my beautiful little girl

I often blog about the funny, the nuts, the mundane, the medical. But tonight, I am going to blog about the beautiful. My baby girl.

Tonight I walked out the door at quarter to five to go to work. It was a crazy night and I was just glad to be home. Glad to be able to sit down and breathe, for just a minute. After making something to eat, I was relaxing and checking my email when I hear Kaelyn. She is SCREAMING! Now, for the last 3 weeks, we have had an AWESOME sleep schedule and she has been going to bed completely awake. So the mommy in me steps into action with a snuggle blanket and we head into my room where it is quiet, dark, and I have a BIG snuggly blanket with both of our names on it. I try my best to get her calmed down and after half a dozen rounds of "you are my sunshine" she is calm enough to lay down and snuggle up. . . .

. . . And she gets a case of the giggles! She is laughing all the way to her eyes!

And this is where the beauty comes into play. We were laying together, all snuggled up, and the light from the hallway is playing across her face. Shadows on her face and a sparkle in her eyes, she looks like an angel. I don't think we spend enough time enjoying and appreciating the little things. A late night giggle fest, eskimo kisses after nap time, the joy in a toddler's eye when YOU figure out their new word (and thursday is was SHOOOOOE), watching your baby girl seem like such a big girl one minute and the next you see so much of the baby she used to be! How easily I could have been upset, frustrated, or crabby at this late night switcheroo. But all it took was a hug and some giggles to realize that I am SO VERY BLESSED. I took the time to appreciate her for the little miracle she is. The little girl who stole my heart, and made me fall in love with my husband all over again. There is so much beauty in the little things, we just have to take the time to appreciate them, drink them in, and make them a memory!

Go out and enjoy your babies!

Mommabunz and Kaelyn (now peacefully snoring for the last 40 minutes)

first post of 2012

Well, its been a rough week! Kaelyn has been cutting her eye teeth. Thursday and Friday were days of wimpering and fever and not eating much but FINALLY last night the two bottom incisors broke through. She woke up at about 1am just miserable and clingy and I'm guessing the pain of them breaking through is what woke her up. Her fever broke about midnight so we didn't have to take her to urgent care as I was afraid we might have to. Holy cow, she has given us a run for our money lately. Hopefully we will get a little break before her other 2 eye teeth come in. She is so cute though. When she woke up, cried, let me give her some tylenol, chugged her sippy cup, and promptly passed out on my lap on the couch. She sputtered a little and I thought maybe she was going to vomit, but no dice (thank GOD) so I decided it was a better idea to spend the night out on the couch and let Jeremy get a good night sleep. Hopefully he returns the favor for me.

Tonight, Jer had his work Christmas party and Kaelyn got to go over to Auntie J's house and play with Little A and Uncle D. It was a pleasant evening out, even if the food was unhealthy and my stomach didn't cooperate for the later portion of the evening, but we got a pretty cool gift, (snacks, a thermos, a nice hat and 10 bucks) and then Jeremy also won a 50 dollar best buy gift card. Wonder if i can talk him into getting us a printer, FINALLY. I'd love it. lol. Sure beats going to the library to print stuff off or asking Jeremy to print it off at work.

ON a different note, today my dog tried to kill me. hee hee. I saw Kaelyn trying to pull the xbox off of the tv stand so i hollered "no no no kaelyn" and went to hop over our baby gate system, and so did Odin, but he stopped and tripped me, i took down the gate and am now sore and bruised up and banged up. I hurt. All Over.

Time for a tylenol and to hit the hay.

I'll try to post more regularly in the future.

All our love,

Kaelyn and her banged up (and feeling her age) mommy.

xoxoxoxo