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! :)