They are finally up!!! I am so excited and have been waiting ALL day!!!! Jason was awesome....from the moment we met him it was like we had known him for years! He caught some awesome pictures. All I can say is Jason Pendley you are AWESOME!!!!
Go to www.jasonpendley.com
Then to "clients"
The Password is "matthew"
Enjoy!
11/2/09
Happy Halloween 2009!!!
I can't believe that Halloween has come and gone! I have been talking about dressing Kellen up, and what he would be, since last year at this time (and he was still in the womb)!!! He made the cutest little monkey! We thought that it was very fitting since we call him "our little monkey"! I found the costume on amazon for a reasonable price, but will probably never spend that much again! :o) It was a busy day, but it was a lot of fun. We had our pictures taken by Jason Pendley....It was cold and rainy and yes we did them outside! :o) The weather was not too bad during the session, but it was a little cold. After our shoot was over we rushed home to get all our costumes on...yes Matt and I dressed up too! Matt was "The King" from Burger King and I was a pirate (to go along with Kellen, the monkey)!!!! After we were dressed we ran over to Cousin Ansley's house to get some pictures of the two together. Ansley was Tinker Bell and Grandma Keeta made her costume! It was too cute!!! Mommy gave Kellen a box of Nerds to "shake"...I turned away for a minute and he had got the box open and had a few Nerds and was happy as can be (I think he may have Mommy's sweet tooth)!!!
From there we came home and fed Kellen before we started making our rounds to friends and family for trick or treating! Our first stop was Auntie Jenn's new house! She had the best candy!!! We hung out for a bit and got to see a 7-week old Trick or Treater named Penelope (she was a unicorn). We had a glass of wine, took some pictures, and we were on our way with a hand full of candy! Did I mention it is was the good candy???
We made our way to Aunt Jerilyn's and Uncle Chris's. We stayed for a short visit and got a couple pieces of candy, but better yet...Jerilyn sent us with quesadilla's and salsa! Score for mommy and daddy!!!
On to Uncle Andy's....we ended up picking up Andy and heading to Mimi and Papa's...This is where we failed in the picture department! We hung out for a while and mommy had a few drinks and Daddy had some Rootbeer! Kellen was a trooper...we left there around 9:30ish...about 2 hours after bedtime. As soon as we got home Kellen was in his Halloween PJ's that Grandma Dee got him and he drank a bottle and was out! Mommy thought for sure Kellen was going to sleep in, BUT he got up at 3 am the next morning!!!! Mommy was very tired but Kellen was WIDE awake....maybe it was the nerds he ate!!!
10/27/09
Nine Months
What has Kellen been up to these days?
(I think between 8 and 9 months I have seen the biggest change since birth. He has really just taken off)Kellen is weighing in at 21 lbs 13 oz and is 29.5 inches tall. He has slowed down a bit and is coming in in the 80th percentile (this is the first time since birth he is not in the high 90th percentile). He is wearing 12 month clothing and some 18 months depending on the brand. He is in a size 3 shoe (and I have finally found some cute ones). We just are finishing up the last of the Size 3 diapers that we have and then will be putting him in size 4 all the time instead of just at night. They seam to help out with leaking.
He is still drinking 4 - 7 oz bottles a day (but has begun to refuse some of them). In the past couple of weeks we have started him on "real" food. He is such a great eater and prefers the "real" food to the jarred food. The other night we went to a Mexican restaurant and ordered him a mini cheese quesadilla and he ate the WHOLE thing!!! On top of that he ate some banana and rice and beans. The only thing he has not really liked and refused to eat is grits. Other than that his teachers at school are amazed at how well he eats "real" food. He is getting a little frustrated with us when we try and feed him the jarred food now. I have to say that it is a little hard, because I don't know how much food he is getting. When you feed him formula or a bottle, you know how much they are drinking. When you feed them jarred food you know how much they are eating. But with real food it is hard to gauge how much they are eating. One of Kellen's favorite foods is Mac and cheese. So far so good though he is eating very well for us!
As far as sleep goes, he is an okay sleeper. I can't really complain. He goes to bed between 7 and 7:30 and then will sleep anywhere from 4am till 6:30. Recently, it has been closer to 4 am every morning and sometimes 3 am. So it has been hard on mommy and daddy. He will take anywhere from 1 to 3 naps a day and those naps can last from 30 min to 2 hours. I guess it all depends on how he feels! :o)
His favorite toys right now are what we call redneck toys...he loves plastic bottles. He will sit on the hardwood floors and bang the bottle around the floor. He loves the noise it makes. He also loves to chase the cats. Now that he is really crawling he will zoom after the cats. Holly is SO good with him. Skyler continues to not be so good with him. He loves to play peek-a-boo and loves his rocker chair. He is saying ma-ma and da-da and ba-ba. In the last week he as started to wave...it has to be the cutest thing ever! :o)
A day in the life of Kellen goes a little like this....
- Wake up (really whenever I wake up) or by 6:15 (but mostly around 4 am these days)
- Get dressed and drink a bottle and play for a few minutes while Mommy finishes getting things together
- Out the door and on our way to day care by 6:50
- Mommy drops me off at day care at 7 am
- Nap, play and eat (I am trying lots of new foods and new activities)...I love my teachers and they LOVE me a couple of weeks ago I moved up to Infant B. I am doing so much more and trying so many new things that I get really tired during the day!
- Daddy picks me up from daycare at 5 pm
- Eat dinner at 5:30
- Play with Mommy and Daddy till 7pm-ish
- Bath Time (between 7 and 7:30) I don't really like to get my hair washed, but I love to play in the water. These days though I am so tired that it is hard fro mommy and daddy to enjoy bath time.
- Bed time...Mommy and Daddy try to read to me, but I am SO tired that I just want my bottle and to go to bed. Mommy started playing music during bottle time and I am not sure what I think about it
Kellen is really pulling up on everything. The last couple of weeks he has gone from not being able to pull up ...to pulling up... and then to pulling up like a pro! He really has no fear....when he is done standing he just plops down and goes about his business. He is really keeping us on our toes.
I really don't know where the last 9 months have gone. Kellen has been such a blessing in our lives. I really can not imagine my life without him. Still daily you can hear Matt say, "I can't believe that we have a son." No matter how tired or stressed or worried or sad I am it all melts away when I see his sweet little face.
We will have his 9-month pictures taken on Saturday with Jason Pendley. I will share the link with you all as soon as they are up on his website! :o)
Happy 9 month birthday baby boy! We love you so much!!!
10/25/09
New Hair Cut & Pumpkin Farm
What a busy week! Last weekend I decided to give Kellen a haircut. His hair was just too all over the place for me...so I got out the clipper's and buzzed it.
It is a little short and would like it to be somewhere in between how long it was and how short it is now. He is such a trooper. He sat through it all and did not get too antsy until the end. And here it is....
Grandma Keeta is in town for the week so we thought it would be a good idea to hit up a pumpkin patch. I found Yahoo Farms that is located in Jasper. I had picked it because it sounded like a lot of fun with a pumpkin bunny, a pony ride, corn maize, pumpkins, hay ride, and so on. It turned out to be fun, but not as cool as it sounded on the website...the pumpkin bunny was a women with ears on her head.
But we got some cute pictures of Kellen and some great family time. Both Grandmas went and uncle Andy too!
We took a hayride and Kellen went on his first pony ride...He loved it or at least I think he did. There was no smiles, but no crying either. They even went around twice. All in all it was a great day! I have already found a different place to try for next year! :o)
I love this face! :o) Happy Fall Ya'll!!!!
10/12/09
Hip, Hip Hooray...Kellen stood up today (well last Tuesday)!!!
Kellen didn't really try again till Saturday! He is now pulling up and standing anytime that you will let him! On Sunday we decided that we would lower the crib since he was now able to stand up! It was a GOOD thing that we did, because after his nap Grandma Dee walked in to go get him and he was standing in his crib like it was nothing!!! :o)
Our baby is growing up so fast! It has been so much fun to watch him grow and learn new things! We are working on the whole clapping thing and it is SO funny to watch him try to imitate what we do!!!
Kellen also has started to eat "real" food (as I call it) instead of "jarred" food! He has tried pears, bananas, chicken, green beans, and pasta! On the menu tonight...mashed potatoes and peaches! :o)
10/5/09
8 Months ~ only a week late! :o)
I know that I say this often, but where did the time go? Did we not just get home from the hospital with Kellen??? Here is what Kellen is up to these days...
- He is weighing in around 22 lbs. He is still able to where some 9 month clothing, but mostly is wearing 12 months. He is in a size 3 diaper, but wears size 4 at night....this has made all the difference in the world in the fact he does not wake up totally soaked.
- We changed Kellen's schedule up a little this last month. We are now letting him wake up on his own or waking him up at 6:15ish (during the week). He has a bottle around 6:30 and then we head off to daycare around 6:45ish. Daddy usually will pick him up from daycare around 5. We still fight over who gets to pick him up, because we love the BIG smile we get when we walk in the room! Around 5:30ish Kellen will eat dinner. This consists of a meat and veggie and sometimes a fruit if he acts like he is starving. Then it is play time until about 7:00ish. The time between 5:30 and 7 is really hard for Kellen...he is usually so tired, but I am selfish in the fact I want to spend time with Kellen awake and not sleeping so I try not to let him go to sleep unless he just can't handle it! :o) Around 7 we go upstairs for bath time. Kellen loves bath time even more now that I am not using his bath chair and he gets to hang out in the big tub and plays. He is such a little fish!!! I think he would stay in there until he shriveled up if I let him! After bath time we try to read a couple books, but this usually does not go well, because Kellen is SO tired!!! He gets another bottle and off to bed. He usually does not cry too much, but some nights he will cry for no more than 5 minutes! This past week he had a hard time sleeping...I think with being sick and home from daycare for a couple of days and having multiple houseguests just threw Kellen out of sorts a bit! He seems to be falling back into his routine and sleeping through the night again!
- As far as eating goes...Kellen still eats very well for us! He drinks 4- 7 oz bottles and will eat 3 times a day with a snack here and there. For Breakfast he will eat oatmeal and a fruit or yogurt (the yogurt is not his favorite and I hate the amount of sugar it has in it). For Lunch he will get a veggie and a fruit. For dinner he will have a meat and a veggie and sometimes a fruit. We introduced puffs to him this last month and he LOVES them! He also loves pizza crust...I think that it feels really good on his teeth! We are trying to make a move to more textures so we will see how that goes.
- Kellen's teeth have just continued to come in. At this point he has 8 teeth all together! They just seem to continue to come in! For the last month it has been one after another! No wonder he is chewing on everything and anything...including window sills and furniture! On Friday (9/25) the Daycare called and told me that another child bit Kellen. They did not break through the skin, but he did have a little red mark when I picked him up on Friday! I was very understanding to it all, because I never know when the next phone call will be that Kellen bit someone. Since then Kellen has started to bite us...we are trying to work on "no biting"!!!
- Kellen is on the move right now! He loves to crawl after the cats, this makes me a little nervous because they both still have their claws...Holly has been so good with him. Skyler on the other hand is not so good and has got Kellen a couple of times, but it doesn't seem to stop him from going after her again and again! He is really trying to pull up on everything. He can get to his knees, and has got the idea of getting to his feet, but is not quite strong enough.
- He is really starting to babble. "Mamamama" is his favorite. It is my favorite when he wakes up and just starts talking. He also really likes "babababa"! We are working on the dada, but so far it is mostly "ma" and "ba"!
We enjoyed our visit with The Whitfield family a few weeks back! They came in on Saturday for The Tucker family celebration! Then the boys went to the Falcon vs. Panther game on Sunday! Deborah Anne and I hung out with the little ones! Sarah Scott loves to give hugs it is the sweetest thing! Kellen was not so into it! As you can see on his face! :o) I think Deborah Anne was a little worried about Sarah Scott hurting Kellen, but I was more worried about Kellen hurting her. Sarah Scott is a little over 1 and Kellen is a few pounds heavier and about the same height. Kellen kept tripping her and pulling on her pants every time she walked by. He also kept trying to steal her paci...I really do think he is a bit of a bully! :o) It was SO much fun hanging out with them...if they only lived closer!!!
We are staying busy these days with our day to day lives! I love fall and I am so excited to take Kellen to a pumpkin patch and dress him up for Halloween! If only I could decide what to dress him up as!
9/12/09
It has been a little crazy around here...
A picture I took in honor of Matt and his Fantasy Football Draft!
So It has been awhile, but I just don't seem to have the energy for much these days. I have been so tired and don't think that I will ever catch up on sleep! I wanted to recap the last week and all the craziness poor little Kellen has went through! I think that going through all of the stress of having a sick little one and not knowing what to do for him, just about did me in!
After the Dr's on Tuesday I felt so much better because they had said he was okay to go through surgery! On Wednesday things started to go downhill. When Matt picked Kellen up from daycare his teacher had just taken his temperature and it was at 100.4. About this time I began to panic and deep down I knew the surgery was not going to happen, but I will still praying that it would. Of course I did not want them to do it if Kellen was sick, but it really was the PERFECT time for me. I had Friday and Monday off for Labor day and that meant I would get to be home with him for 5 days while he recovers. I was so excited that things had lined up!!! Well like I said it was perfect timing for me, but I guess God had other plans. Kellen's fever continued to rise over the course of the evening and finally at 11:30 pm it hit 102.5. I just didn't know what to do anymore...so I called the nurse line and asked what to do. She told us that we could go ahead and give Kellen some Tylenol and that if it broke than we should be fine to have the surgery. So that is what we did. Kellen woke up at 3:30 so we got up and gave him some water and took his temp...no temperature! Maybe it really was going to work out for us! So we got ready and headed to the place where he was to have his surgery.
When it was our turn I told the nurse all about the fever and the Tylenol and going to the Drs on Tuesday. She did not seem to show any concern, she took Kellen's temp twice just to be sure he did not have a fever. So far so good...I was almost feeling confident that it was going to happen. The the Nurse Practitioner for the Anesthesiologist came in and listened to the details leading up to that point and then listened to Kellen's lungs. At that point everything came crashing down. She said he was wheezing and was sure that they would not do the surgery and if they did she would be very surprised. She left the room and talked to Dr and came back and said "Today is not the day"!!! My heart sank...now don't get me wrong I did not want them to do the surgery if Kellen was at any risk, but I was so disappointed that my perfect timing was not so perfect any more.
So we loaded Kellen back up into the car and my mom fed him a bottle on the way home. He fell asleep and didn't wake up even when we moved him from the car to his crib. I waited till 8:30 and called the Dr to see if I could get an appointment to have Kellen checked again! The whole time I was so upset...When I had taken him to the Dr on Tuesday he sounded the exact same as he did at that exact moment! So why did that Dr clear him for surgery??? When the Dr's answered she said she had an availability with the same Dr I saw on Tuesday, but I really don't care to see him again. So we got a 9:30 appointment with a Nurse practitioner. She was so sweet. She said Kellen was a "Happy Wheezier" and because of all the congestion he was wheezing. She suggested that we start breathing treatments and an antibiotic just because he had a fever the night before, she said better safe than sorry! She did tell us that because Kellen has had this cold for so long and it has not moved to his ears, that we should not have any problems with them! I was very happy about that! We did a breathing treatment in the office and it was so hard to watch Kellen! He cried the whole time! It broke my heart! But I know that it was for the better!!!
Kellen is actually smiling though his breathing treatment!!!
They sent us home with a nebulizer so that we could continue the breathing treatments at home. This is where "first time mom naivety" comes in...I didn't think to ask any of the side effects or anything...just went about my business of filling the prescriptions and doing the breathing treatments at home. The rest of Thursday went fine...Kellen seemed to be feeling better and I was enjoying my time with him.
Friday things started to go a little crazy...The breathing treatments were making Kellen so hyper that it was like he was on crack!!! He would not sit still for his bottles so I was only able to get about 10 oz of formula down him instead of his normal 35 oz. I couldn't keep up with him...amongst all this going on Kellen decided now was the time to start full on crawling (and he hasn't stopped since)!!! He still does the marine crawl, but is starting to use his legs a little more until he hits the hardwoods and then knows that dragging himself he can go faster! So all day Saturday and part of Sunday I continued the breathing treatments, until my mom, matt and me were about at our limits. Kellen was so hyper and it was a fight to get him to sit still long enough to eat. He was not wheezing anymore and his cough sounded like it was dryer...so we called the pharmacist to see if there would be any harm in stopping the breathing treatments. He said no as long as he was not wheezing. So we decided to stop the breathing treatments. Monday was so much nicer...Kellen drank all of his bottles and was still crawling all over the place, but not nearly as hyper.
Kellen chasing Holly...she got smart and jumped on the chair!!!
I kept Kellen in the house the entire weekend besides one adventure to Babies R Us on Monday. He was doing very well and things were looking up. So back to daycare he went on Tuesday! By Wednesday his nose was running a lot more and he was sounding a little more congested, but still no wheezing! I had to take Kellen back to the Drs on Thursday so they could check his lungs, but after only being at work for a few hours, daycare called and said Kellen was running a fever and had diarrhea. So off to get him I went. When I got to daycare they apologized and said it seemed that Kellen's fever was going up and down, because they took it a gain with a different thermometer! If you want my opinion I don't think he ever had a fever, because I have never known one to disappear unaided with in 30-45 minutes. So Kellen and I went home and hung out till the Drs...I was happy for the time I got to spend with Kellen!
At the Dr's they said Kellen's lungs sounded great and that his diarrhea could be anything, but were not concerned with it since he was not vomiting! They said it could be the rest of the virus trying to get out or the antibiotics, or even his teething (he has three teeth trying to come through)! Kellen now has 7 teeth in all and 5 of those have come in pretty much at once.
Kellen is still congested and I am looking for more natural ways to help him get the gunk out so that we do not have to resort to the breathing treatments. I have been using the saline spray and an aspirator and trying to get out as much of the gunk I can from his nose and that seems to help! But if anyone has any suggestions on how to get the gunk out of his chest let me know! Thanks again for all the prayers!
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