Lovey Love Love :)

OH MY GOODNESS I love this little girl of mine!!
Of course I've loved her since the moment I knew she was in my belly....and then even more once I laid eyes on her.....but the stage that she's entered the past couple weeks have made the love grow even more, like A LOT more..........just when I thought I couldn't love her anymore! She is talking and cooing and smiling allllllll the time and it absolutely melts my heart. I feel like she's a little person now instead of a sleepy newborn. We have been talking back and forth to each other all morning and as we speak, she is sitting in her favorite chair smiling a huge smile and entertaining herself with baby babble! This is just so fun! I don't know how I'll ever be able to drag myself back to work. I wasn't sure if the stay at home mommy thing was for me, but turns out, it is totally me!! I think in the back of my mind I'm pretending like somethings gonna happen to where I don't have to go, ha! Fat chance!

Little chicken turned 2 months old on Tuesday (I think, I still don't know whether to go by weeks or the day of the month she was born). We went to the doctor last week for a checkup and the big 2 month shots :( She did great though, only cried for a few seconds!
She is a tall baby girl! She measured 23 1/2 inches which is in the 90th percentile. She weighed in at 10 lb. 10 oz which is in the 56th percentile. She would weigh a lot more if she didn't spit up all the time, poor girl! But even with all the spitup and poo poo problems, she is very healthy!
Here are her cute 2 month pics :)

She only lasts for a few short minutes in our photoshoots! I think the crying pics are cute though......is that mean?!?!

After her 2 month birthday, we went to Katy to visit the Bratchers and go to Ashley & Beckett's baby shower. We were very excited to introduce Kinley and Logan, I knew it would be so fun and it was! Logan loved having a baby around and I know Kinley loved her new best friend!

Here's the little baby girl and the big baby girl!

We of course had to do a mini photo shoot. I love this one because Kinley is staring at her thinking "I really like you new friend!"


She didn't so much like this part!

We had so much fun and are excited that in future trips to Houston, there will be THREE little ones around since baby Beckett will be here soon. And maybe soon some people around here can give Kinley some friends to play with (hint hint someone reading this that starts with an A and has blonde hair!)

Here is one more picture of that sweet, sweet smile!!!!! I could just eat her up!

I got to celebrate my first Mother's Day yesterday with my sweet baby girl! Although we've celebrated in the past with my doggie babies, this one was different :) It really made me stop and think about how much things have changed and how much we've adjusted since that scary, emotional day when we brought her home. Even after preparing throughout my whole pregnancy, reading books, having EVERYTHING in place for her arrival, google searching anything I thought about........I was still scared to death that day and felt like I had somehow forgotten every single thing I had learned. Turns out I was just extremely sleep deprived and that this was a very normal feeling for a new mommy! After a few days I became really proud of myself for how much I did know because of my thorough research :)

But, then there were those times that I had no idea what to do because NOBODY tells you about them! Mainly having to do with how much to feed her and when the heck do you know when you should up the amount they eat??!! I love how the doctors just say....."oh, she'll let ya know if she needs more" or......"oh, i would say you could up it after a few weeks, but maybe not.......just watch her to see". Really?!?! That is not an answer! There should be an exact rule for how much you feed a baby. There is a formula I found to follow but even it isn't exact.

Even now that I've somewhat figured out how much to give her, I still don't know if its enough, too much or when to increase it again.....but we'll get through it!

And let's not forget all the people who give you advice or judge your parenting.....when you didn't ask them for their opinion at all! The biggest pet peeve of mine now is when people act as if I'm stupid for trying to follow some ideas that books have taught me, like babywise or happiest baby on the block. They roll their eyes like they know everything and act like you're abusing your child or something...... really people, its just a schedule and some shushing to help your baby when theyre screaming and pissed!. Why wouldn't I try something out to help my baby sleep through the night or stop screaming? I bet your kid kept you up all night for a whole year & screamed all day! Sorry if people have figured something out that works and just because you didn't do it, doesn't mean its stupid........maybe youre just stupid!!

Aaaah, that feels better! That's what I would like to have said to those people but instead I just change the subject :)

I guess this turned into a venting session, sorry!

On a more positive note, Mother's Day also made me realize how lucky I am to be this precious, sweet baby girls mommy:) She is changing so much every day and while I enjoyed having a newborn, I am really loving watching her become a more alert, active and talkative baby......and the smiling is absolutely the BEST!!! Its the most amazing thing I've ever seen!

So while I still try to figure everything out and block out those "know it all" people, I'll remember that she's doing great so far and surely we can't mess her up too bad now! haha!

I love this sweet little chicken! (That's what daddy and I call her, it just came out one day and stuck!)

Well I guess I should actually start blogging on this blog I started and never really did anything with! I'm still too shy to share it with the world but the point for me is to have something to look back at years down the road, like a scrapbook! (since I tried to get into scrapbooking and couldn't!).

What a fast and crazy year it has been, our lives have changed so much in such a wonderful way! Baby Kinley is finally here and is already 7 weeks old, OMG!! I am a mommy, I have a daughter, still so weird to say!

These are the pics they took at the hospital, she doesn't look like this at all anymore but I love them :)

The past 7 weeks have flown by and have been filled with visitors, diapers, lots of baby poop talk, spitting up, sleepless nights, sleep filled nights!, doctors visits, washing bottles, filling bottles, tears, smiles & lots of laughter!

Kinley was born perfectly healthy after a pretty easy labor and delivery experience, thank goodness since it was my first! I was induced at around 7am on March 17th, St. Patricks Day :) After a loooong day of waiting, she arrived at 5:36 weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces & measuring 20 1/2 inches long, big girl!

The only issues we've had with her involve spitting up/reflux and pooping.....or lack of pooping I should say! The doctor has just decided that she is a happy spitter upper, it doesn't bother her and she's still gaining and growing. I was very worried about it for awhile but its gotten better and its just part of our day now. She pretty much spits up every time you get her all cute and dressed, every time you put her in the car seat, every time you pick her up after you've just gotten dressed, every time you think she's not gonna do it!

I've learned that the first question experienced moms ask new moms is how the baby is sleeping, which is a very important topic! I think that she's slept the best we can ask for, pretty average. She has started to sleep longer stretches at night now, 5-6 hours, woohoo! My goal is to have her sleeping 8 hours by 8-10 weeks but I'm not sure if that will happen......we're following the Babywise plan the best we can!

I've also learned that it's ok to tweak all the plans, schedules and advice you get from books.....but I still love the books! I keep thinking how fun it would be to start a blog about all the things that go wrong even after you've planned them out and read about them for 9 months & all the things involved with pregnancy, delivery and newborns that nobody talks about or tells you, which is A LOT!!! Maybe my next post will be about that :)

This is a sweet picture from Kinley's first Easter :) We went to Lone Oak to visit Grandma and family and I was so wishing she could get out there and hunt Easter eggs! I can't wait until next Easter!