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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

FOUR MONTHS OLD!


Notice the Teddy is getting smaller? :-P

Current Weight: 8180 grams
Current Length: 68cm
Current Size: 00 - 0

(Use the online converter if you would like to work it out in pounds and inches.)

Another Month older and growing fast!! She's always been a clever little thing but she continues to get even more clever each week!!

She's grabbing objects with ease now and picks things up (and puts them straight in her mouth!!) so we've got to watch her more closely. She's almost able to hold her own bottle too - but not quite - it gets a bit heavy for her and she drops it. (I prefer to hand bottle feed her anyway.)

She's such a cheeky little thing... and it's real hard to take photos of her lately because she plays peekaboo with the camera!! Our camera makes a beep noise right before the flash goes off and she gets really amused by it. Her eyes light up when I get the camera ready and she sits and waits for the beep - then she'll cover her face or turn around quickly and giggle because she knows the flash is coming!! She laughs her little head off - thinks it's sooo funny!! - Cheeky Girl!

She also gets in these overtired moods and starts acting really silly! She'll pull my hair, kicks and scratches and laughs hysterically when she's really tired!! It can be cute but not at sleep time!!

We took her to our friends house Natt and Daves the other night and Kayla had a play in the Jolly Jumper who Natt borrowed from another friend, Neil for their baby Cooper (8 months old). She absolutely loved it - so now we have borrowed it for Kayla! (Thanks Natt and Neil!!) She gets so excited in it and squeals and bounces around it's soooo cute!!


I recommend it to anyone who has a baby - it's the greatest invention I've ever seen! lol

We will be starting her on solids really soon so that should be exciting!! The other night I was sitting on the couch picking at some chicken and I had Kayla on my lap. I wasn't paying much attention and I had a bit of chicken in my fingers and was about to put it in my mouth. But before I had the chance to - the little Miss went straight for it! - she leaned forward and opened her mouth and it went straight in her gob!!! She didn't swallow it or anything but she got a good taste and you should have seen the look on her face - she was like " oooo YUMMY!!! Mum what is this stuff and why haven't you introduced me to it before!!!?" It was hilarious!!!

Since then she has been eyeing off our food and tries to grab it! So I think she is more than ready for her solids!

Here are some recent piccys (That were captured when she wasn't playing peekaboo!)

Posing for Nanny...


Little homie girl...


Mummys little helper...


Kayla 'hanging' with her boyfriend Cooper...


Kayla gives Cooper the talk...


But Coop just could not resist...


Later that night...

*giggles*

Clip of the Week!

Filmed by Nanny!
Kayla having a Jolly good time at Nanny and Poppy's!!
(sorry it's a bit long - I didn't have the heart to crop it because there are too many cute bits!)



Ok.. my favourite part is at 2:15 where the song goes "she'll push and pull you down" Kayla raises her arm and then does a push down motion with her hand just as he sings "pull you down"and then she does a little dance! I was in FITS of laughter when I first saw this - it was like a little dance routine!


By the way... I've lost 10KGs so far!!! WooHoo! :-)

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Proud Parents!


Hey Guys! Sorry I've been so slack with the posting lately! I've been spending my computer time on working on Kayla's Photo book that I'm creating for her first year.

I had a break from it for a while but realized that I suddenly had heaps of new photos that needed to be sorted into it before it all got on top of me!

This is what the cover is going to be...


I can't WAIT to get it published!!!

Kayla is doing so well!! I mentioned a while ago that Kayla could actually stand on her own by holding herself up on the couch. Apparently it is quite unheard of for a 3month old - but I didn't know this because she is my first, so I didn't know much about what was normal and what was not normal for a baby. But people have been blown away by this and some people didn't even believe me when I told them about it!

So I got my camera out and got to snapping away to prove it ;-)!

Holding herself up standing on her own!!!


I decided to take her dress off and have her do it again just to give a better view of it.


She just LOVES standing! Even from when we first took her home and I would go to sit her on my lap and she would have her legs out stiff and ready to stand up instead of sitting down. She would also walk up my chest sometimes from just 10 days old!

We discovered that she could stand up on her own like this weeks ago, and at the time her record was 9 seconds. But now she can hold herself up for a good 30 seconds at a time! It's pretty amazing to us! She gets so excited when she does it and lets out a big giggle and she gets this cheeky grin on her face because she knows she's very clever!

She is so full of life all the time now - and her playful nature and giggles and smiles really bring us so much joy! There was a time where we could be so exhausted and couldn't wait to have a break from her. Between Dan and I we would sometimes fight for a break from her and tag each other with who had to watch her. "It's YOUR turn to watch her Daddy" No it's YOUR turn! - I had her this morning!"

But now we fight to HAVE her! "Let Mummy play with her now! You've been hogging her for the last hour!" "Just a little longer! You have her all day while I'm at work!" haha. She's just so much fun to play with now! (Ok - so maybe a little break here and there is still nice too :-P)

She's starting to sleep through now too!!!................... Just not at the right time!!!!

She's fully alert from 1:30pm - 3pm until 3am with a few naps in between! BUT she sleeps from 3am to 1:30pm -3pm with a few sleepy feeds in between. She can sleep up to 12 hours now! But getting the timing right is very difficult. I try to keep her up during the day but she can get very cranky and will end up falling asleep in my arms anyway! But hopefully if I can make her stay up just an extra hour each day - we can get there eventually. The only problem is - I have to be awake when she's awake, so I sleep when she sleeps - which makes it hard for me to get into routine too. But we'll get there!

I'm just glad that she's sleeping well now! And no more exhausting awakenings every 2 hours!!

Some piccys...

Daddy being a Kayla Hog! :-P...

Mummys Turn!...


My Camera videos aren't working any more :-( I have to get a new camera! So there's no clip of the week this time I'm sorry.


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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Visit from Grandad John and Aunty Emily!

Little Kayla wearing the cutie outfit that her Aunty Em got her!

YAY!! Wat a wonderful Easter we've had!! I hope your Easter was has fun as ours!!

First we had John arrive on late Tuesday night and he popped over for a nightcap and to meet little Kayla. Kayla woke up just as he arrived too so it worked out perfectly!

John meeting Kayla for the first time...


I must admit - I was a little nervous about Kayla meeting John and Emily for the first time, because she is at that stage where she is getting a bit of stranger anxiety! But Kayla took to them both straight away (she knows who her family is!! hehe) In fact she adores them as much as they do her!


John came with some beautiful gifts for the little Miss from the Gizzy family and we'd like to say a BIG THANKS to each of you!

Grandma Sue - I've already thanked you personally on the phone for your absolutely GORGEOUS gifts, but just wanted to say THANKS AGAIN! :-)

Great Grandma Gillies
- Thanks for your amazing quilt that must have taken you ages to make! We just love how you've used the material from Grandad Johns sweater too! Very Sentimental! :-)

Great Aunty Catherine - Thank you for the BEAUTIFUL Pink hood outfit! Even if it never gets cold here - I will still make her wear it! :-P haha it's just gorgeous!! :-)

Great Aunty Elaine - Thanks so much for the size 1 body suits!! I actually don't have any size 1 clothing yet so it will sure come in handy!! :-)

Aunty JMay - Thanks for the ''I Luv NZ'' cutie top! I just ADORE IT!!! I don't know what you were worried about though - it's a size 6mth up so it's actually too big for her at the moment! But I sure can't wait until she fits it! :-)

Also Thanks again to Aunty Emily for the cutie clothes and headbands for Kayla and to poor Grandad John for using up all his weight and space in his little suit cases to bring us all these gifts! hahaha! Must have been a nice light trip back for you!

While I'm at it - I also want to give a big Thanks to Aunty Nite (my friend in America) Who sent Kayla the most gorgeous outfit I have ever seen IN MY LIFE!!!! It arrived on the day that John arrived - so it sure felt like Christmas time! Nite Byrd - Thankyou! It's absolutely gorgeous!!! xx

I should also mention that on the Tuesday morning Kayla had her pediatrician appointment for her hernia. It has actually gone down a lot so everything is fine and nothing to worry about. We've just gotta take her back in 6months time to see how it's going from there.

Wednesday we had John and Mum over for lunch and after lunch Dan and John went on a wee road trip to Ingham to check out the scenery. I stayed at home with Kayla because I don't do well at all being in the car for more than an hour (I get pretty bad car sickness) but the guys enjoyed themselves!

Later that night John came over for dinner and some DVDs (though we never got around to watching any because there were too many good TV shows on hehe).

Thursday afternoon Emily arrived and came over for some lunch and to meet her gorgeous neice!

Em meeting Kayla for the first time...


and we had a family BBQ for dinner later that night at Mum and Dads house, which was really lovely and my family were thrilled to catch up with them again as much as we were!

Catching up with the family...


Aunty Em playing with Kayla...

For Good Friday we had planned on going to the Strand for lunch or the lovely lagoon for a swim, but the weather wasn't so good so we ended up going to a nice park called Queens Gardens where we had fish and chips and Kayla had her first swing and loved it!!!

Kayla's First Swing!...


Later that night John and Emily joined us at home for dinner and a movie night which was quite nice.

Saturday night was a big night! Our friend Natt had her 30th birthday party which was a hollywood dress up theme (Movie Characters!) (HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN NATTY WATT! We had an awesome time!!) Dan and I went as Riff Raff and Magenta from Rocky Horror Picture show...

Dan & I...


Emily joined us at the last minute and we were stumped for ideas on a costume for her. So we went through my wardrobe and she got creative and created her own character calling herself Holly Wood! (Pretty clever I thought!)

Em, Dan & I...

Mum came too and made an AWESOME effort by coming as Princess Fiona the Ogre from Shreck!...

Em, Dan, Mum & I...


We had a lot of fun! Meanwhile Grandad John stayed at home to babysit Kayla, where he got to change his first Kayla pooey nappy!!!...

Caught on Camera...

*giggles*

Easter Sunday we had a lovely afternoon lunch at Mum and Dad's where we got to pig out and watch some cool DVD's!

Watching DVD's with Daddy...



We took John and Emily out to dinner later that night to Sizzler (an all you can eat restaurant!!) and though we were all still stuffed from lunch... we still gave it our best shot! (Especially me because I was off my diet for 2 days only LOL!)

Dressed up for Sizzler...

Monday morning, sadly we had to say goodbye to Aunty Emily as she needed to leave early to get back to her busy lifestyle. But we were excited to hear that she may even be coming back in August to come to Natt and Daves Wedding!!! (And to spend more time with Kayla ofcourse! hehe!) I sure hope so!!! That would be awesome!!!

John stayed an extra day and joined us for lunch at Mum and Dads where they got to say goodbye.

Kayla having fun with Grandad before he leaves...


After pizza and DVD's at our house later that night, it was time for us to say Goodbye to Grandad too! But just like Emily - he said that if Emily comes back in August - he will toooooo! :-) YAY!!!

Thank you both so very much for coming to visit us - we had SUCH a wonderful time and can't wait to see you both again. It has also made us realize just how much we miss everyone else too and our next goal is to save for a trip to GIZZY hopefully soon!! :-)

Here are some more cutie pics...

Loving her baths...

She's now sucking her thumb!!!...

Giggles with Granma...

Dancing with Poppy...


Clip of the Week!

This was so cute... earlier in this night the song 'Macarena' came on and she was dancing to it in Granmas lap. Then the song came on again later in the night and she danced to it again! She didn't dance to any other song - so she obviously likes the macarena!!





HOPE YOU ALL HAD A HAPPY EASTER!!!


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