Balance

As a student, homemaker, and working mom, to say that I'm busy is almost an understatement. I've tried not to let myself go, but the older Kayton gets, the more difficult it is becoming and it's a challenge to look put together.

There are mornings that the first forty five minutes of contact with Kayton result in boogers on my shoulders and food on my clothes. The first fifteen minutes result in smudged make-up and sweat as I wrestle to get her diaper and clothes changed.

Recently, Kayton has found it exciteing to pull my hair as had as she can. When I get after her she giggles and laughs. Now, I've never found the idea of pulling my hair back into a pony tail appealing because I feel sloppy, but I'm almost to that point. Luckily I can French braid my own hair because that might be my new 'do'.

Even though the terrible twos are here, I am completely smitten with my little girl :) and I wouldn't trade her for the world!

Update

Well, I'm one day short of a full year since my last post, so here's an update (with plenty of pictures)

Neight and I are both in school and working. This school year I dropped down to only 6 credits so I could spend more time at home. I only have 3 semesters left!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so close to graduating!
Neight left ITT and is now doing prerequisites and SLCC so he can transfer to the U as a history teaching major.

Kayton is 18 months old today and SUCH a busy body. She's a sweetheart and loves to give kisses and hugs to everyone, especially animals. She sleeps all night and has a total of 10 teeth. She runs all over and loves to throw things. She's really good at copying things that Neight and I do and she's making TONS of sounds to communicate. She's learned to say "No" and shake her head. She isn't a picky eater, which is nice, and she LOVES her veggies :)

 

Valentines 2013

First Trip to the Zoo

Playing the Piano with Auntie Ang

 



2012 Christmas Card

 

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season!

Bubbles!

 

Kayton loves bath time! She has a couple of toys that I let her play with and when they are down by her feet she will use her feet to push them up to where she can grab them. She also loves to grab the washcloth and suck the water out of it. As soon as I notice her doing that I take it away because I don't want her to swallow the soap. Silly girl!

5 Months

Kayton is even more of a busy body than she was when she was born. Now that she has rolling down she is starting to scoot and push her knees to her stomach. The funniest thing about her pushing her knees up is that her butt goes straight up into the air. I have a feeling that she is going to be crawling before Christmas. Kayton is starting to sit up on her own, but only for a few seconds at a time. A lot of the time she will fall forward and sometimes to the side. Everything she touches goes straight into her mouth and she chews on it. Neight and I will blow raspberries and she blows them back. She has also learned how to blow raspberries on my arm. It amazes me how smart she is already! She's started to grab her feet and play with them, this is particularly apparent when I try to change her diaper and her butt is already raised off the changing table. She has started squirming when I change her diaper and rolls off to the side. This little girl is AMAZING!

 



Cereal!

This week I decided it was time to give Kayton some rice cereal. She wasn't thrilled, but she didn't hate it either. She likes to blow raspberries in general and didn't hesitate to blow raspberries with cereal in her mouth. Luckily I don't wear glasses because it went ALL over my face. 

4 Months

I cannot believe that this cute girl is already 4 months old!

Kayton has started grabbing onto things! As soon as she grabs something it goes into her mouth!

This is her blessing day. The dress she is wearing is a family heirloom. My mom was blessed in it, I was blessed in it, Emily and Angie were blessed in it, and now Kayton was blessed in it.

Kayton wasn't very cooperative when we tried taking pictures of her this month. She had her own agenda of what she wanted to be doing.

Daddy's Sweetheart

3 Months

She Rolls!

 

Very early this morning when I put Kayton in her crib she rolled over! So when we actually woke up I figured I would take a video of it :) I can't believe how fast she is growing!

Sweet Girl

I just can't get enough of this precious baby!

Yesterday Kayton had her 2 month check up where she also got 6 vaccinations. Luckily she only had to get a total of 3 shots, but it still wasn't any fun to hear her cry!

She weighs in at 11 lbs and is 22.8 inches long. I can't believe she is already two months old! Especially since I have to start going back to school on Thursday :( I am already having seperation anxiety. I suppose everything will turn out right. I just have to continue telling myself that I am creating a better and brighter future for my daughter.

2 Months

Hanks Family

Last weekend Neight, Kayton, and I took pictures with my family. We went to the studio at JC Penny and they were.... ok. The prices are good, but I don't like how the shoot went. The photographer only took a few shots of each pose and could have retaken some of those when hair was in our eyes or someone wasn't smiling, yada yada yada. I just know that we probably won't do group shots there anymore. I think it will be decent for individuals of Kayton, so we will have to try it on her first birthday.

After the shoot they add the photos online so you can look at all of them and that's how I got copies of them. In some of the pictures you can see the arrows to move to the next picture, so just disregard those.

Great Grandma(s)

At the beginning of the month we had a busy weekend starting with the baby shower on Saturday, thrown by Neight's Mom and sister. The games that we played were fun and the food was delicious. It was mostly Neight’s family that was there as I invited my friends to the baby shower my Mom and sister put together. Neight’s Grandma Susan was visiting from Texas and was able to meet and hold Kayton for the first time. At the shower we were able to take a picture of four generations on the Korous side.

Kayton had fallen asleep and I wasn't about to wake her up for the picture.

From the day Kayton was born everyone said that she looked like Neight and had his facial features, I never believed them until I looked at his Grandma Susan. Kayton has the same nose shape as Susan and now I have to accept that she really does have the Korous looks.


After the baby shower Neight, Kayton, and I headed down to Antimony to visit my Grandma Twitchell. My Grandma came up for the baby shower in May, but hadn’t had a chance to meet Kayton yet. So Sunday afternoon we took another four generation picture.

Again, Kayton fell asleep and I wasn't about to wake her up.

It's hard to have family living so far away, but at least we were able to get pictures with four generations :)

Almost Two Months

Neight went fishing super early this morning with his friend Brett Bennett and his brother Jesse, and when Kayton woke up to eat just before seven I figured I would start my day. I haven't done a lot so far and I'm really hungry, but have no idea what to do for breakfast. Anyway, I figured I would post an update on the last month while Kayton is still sleeping.

Friday, Kayton was 8 weeks, but she won't be two months until Wednesday. It is a little weird how that works out, but oh well. Next Monday I will be taking her to the pediatrician to see how she is growing and to also get immunizations. I'm not really looking forward to her screaming in pain, so we will see how that goes.

Things haven't been as crazy around here this second month. Kayton is now sleeping between 6 and 8 hours a night and has started setting a schedule. She usually goes to sleep for the night between 9 and 10, which leave Neight and I an hour or two to ourselves before we go to sleep. I don't know how things are going to go when I go back to work and school, her entire schedule might get messed up those first few weeks.

At the end of July it was my Mom's birthday and I made this super cute gift for her.

Kayton was not happy when I had Neight help me put her footprints on it, but in the end I think it was worth it. I hope my mom liked it.

This last month Kayton has started smiling more and she has even started "talking" to us. She is just the cutest little thing and I love her so much! She is a happy baby for the most part, but when she gets mad she gets mad! This little girl has a set of lungs on her. Maybe we have ourselves a future singer? Her lungs have been getting even stronger because she caught a cold that both Neight and I had. I tried to hard to keep her healthy and she didn't seem to get it as bad as we did, but she still wasn't feeling well. She started crying a new cry that I had never heard before, which must be her sick cry and when we try to clean the gunk out of her nose she will scream and scream and scream until we are finished. I feel bad for my sweet girl and I really hope we are at the end of the cold.

Kayton loves to kick her feet which means that some days I cannot keep her wrapped up in a blanket! Before she was born, Kayton was given this set of super adorable feet rattles! I love them and put them on her at least once a day :)

Here are a couple of pictures that I have taken with my phone. I need to upload the pictures from our camera and post those.

This one is her adorable smile :) It is a little dark so you might have to look at your monitor at a different angle to see it. With this smile I think that when she is older we are going to have some problems with a lot of boys coming around ;)

For some reason Kayton blows bubbles with her mouth when she is asleep. My mom says that she has never met another baby that blows as many bubbles as Kayton does. Maybe there is a hidden talent in there somewhere?