18 months old!

About a week ago, my Kinley turned 18 months old! I want to document some of the things she does at this stage just so I can look back and remember. 

She wears 18 month clothes 

Wears size 4 diapers 

Is I think somewhere around 23 pounds

Size 4 shoe 

Has 6 teeth, 4 on top, 2 on the bottom

Loves shoes

Would live outside if she could

Loves to put her snacks in her camp chairs cup holder ha

Is such a little mommy and loves her babies Prefers to be naked 

Hates bows and usually rips them out

Favorite shows are Elmo, and Caillou, but also watches Berenstein Bears a lot

Goes through lots of phases with food but I can usually get her to eat mac n cheese or chicken nuggets. Typical toddler lol

Loves anything dipped in ketchup 

Tells me when she's stinky and will take me to change her diaper 

Says a lot of words but her most common ones are mama, dada, ow, eeeew, baby, hot, bird, elmo, bubbles, uh huh, no, weeee, and juice

Sleep is still awful and she gets up usually 2 times a night. Sometimes way more (like 20 ha) and sometimes less. A lot of the times it takes her up to 3 hours to go back to sleep,  or if I'm lucky, maybe like 30 min. She usually goes to sleep between 7 30 and 8 and gets up for the day anywhere from 5 to usually 6 30. She takes one nap a day and they're anywhere from 30 min to about 1.5 hours. We are seeing progress there which is so nice! She ends up in our bed I'd say 50 percent of the time because we get desperate for sleep in this house. 

She still nurses before her nap and before bed

Is such a little sass. She's moody, silly, dramatic, and happy. 

Does not like to share her toys

Absolutely loves going to grandma's house and to play with cousins.

Likes to be busy, but also have down time too

Is shy at first but once you get her to warm up she'll be your friend

Thinks Caleb is so funny and can laugh a ton when around him

Loves all animals. 

Loves our dog libbie but libbie does not like her unless she has food that she's willing to give up

Gives the sweetest kisses, and eskimo kisses

Loves water. Baths, sprinkler, the hose Haha you name it she loves it

Hates cookies but loves dumb dumb suckers 

If you ask where her eyes are, she blinks, her nose, she'll sniff, her mouth, she opens it. And so on. She doesn't point, she expresses where it's at haha

Is girly and likes me to do her makeup when I do mine. Basically I run a clean brush on her face and she loves it. Haha

Still takes her seizure medication every night. 

Fake laughs all the time

Runs up and down our hallway and thinks it's a hoot lol

Is obsessed with her belly button and plays with it till there's a sore. Gross I know, but she does it in her sleep too. It's like a weird comfort thing. I have to keep onesies on a lot so she can't get to it and so it can also heal.

That's some fun facts about our Kinley. She seriously brings our home more joy than I ever thought we could have. She's such a blessing and I love having a daughter to be by little mini me, my sidekick. We love and adore you more than you will ever know Kinley! Happy 18 months baby girl!

Family pictures, zoo, temple open house, random

This post will be all over the place and once again, not in order of the last months events. We'll start with family pictures. One day I'll have professional pictures taken but for now, my phone pictures will do. :)

Me and my sister took our kiddos to the zoo. Kinley seemed much more interested compared to last summer which makes it that much more fun.

A week ago, we went to the temple open house with some of Caleb's family. It was beautiful! Kinley did good and enjoyed the bus ride to the temple most haha

And now, here is just a bunch of random pictures

Cute cousins grocery shopping

date day

She fell asleep chewing on her keys haha

When I am putting Kinley down for a nap, Libbie usually comes to the door and just looks at me as if she is asking if its ok she can come in now hahaha

She is obsessed with taking Libbie potty. This will come in super handy in a couple years haha

At home she is usually naked with shoes and loves playing with my pans. Always.

Randomly fell asleep during lunch. Sweet little thing

Doing yard work and she loved playing in the water!

She's pretty cool

Outfit from grandma Niederer

Always talking on her phone and it's the cutest thing to watch

The face that woke me up at 4 30 a.m. that day with still getting up in the night. So tired.

She's been extra loving Caleb lately so there has been lots of snuggles

More yard work

Caleb has been doing his usual which is work. We've been trying to get our yard cleaned up and by we I mean mostly Caleb. Haha I do my best but I'm also chasing a baby in the middle of everything. We got an old garden, dog pen, fire pit, and random holes in the lawn tilled up, filled with dirt, and planted with grass. We have a few other projects to do but slowly but surely things are coming along.

I have officially started my therapy. It's been good and I think it will be beneficial for me. I have not enjoyed having to leave Kinley to go but I know it's something I have to do and I hope with time it will get easier. But, I would be lying if I said I haven't shed a tear or two when being away from her. It's very tough for me. I had some tests done for my stomach that came back negative so they wanted to schedule a colonoscopy which I was pretty certain I was going to have to do. It scares me too much to have it done and I am still (yes still) nursing Kinley, so, for various reasons, I am not going to get one right now. I have somewhat started the process of trying gluten free. It's all pretty overwhelming to me so I am still trying to get all the groceries and meals and all that figured out. We'll have to see how that goes.

Kinley had another possible weird seizure activity so after being on the phone with Primary's we had to adjust her medication again. I can usually tell when we adjust it because her sleep gets so so weird for about a week after we up her dose and she just seems off which makes me just sad for her. She seems back to herself now and she has been SO so much fun lately. I have loved all stages of her life but the stage she is in right now has maybe been a favorite for both me and Caleb. She overall sleeps ooookk. haha. Still gets up once or twice a night and is up super early. Usually anywhere between 5 and 6 15. Every once in a while on a random day it may be earlier or later. She is turning 18 months next week so I'll be doing a post all about her in that post. 

Libbie is also good. She still does not care for Kinley so where it's been so long, I don't think she ever will be too fond of her. Which stinks. 

Otherwise. Life is just truckin along! Looking forward to the summer :)

Cress Creek, Easter, and a bunch of randoms

I haven't blogged in a while so I have a million pictures and almost can't remember what happened before what. So, I will just post all the pictures in no particular order. :)

We headed up to Cress Creek to hike.

Here's a bunch of randoms

First little pedicure

Guh, guess who got the stomach flu again? Poor thing. 2nd time in 3 months. 3rd time in her 16 months of life. I don't know why she gets sick so much. It's exhausting! This time I found it was easiest to just sleep on the floor with her rather than try to clean up bed sheets all night. Stomach flu is the worst! THANKFULLY this go around was MUCH shorter and better than last time. It was still not fun and mostly a 24 hour bug and the puking was all within a 5 hour period instead of 3 days.

Kinley has been OBSESSED with shoes lately. She loves to wear any and all kinds all day. Such a girly girl.

Just playin some video games with dad haha

Seems accurate. haha

At it with the shoes again. These are her favorite of my shoes.

Sunday shows and snuggles

Oh hey, more shoes haha

Her bed head is too funny and it cracks me up every day. Such a little sass.

Post nap snuggles.

Just playing outside!

Yesterday we celebrated Easter at my parents. We had an Easter egg hunt for the cousins and then a nice Easter dinner. It was such a fun day and it was fun celebrating it with Kinley. Last years Easter was completely different and my head was not in a place where I even THOUGHT about the Easter bunny just because this was the time Kinley was so so sick with her seizures, so every day, we were all just trying to survive another day and doing our absolute best to get our Kinley better. Grateful this year I could celebrate doing the Easter bunny and enjoy the holiday :)

Ready to go out to their Easter egg hunt

Four wheeler rides with grandpa

The Easter bunny came!

The Easter bunny brought a few fun bath things

And she totally hates her dress. If only you could live this life being totally naked all the time haha

Trying out all her new things. She LOVED them.

As for other news.

Caleb had to go to Boise last weekend for a few days. I ended up staying back this time. It was the weekend Kinley had the stomach flu so it was good I could stay behind for her. I hate being home alone but I survived and thankfully Kinley got over her bug fairly fast. That weekend was also a family reunion on my mom's side. We did it early this year. They did the museum and chuck a rama. That morning, my family was out of power, so they came to my house to use the shower and get ready. I ended up just going to the lunch with my siblings because of trying to fit nap times and what not and it ended up working out well. Besides the Boise weekend, Caleb has been doing good. He is staying busy with work and things with that are going good. I'm so proud of him and how hard he works. The business is going great which is awesome.

I am also doing pretty good. I got to escape from Kinley for the 2nd time ever and do my 2nd session of my eyebrows. I am happy with them and have loved having eyebrows! haha. I mentioned in a previous post about getting help with my stomach issues and anxiety. I started the anxiety medication that night after seeing my doctor and lets just say it was absolutely awful to say the least. I have always been known as a light weight and I woke up a few hours after I took my first dose with some awful side effects. I basically passed out, was dry heaving, was SOAKED in sweat. Literally drenched in sweat. I could feel my heart in my toes, had the shakes, couldn't stand up because I was extremely dizzy, and was nauseous nauseous nauseous. It was awful. I stopped the medication and have felt fine since. I don't love medications for various reasons so I would like to try to avoid it if possible and am going to do the therapy route and see how I do. After talking with my sister and really thinking about the timeline of when my anxiety has gotten out of control bad, lines up with after I had Kinley. So I am now realizing (yes, a whole 16 months later) that it may actually be post partum anxiety. It has never been so bad. I had an anxiety attack the night Kinley had the flu and it was in full swing and lasted for 6 hours straight. I was able to sleep off and on in between Kinley puking, then woke up that morning with another one. So anyways. It's been a HUGE challenge for me and I am still in the process of getting help with that. I have my first appointment with a stomach doctor this week, so we will see how that goes. 

Kinley is doing great. Her sleep is I would say over all getting somewhat better. But she still gets up a couple times a night and is up anywhere from 5 to 6 30 for the day with going to sleep between 7 40 ish to 8. It's still hard but I have gotten lucky and have had some random nights that she does really well. Even now, getting up twice is such a breeze compared to what it's been like in the past. So, really, no complaints here. I feel like she has really grown up like overnight. She is saying words and seems to really understand a lot now. She has quite the attitude and usually throws a huge fit if she doesn't get what she wants. She can also be stinkin funny. She has me and Caleb laughing all the time. She still only has 5 teeth. 2 on the bottom with 3 on the top with her 4th that should be coming in soon. Crazy that she'll be 17 months next week! My baby is not a baby any more. She is currently OBSESSED with Elmo, Caillou, shoes, being naked, her belly button, and outside. She keeps me busy but so happy!

As for us as a family, we have started working on our yard for the summer. we didn't do much to our yard last year where we had recently moved in and were trying to get settled with everything else. But our goal this year is to fix up our yard to how we want it and make it look nice. We will be filling holes, planting grass in areas, and re landscaping the front of our house to make it look better. I'm excited! I grew up hating yard work but where it's my yard I think I might actually like it.