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!

 



Daddy's Sweetheart

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?





Scrub-a-Dub, a Baby in the Tub

A few night ago I was giving Kayton a bath, her first real bath since she was born. I had given her two baths before, but they were only sponge baths because her umbilical cord hadn't fallen off.

For this bath I filled up a plastic tub with water and baby soap and plopped her gently in. Well, I didn't think about the fact that skin is very slippery when wet and that with her squirmeyness that she wouldn't stay in one spot. My logic in giving her a "real" bath wasn't very logical at all. Luckily Neight was home and I was able to get his help. I held her while he rinsed the bubbles off of her, but not before he could get some pictures.

Surprisingly during this whole ordeal Kayton stayed very calm and didn't mind being in the water, that's good news for when we get a bath tub that will work for these kinds of baths.

Kayton Mikael

This post is pretty long and I won't be mad if anyone skips straight down to the pictures. 

Our sweet baby girl, Kayton Mikael, decided to grace us with her presence on Friday, June 15th at 9:23 am. She was 7 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long. 

I went into labor around 2 Thursday afternoon while I was at work. The contractions I was having weren't super bad and were between 20 and 30 minutes apart so I really didn't think anything about it. Once I got home around 7, the contractions really started to hurt. Neight's grandparents were in town for a semi-annual visit, but it also happened that they planned it around Kayton's birth and Neight's graduation. Because we don't get to see his grandparents very often they took us out to dinner. It was really nice to talk with them about our lives and how they are doing in their retirement, but I kept getting distracted by how painful and close together the contractions were.

Around 10:30 Thursday night I decided we should probably go to the hospital, although, while I was making me decision I kept thinking how I really didn't want to be one of "those" women who went to the hospital and have it turn into a false alarm. It's a good thing that we went to the hospital when we did because it was a 45 minute drive and on the way the contractions got even worse! Luckily I had preregisterd with the hospital so it was easy admittance. 

Once in the hospital the nurse that was assigned to me checked me to see how dilated I was and after two hours with no progression she wanted to give me a shot of pain medication and send me home. I explained to her that we lived 45 minutes away and by the time we got back to our house we would probably have to turn right around and drive back to the hospital. Once we had this discussion the nurse said she would call the doctor that was on call to see what she had to say. Luckily the doctor said to give me the shot of morphine there to help me relax and see where I was after an hour. Thankfully after the morphine I was able to relax and progress super fast! After the hour of waiting the nurse moved me into an actual labor and delivery room where I was able to relax a little bit more.

There was only one set of contractions that were bad enough to make me cry, and it was right after the nurse had told me she wanted to send me home, which made me super frustrated.

After moving into the labor and delivery room Neight got some sleep and I tried to sleep between the contractions. Around 5:00 Friday morning I asked for the epidural because the pain was quite a bit more than I wanted to deal with. I was exhausted and ready to sleep. Once I got the epidural the event became super easy and not stressful at all!

Around 7:00, right after the shift change, the doctor came in and said it was time to get things finished. So, 7:30 he broke my water, 8:30 I started pushing, and 9:23 our beautiful baby was born. She was and still is so perfect!

Neight was so fantastic the entire time! I don't know that I would have been able to get through it without him. He let me squeeze his hand during the contractions and was so supportive during the delivery! He even cut the umbilical cord :) I wish there were words to describe how awesome he was, but I don't even know where to start. I guess once a woman is in labor it makes my feelings easier to understand.

Unfortunately we didn't make it to Neight's graduation because it was Friday afternoon, but Kayton did come in time for Father's Day :)

Here are a few of the many pictures we've taken in the last two and a half weeks. I am very biased and cannot get over how beautiful and perfect Kayton is. She has stolen my heart <3

An adorable face with a big yawn

This was taken once I moved into the recovery room, just a few hours after she was born

Grandma Sharen, Auntie Angie, and Auntie Emily

The new and very proud daddy :) Kayton already has him wrapped around her little finger

Once we got home, Neight decided to play with the camera and it's different settings

The Korous Side

After her first bath, she was not very happy with me

Her adorable feet with our rings on them, because I'm silly like that ;)

Rings that fit on one of our fingers have to go on two of hers

Grandpa Chris, another man that she has wrapped around her finger

Birthday, a New Job, and Valentines

February is usually a busy month for us, with Neight's birthday on the 8th and Valentines on the 14th. It is especially busy this year with Neight also starting a new job!

For Neight's birthday I tried so hard to set up a surprise for him, and as hard as I tired to keep it a secret until his birthday he still found out. See, I had been planning this birthday surprise for him since November so in theory it should be flawless. Well, it wasn't. Far from actually. I had planned to take him out to dinner at his favorite restaurant, Happy Sumo, and then to Anniversary Inn for a night away before the baby comes. Well, the Monday before his birthday he was asking me some questions about it and said "If we're going to stay someplace over night, what are we doing with the dog?" I FORGOT THE DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so upset and rushed through the different people I could pawn her off on ;) Luckily Neight thought of my parents and how she could sleep in their backyard that night. Zildjin loves to spend time outside so I figured it would be a good plan, but I was still terrified that she would bark all night long and my parents would decided that they never wanted to watch her again. Luckily my mom was gracious enough to let us drop her off for the night, my dad was kind enough to put carpet in her kennel and a tarp over it to keep it warm, and THANKFULLY Zildjin didn't bark all night long. I'm so lucky to have such awesome parents :) Even though I couldn't quite pull off the surprise it was still a nice night and Neight says he enjoyed it. The weekend after his birthday we went to Rodizio Grill with some friends and had a really great time. One of these years I'm going to tell the restaurant that it's his birthday so they can play the cool drum for him :) The meat was delicious and the grilled pineapple was heaven. It's pretty fun when I can eat just as much as the men do, I just hope it doesn't stay that way after the baby is born.

Neight started a new job on the 13th and loves it. He tells me it's completely different from Geek Squad and very much laid back, which is better for his stress level right now. Especially while he's trying to focus on school. Speaking of school, my due date is June 10th and Neight's graduation ceremony for his Associates Degree is June 13th, talk about nerve racking! Anyway, this job is a foot in the door to his ideal career and will help us out in the long run, I hope. I'm not sure exactly what  he does, he comes home and tells me about the activities of his day, but 90 % of the time I don't understand anything he's talking about, but I still listen and ask questions when I think I will understand the answer :) Neight is trying to stay at Geek Squad a few nights a week, but by the time he has a day off he will have worked 21 days straight between his new job and Geek Squad. I don't know how long Geek Squad will stay if it's a continual thing where he doesn't get a day off for three weeks. I do appreciate all he is doing for me and the baby, but I need him to stay healthy and sane ;)

With Valentines day being in the middle of the week Neight worked all day and I had school all day so we didn't do anything super special, which is fine with me because we should be expressing our love all year long, not just on Valentines day. Although, when I got home from school that night Neight did give me a present :) It was a box of rice crispy treats that leave a space for you to write on the wrappers. Well, in this box of 40 Neight went through and wrote Valentine's sayings (kind of) on all of the wrappers for me :D It was the cutest thing! It is a much more thoughtful gift than flowers or chocolates because he actually had to think about it :) It made my day. I am one lucky girl :)

That's our update for now. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow to check on the baby. Neight and I are still trying to decide on a name. We've come up with a few that we like, and I think I even have a favorite picked out, but I don't want to say "that's her name" and then find one I like more. I still have 4 months to figure things out, although, those four months are going to FLY by! Now I need to get moving and clean the house, make the grocery shopping list, and I should probably work on my homework, even though it's super hard to find motivation this semester.

Here's a picture of me last week at week 23

Weekend fun!

So, as promised, I took pictures of the weekend and now it's time to blog :)

Sunday, Neight and I decided that we were going to go to the zoo before we went to dinner with his co workers. We've been to the zoo so many times before, but it's still fun to get out of the house and spend some time outside. As usual not many of the animals were out and about, but we did get lucky in the Elephant Encounter area! There was a trainer doing a "presentation" with Zuri (the two year old elephant) and her mom Christie. The video that I'm posting is WELL WORTH your time to watch. Zuri does some things in there that I didn't know an elephant was capable of. Don't mind my commentary, I was pretty shocked at what was going on :)

Here are some pictures of Zuri and her mom.

Zuri balancing on the ledge.

 

Also, at the zoo there were some pretty intense dinosaur exhibits. It was interesting to see scale models of different dinosaurs and facts about them. I didn't take very many pictures of these because they weren't as cool as the real animals. The exhibit that blew me away was the T-Rex. This thing was actually life sized!!!! I would FREAK if I saw a T-Rex coming towards me. It was pretty funny to see all the families there and how the kids reacted to the dinosaurs. As we were walking by the T-Rex this little boy asked his dad if it was real. The dad said "yes it is." At that boy the little boy's face went pale as a ghost and his eyes were FULL of terror. I thought it was HILARIOUS! because that is TOTALLY something Neight would do if we had a child. Poor thing.

When we got home from the zoo I started making the salad for the dinner. It's a pretty simple recipe and it tastes DELICIOUS!!!! Here's a picture of it :)

The dinner was pretty fun. Only three of Neight's co workers showed up, his boss was also there, being that it was at his house. There was a lot of good food and two super funny dogs. One was a little Chihuahua and the other was a huge Boxer. Now, I'm not scared of dogs, I just don't like their wet noses and yucky tongues.... That might change when we get a dog. The funny thing about these two dogs is that the Chihuahua is the one in charge, and when the two of them lay down, the Chihuahua lays on top of the Boxer. I wish that I would have been able to take a picture of it, but I didn't get a chance :(

It was a nice weekend and I really enjoyed it. My new semester at Westminster starts next week! I'm super nervous! Neight finds out his classes for next quarter tomorrow! Look at us being grown up :)