"Um, excuse me ma'am....your baby!"

I've come to find that the life of a mom is one that requires a person to give up any preoccupations they may have on what other people think of them. Between the hair always in a pony-tail, the perpetual spit-up stain on whatever shirt you are wearing, and the slobber, well that's just everywhere...dignity just seems to have to take a backseat for a little while. Things that are honestly pretty gross (but somehow not at all to me because she's so darn cute) always seem to happen at the most inconvenient times...like in public. You just have to laugh and that's exactly what I do. We had one of these moments in church yesterday and I just found it too funny not to share. Here's how it went down:

We walked up to our usual row in church as everyone was starting to find their seats right before the service started. Kynlee was being unusually cuddly and still, completely relaxed on my mom's shoulder. Her arms were even down by her side and anyone who knows her knows that she really reallyyy has to be relaxed for that to happen. We were standing up visiting in front of our chairs and commenting on how cute Kynlee was being, when the lady who was sitting a few chairs down from us taps my mom and says, "Excuse me ma'am, your baby". Now being the proud mom I am, I smile at her assuming that she is about to tell me how cute Kynlee is like everyone else does. So I smile and nod at her like a dummy until she points down at the seat in front of us. My mom and I look and it takes me a few seconds to register that there was a big yellowish splatter of poop on the chair in front of us...and more on the ground...and a lot more all over my mom's sleeve. Apparently the pressure of Kynlee being so relaxed resting on my mom's arm had caused the "fun surprise" to squirt up and out of the top of the diaper and (since she wasn't wearing a onesie) out onto anything and everything in the immediate vicinity. The lady who I had mistaken for a Kynlee admirer was NOT impressed in the least haha! I think baby girl finally met someone not taken with her baby charm! So we ran around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to get it all cleaned up and the baby all the way back out into the foyer area and into the bathroom without making a bigger mess. And I laughed SO HARD! The rest of the service the lady kept giving us side glares and my mom and I giggled everytime we looked at  each other.  

I can only imagine how many more moments like this we will have in the coming years. I think maybe I was supposed to be embarrassed? Nahhh....there is absolutely no reason to take life so seriously. It's so so much better when you can laugh at yourself....and your poop-squirting four month old ;)



"Who...me?!?"



Kynlee Abrianna

Having my mom close by for these first few months of motherhood has been invaluable. She is amazing and has helped so much, as has all my family and Sean's. Daily I bombard her with what seems like hundreds of questions about Kynlee or about babies in general. I always ask her when my siblings and I reached different milestones as babies, anxious for someone to tell me when the heck we'll be sleeping all night again mostly lol. Most of the times she remembers but occasionally she just looks at me and reminds me somewhat nicely that it has been 18 years since her youngest was a baby and how could I possibly expect her to remember that. At first I was a little smug, thinking how could you possibly forget when your baby does something so exciting and cute. The smugness lasted until about a week ago when my mom asked how many weeks Kynlee was when she gave us that first precious gummy grin. I thought for awhile until realizing with dismay that I couldn't tell her exactly when it was...and that made me sad. All that to say, I HAVE to start writing these things down or I am going to be real mad at myself later! So what follows is a sum up of Kynlee's first four months. I'll just hit the highlights...but let's be real...when you're a mom with a new baby, isn't it pretty much all highlights? :)

 

These are two of my favorite sonogram pictures of her :)







Kynlee was born on October 17th at 5:33pm at Medina Regional Hospital in Hondo Texas. The night before a fellow pregnant friend and I in our third-trimester misery had decided to make it a race as to who had their little one first. The very next morning I went into labor. Guess baby girl inherited my competitiveness! :) She was 6lb 14oz and 19.5 inches of perfection. She was born with an attitude and stills gives it to me on a regular basis ha! My parents were the only ones at the hospital when she was first born because labor went sooo fast! (Word of advice: don't try to eat bbq or walk around walmart in active labor. It hurts -_- ) Ask me for that story if you enjoy a humorous tale of another's pain lol! Enough self-pity though...it was pretty wild. Sean was on his way from Belton, Aunt Kayla on her way from Lubbock, and everyone else headed that way as fast as they could...and Kynlee wasn't waiting on ANYBODY! Everything went well but she had the chord wrapped around her neck three times 0_0. Apparently my chord was very unusually long and thin. If it had been normal length the delivery would have been MUCH more serious. How good is God, huh? Always lookin out.



Daddy's first time holding Kynlee <3



 We stayed at the hospital for one night only. Sleep was definitely not happening between Kynlee already crying when someone wasn't holding her and the nurses "checking in" pretty much every 10 minutes. But what an incredible amazing night. I assume only other parents can understand that feeling of watching your child that God created for the first time.  Just absolute wonder and awe is the only way I can put it. SO cool! Also as a mom who gets to experience the movements and growth of the child for 9 months, the ability to see Sean as a dad get to interact and meet and enjoy her for what really was the first time was very special. We went home the next day, and haven't stopped since. She lost a little over a pound that first week and was the tiniest little thing I've ever seen. Week 1 was rough due to breastfeeding issues but we got those figured out by week 2 and things got much smoother.

It is crazy how the time has flown by. Here it is end of February and baby girl is growing and changing so much! She definitely resembles her daddy but lately people have actually started saying they can see me in her as well :) Things aren't perfect and sometimes our situation is hard but I can't get over how blessed I am. I don't deserve how God turns all things into good...but I am so thankful! To avoid this being longer than it already is I'm just going to post pictures of the memorable "firsts" Kynlee has had in her first four months!


First Car Ride



First Bath!



First time to hold head up: in the hospital!



First Dr's Appointment



First Halloween: meoww!

    


First (recorded) smile: 1 month

  

First time meeting her cousins Autumn and Piper :)



Our first Christmas <3




Kynlee and Santa






First time to pee on Daddy ;)





First Stockshow!





First time holding a bottle ~3 months

 

 Kynlee has also rolled over, laughs like crazy, and has started to eat some rice cereal and some carrots so far but I couldn't get the videos to upload. They're all on facebook anyways. I'm so "that mom" that bombards everybody with pics/videos of my little munchkin. It's not gonna stop though so get used to it :) I cannot wait to experience everything else to come. It is going by so fast and she's such a special little girl. Until next time! :)

Playing Catch-up

Soo I created my blog profile a few months back. At the time I was pregnant with our now 3 1/2-month old baby girl, Kynlee Abrianna, and still under the cute naive assumption that sleep and free time was a God given right. Of course I knew things would change with a newborn but the magnitude of how much they would change was lost on my pre-baby self. I had all the good intentions. I bought scrap-book stuff, planning to document her young life with the cutest stickers and craft paper available (and the first two pages I actually had time to do before she got here turned out quite snazzy if I do say so myself). I started a cross-stitch for her (corner of the) room lol. And I registered for this blog. Well the scrapbook stuff is sitting in a plastic bag in my closet, the cross-stitch is half done on my dresser, and....well you can see how the blogging went. My life became a whirl-wind of days and nights (without much distinction between the two at times), countless diapers, breast-feeding complications and finally success (yay!), and trying to learn the foreign language of baby screams at a record pace. It was challenging, scary, and so very very rewarding. I love love love being a mama and as all moms will tell you...I have THE cutest baby in the world :)


But now that world's cutest baby is rapidly approaching 4 months (and by the way, if you didn't believe the millions of people who have already told you it goes by way too fast.....it goes by WAY TOO FAST). But anyways, she now has decided to be sweet enough to give me some, albeit still very limited, free time. I am very worried that some day I'll look back and forget all the special little details that are happening at this time and I don't want that to happen. So once again I am going to attempt at keeping a written record of our life as we go. Not sure yet if I'll even tell people I'm doing this (or you may see it blowing up your facebook timeline tonight lol). Mostly I just want a forum to write down my thoughts and experiences for future enjoyment and reminiscing! 

The plan is to do a little catching up about Kynlee and then go from there. I may only write about her or I may blog about any random little issue that is occupying my mind, haven't decided as of yet. I have no clue how to make it all pretty but I'll work on that too. Who knows if I'll keep it up or not (after all I'm not sure typing on a computer falls under Kynlee's list of me giving her my undivided attention lol).....but here's to trying! :)

Baby's crying...got to go!