Uh Oh!

I know that it's a good thing, but Kayleigh has now started her "mommy" phase. She doesn't like to go to just anyone now, and it even takes time for her to warm up to her grandparents! Jim and Shirley usually see Kayleigh at least once a week, so they're definitely not strangers to her. We were at their house for dinner last night, and it took awhile for her to warm up to them and let Shirley hold her. I had Mrs. Guinipero over the other night, and Kayleigh did NOT want to be near her. Eventually, she would let Mrs. G touch her and play with her, but Kayleigh wouldn't let her hold her.
I say that it's a good thing, because it's part of her development. But, she even cried when I dropped her off at day care yesterday, and she rarely does that! It makes dropping her off hard, but I just have to run out of there and not make a big deal out of it.
My mom is coming up today (yay!), and we're going to Mobile tomorrow to see Nick, Robyn and Taylor. I just hope she'll let other people hold her this weekend. Erik is staying behind since mom and I won't be back until Monday, which means I'll be the only parent who can take her. Yikes!

Happy Easter!

We tried to get a couple of pictures of Kayleigh with her Easter basket, but as you can see, she was NOT interested in sitting for pictures--she was more interested in getting the camera. Maybe next year's pictures will be better...

New car seat

Crossing her legs like a little lady in her old car seat


Trying to decide if she likes this one.


We had to get Kayleigh a new car seat. We knew the time was quickly approaching, and when Kayleigh tipped the scale at 23 pounds, it was official. Her old car seat only fit babies up to 22 pounds. The old car seat was nice since you could pull it out of the car if she was sleeping and not have to wake her up. Of course, I always ended up waking her up, because I wasn't strong enough to pick her up smoothly. I would end up banging the car seat all over the car and against my leg. For some reason, Kayleigh didn't think it was nice and would wake up to see what's going on!
Erik got the car seat into the car yesterday. We had to test it out in the living room and see how Kayleigh liked it. She seems okay with it, but not super thrilled yet. This car seat is convertible, meaning that it can be rear facing and forward facing. When Kayleigh turns a year old, we can turn it around and she'll FINALLY be able to see where we're going, rather than where she's been! I never want to think about her getting older since I always enjoy the age that she is, but I do think it's going to be neat when she can see me in the mirror and we can talk in the car.

Kayleigh can CRAWL!!!

We were at Erick and Amy's new house on Friday night, and after dinner, Erik (notice the difference in spelling...that's how you know which Erik/Erick I'm talking about!) called me upstairs and said that Kayleigh could crawl. Erick is Kayleigh's favorite friend, so of course she would do anything for him, including crawl for the first time. We were so excited! She will only crawl to the object that she wants, and then sits up to play/chew on it. You'll see that on the video. I have a feeling that we are soon going to feel like Curry. He said, "It was really exciting for about the first week. After that, I missed him being where I left him."

New look!

Many of you have already seen the new look of the blog. I got tired of the pink after a year, and went searching for something new. While I do like this new background, I'm not convinced that it's the best one, so I might continue my search for the perfect background. For now, I hope you like it!

No more ear infection!

Kayleigh had yet another check up this afternoon from an ear infection that she got in January. We are happy to report that her ears are finally looking better. I was worried that the doctor would suggest getting tubes in her ears. He did say that it could be a possibility down the road, but we don't need to make that decision right now. I'm glad because I was really nervous about that! We had been praying that Kayleigh would have a good check up and God answered our prayers. Hopefully now we'll have a healthy baby for awhile.

9 months

I know I'm a little late with these pictures, but that's nothing unusual, right??? Dad has wanted me to do a list of what she can do at this age, so here it is:

At nine months, your baby....
Should be able to:
--work to get a toy that's out of reach (check)
--look for a dropped object (check)

Will probably be able to...
--pull up to standing position from sitting (she's almost there!)
--creep or crawl (no, but watch the video!!)
--get to a sitting position from stomach (check, and again, watch the video!)
--object if you try to take a toy away (not my baby!!)
--stand holding on to someone or something (check Oh, and my friends tried to turn her into a pole dancer this weekend at Seaside, but that's another story. I'll try to get pictures)
--pick up tiny object with any part of thumb and finger (check)
--say "mama" or "dada" indiscriminately (if you haven't seen that video...go watch it! And, she's working on "mama" but says "dada" more)
--play peekaboo (LOVES it!)

May possibly be able to:
--play patty-cake (clap hands) or wave bye bye (Kayleigh can clap her hands, and Jim and Shirley said she waved good bye last night. Erik saw it, but I didn't. She's working on it.)
--walk holding on to furniture (nope)
--understand "no" (nope)

May even be able to:
--"play ball" or roll the ball back to you (nope)
--drink from a cup independently (nope)
--pick up a tiny object neatly (not sure about that. She can get it, though!)
--Stand alone momentarily (check)
--Stand alone well (nope)
--say "dada" or "mama" discriminately (nope)
--say one word other than "dada" or "mama" (she sometimes says "baba", I think)
--respond to a one step command with gestures (nope)

Here's the video I referred to earlier. Please ignore my commentary. I think I sound like a dork! (Doesn't that come with the territory, though??) She does try to clap at the end, but her thumb got stuck in her sleeve and that threw her off.

Seaside

Erik, Kayleigh and I were in Seaside, Florida this past weekend. Seaside is a little beach close to Destin. Erik ran in the Seaside half marathon. He beat last year's time by 3 minutes! Impressive, if I do say so myself! We went over on Friday afternoon and relaxed on Saturday before the big race on Sunday. It was all beautiful, and a nice break from Tallahassee. We went to the beach, but the water was too cold to get in. Erik dipped Kayleigh's toes in the water to see what she thought of it. Let's just say she wasn't rushing out of his arms to get in!
All in all, it was a super weekend. I don't know about Erik, but it was hard for me to get up and go to work this morning!