My super drooly 5 month old

Kaia bear,

Happy 5 months!! You are one happy drooly little baby. 

 

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You're getting awfully close to sitting...but you prefer standing. Daddy calls you his little fan club because you always smile at him. Everytime you see him, you grin. Clearly you are becoming quite the Daddy's girl. That's not to say you don't love your Mommy, me and you are pretty inseparable when I get home from work. You tend to calm down as long as I'm holding you.

You still love watching football, and are most entertained by things that make weird noises/light up. We've gotten you pretty accustomed to a variety of people (welcome to our ultra large family), so you love being held by just about anyone. You used to love the shower, but you're sort of over it. We've had to move into the realm of baths, but you're very picky about the temperature. You love the sounds of the shower still, so you tend to sit in the bathroom with me when I shower.

You sleep reasonably well, you can sleep all night, but it's not super consistent. You must be teething because you are ultra drooly and everything we give you goes right in your mouth. The scale at home says you're 14 lbs, but I think you're more than that. 

Alright sweet pea time for bed! We'll be posting more later this week. I love you!

Kid Vegas

Hey there little bug,

You were such a champ on this trip. Not many 4 month olds can handle a full week of all of the constant action required on a trip to the kid version of las vegas. You were a star on the flight, even though we got stuck in a middle seat. You did need your Dad to carry you around for a little bit and let you check everything out, but otherwise you did great.

We started our trip at Kennedy Space Center for the Maven launch, you make a spectacular astronaut. Though when the actually launch took place you had some rumblings of your own to contribute. Daddy got us VIP passes so we watched from Banana Creek. After the launch we spent some time at the Angry Bird Attraction which was predictably your brothers favorite. There was plenty for you watch there, so even if you couldn't participate you were entertained.

 

The next day we went to the beach for your first viewing of the ocean. We got your first time in the water on tape, which has been added to youtube. It was cold at first, but warmed up enough for some sun bathing.

 

Your Daddy thought he was funny and buried you in the sand. I was not thrilled since you decided to immediately start feeding yourself fist fulls of sand, but you seemed to like it and since the sand didn't seem to hurt you I think we're ok.

 

The next day we headed to Orlando for our Disney World Adventure. It wasn't really warm enough for you to hit the pool, but you were amused by all of activity. You did get some time in the hot tub which you seemed to be happy with.

That night we got to meet SpongeBob, you weren't quite as excited as caleb, but I think you still enjoyed it.

 

We went to bed early so we could get to Disney World when it opened. We gave you the map to pick our first attraction, though you seemed more intent on eating the map than reading it.

 

In typical Kaia fashion you started the day of adventure fast asleep.

 

And you stayed that way for most of the rides....

 

You got to do just about everything. You only threw fits on the Buzz Lightyear and Rocket ship rides (I think you were all space-d out from our time at Kennedy), otherwise you seemed pretty happy with everything we went on. The people mover seemed to be your favorite and you fell fast asleep (allowing us to ride it without getting off for a few rounds).

 

It rained in the afternoon, and while you got damp, you stayed pretty happy. Overall you did fantastically well for such a long adventurous day. The next day we headed home, we got a better seat on the flight and you and I got to take a long much needed nap.

 

Well done baby girl! You knocked out your first trip to the east coast, first trip to the ocean, and first trip to Disney World like a true rockstar. Right now you're fussing at Popo so I'm gonna have to cut this short. You're 5 months old tomorrow and we have a trip to CA and Thanksgiving this week so I'll be updating more in the very near future. I love you an absurd amount my little bug!

Kaia - the scrapbook series

Hey there little bug,

This will be short and sweet, I just wanted to preface the posts below as there are a lot of them. In an effort to keep up with the zillions of pictures I have of you I'm keeping a monthly scrapbook of your shenanigans (speaking of which, you find that word hilarious, it's the only thing we've gotten a sustained laugh out of you from). We put a video of it up on youtube (I think you can access that from the link in the top right corner of this blog), but it's not as great as the reaction we got before we hit record. I posted each of the months in the posts below, I've ordered these all on hardback so you can see them, but I wanted them saved elsewhere as well. So as long as shutterfly continues to exist we'll be able to go back to these.

Otherwise, your nanna is in town, which has been a saving grace since your nanny has called in sick the past 2 days. She loves playing and holding you, so you've been living the dream these past few days. You've been sleeping perfectly (9pm-6am) and you are still the world's calmest and happiest baby.

There will be many updates to come, we're heading to Orlando on Sunday and then California for Thanksgiving. I adore you sweet pea!

Kaia - October 2013

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Kaia September 2013

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Baby Doll - Happy Halloween!!

Baby Doll,

We made it through your first Halloween, and you've already racked up your first costume contest win. Not that I can take much credit for it, the entirety of your outfit was made by your great grandma Baba. You looked fantastic:



We went over to a neighbors house to share in the festivities with your brothers and then headed out for a bit of trick or treating, it was very cold and you only made it through about 3 houses before you decided that was enough. It sort of ruined our plan to buy your brothers allegiances by proving how useful you were at getting and sharing candy, but they have more than enough so I think we'll all survive.

 

This weekend we started what will hopefully remain a longstanding tradition of going to the Halloween Gift festival downtown, you had your first Santa sighting, but we weren't prepared for a Santa picture yet so we just got you from a distance. 

Otherwise it was a pretty boring weekend for you, we had all sorts of chores to take care of and you were just stuck along for the ride, you handled it like a trooper though. You did get to see a whole ton of your family, all of your local Aunts/Uncles and Grandparents made an appearance this weekend, so you did enjoy that quite a bit. You're still very into chewing on your entire hand (despite T's attempts to show you the correct "thumb in mouth" formation), you like making all sorts of noises that sound sort of like your Popo's singing, and you love watching your brothers run around. You haven't really been all that interested in toys yet, but I'm sure you'll get there soon enough. You HATE getting put into your car seat, but you seem to be fine once you're in there.