This past Sunday I took Keira for her 6 month/Christmas Pictures. She did a MUCH better job that the last time we tried! But she is also 4 months older! She didn't get fussy until the very end. Delana met me up there so that we could get a shot of the girls together in their tutus. They all turned out so great!
Thanks Skister for making the cutest tutus and bows... I absolutely love the pictures with them in it!
Here are a few of my favorites. 
Just a quick update on things...
* Keira has her first tooth. It started making its painful appearance this Sunday. It is finally completely broken through and she is back to her normal self.
* Sitting on her own more and more. We put her boppy behind her, just in case she topples over.
* Now that she sits more, she plays independently for MUCH longer. Yeah for sitting. :)
* Has tried just about every mixed meat dinner there is. She really LOVES chicken noodle dinner.
* Is starting mixed fruits.
* Is eating more self-feeding snacks.
* Drank from a sippy cup today. It was mainly water with a splash of juice.
* Got caught playing with her friends at school by Mom. I'm so glad that she is socializing.
* Went to her first Wedding. One of my best childhood friends got married last weekend and we all went to it. She behaved very well.
* Finally looks like she has hair. Thank goodness!
Her personality is really starting to come out. When she isn't mad at me for not holding her, she is so happy. She is also such a great eater. It's always fun to try a new food because I know she is going to love it.
As for me, Thanksgiving break is finally here. I have one last day of work tomorrow and then I am off for a week. I am looking forward to spending some time with Kiwi and snuggling! Hopefully some rest at the house will help me to feel better. I started feeling pretty bad at work yesterday and took today off to go to the doctor. Sore throat, ear ache, headache, body aches, chills, fever. I was afraid it was the flu. Turns out I have a viral infection. Nothing to take for it, just have to let it go away on its own. We will be having Thanksgiving at our house again this year, so I will be busy cleaning and cooking!
Here are a few pics of Kiwi sitting up and playing!
Things have been crazy since the pumpkin patch. It seems like life has been non-stop in every aspect. Here's the recap!
After the Pumpkin Patch, Keira got sick. After only two days of daycare, she had HandFootMouth. Bleh. She had to leave daycare early that Tuesday and stayed home with Stephen on Wednesday. She was back to school on Thursday, but was very fussy for the next week or so. We could only give her tylenol and had to let the virus run its course. Once it started to ease up, she got a cold. We are still battling it, but it is better.
Daycare is much better now that she is feeling better. They are working on getting her to nap in her bed, but I know that she really doesn't like to. Most days she has great days. She has made some friends and I think she even has her first boyfriend. :)
The week of Halloween was super fun. She had an adorable outfit for each day and helped me gut three pumpkins for Stephen to carve. She loved squishing the insides and really wanted to eat the pumpkin! For Halloween she was a penguin. She and Stephen matched exactly. We got a lot of aw's and how cute's. It was fun. She didn't fuss a bit and let Stephen take her up to every house.
On the 4th she turned 6 months old. I can't believe she is already half a year old. Time has gone by so fast. We went to the doctor this morning for her well-check and immunizations. She weighed in at 14 pounds 2 ounces (25%), 25 1/4 inches (25-50%), and 16 inch head (5%). So she is still tall and skinny. Dr. Lincoln said she is very proportionate so I am not worried. Her left eye is still goopy, so she gave us an antibiotic drop to try for a week. If it doesn't clear up, we will go to an Ophthamologist at 9 months to see about opening her tear duct. She also said that her ears looked a little red, but that may be due to her cold. So we will wait a week and see if she gets fussy or won't eat. She got two immunizations and her flu shot. It still breaks my heart to hear her cry, but it is all worth it. She has spent most of today relaxing.
We got the okay to start adding more foods in to her diet. We will start giving her three meals a day now. The doctor said that she can have pretty much whatever we are eating as long as it is small and smushed up. We went to HEB and bought the meat baby foods, yogurt, and some finger foods. We tried Chicken Noodle Dinner for lunch and she loved it. I am so excited about trying new foods.
Thats about it for now. I have two more weeks of work until Thanksgiving Vacation and then three weeks after that until Christmas. I love this time of year and am excited about sharing everything with Keira!! Here are a few pictures from the last couple weeks.
Sunday we went to Sweet Berry Farm is Marble Falls with the Lemley Clan. Boy was off, so it was nice to be the whole family doing it. Keira was such a good sport. She let us do pretty much whatever with her. It was SUPER sunny, so most of the pictures she is squinting in, but all-in-all, it was a great first Pumpkin Patch adventure! Here are a few of the pictures!
Miss Keira had her first day at school today. She is the newest member of the Butterfly Class. (I have a small problem with the whole butterfly thing, but thats another story) She was great this morning when I dropped her off; all smiles. Thank goodness she wasn't grumpy! I'd hate for a grumpy baby to be their first impression of her! I got all of her stuff unpacked and then went to work. She didn't get scared, or cry when I left. I didn't get scared or cry either. As I walked out, I breathed a sigh of relief that the childcare issues were gone.
Stephen took lunch at the time I went to pick her up so that he could see her classroom and meet her teachers. She had a great day with them, at least thats what her note said and what her teachers said!
I am looking forward to tomorrow. I am a little anxious about getting her there early in the morning since today I didn't have to rush. We'll figure it all out though. I'll just try to be up a little earlier tomorrow.
So yeah to no more childcare worries. Now I am just crossing my fingers that the germs don't get her right away. :)
Well the day has come for Keira to start daycare! On Wednesday, the director at the Buda Daycare emailed me to let me know that there is a spot available for Keira. This is the center that I wanted Keira to go to eventually. My only hesitation was that I wanted her close to me the first year, but she hasn't been in my building with me for the last 2 months and we have survived! Her first day at Buda will be on Thursday. I am really looking forward to a set schedule each week and knowing that she will be well taken care of there. They do so much with the kids there!
We are really going to miss Mrs. Karrie. She has done so much for us over the last 2 months. I have her to thank for Keira doing tummy time and rolling over! :) I'll never be able to thank her enough for helping us out. She really saved us in a time when things were really hard! I'm already a little sad that she will not be with her anymore.
Back at home, Keira has eaten green beans, sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, squash, pears, and bananas. She likes rice cereal and oatmeal. I have been making her baby food and freezing it into cubes. So far I have made peas, sweet potatoes, carrots, and squash. She loves them all! We are starting to use formula as well. I am trying to keep up with pumping, but going back to work has made it really hard to keep up with her. I have to look at it positively though, she has gone over 5 months being exclusively breastfed, and that is great! Thats five months longer than I was! :)
She is doing so much more each and every day. She loves rolling over, laying on her tummy and back, sitting in her bumbo, trying hard to sit on her own, kicking EVERYTHING!, jumping in her jumperoo, and is talking and laughing like crazy. I really am loving this age and I am trying to enjoy every second of it because I know it will be gone before I know it.
Next weekend we are going to the Pumpkin Patch with Aunt Nayna's family, and possibly Mike and Gayle's family as well. I hope that all of us can go together. It would be really nice for all the kids to be together. I need to get her a really cute fall outfit picked out for her pictures with the pumpkins! In November we will take her 6 month pictures and will also take some with Madelyn. I can't believe it is already getting to this time of the year. I am really looking forward to her first Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas! I love this time of year; the cooler weather and fall air makes me happy. Keira seemed to enjoy it today and wore her bunny slippers all day long to keep her feet warm!
Well that's it for now. I hope you are all enjoying the fall weather!
After rolling from her tummy to her back SEVERAL times for Mrs. Karrie.... Keira has finally rolled for us. I absolutely love it!
