2 Weeks

At least I'm sticking with the 2 weeks late thing instead of falling further behind, right? At her 2 week appointment, Kaelyn was 9 lbs 1.1 ozs, and all around evenly proportioned, at 75% in all her measurements.  When the doctor came in, she took one look at Kaelyn and said, "A redhead, huh? Which side does she get it from?" She's got Mike's coloring, for sure!

 

Alexa is enjoying the new toys that have appeared, and has missed the fact that she is a little big for them, but at least she shares, right?

 Dressing Kaelyn in Alexa's old clothes really highlights the similarities between the girls!

Above is Kaelyn at about 3 weeks, and below is Alexa at about 6 weeks (please ignore the slightly possessed look...).  And I just noticed that I even cocked the bow to the same side on them, ha ha, I must have known I'd use these pictures for comparison!

And for good measure, here's a sweet picture of Alexa stopping to smell the roses. 

Kaelyn has arrived!

So, it may be 2 weeks late, but this is Kaelyn Elizabeth's debut on the blog! She was born on Aug. 21 at 9:14 pm, and besides the fact that I was at 8 cm before I finally got my epidural (my veins are pretty much non existant and that makes putting IVs in very difficult, and that has to be done before an epidural can be put in) labor went really well.  In fact, she basically came out on her own, which was a nice change from Alexa's birth.  She was 8 pounds 13 ounces, which kind of surprised me since she was actually a couple of days early whereas Alexa was a week late and was 8 lbs 11 ozs.  Hopefully this isn't a trend that future babies will follow!

On an unrelated note, the pictures are in the order I uploaded them instead of backwards! Thank you blogger for finally making blogging a bit easier!

Now She's Fun!

As I was tearing up a little tonight (you'll see why later) Mike made the comment that Alexa is fun now- "not that she wasn't before..."- and as sad as I get sometimes that she isn't my cuddly little baby anymore, she is a lot of fun now! She loves playing soccer...

and playing with her rice...

 And when we went to the zoo for Mike's birthday (the big 30, by the way) she had a great time looking at all the animals.  Of course she liked the waterfalls and fish the best, but she did enjoy the more exotic animals, too.

She even pet the goats and pigs willingly and tried to tell them to come closer if they wandered away!



 But this is why I teared up.  Lame, I know, but I'm pregnant, what can I say? Tonight was Alexa's first night in a 'big girl bed'.  Really we just took the side off so it would be in its day bed form and got one of those safety rails.  She was so excited about her big girl bed, and so far (I think) she's still laying in it! I didn't think she'd stay in it once we shut the door, so let's hope she makes it through the night!



When did she grow up?

Every once in awhile, I'll be doing something and suddenly it'll hit me that Alexa isn't a baby anymore. I mean, it's something I know, she's 2 and all, but I still think of her as my little baby. Looking at these latest pictures, though, it's so clear what a big girl she is now.

"No pictures, Mom! I'm busy finding eggs!"

Just look at how big she is!I love the cheesy smile!

A Long One!

For my birthday, Mike made me steak, fettuccine alfredo, and Caesar salad, aaand a S'mores Cheesecake. Everything was SO good. When we were putting everything on the table, Alexa decided that she didn't want to wait for me to cut her a piece of steak, so she just took mine! But seriously, this dinner/dessert was so delicious! It was a pregnant lady's dream. If you want the cheesecake recipe, it's on my Pinterest board, now that I'm finally on it.

For St. Patrick's day we ate green. Literally. Breakfast was green eggs and ham, which Alexa got a kick out of because of the book. For dinner (I forgot to upload the picture, sorry) we had green mac & cheese, a green jello/cool whip salad, bread with green butter, green juice, and salad.

I think I've hit the nesting stage a little early this pregnancy, so I've been thinking about decor for Alexa's room and the new baby's room. For Alexa, I made these 3 boards- 2 for pictures and one for hair clips so that they'll finally be all together! The princess sign was mine as a teen, and last time I went to VA I brought it home for Alexa.

When we woke up this morning, it was relatively white, so we bundled up and went out so Alexa could play in the snow, really for the first time. She hasn't seen much snow, so she wasn't really sure what to do, but did do the classic toddler thing and immediately tasted it. Her newest, and most favorite phrase is "Mmm, I like this," which she promptly said as soon as she ate the snow. We made a mini snowman, which she loved. She was very sad when we couldn't bring it inside.To bribe her back inside, I had to offer a bath with all her new bath toys from Aunt Rachel, and blue eggs for lunch. She loves scrambled eggs, and I figured if she liked the green ones so much, I may as well let her pick what color she wanted this time! They were really much more blue than they look in the picture.Whew, now I finally feel caught up! I gotta get better at this!

Waterfall!

A couple of Saturdays ago we found out that waterfalls are one of Alexa's favorite things ever. We drove down to Multnomah Falls, and she had a great time watching it.

Here's the required dead tree picture for Grandma Bevans.

We basically had to force her to leave; she would have stood there watching it for hours! The only way we really got her to leave was to bribe her with the train that was going past and best seen from the parking lot. I think her love of trains may be the only thing that would have pulled her away!

Alexa's New Shirt

She was very excited when it came in the mail today :)