3 generations

another pic from hanging out with the fam. sunday...

Children are a blessing

Children truly are a gift and a blessing from God! These two pictures were taken with my phone so they are a little blurry since she is a little wiggler :)

This first picture, I took one morning this week when I was really tired and feeling a little down. I was holding Kira early in the morning and I looked down at her and she smiled so big back up at me. It made me realize I needed to be grateful for her instead of complaining in my heart over my lack of sleep. Time goes by so fast, I really felt at that moment the importance of enjoying this special time I have with her, and the blessing of being able to be at home with her and watch her grow every day.

Today, after church, I took Kira over to my mom and dad's house while I waited for choir to start. My mom was playing patty cake with her and she was smiling so big, I managed to get one shot with my phone.

Amy also stopped by with her kids as a last minute decision and it was so nice to see her, even if it was only for a little bit. I am so blessed to have such a great family who loves each other!

Tom's mom took this picture of Kira last week. Who do you think she looks more like, me or Tom?

She slept pretty good last night by the way, going to bed at 7PM and getting up at 7AM (she woke up at 12AM and 4AM to feed of course but much better than she had been doing).

Sleep is a beautiful thing

Ahh, sleep is a blessed thing. This has been an interesting week to say the least. Kira was sleeping so nicely for a while now. Operative word was. One night this week, I got up to feed her for her 3AM feed and I was just patting her back and rocking her back to sleep when the fire alarm went off. Everyone, including me and little Kira, had to evacuate the building. It was 3:15AM and we ended up standing outside in the cold until 4AM until they finally allowed us back into the building. Needless to say, that was the start of our troubles with her sleeping because I think this messed her up a little. No more 2 hour naps 3 times a day.

After that happened, she switched to 40 min. cat naps and would wake up unhappy and still tired but would not fall back asleep. I was at my wits end trying to figure out how to help her sleep more since I knew she was tired. Finally last night, it all came to a head. We had another day of her hardly sleeping (taking very short naps during the day and waking up cranky) yesterday and I had to cart her around to church and a family party last night. The party was slated to start at 6:30PM and many family members were coming to see her. Unfortunately for everyone that came, Kira was not cooperating and obviously tired and overstimulated. So I put her in the Ergo and walked around the block a few times while she fussed a little.

She fell asleep at 6:30PM right when everyone started arriving and stayed asleep the whole time. She slept until 6:30AM this morning, waking up a few times to feed but falling right back asleep as soon as she was full. Oh well. I felt kind of bad everyone came to see her and she slept the whole time but probably that time of night is not the best time for such a little baby. I did some research on the web and it seems that the average amount of sleep a 2 month old baby sleeps is 16 hours! Today I am keeping a sleep log to see how long she is awake, when she gets tired, how long she sleeps so I can see if by understanding her sleep cycles will help me head off potential problems in the future.

Tummy time and "the swing"

A friend from church gave us this swing on Sunday. This is Kira sitting in it before I got batteries for it.

After...

We have been trying to give Kira some "tummy time" but she always complains when she is laying on her belly. Last night, Tom decided to give her tummy time on his belly!

Visiting Daddy at the office.

I'll tell you what, it is so nice to be able to walk up and see Tom at work. I can bring Kira up to say "hi" anytime...as long as I don't stay too long and distract him from the work he needs to do. And everyone loves her in the office so I hope it's okay. In this first pic I had just taken her out of the Ergo after taking her for a walk so she is just waking up...

Little miss nosy looking around at his office....Tom quickly gave her back to me after she started grunting, a sure sign that a poopy diaper was in the works :)

I was recently given a nice swing for her so I will be posting pictures of her in that soon. I am also working on getting back into shape. I have always loved running and now that she is big enough to fit into her jogging stroller, Amy and I decided to start training for a 5K in November. Amy and I ran a race together a year ago and both had a good time so it will be fun to do it again with her before she gets pregnant again. :)

Un-photogenic parents, pretty baby

Be prepared, there are some VERY unflattering pictures of me and Tom, but cute ones of Kira so I will post them anyway and you will forgive us for not always looking our best. :) This weekend is Homecoming at our school and this pic was at the Powderpuff game. Look at Kira looking at Tom. so cute! It was cold that night and we had her in her sling. I thought she would fall asleep but I think it was too loud. People were screaming, whistling, yelling...etc. and she is nosy like her momma so she was wide awake the whole time smiling and cooing at everyone.

The first ugly pic for your laughing pleasure is one of Tom and Kira sitting together on the couch. Tom thinks his face looks fat. ;)

Tom took this extremely unflattering pic of me with Kira all bundled up in her sling. She looks cute as always but I cannot say the same of myself.

Ummm, what can I say about this one? We are sleeping exactly the same way, with one arm over our head and our mouths open, except she looks a whole lot cuter. Tom thought this was so funny and just HAD to take a picture of me looking like this. Just so you know, she is sleeping in her crib now quite happily, this pic was early in the morning when I had just fallen asleep after feeding her.

Finally, a semi decent picture! I took her out for a run this morning in the "BOB." I have been pretty faithfully walking at least 2 miles a day but I decided it would be fun to go for a run and see how she liked it. She seemed to be fine with her nice ride. She just looked around the whole time while I ran intervals for 2 miles.