My girl, she finally came to me. My gift from God.
Halloween 2011. Kate was a little kitty and Conner was a Ninja Turtle.
Me and my best buddy at his Thanksgiving "Feast" at school.
Reason for living!
Kate turned six months!
The actual week she turned six months she: 1. rolled over for the first time 2. Said her first word, "Dadda."
"Dadda" was Conner's first word as well. I am not offended :)
She is the most mellow, delightful, cuddly, and most perfect baby in the world. Conner was a pretty mellow baby, but she is much more cuddly. I remember I would hold Conner or rock him and his head would constantly be turning to see the world around him. Kate lets me just hold her and snuggle with her. She loves me to rub her cheeks. Conner wouldn't have liked that. I definitely needed her and her sweet temperament. I also remember Conner didn't really like me to sing to him, but Kate loves it and totally relaxes as we sit in our rocking chair
That being said she is very wary of strangers. The truth is she really only likes to be held by me, Corey, or my mom. She rarely cries, but when someone other than the three of us holds her she kinda like, wails.
She currently has her first cold. It has been so sad because she already seems to have the tinniest of tiny nasal passages. She will get over it, but it is hard right now. Because of this she hasn't been sleeping that well. She slept thru the night so early on and now wakes about once a night unable to breath well. I know as soon as she gets over this cold her great sleeping with return.
However, she is interesting in that she really doesn't sleep much during the day. I do not mind!!!! I need her to sleep thru the night much more. It is so much different than with Conner because now we are running around a lot more- taking Conner to school, picking him up, and of course during the day Conner is all over the place being loud and waking her up. She really doesn't sleep deeply during the day, she takes cat naps for like 20 minutes. But she is so happy that it doesn't matter. Once in a while she will catch up and take a long nap.
She might hate me for saying this when she is older, but she really struggles with constipation!!! We give her a lot of juice which helps if we are consistent but it is still a struggle.
She is not huge on binkies (at least not right now, maybe she will be later.) Conner could not live without his!
I have not started her on baby food or rice yet. I hope that is ok, we tried the rice a couple times but it seems to make her choke and the bother her tiny sinuses.
Now on to Conner. Oh man this kid is giving me a run for my money. I don't know if it is the age, or the fact I am not at his immediate discretion anymore because I have two kids, but he is so demanding. Maybe he was always just as much this way but it was never as draining because he was my only responsibility.
He is so smart and so sweet. Corey often says we need a tape recorder on him at all times because he just says the most hilarious, clever things.
Last night for instance. Oh My GOSH our carpet was so disgustingly dirty so my darling Corey rented a carpet cleaner and did the whole house. So later that night guess what I did. I dropped the children's advil off the book shelf onto the carpet which happened to be BRIGHT BLUE (how dumb and it went Allll Over the carpet. I broke down in tears. Corey had just cleaned the carpet just an hour before. Conner and Chris saw it happen and rushed to help me. We were trying to clean it up and Conner said to me in the sweetest, softest voice, "You know it's not your fault right Mom?!" Chris and I looked at each other and just were in awe at how sweet and thoughtful he can be. What an intuitive and sensitive thing to say, so grown up.
He is so very sweet to Katelyn. He has never shown any jealousy towards her. He just loves her. I think his only issue with her is that he isn't able to understand that he has to be gentle with her. He just can't seem to understand that he can't get in her face and and play with her the way he wants to. I can't wait till they can actually play with toys together. I think he really needs that. Another kid to play with. We just miss Summer. He literally spent the entire Summer outside either riding his bike with all the neighbor kids or taking swimming lessons.
I can't wait till next Summer.
Right now his favorite show is scooby doo. His favorite toys are still Super Heros.
He prefers to eat spaghetti for almost every meal. Spaghetti, peanut butter and jelly, and chicken nuggets are his preferences right now.
He still won't touch milk with a ten foot pole. Not even chocholate milk. I give him calcium vitamins and calcium orange juice. I hope that is enough.
Corey has enjoyed his tickets to the Utes games all season. He goes with his brother Chris and with Conner. It has been such a special time for them. I am not into football so I happily let them go while I go get groceries or whatever with Kate.
As for me I am doing pretty good, I still see the Heart Failure team every few weeks. At this point my heart has begun to heal but "could be better" as they have told me. It sounds like I will be on heart medications the rest of my life, an ace-inhibitor morning and night and a diuretic as needed if my legs start to swell.
My love for Corey grows more every day it seems. The tears never fail to come to my eyes as I remember him by my side thru everything that has happened this year, especially in the hospital.
