Happy Thanksgiving

Well, we are almost on the road. If you watch John and Kate plus eight you will get this.
10 day trip includes:

100 diapers
Tub of wipes
Twelve outfits
5 bibs
10 burp clothes
1 pacifier - that she never takes
10 pairs of socks
1 pack in play

You get the point, we have lots of stuff. We have about four bags packed, one full of just diapers and wipes, and one with books and toys!!!

I am about ready to give Kaylee her bath and get her into pajamas and then Brian will be home and we will be off for the week.

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. We will be praying for safe travel for everyone.

Deer in the Headlights

Funny story from last night.

I was driving home from Bible Study when traffic came to a complete stop. I thought there must be an accident. Well I was right but not the kind of accident I thought. As I passed the scene there was a deer sitting in the lane of traffic. It had obviously been hit but was just sitting in the lane of traffic watching the cars go by. A police car had his headlights on the deer and it looked frozen. You could see where the deer had been hit and probably could not move but he was jsut watching the cars as they passed him. I have to admit, it was a little wierd having a deer, who had just been hit, watch me as I drove past him. His head just followed my car. I figured he was going to just get up adn run away any time. Sad thing is though I think he was hit too hard and could not move. Hope he was ok.

By the way, looked like everyone was ok in the car that hit the deer also.

Anxiety - UPDATED

I think I am getting anxiety again. I used to get this when I was younger but it has crept up again. Sometimes I do not know what causes the anxiety, and sometimes I do. This time I do.

Brian, Kaylee, and I will be gone for a full week over Thanksgiving. This will be the first week long trip since becoming a mother. I don't think that is the reason for the anxiety. I think the anxiety comes from the amount of travel Kaylee and I will be doing. Here is the break down.

Friday night: St. Louis to Indiana 4 1/2 hours
Saturday morning: Indiana to Ohio 3 hours
Either tuesday night or wednesday morning: Ohio to Michigan 5 hours
Sunday: Michigan to St. Louis 7 hours

Now these times do not reflect nursing time and time that Kaylee will just not ride (or sleep) in the car. The anxiety comes from the amount of time that a 4 month old wil be in the car when there is no prediction of how she will ride. This is going to be fun!!!

Also the anxiety comes from the fact that I have not even started to pack yet. I have been thinking about it for the past two weeks but have not started yet. I am such a planner that I can not pack last minute and it has become even worse not that I am not only packing for myself, I have a husband and child that I pack for.

So you are thinking to yourself, well why are you typing on the computer and not packing? Good question!!! I need to do laundry and then pack!!!


Update: I know Brian knows how to pack for himself, but he does not have much time for that. Between working, and playing with Kaylee. So he lays his clothes out so I can pack them in the bag and grab anything that he has forgotten!!! Come on people, I do let my husband do things on his own. I just try to help when I can so he has more time for his daughter:)

Parents as Teachers

Kaylee had her first meeting with the parents as teachers program yesterday. It went very well until she got so tired and fussy and needed a nap. She said that Kaylee is progressing very well and that she is on track for doing things that she should be able to do between the months of
3 1/2 to 5 1/2. She gave me some good resources to read and was a lot of fun. She was a neat lady.

Brian and I have decided to hold of on the rice cereal until after Thanksgiving. Kaylee pretty much made that decision by spitting everything back out at me. We will try again in about a week and a half and then she will be 4 1/2 months old and see if she does better with it.

I am trying to decide of a Christmas toy to buy Kaylee. It would be something for a 6 or 9 month plus age. Any suggestions of toys that your kids love? I would love to get something that will grow with her, not something that she will just play with as a baby and outgrow in a few months.

Playing at the Park

Brian went with Kaylee and I to get a few pictures at the park. We got a few really good pictures that you may even see in a Christmas card:) It was a little cold so we had to work fast. I think we were at the park for a total of 5 minutes. Kaylee really seemed to like the swing though. I have a feeling this will be very popular next summer.

Early Riser

I have no problem with Kaylee getting up early, actually I even enjoy it. Brian and I are both early risers to take advantage of the daylight. I do think there is an extreme to being an early riser though. I think 3a.m. might be that extreme.

Kaylee is awake at 3a.m. this morning and I tried to ignore her to see if she would just go back to sleep. Then I changed her diaper and fed her to see if that would work. Then I tried rocking her.

Right now I have all lights off except the computer screen and I am trying to mesmerize her with the glow:) Just kidding. It is now 4:15 and she is still awake and she thinks it is morning. I would have to say that this might be the extreme, Kaylee.

I know what is going to happen here. She is going to stay awake until about 6a.m. and then fall back asleep, right at the time that I need her awake to get ready for Church. Then she is going to be crabby all during Church, but what else is new, right Kelli:) Oh wait, maybe I will be the one that is crabby. I think this calls for nap today:)

Oh the joys of parenthood:)

BTW, did I use enough smiley faces in here:)

Christmas card giveaway!!

Skiptomylou.org is having a Christmas card giveaway.

This fun giveaway will get you well on your way to having your holidays cards finished! FIVE lucky winners will receive a digital card file so you can print your own personalized photo cards and 2 sheets of Picture it Postage!

Why do they call this stuff cereal?

We got to start with rice cereal for the first time with Kaylee last night. She did great with it but I don't think she really liked it much. She kept giving me these eyes of "what are you putting in my mouth?" The doctor said that we can give this to her once or twice a day, but it is just to get her used to eating from a spoon and then at 6 months, she gets the good stuff. It was a lot of fun feeding her last night though.

This was when she had enough and was just spitting everything back out at me instead of swallowing.

tip junkie

To help promote & feature some of the amazing women who have joined the Mom-preneur Shop-a-thon, Tip Junkie has set up the 12 Days of Christmas, um I mean Junkie! It will start tomorrow, Tuesday November 11th. It will run similar to the 20 Days of Giveaways back in August; where each giveaway will last only 24 hours and a winner will be picked each morning. However, this time there will be two winners each day.

Check out their blog and try to win also.

Thanks Rachel for letting me know about this.

The "Weight" is Over

Well Kaylee had her 4 month check up today. It was at 1p.m. and she has been sleeping ever since. I guess getting shots wear you out. She actually started crying while getting the tylenol liquid before the shots.

Kaylee Grace: 4 months old

Weight: 16 pounds 10 ounces she is in the 97th percentile

Length: 251/4 inches she is in the 80th percentile

I knew she was getting too big for her 3-6 month clothes, but now that I look at the tags of the

6-9 month I realize she really needs to go to that size. I guess another size gets packed away and now I have to do laundry to get the next size ready:)

Laughing out loud!!

Kaylee heard another little girl laughing like this yesterday and so as soon as we got home from Church this was all she was doing. It took a while for her to perform in front of the camera, she was more interested in the camera, but here is a small laugh for the grandparents:) It is not very good, but will give you an idea.

I can't get it to turn and save correctly so you will have to turn your head. Something is wrong with my computer again. I do know of some good chiropractors in a couple of different states so just in case you get a kink in your neck from turning sideways:)

Items of purchase

Here is what I got at the craft fair. If any of my extended family reads this blog you might just see one of these items at the gift exchange:) I also got one more thing, but it is a gift for my mom and she reads this blog so I could not post it even though she knows she is getting it. They had a lot of cute things and I really could have spent more money but figured I better not:) Not the best pictures but oh well. So did you do anything interesting over the weekend? I would love to hear about it.

I collect snowmen so this jsut adds to the collection.

Coming tomorrow: Update on Kaylee and her 4 month doctor visit!!

Craft Fair!!!!!

I am super excited about tomorrow. Brian is going to help my dad at their house while my mom, Kaylee and I are going to a craft fair. I love going to craft fairs. You get to support local people and their hobbies, and you get to get some cute stuff. I think half of my decorations in my house are from craft fairs. Hopefully this one in Illinois is going to be good. It is listed as 250 vendors!!!! I will have to takea picture of what I get. If you have never been to a craft fair, you really should go. I know there is also one at Parkway central high school tomorrow. They are supposed to have 200 vendors. It is free admission and at this time of year you can get a lot of cute Christmas decorations.

Just an F.Y.I. of something to do tomorrow.

More fun in the leaves

It has been so nice here so we spent some more time outside.

Ready for winter?

I feel the same way about winter Kaylee, don't worry. Maybe spring will come early this year.

Little Lady Bug

Kaylee's first halloween!! We did not go trick or treating but we did have people over and cooked out in our fire pit. It was a lot of fun.