Our New House

Well, we have finally gotten all moved into our new home, and we are loving it! Like seriously loving it! We love the neighborhood and how quiet and family friendly it is. We have a lot more space in our new house than we did in our old one, which makes it so much nicer!

We still have several boxes left to unpack, but for the most part, everything is put away and decorated. Kayden is loving her new big room and her new big girl bed. She also loves having carpet, since we had wood floors in the old house. She loves to roll around on the carpet and play chase all through the house.

We've already had a couple block parties with the families on our street, and they were so much fun! There are lots of kids for Kayden to play with, and she already tells me that she wants to go outside and play with her friends! :)

Nick and I celebrated our seven year wedding anniversary this week and as a present to each other on our anniversary every year, we always get something practical usually for the house. Since both of our birthdays are the week before our anniversary, we though this was appropriate. This year, we have decided to get a new door for the front of our house. They are going to come out and put a big piece of glass in it. It's going to look so pretty!

Next week (Thursday) is my sonogram to see whether we are having a boy or girl. I'm very excited and hope that the baby decides to cooperate! Until then....

Better Late than Never

I know this is WAYYY overdue, but honestly, I just don't want to spend my free-time, since there's not much of it, blogging. I guess I don't enjoy it the way others do. Most of the people that read this know what's all going on in our crazy lives anyway, so I don't really see the point in doing it. Know what I mean?

For what it's worth though, I'll post big updates and things that I think are noteworthy, but I'm not going to be blogging big ol long posts like I used to. For me, it's like a chore. I'm not one of those who can sit down and just jot down a few witty things. I am the type that sits down and takes 2 hours to chronologically type out every little detail that has happened since I last blogged, which would be 4 months ago! ha! I know I don't have to do that, but it's just the way my mind works.

My Brother and his baby girl Kylee and his niece Kayden (loves his girls)

ANYWAY......major things.....

1. We sold our house! yay!

2. We close on our new house 2 weeks from today! yay yay!

3. We bought Kayden's new "big girl" furniture from Rooms to go Kids last weekend, which will be delivered the week we move into our new house. Exciting!

Kayden playing at the water park

4. I am 15 weeks pregnant today and feel the baby moving around all the time now. It's very reassuring since I'm such a worrier! :)

5. Kayden is talking in complete sentences all the time now. I have really been working with her to express what she needs and wants (and DOES NOT want) using her words, instead of screaming and throwing fits. She is getting MUCH better! She just gets so frustrated when she is trying to communicate something that she cannot say or that I don't understand.

6. Kayden is permanently down to one nap a day, which although I preferred 2, is much better for her in the long run. She goes to sleep earlier at night and isn't as fussy as she was with 2 naps. Plus, she sleeps a good 10-11 hours straight at night and anywhere from 1 1/2 hours - 3 hours during the day. Which means I usually get a good nap during the day too! :)

7. We have been spending a lot of time packing, but also spend quite a bit of time swimming, going to the park, McDonald's, playing outside and in the sprinkler and spending time with family.

After Church 5/30/10 (My brother, his wife and their kids, my mom and sister us and Nana)

I guess that's about it for today. I'm sure my next post will be in a few weeks once we get moved into the new house. We're super excited for all the extra room we're going to have and the much nicer, quieter neighborhood. I'll post pictures of the house once we get moved in and settled a bit.

We should find out the sex of the baby around the middle of July, so be looking for that post!

Ready for church 6/5/10

Until then, have a great week!

~Corinne

Selling Our Home

Kayden loves to take her shoes off in the car

Whew! It has been one crazy week!!!!

We met with our realtor last Thursday and I don't think we've sat down since! We have painted the "longhorn room," a nice neutral khaki color and decorated the whole thing. We have boxed up tons of boxes of toys and just junk and have been taking loads over to my Mom and Nick's parents houses. Yesterday while Kayden took her nap, I spackled holes in our bedroom walls, put together a storage unit and painted. I am exhausted! Everything is really coming together nicely though and I know that it will all be worth it in the end. I really do love this house (even more now that it is being fixed up so nicely), and I told Nick, that if we could just pick it up and movve it to another part of town and add a room or two onto it, I'd keep it! :)

New toy storage for Kayden's toys (Classy huh?!) :)

Kayden has been such a good girl through all this crazyness. She does so well playing independently now, and has been having such a fun time "helping" me around the house! She's finding all sorts of things to get into! :)

I took Kayden to the doctor yesterday, because I thought she had an ear infection, and it turns out that she didn't. She was a good girl though and got to "go pay" at Chick-fil-a afterwards. Everytime we get into the car, she says, "go pay!"

Waiting for the doctor

Not much else to report. We have been having to stay around the house a lot with the yucky weather, but then it's giving us more time to get stuff done around here! We've had a couple play dates this week, which Kayden really enjoys.

Talk to everyone next week! Have a great weekend! :)

13 1/2 Months

Well I don't have to much new news to report, but no news is good news right???

Kayden and I have pretty much been hanging out at the house the past week or so since the weather's been so yucky and cold. We've had a couple play dates with a few friends and are looking forward to having another one on Friday. Kayden really has fun and it helps break up the day!

We are meeting with a real estate agent this evening to see about finally putting our house up on the market. We have been wanting to move for quite awhile now, especially since Kayden was born. Our neighborhood just isn't what we're looking for anymore and we have quickly outgrown this house. We need something that is a little more practical for us! So we'll see what happens. I'll post again at the end of the week or sometime this weekend.

My sister in law is more than likely going to have her baby this Sunday. She will be 37 weeks on Friday and has been having all sorts of contractions and has already been in the hospital a couple of times for different complications. Kylee Faith is a stubborn little thing already! She was in the breech position when Amy (Trent's wife) was in the hospital a few weeks ago. Then she decided to turn head down...yay! Last week, she apparently turned head up again, so they're going to try and turn her back around on Friday so that Amy can deliver her naturally. To turn a baby, they do it from the outside, but Amy will have to be admitted to the hospital and apparently, it can be pretty painful, so they are going to give her an epidural as well. Hopefully they'll get her turned head down and I'll have a niece this weekend! So for now, I think the plan is that Kayden and I will go up on Sunday to stay and be with the new baby and come back Monday. Nick has to work, so he will have to wait and go up another time. Exciting times!!!

Kayden has learned how to climb up on the futon in her play room. It is lower to the ground than our furniture in the living room, which she hasn't mastered yet. She is like a little monkey and thinks she's invincible, so I have to watch her like a hawk now that she is climbing on everything. I think she thinks she will just fly or float rather than fall since her Daddy "flies" her all over the house all the time.

Jumping on the bed with Daddy

We have been going over to Bebe and Papa's house to visit, and Kayden LOVES to play with their dog Cooper. She calls him, "Capoo." She also calls her Bebe and Papa, "Bebepa," like they are one person! It's so cute! She loves them!

Kayden playing with "Capoo"

On Tuesday, Kayden and I went and met Nick for lunch in Round Rock. Nick got to show Kayden off to all his work buddies, who just couldn't believe how big she had gotten. We ate at Double Daves Pizza. Pizza is one sure thing that Kayden will eat. She really should've been born in Italy! :) Pizza and spaghetti and favorites in our house!

Kayden has 4 teeth left to cut. They are the ones on the sides in between her side/front teeth and her back molars. She hasn't been sleeping too well since her teeth are coming through, but hopefully it won't be too much longer and we can get back on somewhat of a schedule. I wrote last time, that Kayden was transitioning down to one nap a day, and I still think she is, however, she is back to taking two naps a day. Here is our delima though. She usually goes down for her first nap between 9 and 10 in the morning and then is ready for the next nap between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. I try to not let her sleep past 4 in the afternoon, so that she'll go down at a decent hour in the evenings. We try and get her down between 8 and 9pm. HOWEVER....the past week and a half, she hasn't been going down in the evenings until 10 or 11 pm! And I am not a night person! She just goes and goes. No amount of winding down or calming seems to help. And I don't want to put her in her crib to cry if she's not even tired. So I decided yesterday that she is just going to have to only have one nap a day. So I kept her up and she slept from 1pm until 2:30pm. The child still didn't got to sleep until 9pm and that was with a lot of tears. So I don't know. She just doesn't need a lot of sleep I guess. Once these teeth come through, we'll see if we can get back on a schedule!

Kayden and her ponytail :)

Nothing much else to post. Check out the videos at the bottom of the blog. Kayden LOVES to play silly games after she gets out of the bath or when she's getting her diaper changed! They'll make you laugh! :)

We are staying very busy and just taking it one day at a time! Hoping for some sunshine next week! We are ready to get back outside! Have a great weekend!

~Corinne

Kayden's Words

So Nick and I sat down this morning at made a list of all the words that Kayden says in her everyday vocabulary. These are things that Kayden actually will say when given the object or asked what it is. She will also go and get whatever we ask her to. These are the ones we came up with:

Word Pronunciation

brush (hair) Bru

Toothbrush Too Bu

Nana Nana

Stick Sick

Rocks Wock

Plate Pate

Turkey Tukey

Strawberry Trawby

Cookie Cook

Kayden Kay

Poo poo Poop

Diaper Diap

Hanger Ha

Open Op

Sausage Sha

Pancake Pa Ca

Carrot Ca

Corn Co

Hoho Hoho

Santa S Ta

Bottle Ba

Found Me Fa Me

Mommy Mommy

Daddy Da da or Daddy

Lion Li

Moe (the dog) Moe

Baby baby

Go Down Go D

Up up

Come on Moe Come on Moe

Bye Bye bye bye

hi hi

grass ga

I ready I re

I love you I new

Bevo Bebo

Car Ca

Cold Code

Plex Pe

Meow Me

Boat Boat

Book Book

Monkey Mukey

Phone Pho

ball ball

block bock

sheep seep

Brobee Bobee

Pretty Pee

Glasses Ga

All done All du

Dance da

Elmo Emo

Ear Eee

Mail ma

Cracker Cack

yogurt go

shoes soos

cup puc

socks sock

Gabba Gabba Gabba Gabba

Tummy tub

Bath ba

bread be

bowl boo

Quack Quack qack qack

door du

okay okay

Moo moo

spoon sboo

rain wai

apple apple

oh no oh no

no no

toes toes

ear eee

water wa

go go

cheese chee

pumpkin pu

nose nos

keys key

uh oh uh oh

star sa ta

tiger tie

Well those are the words that Nick and I thought of this morning. And again, these are just the words that she says when we ask her what something is or ask her to go get something, or that she uses herself when she plays. They do not include things that she knows but does not say. :)

A Long Time Coming

Ok, so I'm a little embarrassed that it's been so long since I last posted. And honestly, I'm debating if I should even keep up with this blog or not. I'm not sure if too many people read it anymore and it takes me so long to get a blog updated and I am usually interrupted one or a thousand times! :)

It was crazy to go back and look at the last post that I made! I posted just as Kayden was beginning to walk on her own...almost 4 months ago!!! I cannot believe she has been walking that long already! It's so crazy how fast time flies, especially with a little one. She's not so little anymore! :(

Kayden is 13 months and a few days old and is "Little Miss Personality!" She talks up a storm! I was thinking about making a list of all the words she knows and says all day long to put in the baby book. She probably has a vocabulary of about 30 words or so. You can ask her to point to something or ask her what something is and she'll tell you. We teach her a couple new words everyday and she seriously can say them or point to or go get what we ask her the next day. Such a brilliant child! :)

She still LOVES to read and brings Mommy books all the time to read to her. We even read in the bath tub! She has become my big helper around the house! I am loving it, because I can ask her to go pick up the cracker or apple she just spit out all over the floor and bring it to Mommy, or close the doors, or pick up her toys and she is more than happy to do it! Sh loves to help out! If the phone rings, or a timer goes off in the kitchen, she's running saying, "phone Mommy!!" Too cute!

We have had a whirlwind the past few months. Seems like it all flew by so fast, I can't even remember all that happened. Since the last post, which was forever ago, Kayden got to trick or treat as a ladybug for Halloween and I must say, she was super cute! :)

At the end of November, I was admitted to the hospital with double pneumonia and stayed for 4 days. It was horrible and terrible, but it's over and hopefully it will never happen again. The absolute worst part was being away from my baby girl. She did so good though, but wouldn't let go of me when I got home for about a week! :) We missed each other terribly!

Resting and Recuperating

Kayden got to experience her first Thanksgiving, which we celebrated at Bebe and Papa's house. We visited a pumpkin patch, and "pumpkin" quickly became Kayden's favorite word! :)

We were suppose to go up to Ponder to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family this year, but with me just being released from the hospital, I had to stay close to home. We had a great time and filled our bellies! :)

The Christmas holidays were a blast! They were very busy as always, but we had a lot of fun! Last year, Kayden was only about a week old at Christmas, but this year she got to open presents and Santa came to visit her and it was just all around, a great time! We went and looked at lots of Christmas lights around town, and Kayden just kept saying, "wow!"

We did Christmas Eve at Nick's parents like always, and Kayden made out like a bandit! She had a lot of fun opening up all her presents, but she really enjoyed playing with all the bows and boxes best! On Christmas day, we went to my Grandparents house, where my Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Mom, Sister, etc. were and celebrated there for the day. It was fabulous. We stuffed ourselves (I've never seen so much food) and spent great time talking and being silly. The next day, we left early in the morning and traveled up to the Fort Worth area to stay with my Dad and his wife and visit with my brother, sister in law and nephew. We stayed there for two days before coming home to REST!!!!

Kayden opeing her gifts from Santa

We still haven't found homes for all of Kayden's new toys and clothes as our house isn't big enough to house it all! :) So for now, we're just storing most of it in buckets in our living room!

Kayden has almost all of her teeth now, including four of her back molars, two on the top and bottom. It has been torture for all of us while she's ben cutting them! She was doing such a great job sleeping through the night up until about 2 or 3 weeks ago, when those molars were breaking through the skin. I know that some babies aren't even phased when they cut a tooth, but my child just screams at night and wants to be held during the day! It makes it very tough, but at least she's almost done cutting them! I've never seen a 13 month old with so many teeth!! I think she only has two more left to cut! Goodness!

Our biggest challenge right now (even more so than the not sleeping and teething) would have to be eating. Kayden's always battled eating solids, but now she's just soooooo picky. Everyday is different in what she'll eat. Some days she can't enough of something, and the next day, she acts like it's disgusting and how dare I feed it to her!! haha! So everyday is a guessing game and spent just trying to find something she'll eat. She is completely off of formula and on whole milk, so she is starting to eat more, because her appetite has increased. She is also completely off of the bottle and onto a sippy cup. It really wasn't that hard to transition her. She did resist, of course, but it only took a couple days.

We celebrated Kayden's 1st birthday in December. We had a ladybug themed birthday party and Kayden had a lof of fun! We had mostly family here, but a few friends too.

kayden ran around and loved being the center of attention! :)

Happy Birthday to Me

She is still in love with Yo Gabba Gabba, her favorite tv show. It is even part of our bedtime routine in the evenings! haha! She has just about every Yo Gabba Gabba toy made and knows all of the characters by name! She claps along with the songs and interacts with all of the shows. It's really funny to watch.

She is in the process of transitioning to one nap a day, but is not quite there yet. She's definitely getting there though.

She got a wagon for her birthday and absolutely loves to go for rides in it around the neighborhood. She also loves to go to the park and swing and play in the rocks. Since the weather has been so nice recently, we've been doing a lot of that!

We haven't had many playdates lately, because it seems like one of us is always sick! We are all finally well as of this week, and we're gonna try and stay that way for awhile!

Kayden is stacking blocks, playing hide and go seek, peekaboo, chasing the dogs, coloring, and plays very well independently. She loves to go outside and watch the neighbor kids run around and the cars go by. She calls all kids "baby," even teenagers! It's so funny! She is calling me, "Mommy" all the time now, but sometimes gets it backwards and calls me, "Memaw!" haha! I love it!

"playing" with Moe

I'm trying to think if there's anything else, and I'm sure there is, but now that Kayden's awake from her nap, I'm very distracted! If you are reading this and would like for me to keep this thing updated, please let me know. Otherwise I will probably just stop blogging if there's no one really keeping up with it!

Until next time....