sometimes, i just want kiah to sleep all day long. #1 because she looks like the most adorable little angel when she sleeps. #2 because i want to get things done.
my last 12 hours have been hilarious to say the least
as i said bye to stephen while he literally crammed into Juan Guzmans tiny mini cooper with Ul and the other Juan and all their bags for the big wedding weekend and some golf clubs i embraced the night with my sweet baby girl. i rocked her to sleep as i regretfully ate a big piece of chocolate cake with a big glass of milk. i knew i shouldn't have done that. she has not been sleeping so great in her crib. she was up every 2 hours, 12:00 2:00, 4:00 6:00 and then i go down stairs to turn the air on because it gets crazy hot in this apt i had to kill a giant cockroach. ewww.
up the squeaky stairs to try to get some more sleep.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK on the door
normally, when kids miss the bus stephen will get outta bed and take them to school
well, stephens not here
so i get outta bed again and go to the door and tell kiran that i can not take him to school
then i go back upstairs to bed
then again about 1 hour later
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCk on the door
mandalyna, sorry no i can not take u to school
at this point, whenever i am trying to sleep i get woken up so i figure i will just get up, make coffee and start this day
Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
weddings.mountains.crib
oh my goodness, is it already september?
i feel like thanksgiving is gonna be here so soon, then christmas and then kiah will be 1 year old walking and talking and ....ok i need to slow down.
on kiahs 3 month birthday we put her in her crib to sleep IN THE OTHER ROOM for the first time. i actually was totally ok with it because she has just grown right out of the bassinet that once seemed plenty big for her now is too little.
LOL! sorry to get off track but i literally just laughed out loud. i am sitting in kiahs room on this rainy thursday morning while a Burmese bible study is taking place downstairs and kiah sleeps in her crib. i think she is having a bad dream but it is so hilarious because she just yelled out while she was sleeping REALLY LOUD but when right back to sleep. sorry, but i love it.
anyways, but back to kiah in her crib. i love it because stephen and i can actually stop tip toeing around our bedroom at night and moving on or off the bed in slow motion to keep it from sqeeking. and we can listen to our little princess on the baby monitor. but before we could make it a routine, we took off to Asheville,nc for dinner at my favorite TUPELO HONEY and Liz and Caleb's wedding, then late that night to grandfather mountain with friends for labor day weekend. it was a perfectly planned out weekend right? well, it was different. different compared to life back before kiah.
before kiah lily, it was just stephen and i. at weddings, we socialized, danced to slow songs, reminisced about our wedding, ate fun food, danced with friends. life is very different with little kiah. we stood in the back to keep kiah quiet during the ceremony instead of with our friends who we hadn't seen in a long time. during the cocktail hour before the reception i hid away in a back bathroom to feed kiah while everyone else mingled and caught up on life and took fun pictures together. stephen and i barely ate, barely danced, barely finished conversations with friends and mostly took care of kiah. honestly, as we left i was really sad. i had been looking forward to this wedding and seeing friends for so long. i had a pity party for about 15 minutes and then decided...while all of my heart
...she is more than worth it.
becoming a mom, u sacrifice lots of things. i realized i love her so much!!! she is and will always be worth anything i might not be able to do or have or enjoy. i love her just because she is mine and i am hers. i also realize, that is how it is with God. kiah doesn't even talk or tell me how great i am or doing things for me. but i love her just because she is mine. "i am my beloveds and he is mine"
GOD IS LOVE
i am so thankful for stephen and all the help he gives me. i am thankful for the long runs i have been able to go on. i am thankful that my friend faith has moved just down the street from me. i am thankful that my friend morgan is coming to visit me and kiah in a few weekends. i am thankful for all the people who have provided so many things that we have needed for kiah. i am thankful for the kids in the neighborhood being understanding about how much time and energy it takes to take care of a baby.
we have a lot going on these days. tomorrow, we head to high point, nc for corbin and sarahs wedding!!!! we will be there all weekend and then monday we will have our first GIRLS NIGHT starting back up again. then i am having a baby shower for one of our friends in the neighborhood who is having a baby boy any day now. so exciting! along with my other beautiful friend JESSICA JONES who is having her baby girl any day now!!! i am so ready to see and hold a newborn again!
i feel like thanksgiving is gonna be here so soon, then christmas and then kiah will be 1 year old walking and talking and ....ok i need to slow down.
on kiahs 3 month birthday we put her in her crib to sleep IN THE OTHER ROOM for the first time. i actually was totally ok with it because she has just grown right out of the bassinet that once seemed plenty big for her now is too little.
LOL! sorry to get off track but i literally just laughed out loud. i am sitting in kiahs room on this rainy thursday morning while a Burmese bible study is taking place downstairs and kiah sleeps in her crib. i think she is having a bad dream but it is so hilarious because she just yelled out while she was sleeping REALLY LOUD but when right back to sleep. sorry, but i love it.
anyways, but back to kiah in her crib. i love it because stephen and i can actually stop tip toeing around our bedroom at night and moving on or off the bed in slow motion to keep it from sqeeking. and we can listen to our little princess on the baby monitor. but before we could make it a routine, we took off to Asheville,nc for dinner at my favorite TUPELO HONEY and Liz and Caleb's wedding, then late that night to grandfather mountain with friends for labor day weekend. it was a perfectly planned out weekend right? well, it was different. different compared to life back before kiah.
before kiah lily, it was just stephen and i. at weddings, we socialized, danced to slow songs, reminisced about our wedding, ate fun food, danced with friends. life is very different with little kiah. we stood in the back to keep kiah quiet during the ceremony instead of with our friends who we hadn't seen in a long time. during the cocktail hour before the reception i hid away in a back bathroom to feed kiah while everyone else mingled and caught up on life and took fun pictures together. stephen and i barely ate, barely danced, barely finished conversations with friends and mostly took care of kiah. honestly, as we left i was really sad. i had been looking forward to this wedding and seeing friends for so long. i had a pity party for about 15 minutes and then decided...while all of my heart
...she is more than worth it.
becoming a mom, u sacrifice lots of things. i realized i love her so much!!! she is and will always be worth anything i might not be able to do or have or enjoy. i love her just because she is mine and i am hers. i also realize, that is how it is with God. kiah doesn't even talk or tell me how great i am or doing things for me. but i love her just because she is mine. "i am my beloveds and he is mine"
GOD IS LOVE
i am so thankful for stephen and all the help he gives me. i am thankful for the long runs i have been able to go on. i am thankful that my friend faith has moved just down the street from me. i am thankful that my friend morgan is coming to visit me and kiah in a few weekends. i am thankful for all the people who have provided so many things that we have needed for kiah. i am thankful for the kids in the neighborhood being understanding about how much time and energy it takes to take care of a baby.
we have a lot going on these days. tomorrow, we head to high point, nc for corbin and sarahs wedding!!!! we will be there all weekend and then monday we will have our first GIRLS NIGHT starting back up again. then i am having a baby shower for one of our friends in the neighborhood who is having a baby boy any day now. so exciting! along with my other beautiful friend JESSICA JONES who is having her baby girl any day now!!! i am so ready to see and hold a newborn again!
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
3 MONTHS OLD she was not in it
bye bye newborn clothes
hello 3-6 month
these past 3 months have gone by so fast. in some ways it has just been a wild blur. in other ways i look back at the best 3 months of my life. at times it has defiantly been hard. when kiah is crying and we don't know why and stephen is trying to tell me something and we are yelling because we can't hear each other and stephen rushes to eat spaghetti so that my plate wont get cold and i can't eat until he is finished because kiah is crying and the next thing we know its 10:00 at night when we even get to eat and then my sweet Stephen's plate of spaghetti slides where...? into kiahs car seat. don't worry she was not in it.
kind of like when we were in LONDON and we had the stroller with all of our wallets and passports in it and we were trying to get off the tube quickly. well, i managed to push the stroller off onto the platform but then in a blink of an eye the doors slammed shut. i had to jump back and let go of the stroller or else i would have gotten my arms chopped off. there we were watching our stroller go away as the tube took us to the next station. again, don't worry she was not in it. luckily, THANK GOD, there was a nice older couple who watched the whole thing happen and stayed with our stroller until we could hop off the tube going one way and then across and over to the tube going back the other way where we had come.
Kiah has grown from here.....
to here!
hello 3-6 month
these past 3 months have gone by so fast. in some ways it has just been a wild blur. in other ways i look back at the best 3 months of my life. at times it has defiantly been hard. when kiah is crying and we don't know why and stephen is trying to tell me something and we are yelling because we can't hear each other and stephen rushes to eat spaghetti so that my plate wont get cold and i can't eat until he is finished because kiah is crying and the next thing we know its 10:00 at night when we even get to eat and then my sweet Stephen's plate of spaghetti slides where...? into kiahs car seat. don't worry she was not in it.
kind of like when we were in LONDON and we had the stroller with all of our wallets and passports in it and we were trying to get off the tube quickly. well, i managed to push the stroller off onto the platform but then in a blink of an eye the doors slammed shut. i had to jump back and let go of the stroller or else i would have gotten my arms chopped off. there we were watching our stroller go away as the tube took us to the next station. again, don't worry she was not in it. luckily, THANK GOD, there was a nice older couple who watched the whole thing happen and stayed with our stroller until we could hop off the tube going one way and then across and over to the tube going back the other way where we had come.
Kiah has grown from here.....
to here!
Friday, June 29, 2012
Love.
What I love about kiah rIght now...
I love her milk breath
Her little fingers that grab my shirt or her blanket
Her liPs
The noises she makes when she sleeps
Her eyes that look right into mine
How she is a gift to share with family
Her eye lashes
When she snOrts
When she breathes
When she jumPs at loud noises and throws her legs and arms in the air
How she travels so peacefully
Her wild hair
She glows with beauty
Her cough when she drinks too fast
1 MONTH
Kiah was 1 MONTH YESTERDAY and i can not even believe how much she is growing and changing. she and i had the best most peaceful day ever. stephen was out to soccer practice with some of the birchcroft boys early so i was able to have mommy time with her. she usually has a window of time in the mornings when she knows its time to get up and out of her bassinet but still wants to snooze around. so most of the time, if he has the time, she will get into bed with stephen for a good hour or two and lay belly to belly. SHE LOVES IT. WE LOVE IT. THERE IS NOTHING MORE WONDERFUL. yesterday, I GOT IT. it just so special to hear her breath, watch her sleep, feel her arms along your sides, watch her lips. ahhh. then it was time for a bath after all the traveling we had been doing. then i cuddled her up. fed her. and put her in the car to go on our FIRST GROCERY SHOPPING TRIP. we went to target worshipping JESUS in the car, i parked on the upper level so i wouldn't be self conscious if she resisted getting into my new ERGO CARRIER from the car seat. she did great. right in, and right into a peaceful sleep. i also wore my new traveling hat the i picked up at an urban outfitters in atlanta for $10. i was on an adventure with kiah. i walked around with my free hands picking up a few things so that we will survive until we leave on wednesday. so many people comment about how beautiful she is. i really want to hear from the Lord as to what i can say back to them to let them know its because her creator has beautiful hands....well, maybe i got it. that just came to me. i think i could say that. so she was just so so so great and peaceful. i did all the shopping. came home to kids who helped me bring in all the groceries. made stephen lunch. got a shower. took her to the hip doctor. he said he could already tell the harness is doing its job. and the net time we see him will be when we get back from england and it will already be 4 weeks. Jesus is making the time go by so fast. then we went to our friends house for dinner and kiah took a nap through dinner so we could eat with our friends. she is a great girl. a great daughter.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
grammy.papa.
stephen and i have been in stuart, va visiting kiahs grammy and papa. it has been a great get-a-way after such a long week of doctor stuff, the fire, the youth tour and all that comes with birchcroft life in general. we have had lots of hands holding and passing kiah lily which gave me a BIG BREAK. we got here saturday night and have been hanging out until today- tuesday. i swam in the pool and laid in the sun and made homemade ice-cream. life is so slow here. slow and quiet. kiah is almost a month old and every single day i am amazed at how amazing she really is. yesterday she slept on papa for 5 hours after our long hike at fairy stone park. it is such a gift to have a daughter to share with everyone. my brother eric and his son kailer had some quality time with kiah too. my grammy held her and kiah gave her lots of smiles! stephen and i have taken time together to plan out out big trip to ENGLAND next week and to finalize our tickets, get kiah a passport in atlanta, and to get all our last doctors appointment's rescheduled before we go. this was kiah's first road trip and next week will be a big step up from this 2 hour car ride.
TO DO:
TO DO:
- buy starbucks instant coffee packets to make it in the tea drinking culture
- paint my nails of course
- figure out how to pack for kaih to be ok overseas for 2 weeks
- wednesday 11:00 appointment in atlanta, ga for kiahs passport
- thursday 2:00 appointment with the hip doctors for kiahs 1 week check in charlotte, nc
- friday 8:45 pediatrician 1 month check up, 11:00 OBGYN appointment for me, afternoon haircuts for stephen and i with our friend elise
- sunday july 1st- jenna hood meets kiah!
- monday & tuesday- urban eagles summer camp for boy's
- wednesday- ENGLAND--- until july 18th
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