Kaya's 9 month stats!

 
Weight: 17 lbs 14 oz (40%)
Length: 26.5" (25%)
Teeth: Two!  So much earlier than Lucy!

If you look close, you can see her teeth!

Favorite Food: Avacado, mashed potatoes, prunes
Least Favorite Food: Anything we try to spoon feed her

Mashed potato face!

Favorite Song: Slippery Fish, other action songs
Favorite Book: All God's Critters, although she mostly just tries to eat books

She loves to drum!

Likes: Standing, walking (the second she grabs our hands she tries to lead us around so she can walk), exploring, swimming, her fisher-price barn, eating by herself, exploring, watching Lucy, drumming
Dislikes: Sitting still (holding Kaya is like holding one of these toys), when Lucy tries to force her to do anything, cuddling
Words: She ALMOST knows "more" and "all done." 
Mobility: Army crawling like a champ!  And cruising all over the place!


Here is a little video of her walrus crawl.  =)

We love this girl!  It's so fun to see her personality, and how different she is from Lucy. She really is her own little person!

Challenges of taking pictures with two kids

This morning I tried to get some cute pictures of my kiddos together.  Holy. Cow.  It is so hard to get both of them smiling at the same time!

I got a few pretty cute ones:

Hooray!

Lucy's face in this one just makes me giggle.

Lucy ALMOST smiled in this one. 

 I got a lot of ones like these:

Kaya: When will we be done? Lucy: Ooh! Dirt!

Squirrel!

Lucy: I hate this.

I also got quite of few of these:

 I love my expressive little girls! =)

Does Kaya look like her parents?

I did this with Lucy when she was a baby (with the same outfit, too!) and HAD to do it again for Kaya! =)

What do you think?  Does she look more like Logan or me?

Baby Kaitie

Baby Kaya

Baby Logan

Another one of baby Kaya

In case you are curious, here is a Lucy/Kaya comparison too! 

7 month old Lucy

7 month old Kaya

Kaya's Six Month Stats!

Compare to Lucy six month stats here


Weight: 15 lbs 6.5 ounces (45%)
Length: 26 inches (50%)

Favorite Song: "My Little Dog Jack" "Go to Sleep You Little Babe"

Favorite Book: "On the Farm" and any book we allow her to chew on

Likes: Watching Lucy, standing up, being around people (especially other kids), chewing on things, mommy's hair, her sippy cup, shaking rattles, looking at herself in the mirror

Dislikes: Not being able to chew on everything she sees, having to entertain herself for more than 2 minutes  

Mobility: Kaya loves to roll from her back to her stomach -- she discovered it helps her get closer to cool toys!  She usually forgets how to roll from her stomach to her back though, and gets frustrated.

This little roller is no longer a back sleeper!

Favorite Food: Although she's tried rice cereal and applesauce, her favorite food is definitely breast milk!

We love this little girl!  Kaya is very happy and loves to coo and smile at everyone (even if they aren't looking), and especially at her Dad.  She is a charmer.  She's still waking up about once a night, but goes to bed at 8PM and isn't up for the day until around 8AM, which is pretty doable.
 

She's our little tag-a-long

Thanks Sisters for the awesome exersaucer! She loves it!

 

"Why doesn't this fit in my mouth?!" (She usually loves it =D)

We love our happy Kaya!

Awesome randomness

This month has been pretty awesome! Here is a small sampling of our awesomeness. =)

We met up with Logan's good friend Nate and his cute fam at the Treehouse museum in Ogden. Man, I wish it was closer! It's way cooler than the children's museum in SLC.

Pioneer Lucy

Firefighter Lucy

Happy Kaya!

Since Logan and I were still not eating sugar, I made chicken pot pie for Pi day. It was delicious!

This is what Lucy wore on St Patrick's day. Not very green, but super cute, right?  We also had green milk and green eggs.  It was fun until Lucy spilled her green milk all over her dress.  =)

 

We love living so close to the zoo!  It's such a great low stress outing for me and the girls.  Even when it's raining.  We're hardcore like that. 

My bestie Lauren and her husband Nate came down from Idaho Falls to hang out with us and meet Kaya!  It was super fun to see them!!!  We partied it up at the Aquarium and then at Rodizio's!  Please come visit again soon!

The past few weeks we've pretty much just stayed home, so I'm glad we got some awesomeness in last month.  Logan's been super busy at work, and I've been potty training Lucy.  Needless to say...

Sisters!

I love that they have the same facial expression in this picture!

I love my girls!  It's been so fun to see Lucy as a big sister.  She loves Kaya and is a great little helper.  Today she kept handing Kaya toys to keep her entertained while I made dinner.  The other day, I told her we could go play once Kaya stopped crying (she was going down for her nap).  Lucy ran into Kaya's room, and said, "SHHHH! Kaya, don't cry! Be happy!"

Tummy time!

Lucy usually ignores Kaya.  When she does play with her, it's either when Kaya's crying (Lucy likes to help her feel better) or if I'm playing with Kaya (she doesn't like to miss out on the fun!).  She does tummy time with her and she comes over whenever I read a book to Kaya so she can see it too.  She thinks it is so funny when Kaya grabs her hand, or her shirt, or even her hair.  She loves to give Kaya kisses and hugs, which usually result in Kaya getting mauled. 

Lucy thinks it's pretty funny when Kaya grabs her hand.

Lucy trying to give Kaya a kiss.

Kaya is very tolerant of Lucy smashing, grabbing, squeezing, or tripping over her.  She loves to stare at Lucy, and loves watching her dance and sing. 

Kaya is our little tag-a-long right now!

Just hanging out.

I love this video because I think it's a perfect little snapshot of Lucy and Kaya (especially the end). I also love this video because I was trying to get a video of Kaya cooing/smiling at her self in the mirror, so this is totally impromptu on Lucy's part. I love these girls!

Kaya is Four Months Old!

We couldn't resist the baby engineer hat!*

Lucy's 4 month stats can be found here

Weight: 13 lbs 10 oz (50%)
Length: 24" (45%)

She loves her fist!*

Favorite song: "Choo'n Gum" "Pony Man"
Favorite book: "Here's to You" "Sesame Street ABCs"
Likes: Her mobile, watching Lucy, looking at books, sleeping in the car, baths, playing with balls, when we coo at her, sitting up, standing, looking at herself in the mirror, chewing on her fist
Dislikes: When she can't fit an entire toy in her mouth, sleeping through the night

"Mom, I'm tired! Stop taking pictures of me!"

We love this little girl!  She is starting to move around more!  She rolled over a quite few times, but promptly forgot how, and hasn't rolled over since.  She can  sleep through the night, she just chooses not to.  =P  Some nights she'll sleep from midnight until 8, and some nights she's up every three hours.  We're getting there though. She is such a cutie!  We love her sweet coos and her infectious smile!

Visiting Grandma-Great!

Happy little viking girl!*

*Photos by Monkeyface Photography -- I'm going to blog more of these (including our family pictures) soon!