Sunday.  She was in a bit of a grumpy mood (tired), thus the kind of grumpy faces and constant sucky in her mouth ... but she enjoyed walking around in the stroller, outside, more than anything else that day!  We were thinking she would fall asleep while we walked but no such luck, so she just watched and hung out.  But she had a couple of good happy baby moments! =D

Dominic HATES to ask people to take pictures of all of us (and I will die without them) so we've resorted to taking many self portraits lol.  This was taken at the last second, as Kayden got extra grumpy and the camera was dyyying (which I try to never let happen!)  But we got one, =D so I am a happy camper!!!

Family pic - first day at the zoo! =D =D =D

(yes she got my hair w that quick little hand of hers!...)

She was such a cutie, looking out and watching all the animals!! =)  (Pictures are still practice, but I'm keeping them anyway to look at my ... hopefully improvement.)

Dominic being such a great daddy that he is!  =)  "It's ok, go take pictures up there (on the stairs) I'll wait! =)"  He's so sweet.  Sooo.. I got this picture of him. =D

The polar bear is probably my favorite thing to take pictures of!  I think he looks so cool in any season, trees dead or green!

I love this picture!  It may not be the best picture to all you photo experts out there.  But I love it.  I love that the bottom is a hippo, and then the city of Albuquerque, and then the trees!  =)  Dominic was saying, oh psh, wait until it's summer it will be so pretty!  Buuut ... I don't think you'll be able to see the city through the trees the same.  We'll see, I'm sure we'll be back there this summer ;-).

This was soo cute!  Cuddled up on his mama.

And these were from last Monday.  (This is what she is doing RIGHT now.  Daddy is sleepin and she's about to go back down for a nap.)  She is so sticking cute.  Each morning we wake up, do all the necessaries (diapers, bottles etc ;-) ) and then play.  We plaaaaay.  (We do this all still in our jammies of course ;-) )  And then she watches her morning shows -- ALWAYS Mickey Mouse Playhouse.  And usually Handy Manny (the tool guy =p) and Agent Oso Special (the special agent that solves any mystery of a task a tiny tot can't figure out how to do ... hop, fold a towel, set out the table settings, etc).  So that is that.  She loves her morning shows.  But the cutest part is how she does it.  She sits on the floor with her little sucky and her basket of toys.  She gets realllllly into it, but once in awhile she look back at me and smile. =D

She loves to put her sucky in all by herself now!  My baby is getting so big!

She holds onto it like this almost the whole time, and tips it towards her, lets it go back up, tips it towards her, lets it go back up.

Alrighty.  Sorry I've been such a slacker.  There's the picture update from last weekend =p.  Hopefully I'll post this weekend more quickly!  She is such a riot these days.  Last night K & D were daaaancing and she was cracking up!  Like uncontrollably!!  She's too funny!  She loves any and all dogs.  Whenever we go to someone's house with pups, she just stares and stares and wants them to come play with her and lick her to death like she is used to lol.  She loves to "talk" and take her sucky out, put it in, take it out, put it in.  She will rarely rest her head down on my anymore, she likes to fight it, especially when she's tired and she knows its almost nap time.  But once in awhile she'll be so pooped and she will do it, and it is the most precious thing everrr!  I miss those days of when she would always cuddle!  I simply cannot believe that her 1 year birthday is in 5 months and 3 weeks!  Ahhh that seems so soon!  Crazy chickadee slow down your growing!!

Our mini update: (This is mostly just for me to remember things, so I'm sorry if you think we are boring to read about lol)  Dominic is playing football again, so I'm sure there will be many pictures of that to come.  I think I posted some of us watching the other week - from the car ;-p it was freezing though!  I have been happily and gladly super busy with KG so that has been taking up a lot of my "spare" time.  We're still trying to work on the house (the bathrooms and backyard mostly) but it is very hard!  I finally got our first family picture framed and up on our living room wall this week! =D (This is a huge deal because 1. D hates to put holes in the wall so I've finally convinced him that we've gotta have family pictures up, and we're not going to regret putting it up because of a little whole.  I think he is getting there =).  And 2.  It is so hard to find the time/motivation to actually get stuff done around here ... she's napping, no hammering, etc.  But we got it!!  I must admit though, I thought I had this great plan of using hallow mirror thingies as extra frames around our large family picture.  Dominic insisted that it wouldn't work.  And guess what.  They sure didn't.  They all fell down the same day.  So now I'll have to figure out something else to do to make our family picture that is finally up, actually look good lol.  I have so many projects going on in my head.  What elllllse ... I think that is about it for the update now.  =)  

Kourt bourt is coming into town today!  Yay! =)