Kayla

I may be the worst mom ever! Kayla Jean is 9 1/2 months old and I have not blogged a single word since she was born. Oh well. I've had better things to do, I guess. To add to my new title of "worst mom ever" I have to admit that Kayla doesn't have a baby book. This realization will hopefully lead me to blog a little more. This way, one day, Kayla can log on and read all about her accomplishments. Will the internet and blogging still be this cool in 20 years?!

Instead of rehashing the last 9 1/2 months, I'll highlight a few things as of late. About 3 weeks ago, Kayla officially started army crawling everywhere. Jynx is no long safe from her. She just follows her around and I think it's hilarious. So far, she gets to where she wants to be (usually close to Jynx or her toys!), but stays in our living room. Since I've been back to work, we've just put her in the middle of our bed while we're getting ready and she just sits there and plays...no more. She sits there for about 5 minutes and then she's scooting to the edge of the bed to get closer. Scary stuff! Luckily we're literally 3 steps from the bed when we're in the bathroom.

TEETHING SUCKS! On Saturday Kayla was fussy. She had a temp and I thought it was the daycare gunk she gets every now and again. Nope. After 2 rather sleepless nights, a little tooth has started to pop through on the bottom. Now that it's through, she seems better. Oh my how I feel sorry for her though. Daniel and I stayed up with her until 1am on Monday morning just trying to make her comfortable. It just broke our hearts to see her scream, especially since she's not much of a crier normally. I think what bothers me most is that this was just the first tooth. We have a mouthful to go! Ugh!

Eating is so fun. Kayla has yet to try something she doesn't like. This makes it easy on mom and dad. We had really great intentions of making her baby food, but have found that it is not nearly as expensive to buy the jars as we thought it would be. We have been so blessed to have gotten a lot of hand-me-downs, or "handy downs" as Daniel thought they were called! :) Holly and Annie have made it so we have not had to buy hardly anything for her. It's been amazing. Thank you, even though I don't think either of you read my blog! :)

I had my first experience with Kayla pooping during her bath last night. I am surprised that I freaked out a little. Poop doesn't normally bother me, but somehow when it was dispersing in the bath water, I freaked! TMI?? Sorry! I'm sure there are many more of these incidents to come. She's so cute that all I can do is laugh!

Parenting is wonderful. It's cliche, I know. We've been blessed with a dang-near perfect baby and I know that helps. The love keeps growing and I keep telling myself to remember all these precious moments because every time I go to Wal-Mart I cringe (for many reasons) to think that someday our perfect little Kayla Jean may be (will be, I know) one of the kids throwing an almighty fit!!!! GOD HELP US!