Kaylee 2.5 years

It's been over a year since I did an update on Kaylee and she has changed so much since then. 

She is the sweetest little girl. She definitely has her crazy moments but overall, she is adorable. She loves her new little brother and is always trying to help out with him! We are definitely in the midst of the "Terrible Twos"! Luckily for every terrible two moment she has two adorable moments. For example she threw a fit the other day because her "back" hurt in the car seat. But then followed it up by calling me "hunny" and singing "twinkle twinkle" to her little brother! 

Here is an update on her at 2.5 years old! 

Stats::

Height: 3ft exactly (50th %tile)

Weight: 28.3 lbs (46th %tile)

Teeth: She has 17.5 teeth. She has her last top molar coming in now and still waiting on her bottom molars to pop through. 

Clothes: 2T

{Signature moves}

She loves to come running when her little brother cries. She says "I'm coming baby brother! It's okay I'm here!!" It's about the cutest thing I've ever seen. When Chad wakes her up in the morning to go to the babysitters she makes him rub her back. She's also got quite the bedtime routine, full of books, songs, about 1000 kisses and hugs as well as "fixing" her blankets about 42 times. 

{Favorite food}

A few of her favorites are waffles, yogurt, grapes, strawberries, cheeseburgers, french fries, granola bars, oatmeal, fruit snacks, hot dogs and corn. 

{Favorite activities}

We put her in a gymnastics class this summer and she absolutely LOVED it! She also loves to go swimming and the park!

{Least favorite activities}

Still not the biggest fan of the car! Vacation travel is definitely going to be a rough one. Most of the time she is such a good sport about things. She is usually a pretty good kid.

{Favorite sayings}

She does not stop talking.... at all... all day long. Chad and I can't even get in a word or conversation. She is just miss chatterbox 24/7. She loves the sound of her own voice. She will just talk non sense to herself just to be talking. It's insane! Half the time when the kids are in bed, Chad and I don't even talk to each other, we are just soaking in the silence. 

{Best parent award}

She has grown leaps and bounds this summer. She can count to 14 and almost to 20. She knows 95% of the letters of the alphabet and she is starting to trace letters and numbers! She is so so smart. We don't take any credit for it at all. 

{Stories from the sitter}

Kaylee LOVES the school bus and her favorite part of the day at the babysitters is to get the big kids off the bus! 

{Misc}

Since the last post, Kaylee has moved into a new room, got a new big girl bed and is completely day time potty trained! She is growing up so fast!! 

Jordan Carter Blackburn

A little late but better late than never. We welcomed Jordan into the world on May 26th, 2016.

Birth Stats: 
6 lbs 13 oz (31st %tile)
20 inches (69th %tile)

My labor started suddenly as I was getting ready to leave for work around 6:00am. I started contracting about every 10 mins. I decided to stay home but sent Chad to work and Kaylee to the sitter. I labored in bed for about an hour, then called the doctor as they were getting pretty painful, but not necessarily closer together. Because it was my second baby and I had gone quickly with my first, he said I should head to the hospital. I called chad and told him to come home. We left the house about 8:15 and arrived at the hospital about 8:40.

When I arrived in triage, they checked me and I was completely dilated and effaced and they commented my water would break anytime and when that happens, he would be born quickly. So, they rushed me to my room, got me set up with an IV, I got my epidural and it was about 10:00am when the doctor came in. She said she wanted to break my water and then I would have a baby with a few pushes.

She broke my water around 10:20, I pushed about 5 times and he was born at about 10:40am. It was a super easy labor, although super painful. I'm glad it went so quickly (under 5 hours) and I didn't end up as exhausted as I was with Kaylee!

Within the first days, Jordan was proving to be a very fussy baby who didn't sleep very much. He was having trouble breastfeeding and would scream! We all wrote it off to a fussy baby and gave it about 2 weeks before we took him to the pediatrician. She said it sounds like a classic milk intolerance and acid reflux. So, she started him on a soy formula and a reflux medicine.

A week later and many sleepless nights, we were back at the doctor. She said he's probably allergic to soy as well and might need additional reflux meds. So we stated him on a hypoallergenic formula and additional reflux meds.

Within 2 days, we had a different baby. Now that he feels better, he is a sweet, laid back little boy.

1 month stats: 

21 inches (42nd %tile)

10.5 lbs (82nd %tile)

2 month stats:

22.5 inches (42nd %tile)

12.75 lbs (76th %tile)

He is 3.5 months old now and here's a little update on him.

Stats::

14.8 lbs (54th %tile)

He's got the cutest rolls and everyone comments on his adorable cheeks! 

Favorites::

Play mat

He loves to lay on his play mat and look at the animals hanging down, or the mirror, or even turns his head to see the TV! 

His thumb

He is definately going to be a thumb sucker. Unlike his sister he wants nothing to do with a pacifier!

His family

He loves his sister, and she loves to make him smile. Which he does often. We will talk to him and he just lights up with smiles!

Milestones::

{Reaching and Swiping}

He loves grabbing things and putting them in his mouth! He also, likes to swipe at the animals on his playmat!

{Babble and mimic sounds}

He has started to "talk" to us. He makes the cutest noises and I have even heard what I think are the beginnings of a laugh. Can't wait for those baby belly laughs to start!

{Following sounds and voices}

He follows you across the room and watches you. He likes to watch TV and look at the bright screen! 

Sleeping::

{Night time}

He sleeps about 8 hours straight at night right now. 7:00pm-3:00am. Then he will eat and go back down until morning between 6-7am.

{Naps}

He takes about 3-4 naps a day, depending on when he wakes up for the day. One short one in the morning, a long afternoon nap, and then another short one in the afternoon. If he wakes up early that day, he will take two short ones in the morning. 

Eating::

He is drinking Similac Alimentium (hypoallergenic formula) for now. Here is a daily schedule of his:

6:00-7:00A wakes up might eat a 3oz bottle. 

8:00A eats 4-5oz

9:30A capnat (30mins) 

11:00A eats 4-5oz

11:30A catnap (30 mins)

1:00P nap (1-2 hours) 

2:00P might wake up and eat and go back to sleep or might wait to eat until 3-3:30

4:00-5:30P eats another 4-5oz and might take a 30 min catnap depending on his long nap. 

7:00P bath, 4-6oz bottle and bedtime. 

2:00-3:00A 3oz bottle then straight back to bed.

Misc::

{Baptism}

We had Jordan baptized a couple weeks ago. His Godparents are Kristen Franklin and his uncle Blake. He did so good during the service and slept most of the time! 

{Sucking his thumb}

This is something he has been working on lately and has recently started to get the hang of. It will be no time before he has perfected it. He HATES the pacifier, unlike his sister!

{Nicknames}

His nicknames include: J, Jord, Jordy, Jordino. As well as a ton of baby talk names like, sweet pea, cute boy, sweetheart...ect. 

He has really been a great baby since those awful early days. He's laid back and let's his sister run the show! I love his sweet smiles and our alone time in the mornings before his sister wakes up. He's just the sweetest thing and we all love him so much!!

Toddler Tales

Kaylee is a ball of energy! She is a monkey, loves to climb on everything, including mom and dad! She is so sweet and so rotten at the same time. Her faces and expressions crack us up. And the amount that she is able to comprehend amazes us daily! She is such a smart, smart girl!

Stats}
Height: ???

Weight: ???

Teeth: 6 Teeth: two bottoms, four top

Clothes: She fits in most 12-18 month clothes. Most of the 12 month stuff we have would still fit, but is winter gear. The summer stuff we have is 18 month and this fits her as well.
 

{Signature Moves}

Kaylee still loves to put things on and off, whether it is her shoes, socks, bib...etc She brings us our shoes and socks and tells us to put them on, then take them off, repeat x infinity, it's a fun game! She is a running, climbing, dancing, waving, clapping, singing, non-stop tornado! It is exhausting and so much fun all at the same time!
 

 

{Favorite words}

Kaylee is a talking machine. She has too many words to count at this point. Of which, her favorites are "on" "off" "ou-side" "uppie" (pick me up) "helpme" "Peeees" (please) "yes", "no" & "nomnomnom" (I want food now!). We have been "teaching" her 1,2,3 and a,b,c. She's got 1 down and will even hold up 1 finger. After that it's mostly noises we aren't quiet sure are the subsequent numbers or not, then she clamps and says "yay!" after 3! A,B,C are a little harder and mostly she just clamps at the end!
 

{Favorite Foods}

Still miss picky! She eats a lot of apple sauce, fruit bars, yogurt, grapes, oranges, hot dogs, peanut butter, mac&cheese, cheeses of all kinds (fav food for sure!) cherrios, pancakes and spaghetti. We have been trying to get her to eat different things, but she is so stubborn! I think we will try to reintroduce milk and eggs here soon and hopefully it goes better than the last times we have tried! Fingers crossed! We are also going to start working on her spoon/fork usage.
 

 

{Favorite Activities}

Sitting in her chair (for a total of 20 seconds), climbing (on the couch, the ottoman, on mom, on dad, on ANYTHING!), telling us "no" and then laughing, playing outside, running, running & running. Did I mention she is a ball of energy!?
 

{Least favorite Activites}

Getting better every day, but still not her favorite is the carseat. In the past couple months, she has mastered the toddler temper tamtrum... yes already! She knows what she wants and when she doesn't get it, melt down!! Luckily, knock of wood, they are short lived and she recovers quickly.
 

{Best parent award}

I can't think of any great stories lately. She mostly gets into all her predicaments herself these days. Like climbing on her chair, to the ottoman to the window sill to look out at the birds "tweet, tweet!" she says! Crazy girl!

 

{Stories from the sitter}

Since summer started Kaylee has been home with dad. She misses her friends at the sitter and asks for them, which is adorable. We have her "class picture" on the fridge and she will point to a couple people and say their names! So cute! I told her one night that when she woke up in the morning she got to go see them. She immediately laid down on the floor and pretended to sleep!! Chad and I just looked at each other amazed.... so adorable and smart!

{Misc}

Summer has been so fun. She is playing outside a lot, in her water table and baby pool. Loves to be outside, running around, swinging or just eating dirt! {best parent award}

 

She is at the age where she is able to understand what we are saying. We can tell her to go do something and she goes and does it. It is amazing to watch her grow. She amazes us with just how smart she is and what she can do! I'll say it again, favorite age!

Recap Spring

 

This spring has really gotten away from me. It has been about 3 months since my last update! So much to catch up on. We have been extremely busy and the summer is going to be even busier. So, I want to get a head on blogging again before I'm too far behind. I would love to do weekly posts this summer, since it seems every weekend we are going somewhere or doing something fun! We will see how on top of it we can be!

Okay, let's catch up!

 

We spent Easter with Chad's family. It was a really nice day, we were able to go outside and run around. Kaylee loves to be outside! The Easter Bunny brought Kaylee a water table to play with, which, is so much fun! She loves to splash around in it! Also, in her basket, were books, Tangled, bubbles & new socks! She has yet to watch the movie, since she can't sit still for even 5 seconds, but she LOVES bubbles. She asks for them on a daily basis, and then wants to blow them herself. Which is one of the cutest and messiest things I've seen!

We took Kaylee for her first Easter Egg Hunt. It was adorable! We were skeptical that she would be able to do it. So, we practiced at home first, spreading out eggs and teaching her to pick them up and put them in the basket. She immediately picked up (no pun intended) on it. She was running around the house picking all the eggs up, then dumping them back out to pick them up again. So, when we got to the Egg Hunt she was a pro! We went around and picked up some eggs, ate some cookies and candy! It was a chilly, but very fun day. I just love that she is getting old enough to be able to participate in things like that. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is my favorite age.

 

I went to see Lion King with my sister, mom and niece in April. It was awesome! So much fun to have a little girls day out. We had lunch then went to the show. I recommend it highly! The music and costume designs are just unbelievable. Something everyone should witness at least once!

We have welcomed the warm weather with open arms! It is so nice, with a baby, to be able to go out of the house without a million layers on!

 

We bought zoo passes this year and have been a handful of times so far. Kaylee loves elephants and she is proficient at her animal noises. She also loves the manatee house. The wagon was a new purchase and I'm going to have strong arms pulling it around the parks this summer!

 

When the weather is just right, we have been taking walks around the neighborhood. Kaylee loves to look at the ducks in the neighborhood pond. She loves to be outside no matter what. She stands at our back door saying "ou-side, ou-side!" Loves to run in the backyard, play in her new baby pool and water table and on the swing set. The hardest part is keeping up with the sunblock on her little bald head!

 

Well, I think that about covers the recap of our spring! It is going to be an adventurous summer and I know it will just fly by!

Happy Birthday Kaylee

We celebrated Kaylee's first birthday last month and she had a super fun party to celebrate. Lots of friends and family came over.

 Highlights: ripping the wrapping paper, smashing her cake & playing with her friends.

She got lots of new, fun toys and adorable clothes!

She had so much fun seeing and playing with all her family and friends!

I still cannot believe that my baby is 1 year old! I don't know where the past year has gone but it truly flew by! I hear that the years just keep going faster! I'm just trying to enjoy every moment while it happens!