9 Month Milestones

I can't believe it's already time to post a 9 month blog for Kaleigh Marie!!  She's getting more fun by the minute!!  So far, every month I catch myself saying, "This is my favorite month!"  Kaleigh is wearing a size 9 month clothing, size 3 diaper and weighs 17 pounds.  She literally eats like a horse!!  We started solid foods pretty early with Kaleigh and she eats just about anything we do!!  Her favorite food is blueberries.  We still give her 4 six ounce bottles everyday, but she may or may not eat them, she'd rather have real food and juice in her sippy cup.  She's not eating baby food at all anymore!  So much for all of the baby food I had stocked up on! ha!  Sleeping is still not one of her favorite activities....  For a while, it was eating at night, then she started having ear infections.  Now she has no really good excuse, she just likes to scream at night...  Last week, she'd would wake me up 4 or 5 times a night and literally would just want me to roll her over.  She sleeps on her belly and would roll over on her back and then scream for me to come put her back on her belly....  YES, she can roll over just fine by herself, just won't!!  Soooo, we've had to start letting her scream for a little while at night and it's gotten much better already! We hear her cry for a minute or so once or twice a night while she's rooting around but thankfully we're not actually having to get up and put her back to sleep anymore.  Any suggestions for night time sleep, greatly appreciated! ha!!  I can see why so many parents let their kiddos sleep with them, it would just be so much easier, to scoop her up and put her in the bed!  Thankfully Kaleigh is the happiest baby ever during the day so it more than makes up for our sleepless  nights!!  We love this little girl with all our hearts!!

She really is the happiest baby ever!

Brother LOVES her to play with his toys! NOT!!

Eating PIZZA!!

She's a super fast crawler!

Waving "Bye, Bye"

Yay, I can clap!

Love all of her funny expressions!!

Thing 1 and Thing 2

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!!  Alec and Kaleigh are headed to school for yummmy green eggs and ham this morning!!  I love my Thing 1 and Thing 2!!

Over my first "little" hill...

I'm officially over my first "little" hill today...  Whew, not so many years ago,  people in their 30s seemed so old to me but it looks like I'm joining the crowd now!!  Thirty doesn't seem nearly as old now, in fact, this birthday weekend, has been GREAT!

My official birthday weekend started off with flowers at work from my oldest best friend, Dana!  Thank-you again Dana!  It was such a treat to get flowers at work from someone other than my hubby!  In fact, I was a little nervous to open the tag.  Dustin sent flowers last week for Valentines so I knew they weren't from him, I was hoping I hadn't picked up some kind of secret admirer! ha!

We were supposed to spend my birthday weekend at Mimi's camp in Bay St. Louis and go to the Diamondhead parade on Saturday.  But, with the bucket loads of rain we got over the weekend plans changed.... 

Saturday night, we went to Brownstones for my birthday with Dustin family.  I had made outfits for the kids and I to wear to the Mardi Gras parade and since we missed the parade we wore our outfits to dinner on Saturday.

Sister in her first tutu!

I think it's so fun for us all to wear matching outfits!! 

I don't know why dad wouldn't wear one of these so cool shirts!

Sis even got to dig in to my cake.  Literally!

Alec LOVES to play with Uncle Grant!

After church Sunday, my mom asked us to come over and eat lasagna.  Little did I know, my family was all at her house for a surprise birthday!!  It was so much fun!!

I love my little man!

Aunt Sonya and Cousin Will

We can't wait for Uncle Art to hurry up and get home from Kuwait!

YUMMY, Ice Cream Cake

Sweet Jackie LOVES Alec!

Unsuccessful attempt at a cousin picture!

My first birthday with TWO wonderful children!

I loved having two helpers opening my gifts this year!



Alec's First Spend the Night Out!

Tonight Alec is sleeping over with his best friend, Drew Davis.  This is his first spend the night with a friend!  He's really excited and they live next door, so I think he'll do great!!

Headed out the door in his "coolest" pjs!

Sharing a bowl of candy!

Brother's next Door, Quick Blog, Baby's in Bed, now off to watch a movie with my hubby!

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!