Nap hair

Yesterday when Kamryn woke up from her nap this is what her hair looked like.

Because she just woke up everytime the red light went off before it snapped the picture she looked down. She must have had some good sleep to get hair like that and a big red mark on the right side of her face!

Indecisive

So for the longest time, every holiday Ryan asks me what I want...I always tell him a hand stamped custom necklace, he never ends up getting me one and the reason is, he doesn't know what I would like. Now my birthday is coming up. The problem with him getting me a necklace is that I don't know what I like. It's hard for me to choose without seeing the names on them myself. Plus, nothing is personalized to your specific family situation. I go on Etsy ALL the time and look and look and look until I am more and more confused. To make matters worse I am a VERY INDECISIVE person... I don't do it very much anymore, because I mostly have this problem with clothes. But I buy and return things alot! Since I haven't been buying clothes, I haven't had the problem. But that tells you right there how indecisive I am. If you ask any of my family or friends they will tell you. Also I have been this way for quite a while. It was always a joke especially when I would go shopping at store that wasn't near home, my dad would say, " I am sure we will be back in a week or 2 to return what you just bought!" Or Ryan teases me all the time....and actually I do have some shoes I bought on sale...waiting to be returned! Also I have a hard time picking where to eat or what to do. I am just an indecisive person which makes this process even harder!

So here are some things I find myself drawn too, but I am not sure and I can't decide...I like to ask people's opinions. I wonder if that is why I return things all the time. I choose what someone else would choose and then end up returning or exchanging for what I really wanted. But if you want to leave your opinion that would be greatly appreciated...haha

I always find myself looking at this one.
or this one ...but then I think will all the names fit?

Although I really like the individual tag type like this one. But a different font...

I really like this symbol for Kooper


I also like this ring....with Kooper's name on it. I am just worried since it's silver that it will get tarnished...


But then I saw this one...it's different. I could put all 4 kids names on the rectangular block and then on the square put R & K or something like that...


The funny thing is, if I just got one, even if I didn't pick it out. I would probably love it as long as it had all my kids names on it! And your probably wondering how I am going to do that when I am still undecided on the name. But I think I have to go with Keegan now....because every night when Kade says his prayers, he says, "I'm thankful for baby Keegan" and he tells me all the time that Keegan is going to be his name...I can't change it now!

Decisions, Decisions...will I ever be able to make a decision?

Surprise!

I woke up this morning and thought, I wonder why Kamryn hasn't yelled or cried to let me know she is awake. Kade was the one who came in to wake me up, usually if Kamryn is awake he tells me or he goes in and talks or plays with her. I walk over by her room and hear her babbling and making sounds. I walk in and this is what I find.

This is the first time she has stood up in her crib. I knew she could do it if she tried, but she never did, until today.

She burst out into laughter as soon as I saw her. Of course by the time I got the camera, it was no longer funny.

Kade insisted that he needed to be in the picture in his PJ's that are TOO small!

On a side note, I love it when Kade wants to help me clean, but only certain things. But they always want to do what you won't let them do, for example Mop, sweep, clean off the glass tables and things like that. It drove me nuts today. I just wanted to clean and I had a 4 year old trying to clean up after me making things look like they were never done in the first place! Oh well at least he wants to clean!

Kamryn's 9 months old (yesterday)!

She looks so surprised. She just wants to get the camera from me!

Kamryn is 9 months old...yesterday. I was being not the best Mom and didn't do my normal pictures, but part of my excuse was that we weren't going to the doctor until today, so I wouldn't have any of her "stats". She is growing so fast. I wish I would have documented more milestones with Kade. I am sure I could go back to pictures of things and look at the date to be able to tell what age he started doing something, but that's a lot of work.

Just in the past couple days Kamryn has started to pull herself up to anything. Before it just needed to be low enough, but now she is able to pull herself to standing up to the couch, the coffee table, her leapfrog table, just about anything. She also has a little stroller/walker that she can walk with. She has learned when she is falling to put her arms out to catch herself. She is stretching the limit of 9 month dresses, but fits good into 12 month. Not so much 12 month shirts though, they end up being belly shirts, so I get her 18 month shirts. She still wears 12 month bottoms though. She loves to follow her brother Kade EVERYWHERE! Kade is getting tired of it and says, "Just leave me alone!" It's kind of cute! I have to remind Kade that if he doesn't want her to play with him then he needs to take his toys in his room or up to the table. He thinks that she shouldn't be aloud in his playroom. I then remind him that it's EVERYONE's playroom.

I took her to her doctor's appointment and she sure is growing. She weighs 22 pounds and is 29 inches tall. She is in the 90th percentile for EVERYTHING! It was a painless visit. She did have to have a TB test which she didn't even cry when they poked her. She would have gotten her blood drawn today to test for lead and anemia, but they are so smart at that doctor's office and only gave me a piece of paper that said the lab name and her info. So when I left I asked someone at the desk exactly what I was supposed to do. They told me the nearest location. I went and come to find out they told me the location of a completely different lab. So tomorrow I will find out the real location and she will have to get poked again!

She babbles a little, when I try and get her to say something she blows air through her lips and tries to make a sounds. Mostly she says bababababa. I think it's cute. She sleeps through the night...usually about 12 hours! She still has 2-3 naps a day. She loves to EAT! Hardly ever will she refuse food. She LOVES the bath. She gets so excited when you take her in the bathroom especially when the water starts going. I can't wait to see how she reacts to a swimming pool.

She always has a smile on her face, not always for strangers, but especially for Kade and her Daddy. She loves to laugh at them, especially when they are being crazy!

This picture is from about a week ago, she is wearing the same dress today though. She doesn't use her binky much anymore, pretty much only when I want her to keep from putting something in her mouth or sometimes at bedtime.

Here are a few pictures of her today. It is getting hard to take her picture because as soon as she sees the camera she comes racing to try and get it from me.

I couldn't resist a shot of her chubby legs!

Bad Mom

I am having one of those days where I feel like a bad mom. Today is supposed to be Kamryn's 9 month old post with pictures of her and a little update on her, but unfortunately laziness and forgetfulness got to me and no pictures got taken. I didn't even get dressed in normal clothes today. I have the same sweats on I had on when I got out of the shower this morning. Kade is still wearing his PJ's he wore last night. Kamryn was the only one that got dressed...in a cute little watermelon outfit. Tomorrow is her doctor's appointment. I am looking forward to seeing how much she weighs but not looking forward to the shots! I am such a great Mom that I didn't dress my kids up for St. Patrick's day or fix them any green colored foods. I let Kade spend too much time either playing Playhouse Disney on the computer and watching TV. I still have lots of housework to do. But I did accomplish getting both kids to take a 2 hour nap at the same time and instead of getting things done I managed to get in a 2 hour nap myself! Tomorrow I will do better, tomorrow I will get more laundry done, actually get dressed and maybe even leave the house. Tomorrow.....

Kids

Today as Kade and I got ready for his friends birthday party, who was turning 5 he tells me, "He can swim and ride his bike with only 2 wheels!" My response, "Oh yeah, how do you know that?" Kade's reply, "Cuz he's 5!"

Kade thinks that magically when he turns 5 he will know how to swim and be able to ride his bike without training wheels! We are working on the bike thing and I am planning on getting him in swimming lessons this spring since I failed to last year!

Also today I learned a few new things about Kamryn. She loves to drink from a straw and also blow bubbles into drinks. She entertained herself for quite sometime blowing bubbles in my strawberry lemonade! I know what your thinking, you think it's cute now but just wait, pretty soon it will drive you nuts! Oh well, I will enjoy it for now!

Fry Sauce

I got to have some of this with my french fries today.

This definitely didn't taste or look as good as Crown Burger's Fry Sauce!

Someone Ryan works with told him that the Burger King by Ryan's work has FRY SAUCE. I just had to have some! So today we went to Burger King. It doesn't taste near as yummy as Fry Sauce from Crown Burger's fry sauce (if you are ever in the Salt Lake City, Utah area you have to go to Crown Burger. I especially love their french fries and fry sauce...the best I have ever had!), but it definitely helped curb my craving for Fry Sauce!