Love Those Chubby Cheeks

I can't believe Thanksgiving is THIS week! I am really excited. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. It's the perfect day to spend just relaxing, cathcing up with family, and enjoying good food. ( and having a short week at work is always a plus ;) )

I doubt I will post much this week, so hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I thought I would leave you with a few pictures I took of Kaylee this weekend. On Saturday my mother-in-law and I went shopping and while I was waiting for her to come over Kaylee was just sitting on floor all bundled up ready to go and for once I actually had my camera out and got a few cute shots :)

Even Ty likes to kiss those chubby cheeks of hers..

As you can see her eyes are starting to get dark. The have always been a dark blue color, but lately they have gotten darker and I believe they will be brown before too long..

My BF's Wedding Recap

This week has been really busy at work, plus the secretary is on vacation all week and that means the phones have been going crazyyyyy. I am so ready for Friday and a weekend of no real plans!

Speaking of the weekend, last weekend Vince and I both had such a wonderful time at my best friends wedding. She looked STUNNING and the whole day really was amazing. The ceremony was beautiful and then we were able to enjoy an extended cocktail hour (for like 2+ hours, it was a blast). On the way to the reception I started freaking out a little bit about my speech, but it ended up going really well (or at least I think so haha). The rest of the evening was spent dancing and celebrating with the bride and groom. So much fun. I want to do it all again ;)

(This is a picture on my iphone, I will try to upload a few of the ones I took on my camera later on)

They are on their honeymoon right now and even though I hope they are having a fabulous time, I want them to come home soon! The bride and I talk almost every single day and it's killing me not to be able to call her!

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Hope you all are having a good week. I will try to post more soon! Happy Hump Day :)

The never ending to-do list and my BF's wedding weekend!

Lately I feel like every time I cross something off my to-do list I just end up adding 3 more things. It really is never ending. It's all little stuff, but those little things add up to a lot. I need to start Christmas shopping, I have some thank you cards that are written but not mailed because I am too lazy to go to the post office to get stamps, I need curtains for my bedroom, I have pictures in frames that need to be hung, I want to put up shelves in Kaylee's room for her books... and seriously the list goes on and on. None of it is super important (ok, the thank you cards MUST go out this weekend), but it's all things I do eventually need to get done. Soon. Hopefully.

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So I have mentioned before that one of my new favorite shows is Secret Circle on the CW. Love it and Vince likes to watch it with me which is always a plus. Since I never watch anything on normal time anymore my dvr records everything and for some reason last Thursday it didn't record the new episode. It recorded Grey's still, but not Secret Circle. I was so bummed (it was a little pathetic how upset I was) and CW shows aren't on demand so I can't watch it there. Guess I will have to watch it on the computer, which for some reason I hate doing, but better there than no where.

Can't believe I even wasted time writing about this, but seriously people it's such a good show!

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My Erin Condren iPhone case came in last week. Love it. Should I have wasted the money on it? No. But I figure it's ok since I never buy anything for me anymore, I deserve to get something once in awhile too right? ;)

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I mentioned that Christmas shopping is on my to-do list. That wouldn't be that hard to do if I actually had a Christmas list. However, I don't. I have no idea what to get anyone this year. I normally am the queen of Christmas shopping. I go on Black Friday to buy my last few items and then have it all wrapped and under the tree before December 1st. Seriously. But this year? NO idea what to get anyone, so that means NO gifts yet. I will be lucky to have it done before Christmas eve.  

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This weekend is my best friends wedding! I am so proud to be her Matron of Honor and can't wait to stand by her side as she marries her best friend. (ok I'm also a little nervous about giving a speech!)

Kaitlin (I know you will read this eventually), I just want you to know how happy I am for you and that I am so unbelievably excited to spend this weekend celebrating with you. Love you always! xoxo

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YAY IT'S FINALLY FRIDAY! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend :)

6 Months

Holy cow, I have a 6 month old! I'm not sure how or when that happened, but it did. Time is flying by and my itty bitty baby isn't so itty bitty anymore.

Yesterday we had her 6 month appointment and she weighs 18lbs 10ozs and is 27 1/2 inches long.

See? Not so litte anymore.

Not a whole lot has changed since the 5 month post.

She rolls a lot now, instead of just every once in awhile like before. Now I am wondering how I will ever get her to crawl since the moment I put her on her stomach she is flipping right back over haha.

She is talking up a storm and saying different things like ba-ba and da-da, but not because she knows what she is saying it's just coming out. Hopefully soon she will start to actually say Da-Da for Vince and Ma-Ma for me. I can't wait for that.

She has a tooth on the bottom. It looks like one of the top ones is starting to poke through, but I can't really tell.

Sleeping has actually gotten worse. From 3 months to 5 months she was sleeping through the night about 90% of the time. And I don't mean she would sleep like 6 hours. She would sleep a full 10-11 hours straight. I don't think I fully appreciated how nice that was, until she started waking up again. Shortly after turning 5 months old she started waking up again. For about 2 weeks she was up twice at night. She hadn't done that since she was like a month or so old. It was torture. Thankfully she is now only getting up once a night to eat and then goes back to sleep, but I am hoping to get her back to sleeping through the night again soon. Hopefully..

She makes faces and has such a little personality. She squishes up her nose and makes a snorting kind of noise when we play. It makes us laugh every single time. (I tried to get a picture of it, but so far haven't had much luck.)

She eats like a champ. She was just eating solids at dinner, but a couple weeks ago we started solids for breakfast too. I usually do fruit for breakfast and veggies for dinner. We also started giving her some of the Gerber puffs and the yogurt bites to try to teach her how to self feed. She loves the food, but she is still picking it up with her fist and then puts her fist to her mouth but can't figure out how to get the food in her mouth. So yea, it's a work in progress haha.

Sippee cups are also a work in progress. She will hold it and bring it ot her mouth, but she hasn't quite figured out to tilt the cup up to get out the water. Sometimes she does, but usually she gets frustrated and just drops the cup. She will figure it out eventually lol.

Ok, so I thought not a lot had changed, but after writing this I guess more has changed than I realized.

My little girl really is growing up so fast and I am loving watching her grow and change literally every day. Before I know it I will be planning her first birthday. I can't decide if that makes me excited or sad. I guess a little of both.

The Little Things.

You always hear people saying "it's the little things that mean that most". And lately I am finding that statement to be so very true.

A couple different people have done some really sweet things for me recently that have made me stop and take time to be really grateful for all of the friends in my life.

A couple of my best friends from college were up visiting last month and while we were catching up I told them about a difficult time I had been going through recently. I actually hadn't talked to anyone other than Vince about it and it was nice just being able to have them there to listen. Then a couple weeks later I got a book in the mail from one of the girls. It was a book about someone who had been going through a similar situation. When I realized she sent it and that she had taken the time to do that for me, it brought me to tears. It was something little, that meant so much. It reminded me how lucky I am to blessed with such good friends in my life.

Then last week at work a co-worker and I had been talking about our kids. She has two boys, one is 5 and one is 2. I was asking her for advice on what kind of sippy cups to start Kaylee off with. A couple days after our conversation I came to work and there was a bag sitting on my chair in my office that just had a little note saying "These were the sippy cups my boys liked when they were Kaylee's age." She had taken the time to go out and buy me a couple different kinds to try. It was so kind of her and completely unexpected.

These things may not seem like a big deal to some people, but to me they were. They made me feel cared about and put a smile on my face. It makes me want to try to do more things like this for my friends and people I care about. Vince has always been so good about remembering to do the little things and I need to put more of an effort in doing the same for him too. It's important to remember that doing something small for someone can really make their day. Everyone deserves something sweet like that once in awhile.

So that's my new personal goal, to try to be better about doing the little things for the people in my life.


Happy Wednesday :)

When did we get so old?

Last night the Eagles had a game. In previous years Vince and I would have been all about Monday night football. We would have either been out at a bar watching the game or ordering food and having a few people over.

Obviously since having a baby things change, but we still wanted to watch the game. So the plan was to put Kaylee to bed at 8pm like usual and then we would have a few beers, watch the game, and hangout just the two of us.

Well... I laid Kaylee down in her crib and then went back downstairs. I was fully expecting to find Vince watching all of the pregame shows, but instead I found him passed out on the couch. He was sound asleep. Apparently all of the rolling on the floor earlier with Kaylee had worn him out ;) 

So I woke him up and told him the game was starting. He turned his head to look at the TV for a minute and then said "how about we just go upstairs and watch the game in bed". Sounded good to me, I was way too tired to drink anyways.

We got upstairs, laid in bed, and watched about 10 minutes of the game before we were both falling asleep. By 9pm we decided to turn the TV off and go to bed.

As we were going to sleep Vince and I had this conversation:

 Vince - When did we get so old that we can't stay up to watch football?

Me - umm... probably about 6 months ago when we became parents..

Vince - Yeah. (pause) Well, it's totally worth it.

Having an baby is exhausting, but he's right it is totally worth it. Besides, when I woke up this morning and found out the Eagles lost, I was glad we didn't stay up to watch it.

Happy Tuesday :)

Family weekend, sippy cups, and a broken garage door

November, really? How is that even possible? I can't believe Christmas is next month already. This year is just going way too fast for me.

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This past weekend I had such a good time hanging out with my little family. We got to spend a ton of time just playing with Kaylee. We finally watched Bad Teacher (which was pretty funny). Saturday we had a our first snow. Even though I am not a fan of winter it was kind of nice to be able to stay curled up inside by the fire for the afternoon. We had Vince's parents over for dinner later that night. Sunday Vince and I actually got to go on a little date for the first time in awhile. We went out to lunch and to a movie. It was nice and well overdue. Kaylee wore her Halloween costume to Sunday family dinner (since the Halloween parade was cancelled due to the snow). After Kaylee was in bed we finished the weekend with a little wine and Friday Night Lights (Vince is hooked on this show now too).

All in all it was a perfectly nice, relaxing weekend.

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Eating solids has been going great so I decided it was time to start trying sippy cups too. (we aren't giving her juice just water and occasionally I will put her formula in there instead) At first she didn't get it at all, but the past couple of days she is holding it and bringing it to her mouth to drink. After a minute of so she usually just ends up laughing and playing with it, but it's funny to watch and she is slowly getting the hang of it.

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Yesterday morning when we were both getting ready to leave for work Vince went to open the garage door and it wasn't working. No idea what happened, but it's completely jammed and broken. At first we couldn't even get it to manually open at all and I was worried we weren't going to be able to get our cars out. Thankfully after a playing with it Vince got the door open, but it's still messed up and super annoying. We called the builder to come fix it (thankfully since it's new construction everything is still under warranty) hopefully he can get it done sometime this week.

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I have the best mom ever.

Vince and I have a wedding in December that is in the city and won't be over until late so I was going to need to get someone to watch Kaylee overnight. (Vince's parents and brothers are all going to the wedding too so that wasn't an option) Vince's aunt offered to keep her at her house and I said OK, but was already kind of stressing out about leaving her all night for the first time. So my mom called and offered to fly here for the weekend and watch her for us. It makes me feel SO much better about leaving her knowing she is going to still be at home in her own crib (plus there's really no one I trust more than my mom to watch her).

Now I can look forward to a night out and not have to worry (OK... I'll probably still worry, but not as much!). So a BIG thank you to my mom, love you! :)

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Hope you all had a great Halloween, I loved seeing everyone's costumes!