Pics and Updates!

Woke up on the wrong side of the crib! The other day, Kaiya woke up from her nap with this imprint from her crib (well Pack n' Play). The side of it is mesh, It make me laugh.





Date Night, last weekend Matt and I debated about whether or not to go out for dinner for a "date night", with money being tight we decide that we would cook up something fun together.... It was so yummy! Here is a link to the site we go the recipe off of, it was easy and sooo good. http://noblepig.com/2009/03/18/when-the-moon-hits-the-sky.aspx Theirs looks way better though, we didn't have the right kind of pan, so we compromised.




Teething!!! Last month, Kaiya got 3 top teeth on the same day! (She didn't seem too bugged by those) But now she cut one tooth today on the bottom, and one on the top is almost through, these she is not taking so well, so this week has been hard....

Our Trip to Laramie, Wyoming

My sister-in-law Valerie and her family live in Laramie and she just had a beautiful baby girl! So we went on a quick trip up there to visit and for Kallie's baby blessing. It was a lot of fun, Kaiya really enjoyed her cousins. Ethan was especially cute with her, he was teaching her how to draw and was showing her around. Matt's parents sent us some pictures that they took and I thought I would share.













By the way, Kaiya is almost walking..... I don't know if I am excited or not (she is not even a year old yet). She walks in between the furniture in the living room and she takes about 4-6 steps at a time.

Dancing

Sorry it has been sooo long since I have posted, I have been really busy. I started doing for design for a company out of Salt Lake, it has been great, they send me so much work!

I have a bunch of videos that I have been meaning to post for a long time, this first one is of Kaiya dancing, it is hilarious! Every time I turn on the radio she jams out, she loves music so much!

NYLONS!!

Funny Sleeper!

For the 2-3 months, Kaiya's bedtime routine had been getting worse and worse. She used to be so easy to put to sleep, it seems that now that she has become more aware of her ability to control us, she was really picky about how we put her to sleep. She would not go to bed unless I or Matt would rock her to sleep, with her binki and if she were wake up as we put her down, the process would start over. Anyway, I was determined to not let her do this to me anymore, so we began consitantly putting her in her crib and letting her cry (even though I felt so bad hearing her scream), we did that every night, and at nap times, but after about a week or two she has been doing so well, she usually just goes right to sleep now. She even seems to sleep longer, I don't know if it is because she is okay with putting herself back to sleep now if she wakes up, but she sleeps anywhere between 9-13 hours now! I love it! Persistance payed off.

This is how she puts her self to sleep, and even if we turn her over while she is asleep, she tends to be this way in the morning.

A Hairdo!

This is our first attempt to give Kaiya a hairdo! She is finally getting a little hair! We did this a week or two ago, but I just downloaded a bunch of pictures and thought that I would share.

A Tooth!

Kaiya finally got her first tooth today, well I guess yesterday (I am at my Grave job, so my days get a little off). I thought she would never get one, but she got a lower front tooth.

It has been a really long time since I have posted, so I guess I will just recap what we have been up to. We had a really long holiday, which was so so nice. We went to Cedar from Christmas Eve all the way until Jan 4th. It was such a nice break, we really needed it. Matt really needed too, because he had just been working so hard before Christmas, he had nearly 20 hours of overtime in only the week before Christmas. After our big long break it was back to job hunting. I found a job, the one that I am at now. I work Graves on the weekend at a Residential Treatment Center for teen boys. It is a really nice place and great environment (and I can still be home with Kaiya all week), but let me tell you it is 6:45 in the morning right now and I still have 2 hours and 15 minutes to go and I am doing anything I can to stay awake, haha. The shift starts at 9:45pm and goes till 9am, which is nice, because I get full time work only working 3 days a week, but staying awake is a little bit harder than I anticipated. Other than staying awake it is the easiest job I have ever had, just check on the boys every 30 mins and watch movies, surf the internet, or do whatever the rest of the time. Anyway, so that is pretty much all I have been up to lately.

Kaiya is just growing up too fast still, she is starting to stand and let go of what she is holding on to and balancing herself. It makes me nervous that she will be walking soon and I am not ready for that. I just got used to her crawling around.

Matt's just still working hard at his job... he has been such a good help with me going back to work.