3 months old!

Our sweet baby is 3 months old (as of Tuesday). I desperately wanted to post on Tuesday and give an update but time with work and baby and family in town just did not permit it. Oh well!

So what have we been up to lately? LOTS OF WORK! I'm winding down the year with my first graders so there's a lot of extra paper work that comes along with finishing it out. It's both a blessing and a curse because it means the end is near but it also means I've got a TON of work to do before it's all over.

Logan has been spending a lot of time with her paternal grandparents (Nana Kathy and Grandpa Don). They've been such a HUGE help to us this week as we've both been swamped with work. She's loving all of the sweet snuggles and fun things she's getting to do with them.

Mike has been working like crazy to finish his seminary stuff. He got his tetanus shot on Tuesday and that was really the last piece he had to complete to send off before we can hear yes or no from them. We have no doubt he'll get in academically, it's really all dependent on what God wants now--if that's where he wants us he'll open that door wide, if not he'll open another one. Right now we just both feel pretty strongly that he wants us out of here (but that could definitely change, too...remember, we thought we were headed to NC from Tallahassee and that all changed in a matter a month or two).

Ok--onto the part you really want :) Pictures!! (I'm going to post another post this afternoon with her 1, 2 and 3 month pictures together.)

Spent the afternoon dreaming away...yep, on her tummy. I've given up the battle, if that's where she wants to be, and she'll sleep for HOURS and HOURS on end...wonderful!

Sitting pretty in Olive Garden. (Thank you Miss Shannon for the sweet bow!)

Man, Mom, did ya really have to take my tete (paci in Spanish...yes, I'm trying my hardest to have a bilingual little one...won't my little Northern European girl shock people when she starts babbling in Spanish?)

And one from a couple of nights ago. She had such a sweet BIG smile and we captured it just at the right time!!

All Better Mommy

We are done with tylenol--hopefully for a long time. We are so glad that L is finally feeling better! (She's actually watching the NFL draft right now...she is definitely her father's daughter...and her Tia Carolyn's niece)

Logan and I spent the afternoon together while Mike was at work. Thankfully, she slept for several hours so that I could start cleaning our casa (which has been sorely neglected while she and I have been sick). She woke up in a very sweet mood. I tried to catch her smiles during our little photo shoot but I was just too enamored with them when they were happening that I didn't get the camera on her quick enough. Here are a few anyway.

C'mon mommy, another picture?

So, anyway, fast forward a few hours. We went shopping, had to get a few things from Babies-r-Us, including a mirror for the car so that she has something to look at while we're riding (I've had way too many hours in that car of screaming so I had to find SOMETHING to help). It seemed to work a bit, she cooed and cooed at herself on the way to the next store. We also hit up Michael's (for some more ribbon to do more bows--like the one I did on her head today?) and then went to Marshall's. Little did I know when I got in line at Marshall's that I'd be in it for TWENTY FIVE minutes!! Ack! It was like a Disney line, I'd go and feel like I was at the end and then they'd loop me around again. All would have been fine if I didn't have a poopy baby with me...luckily it didn't smell TOO bad so I don't think anyone noticed. People kept commenting on just how precious she is. (I think so, too)

And here she is after a long afternoon PASSED OUT in Nana and Grandaddy's bouncer.

Sweet dreams!

Sickies

Whew! We've had a rough week at the Kayle household. Sunday night as I was going to bed, I thought I felt a little bit of a chest cold coming on...you know the feeling--tight chest, kinda tight when swallowing, feels like impending doom. And what do you know? Monday morning rolls around and it hit me HARD! I got up for work but knew immediately I'd have to take a half-day just to get the sleep I lost the night before with both baby and cold.

It's turned into a nasty case of laryngitis, lost my voice (yes, my first graders did try to find it...looked under desks, on the playground, in the cafeteria...when I told them I had lost it they thought it was an invitation to a scavenger hunt) and I had a lot of chest congestion. As of Monday, L hadn't shown any traces of it. Tuesday she woke up congested, I sucked her nose up and she seemed ok. Tuesday night everything changed.

My sweet little angel got the worst of it at about 7:30pm and I could just tell she was going to lose it. She started whimpering when she swallowed and then got very congested and the whimpering got louder and then I pulled her out of her warm bath and the whimpering turned to screaming. She screamed and screamed so much that my mom, a nurse manager at Miami Children's Hospital, rushed down to check her out when she heard her over the phone because the noise scared her. No fever, no rashes, no other visible symptoms. At about midnight she finally calmed down enough (yes, do the math, that's 4 1/2 hours of straight screaming) to nurse and fall asleep but was up about every hour after that in need of suctioning.

Mike took her to the Dr. on Wednesday who informed him that it was nothing more than a mere cold and she was probably just uncomfortable. She hasn't felt well but we haven't had any screaming problems since. Poor thing fell asleep last night at 10pm and slept until about 11am this morning (not straight, just woke up about every 4-5 hours to eat and go back to sleep). She woke up at 11 this morning and we had a snuggley rest of the day together. (I think she's feeling better than I am... I'm still trying to kick the congestion)

This is how she spent most of the morning, I don't think she even so much as winced.

This is after she woke up and had eaten. Much happier baby! She's wearing one of the bows that mommy made for her.

Finishing a smile for mommy.

Isn't she sweet? I know, I'm partial because I'm the mommy but I just can't get enough of her!

Stretching in her swing. She makes the sweetest noises when she stretches.

Don't worry mom, I'm feeling better!!

Weekend With The Greats

Logan had yet another busy weekend as she was the star of the family show. :) This weekend she got to meet the last of her great grandparents, she met Mike's a couple week's ago and my dad's mom lives only about 30 minutes away from us. These are my grandparents on my mom's side. She also got to meet her Great Aunt JoAnne (my mom's sister). Saturday morning I loaded Logan up in the car with extra diapers and wipes (knowing we'd be out all day long) and headed to pick up my mom, my grandma and my Aunt and we headed out to SHOP!

We had no idea when we left (I SWEAR!) that we'd end up at the Falls on the day that they had their sidewalk sale. They had all kinds of stuff that was crazy discounted. Of course, my favorite stop was at Janie and Jack, my FAVORITE kids store (thanks Rebecca!), and we got a ton of fall clothes so that Logan will be ready for a cooler North Carolina fall. Here are some of the pictures from the weekend--

Great Grandma Natalie and Logan.

Great Aunt JoAnne and Lo.

Great Grandpa Niels and Logan (I think he was the most excited to meet little Lo)

Here is Logan with daddy this morning. We had a little projectile spit up incident this morning while she was snuggling with us in bed so we all had to take showers and Logan and I hung out in our robes until we got ready for church (wanted to avoid ruining our outfits just in case the projectiles came back).

Logan and mommy in our matching pink robes.

One of my favorite finds at Janie and Jack- Logan's cool shades! I thought she'd throw a fit when I put them on her this morning but she spent about 20 minutes on the way to church just hanging out and looking around with them...then she got sleepy and was having none of them. Such a sassy little thing!

Great Grandma and Grandpa with mommy.

4 generations strong!

Here is a GREAT picture of her big baby blues. She has red eye in so many of her pictures because of her light eyes so we are hard pressed to find one where you can actually see the deep blue with no red. Here's one! :)

Bad Case of Mommyitis

And so it seems the clingyness begins. Liz, a retired police officer from the church has been watching Logan when we don't have family lined up. She came for the first time yesterday and while Lo seemed ok before I left, I guess she lost it pretty good after I was gone and had to be held the entire day. I'm very thankful that she didn't call to tell me while I was at work or I would have just been miserable until I could get to her yesterday.

This morning when Liz walked in the door, Logan took one look and got her little quiver lip and started to cry. I cuddled her for a bit and then sat her in her bouncer to watch some Baby Einstein and as I grabbed my purse her lip started to pout and quiver again and I could just hear her whimpering as I walked out the door. It was horrible! I cried all the way to Mike's store and as I was getting my morning latte I tearfully told Mike how thankful I am that I'll be able to be with her next year. God really has made me to be a mommy, I have no desire to do anything else.

Here are a few pictures of Logan tonight in her crib (which she has yet to sleep in at night, she just loves the bassinet too much). She's wearing a sleeper that says "Mommy Loves Me" and that phrase could not be more true!!

Such a big girl! Right now she's sitting next to me fighting sleep. She'll get SO close and then start moving her arms and legs and fussing until she fully wakes herself up. It's so much fun..... except not.

A couple anecdotes from some of my little girls at school:

"So, is your baby alive now that she's out of your belly?"

Girl 1: "Mayah, stop being so popular!"

Me: "What do you mean, popular?"

Girl 1: "You know, someone who everyone knows but they're kind of act snobby and stuff. It's annoying."

"Mrs. Kayle, I want to be a teacher when I grow up because your hair is so beautiful and stuff." (and stuff is the favorite little phrase to add to the end of EVERYTHING)

Quickie

Ok, we're headed to bed but I just HAD to share this picture. I caught Logan mid-giggle tonight in her bumbo. Is this precious?!?! Love her so much!

Easter Sunday

We had a great Easter Sunday with Logan. We went to church this morning (and she slept through the whole service so I didn't have to sit in the nursery with her this week) and then we had a little Easter Egg hunt after the service. Logan got two eggs (well, Mommy got two eggs to take pictures of for Lo's baby book)! Then we headed to my parent's house for lunch and we spent most of the afternoon there. Here's a picture of Logan at my parents house, she's saying "Thank you Miss Shannon for my BEAUTIFUL Easter bow!"
Logan loves her bouncer at home so much that we had to get her a bouncer for her grandparent's house!
I'll leave you with our family photo.
Happy Easter! Love, The Kayles