34 week bonus pictures

Kalia feeding Kodi...look at his tongue.  I guess he's helping build up her immune system by exposing her to germs!

So happy with herself after feeding her furry brother...

Working with Mommy before heading out to breast feeding support group...

Poor Kodi...

My two goof balls...

Kodi whispering sweet nothings in Kalia's ear (she thinks this is hilarious!).

Our nightly ritual of giving Kodi a treat before bedtime.  Notice how it's not in her mouth...she's learning!

Fun time in her prison play yard!

"Anybody out there?!"

"Yay!!!  Kodi, you came to play with me!!!"

"Um, Mommy, can Kodi come in to play please??"

Kalia's new favorite thing is to climb in the baskets to play with her toys...

She was so cute here ... her doll basket is soft, and she was tired, so she took to chomping on her doll with the pacifier (she won't suck it, just chews on it...for those pretend teeth she's got going on...) and taking a rest..

Getting ready to head out for a jog!  She really only likes to go 2-3 miles, and then she wants to get out and crawl around.

Happy girl with her new necklace!

She also got a rash on her belly this week, but it went away within a day or two.  There's no telling with how much she's into what caused it.  She has my sensitive skin, so she reacts to everything.  It doesn't slow her down much though!  Look how cute her little pot belly is here!!

On a mission...she's got her tongue out and everything...

Looking awfully guilty about something (and cute too!)...

We cleaned out the garage this weekend and brought her jumperoo out with us to keep her entertained for some of the time so I could help Chris move the heavy stuff.  I was pretty much useless when Kalia was awake though, she's way more fun than cleaning out the garage!!  At one point I had a sheet of plywood under one arm and Kalia under the other.  I guess not much slows me down either!  Ha!

Kalia 'helping' me clean her face.  She likes to hold the sponge...but I don't let her eat it!

We met up with Uncle Jason and Ashlyn at Sonny's on Monday.  Kalia thinks her Uncle Jason is a big goof ball...which is just the way she likes people!

Kalia had a rough night (argh blueberries!!!), so in the morning I brought her into bed with me and put her in a milk coma.  She slept there for almost 3 hours.  I just put up a pillow barrier around her and kept going in to check on her.  I put her to sleep the other way, but she does this same thing in her crib...she likes to sleep the wrong way on the bed.  So sweet, so innocent...so cute!

Kalia loves her books and her book shelves.  She can play with those things for hours.  She actually does well with not getting all of the books down at once, just a few, then playing, then a few more, then playing.  We read a lot around here...I love it!

'Till next week...

Happy 34 week Birthday Kalia!

This week, Kalia :

• weighed in at 19 lbs at breast feeding support group.  She's into a lot of her 12 month clothes already!
• pulls herself up on anything and everything...including random people.  Anytime I take her anyplace new, she takes a few minutes to warm up, and then just takes off.  If you smile at her, she thinks you're okay.
• has officially started babbling.  She will occasionally make the ga ga noise, says ma ma ma ma and ba ba ba ba a lot, and started to make the da da noise on her 34 week birthday.  She doesn't really associate anything with her babbling yet, even though I make a big deal everytime she says 'ma ma'.  She just thinks I think she's funny.
• went through a horrible teething night on Wednesday night and was up every two hours.  On Thursday I decided she wasn't getting enough milk, so I pumped and started feeding her rice cereal with milk mixed in with her food.  I also got her an amber necklace that's supposed to be a natural aid for teeth pain (read here to learn more :  http://hyenacart.com/inspiredbyfinn/mt/713/14913/What-is-Baltic-Amber-How-Can-it-Help-Us).  Some of the girls in one of the play groups swear by them.  I got it Thursday afternoon and Kalia slept from 540 p.m. until 4 a.m.!  I don't know if it was more milk or the magic necklace, but I'd do the hokey pokey 300 times to get that kind of sleep around these parts!  She did well on Thursday and then sort of okay on Friday, and then ...
• ate blueberries for the first time.  I think these are causing her bad stomach issues.  On Monday she pooped ELEVEN times.  She woke up to strain to poop quite a few times from sleep.  We're cutting those out of her diet and are hoping that's the problem.
• has decided she loves to make Mommy and Daddy play fetch.  I guess it's payback.  While she's eating in her high chair, she throws her toys over the top and then smiles at us.  After a couple of seconds she stops smiling and starts hollering...she wants her toys back!
• likes to feed Kodi off of her high chair too.  She likes to rub her hand in her food, smear it all over her tray, and then hold her hand out for Kodi to lick.  She laughs, laughs, laughs.  Both of our kiddos think this is great!
• decided that independent play while at volleyball at Monday night was for the birds.  She made it through one point of the first game before she started hollering.  The old guy George picked her up, which she was okay with this week (no dirty dipe - yay!).  She was a little bit much for him though...she thought his glasses were cool and needed to come off of his face and into her mouth.  The guy Bill we play with had a strained knee, so he went out and held her and she chewed on her Sophie and watched Mommy and Daddy play and was really well behaved for the rest of the three games.  She doesn't have stranger anxiety...she just has to warm up to people for about the first 5 minutes, and then if you smile at her, she thinks you're fun!
• went to story time on her 34 week birthday and after warming up, thought it was fun fun fun to crawl at mach 100 and get into everything.  She tried to knock over the easels with big art on them, used anyone and everything to pull herself up on, and thought the art work that was hung lower needed to be hit and pulled on.  Thankfully she didn't ruin anything!  They people there said they've never seen a baby crawl so fast.  She made a lot of friends though with pulling herself up on everyone!
• started jumping up and down while holding onto things when she's excited.
• rolls her tongue a lot...she babbles, squeals really loudly when she gets excited, or rolls her tongue.  Contrary to what all of yall think :-), she gets the loud squeal from her Daddy.  When he gets home from work those two squeal and yell back and forth at each other.  I need to teach Chris how to use his inside voice, hehe!

I think I say this every week, and every week I think it gets more impossible...but the pictures were the hardest thing this week.   After Chris got home, we went for another round.  It was a bit easier with him holding her down and being there to catch her when she decided she was all done, but ... well, you'll see!

I kept tossing her back (literally tossing) into the pillow and sitting back and snapping a picture really quickly and then catching her as she'd crawl off the chair.  She knew what she was doing and thought it was really funny to give Mommy such a hard time!

So I tried pinning her into the chair / pillow by wedging her head into the corner of the chair, which she also thought was hilarious for about 2 seconds before she crawled off again.

And then when Daddy came home, we tried again.  He had to literally hold her down every time, so Daddy is in these pictures too!  She is such a silly girl and thought this was a really fun game!

It is hard to keep our little cruiser still these days!!

34 week checkup

Everything looked good at todays checkup.  They strapped me into the heart monitor and Kalia's heart rate looked good.  My blood work came back from last week, and the only negative is that I'm slightly anemic.  We're having steak for dinner tonight :-).

I'm still measuring a little bit large, and she's still not moving around like she was, so he's doing another ultra sound on Thursday afternoon to check out my amniotic fluids and stuff.  I'm pretty sure he's just overly cautious on everything...better safe than sorry!

I'm assuming we'll see that she's still up on my ribs.  I think she heard me complaining about my boobs being too big and has decided that she'll help hold those bad boys up.  She's that high!  The upper portion of my stomach has actually gone pretty numb...it's like when you have ice on a spot for awhile and then run your finger along it...you can sort of feel it, but it's that weird numb tingly feeling.  That's what I've got going on across my upper ribs.  He said its from her hanging out up there.

I told him I was going to jump up and down to get her to move down...he said "we don't allow jumping in pregnancy".  Bummer.

Chris and I took a few hours on Sunday and floated around in the pool.  It was awesome.  I could lay flat on my back without hurting because I wasn't so heavy, and I even flipped over and laid on my stomach for awhile!  I haven't been able to do that in months!!  Poor Chris and Kodi though...it's like they were whale watching!

Chris took pictures tonight, so I'll post those tomorrow.  Too tired right now!!  T minus 6 weeks......woot!