Workin' Mommy Mornings

I have no idea why these pictures are all sidways but that definitely fits this post.  Things can be CRAZY in the mornings trying to get myself and two kidds to school and work by 8:30 am.  Dustin leaves the house about 6:15am so I'm on my own performing SuperMom duties every morning.  This morning was a "good" morning.  Meaning everyone cooporated and did what they were supposed to do! ha!!  So, I had time to fit in a few pics!

Here are my definitions of a GREAT morning, a GOOD morning and a HORRIBLE morning.  I never know which one I'm up for! ha!

GREAT MORNING:  I'm up at 6, dressed and ready for work by 7, get my lunch, diaper bag, bottles and breakfast ready before I get kids up about 7:15.  7:15 kids up, eating and dressed.  Out the door by 7:45.  Love these mornings because as much as I love my kids, I really don't need their "help" while I'm getting dressed in the mornings.  Although, the older Alec gets, if he gets up it's fine because he's fun company in the mornings.

GOOD MORNING:  This morning was a good morning and here are a few pics of this morning.  Kaleigh really likes to be close to mom in the mornings so, she sits in the SINK while I do make up or finish my hair.  No worries, I'm standing right beside her the entire time.  She thinks it fun to help mom!

She may even play on the floor right beside me for a little while!  This is her expression this morning when Alec woke up and came in the bathroom with us!  She LOVES him!

And as of last night, she's crawling FAST!!  So this adds a little excitement to our mornings now too! HA!  She'd just been scooting around here and there, but now she's a champion crawler!!

This is my easy one in the mornings.  He's hiding behind his blueberry muffin this morning.  Although sometimes getting an outfit picked out is tricky for him. The majority of the time, he says he MUST wear a motorcycle shirt. Thank goodness we have about 10 to pick from so chances are one is clean.  I'm sure his teachers think he only owns 10 shirts.  Trust me, there are more, he just won't wear them! Ha!

Sis loves to EAT so that buys me a little more getting ready time in the mornings too!

HORRIBLE MORNING:  OK, these happen more than I'd like to admit, but here's an example from just last week.  Kaleigh had broncitis so we were literally up all night with her.  About 3 am, I decide that I'll just get into the twin bed in her room with her.  Well, that worked well till 6am when it was time for me to get up and get dressed.  So, I carefully lined the side of the bed with pillows so she couldn't fall off.  About 6:45 am, I hear her screaming and went running in there at lightening speed.  All I can see are two little feet sticking up.  The little booger had squirmed up to the head of the bed and fallen between the headboard and the mattress and her head and squeezed between the slats of the headboard and was stuck between the headboard and the wall.  I gave a little tug and she didn't budge.  Thankfully Dustin still happened to be home and I was screaming for him to come and help!  He came running and had to take the mattress off before we could get her unstuck.  Before it was over, I was crying with her!  Poor baby!  Then, Alec goes outside to wave by to the neighbors.  He left the back door open and thier dog came running in to Harley's food bowl.  As I grab him up and carry him from the kitchen to the back door, he is peeing the biggest trail of pee from one end of the house to the other.  Lovely!  One HUGE nasty mess to clean up!  I literally didn't think my morning could get any worse.  But, as we were pulling into the school parking lot.  Kaleigh started coughing and threw up ALL OVER herself and her carseat.  Believe it or not, at least 1 morning a week is like this or something VERY similiar to this!

Grandkids Love Grandparents

There is one thing we certainly could not live without these days, and that's our Grandparents.  Nana, Paps, Mimi and Papa provide us with much needed rest and the kids with lots of FUN memories!  Here are some pictures from the past two weekends.

Nana and Paps took Alec to the Monster Truck Show and he LOVED watching the trucks and motorcycles. He's still talking about wanting to go back to the Monster Truck Jam, as he calls it.

The next weekend, Kaleigh got to spend a fun night at Nana and Paps house.  Aunt Patty and Mamaw also do lots of entertaining kiddos in Ellisville.

Kaleigh loves to push her walkers around!

Kaleigh got to spend a fun night at Mimi's house too and even had Grandmother, Cousin Will and Aunt Sissie come by for a visit and Golf Cart ride!

Red Solo Cup makes for a fun bath at Mimi's!  We'll give her just about anything to make her stay sitting in the tub!

Alec got to stay at Mimi's the night before Kaleigh got her tubes since we had to be at the hospital EARLY that morning.  He and Papa took an early golf cart ride in their pjs to see the mixer trucks that were pouring concrete in Mimi's subdivision.



Kaleigh's Turn for Tubes

After an almost constant ear infection for the past couple of months and the fact that Kaleigh is 8 months old and has probably only slept through the night 10 or 15 times in her life, the ENT recommend that she get tubes.  So this morning, bright and early, we headed to the Lowery Woodall Center to get her fixed up!  For such an early morning after a pretty long night, she sure was a happy little angel! 

Before surgery with her gown and hospital braclet on

Playing with daddy!

She was only gone from us for 15 minutes for the surgery.  We heard her from the back as soon as they woke her up, she was one unhappy little booger.  It took us a little while to get her happy but once she figured out I had a blueberry muffin and some juice for her, she perked up pretty quickly!  We were home by 9am and she was already feeling good and ready to play!  Dr. Hammett said she had lots of thick fluid behind her ears that drained out, so hopefully we'll all have a good night tonight!  She's had a good morning so far, ate a big lunch and is taking a long nap, so she must be feeling better!

Yay!!  Dr. Hammett fixed my ears!

Super Bowl Fun

Sunday night, we had our family over for football fun and food!  As you can see from our apparal, we weren't exactly huge fans of either team, but we were pulling for Eli and the Giants since he's a Mississippi boy.  We certainly missed Art this year, as he has just been deployed to Kuwait for 6 months, but we enjoyed having Uncle Treless, Aunt Sissie, Aunt Sonya and Will to join us!

Alec loves Leila and Uncle Grant!

Aunt Patty and Newt came too!

Kaleigh was pooped!

And Alec was too!

Kaleigh is EIGHT months!

 Kaleigh turned 8 months old today.  It’s amazing to see how quickly she’s picking up new things.  She’s VERY mobile.  She loves to pull up on her play table, the coffee table or Alec’s train table and walk around them.  She also thinks it’s hilarious to pull up in the bath tub and drives us crazy at bath time. Everytime you sit her down, she pulls right back up and giggles.  We do it over and over and over again!  Needless to say, we normally end up with a few head bonks and water up our nose before bath time is over!  She’s a slippery little bogger when she’s trying to jump around in the bathtub! She’s also almost into full fledged crawling.  She can crawl a couple feet but usually gets aggravated about it after that.  Sometimes she even does the butt up in the air, straight leg monkey crawl.  That’s pretty funny to watch!

"Oh my gosh, MOM, look what brother's doing!"

Check out my two little teeth in this picture!

She’s VERY vocal and loves to say “Da Da Da”.  That’s her only word for now, but I’m pulling for “Ma Ma Ma” really soon!! Ha!!

We had to relocate the lamp from beside your bed, as you thought it was fun to pull out the feathers once you realized you could stand up and get to it!

She’s quickly loosing interest in bottles and baby food.  She prefers to eat whatever we are eating and maybe a few spoonfuls of baby food at each meal.  Her bottles are hit and miss lately, sometimes she’ll drink 3 or 4 oz but she does still like her bedtime bottle.  She’s growing up way to fast!!  She really likes to eat pasta, bananas and veggies!  Alec thinks it’s really fun that she eats tiny pieces of whatever we are eating.  She’s a little Miss. Piggy and eats almost as much as Alec does at meal time.

Kaleigh’s also becoming a little attached to her little pink bunny blanket.  It’s so sweet to see her snuggle up next to it!  (No smart comments needed here about my old faithful, "pinky", Thank-you Dana Knight Jenkins! ha!)  Maybe we'll just call this little bunny pinky too!

Her ears have been giving her (and us) fits lately. She has no symptoms of an ear infection, other than the fact that she screams out randomly during the night.  Sometimes, she goes back to sleep quickly by herself and other times, she needs us to come settle her back down.  We are making a trip to the ENT tomorrow to discuss getting tubes, as she’s had an almost constant ear infection since Christmas.

 She gave me fits trying to get her "8 month" picture this am, as she had better places to go!

She can hold her own bottle when she's really hungry now too!

Our church had baby dedication last Sunday and here is a picture of me, Alec and Kaleigh before church. Dad had drill over the weekend, so he didn’t get to come with us. Kaleigh’s dress had tiny cream color pearls all around the neck and it was so pretty!! I had bought it for her baptism but she ended up wearing my baptism dress so we were glad to put this one to good use!  

Alec and Kaleigh LOVE each other and we LOVE to hear them giggle together.

Watching Cars 2 together!