June 27th - thinking back

A year ago today I was going to bed with my bags packed, in the morning I would be waiting for a call from the hospital to let me know if I could come in to be induced...we all know what happened that day! Kaitlyn Raegan was born and turned our lives upside down...how did we ever live without her? She has been here a whole year already. She was so tiny when she was born, and has really only gained 11 pounds since then but she is SO big! My little baby has turned into a full fledged toddler, she gets into everything, has a temper and a mind of her own. She is my little munchkin and I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world!

Happy 1st Birthday Kaitlyn! I love you so much!

Kaitlyn's First Birthday Party

We had Kaitlyn's First Birthday Party today! She was such a good girl! We had her party at Bellevue State Park, which was both a blessing a curse. On one had I didn't have to clean the house and worry about messes and clean up. On the other hand I had to pack EVERYTHING and take it to the park!

We had about 60 people there all family and friends. It was so nice to see everyone and hang out. Kaitlyn stayed awake the whole time until the very end when she passed out in her Grammy's arms.

Kaitlyn was really fun to watch as she went about her business hanging out with everyone, we had fun visiting with Eva, Leah and Baylee. Shannon made us some wonderful cupcakes. Award for farthest travel goes to the newly engaged Karen & Neil. It was a fantastic but very hot day. Special thanks to everyone who came out and joined in the fun.

Kaitlyn had so many presents, clothes and toys galore. She is a very lucky girl to be loved by so many people!

Big Bug Graduation

Kaitlyn graduated from her Bugs class at the little gym today! She is now officially a Bird. She has been so cute in these classes and it's great to see her playing with kids her own age and younger. She is really funny. Poppop even came to class today to see her running around and playing. Shaun came to take pictures. They sing a song at the end of every class that says "Bye - Bye Big Bugs it's time to go on home" and I almost started to cry. She's not a Big Bug anymore!

I am very thankful for this class. I have been able to get to know some of the other mom's in the class and watching their girls grow as well. I am sad that Olivia is still going to be a Bug this summer, I will miss her curious eyes as she watches Kaitlyn and the other babies. Natalie will be going to the Friday class which means we won't see her as much anymore, I will miss her funny faces as she tries to keep up with the bigger kids.

Kaitlyn still has her Eva for class on Monday's! Other then daycare Eva really is Kaitlyn's first friend!

Big Girl

We spent a few hours packing up some of Kaitlyn's baby stuff and putting it away in the attic this weekend. She isn't a little baby anymore! We put away the swing, play yard, car seat carrier and bases, bouncy seat, bumbo and her jumperoo. All stuff she could still use but you really have to watch her because she tries to climb out of and off of everything and I am just so afraid she is going to hurt herself on something. Not to mention we need to spread out her toys a bit and put some stuff in her room that will keep her entertained!

26 more days and my baby will be a one year old!

Baby Bling

Kaitlyn now has some Baby Bling!

We got her ears pierced tonight after we had her 11 month pictures taken. I have been wanting to do this for awhile but I was too scared to do it, I knew Kaitlyn wouldn't remember and would recover quickly but I was afraid I would start crying.

I mentioned to Shaun while we were eating dinner that I wanted to stop at one of the places in the mall to see how much it would cost. His reply was this would be a great time to just do it because Kaitlyn is already on antibiotics. So that was it decision made.

Kaitlyn did really well, she was a little squirmy in the chair when Shaun was trying to hold her to get the "dots" put on her ears. Shaun had to use one hand to hold both her hands down and then hold her back with the other hand against her forehead. She KICKED when the lady did the first one and started to gulp in air, the second one started the first wail. I looked up and there was a mother and daughter walking by they both had the "oooo" poor baby look on their faces. While her cries were very sad the panting quick screams kind of wail, she calmed down pretty quick. She was squirmy and got mad at me when I tried to clean them before bed but all in all not as bad as I thought it would be.

She has really cute little 14K white gold studs with little CZ's. They are really cute! Now we just have to clean them twice a day for awhile, hopefully she will get used to it!