Kinsey and her new skills..

Boy oh boy has she grown up so fast these past few months.. She doesn't seem like my little baby anymore, she is more like my little lady!  She is at the funnest age right now and Brandon and I are enjoying every minute of it.

Here is a list of new skills my "little lady" now does:

- At 7 months old she was scooting backwards and would roll to get to her destination.  I began to worry because friends that have kids around Kinsey's age were crawling on all 4's, but then I realized once she starts to become more mobile then that means lots more work for me to keep her in one spot ha

-Kinsey is now 8 months old and has mastered the army crawl!  She is fast too lol don't let those little arms fool you, they are dang strong lol

- Brandon is now starting to realize that he cannot leave any small objects on the floor like candy wrappers, because Kinsey now wants to eat and put whatever she can find in her mouth.  The other morning she was crawling around upstairs between our room and the bathroom, and somewhere between those two areas she found a little piece of a stick and stuck it in her mouth.  I sure hope Brandon learned his lesson after she threw that up!

- Sippy cups are so last year for Kins lol she prefers to drink out of a straw like a big girl!  She was at my moms house one evening and discovered how to suck out of a straw and now that's all she wants to do!  So I went shopping and got her some cups with straws that are similar to sippy cups.  The funny thing is they say for 18+ months.. I guess Kinsey is just 10 months ahead of the game ;)

- Our beauty queen is still on the same schedule for eating and with the 2 naps a day and is doing really well :)  When she is tired she sure does let you know by yelling at you or giving you the look like "are you serious?" ha and when you lay her down she grabs her binks and rolls to her side and doesn't make a peep after that!  She enjoys her beauty rest..

-At 7 months old Kinsey started to say Dadada and that made for one proud Daddy!!  It just melts Brandon's heart when she looks at him and says dada.  I was upset at first that she didn't say mama first but what can ya do?!

-At 8 months I got my fame and glory when Brandon called me and said Kinsey was saying Mama!!!!  I was at work and so upset I wasn't there for it but it is the neatest thing when she looks at me and says mama :)

-Kinsey still only has her two bottom teeth but defiantly puts them to good use lol  She loves her "snacks". After her 3 o'clock breastfeeding I offer her a little snack that either consists of juice, yogurt bites, puff crackers, or recently she has been having fruit strips that are kinda like the fruit leather.

-Munch munch and more munch!  Kinsey will eat a full meal at her scheduled time and if she is sitting with anyone or can see anyone else eating she must eat too and eat exactly what they are eating.  I call this "social eating" lol  If I feed her lunch then make me a pb&j sandwich I MUST share with her or else she gets pissed!!! Same goes for dinner lol I have to give her a little bit of whatever we are eating.  It makes me laugh!  I sure hope she keeps up the good eating habits and is not a picky eater ;)

I cant believe my little girl will be 9 months in a week.. time has gone by way to fast!!  I am told daily by different people that I have the best and cutest baby and I truly feel blessed to have such a great daughter!  She is my everything :)

Im a SLACKER!!

WOW, where do I even begin?? I don't know how I missed blogging for 2 whole months!  It could be that I have been going crazy with school and playing with my sweet daughter ha ha well I will try to remember all we have done these past 2 months and update everyone :)

WAHOO for number 2!!

Just thought I would do a quick post to say Kinsey now has her second tooth!! We no longer have to call it "brushing her tooth" we can now say we are "brushing her teeth" lol  She is just so dang cute I cant help but brag :)  I found this tooth the hard way then I was feeling around in her mouth like I do every night and she bit down on my finger!! Serves me right for sticking it in her mouth right?!  Needless to say, her first tooth is now very visiable and her second one is poking through :)

Happy 2 Year Anniversary!

We have made it to the 2 year mark, wahoo!!!  Brandon and I have been through some rough times these past 2 years and we are still trying to learn more about each other :)  Brandon worked so hard to plan this special day for me and I had a BLAST! We took Kinsey to my moms house where she stayed the night.. it was tough leaving her and knowing I wasnt going to be the one putting her to bed :( but I did it ha ha.  Brandon wouldnt tell me where he was taking me or what we were doing so it was all a surprise and for anyone who knows me knows i LOVE surprises.  He took me to the Melting Pot for dinner and I think that was a brave move on his part because that is now on my top 3 list of fav restaurants.  We had a 4 course meal that consisted of spinach artichoke dip, then a Cesar salad, then our main dish that was oh so yummy!, and last but defiantly not least our dessert ;)  We had so much fun just talking and trying all the different foods in the different sauces.  It took us over 2 hours to eat lol  He also had set up to have flowers delivered to me at our table!! Isn't he just so sweet!! I am so so lucky!!
After dinner he took me to the hotel he had reserved for us and it was the nice Marriott in Salt Lake :) I am so spoiled.  We dropped our stuff off at the room and headed over to the Gateway where Brandon let me shop and pick out a shirt to go along with my salt water pearls he gave me!! YEA :)
We then decided to go back and sit in the hot tub for a little bit and boy was that an adventure lol  we were the only Americans in there.. everyone was speaking a different language (mostly Chinese) and taking pic of everything.. me and Brandon are prob on someones facebook by now lol
The next morning we both woke up at 8am!! Our one chance to sleep in and we get up so early because we missed Kinsey and wanted to hurry home to pick her up :)  She was spoiled by Grandma Kristy!!

School Has Started

Well I am back into school and loving it so far.. I am taking Biomed Core with Lab, psychology, and Math 1010.  My classes are so much fun and I think its because I lucked out this year with great professors :)  I am trying my hardest to stay on top of studying and so far so good!! GO MEEE!!  Life is a lot more crazy now and I am so glad I have such great family to help and support me and most of all watch Kinsey while I go to school.  I will blog more about school as I get more into the semester.. I hope my positive feelings don't change too much ;)

Strike 3

So I have came to the conclusion that I am a total klutz!!  I fell down my stairs AGAIN and this time I have to blog about it lol  I was trying to be the neat house wife that I totally am not ;) and while I was carrying the vacuum down my stairs I fell.  The best part of it is the vacuum made it safe to the bottom, I just didn't think to step on the last stair so I fell forward and landed on my knees on our TILE floor.  I sat there for a minute thinking to myself "ouch that's going to leave nice bruises on my knees!"  Then when i stood up I noticed blood running down to my foot and my pants were ripped on the knee.. I then lifted up my pant leg and yep there was a nice split on my knee gushing blood!  I sat there laughing at myself for a few min while trying to get it to stop bleeding.. but it just wouldn't.  That's when I decided to take a closer look at it and realized I needed stitches ha ha  I called my mom to see if she was home and luckily she was so she came over to sit at my house while Kinsey slept and I went to get stitches in my knee :)  Everything went well and it didn't even hurt ha ha  5 stitches later I was walking out of my work with a smile! Thanks Dr. Christiansen!!

beautiful huh?!

This is the bruise on my other knee

6 months old arlready?!

Wow how time has flown by these past few six months!!  It just seems like months are turning into weeks and weeks are turing into days :(  Kinsey had her 6 month Well Child Visit and everything went really well as always.  She is now 25 1/4" tall (30th%), 14.14lbs (25th%), and her head is only 40.5 cm (5th%).  She is just our little petite girl :).  Kinsey is eating at the same times every day and now we have added a solid food at her 11 (lunch) feeding.  She doesn't complain about that because I usually give her a full serving of fruit and a little bit of veggies.. we save the big serving of veggies for dinner lol.  She goes to bed between 7-8pm and will wake up around 7am.. sometimes later if I am lucky!  She is sitting up all on her own and people always comment when I have her sitting in the shopping cart at the store on how well she sits up for her age!  She is very coordinated!!  I had to move our coffee table into our closet under the stairs so Kinsey would have more room to roll around in our living room ha ha she will start out on her back in the center of the blanket and will end up clear on the other side of the room on her belly playing with a toy she found.  She is so much fun to just watch and observe. 
I have started "baby proofing" some of our house thanks to Grandpa Rob for buying the outlet covers :)  I will probably only put locks on some of the cabinets in the kitchen but other then that I want her to just learn what is ok and what is not so wish me luck with that lol 
Brandon and I both came to an agreement to space out some of the immunizations for Kinsey since her visit for 4 months old left her sick for about a week!! So we only had her get half of them at her 6 month visit and she did so much better :)  We will catch up with the rest at her 9 month check!