Life as we know it

For Kaelyn's Christmas present this year I finally got around to putting the first two years of her blog into books. I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but never took the time to get it done. Well it's done and the books are on their way. I just think it will be fun to have our story sitting on the shelf where we can read it together as a family. I'm not a scrap-booker, so this will have to do. So seeing that our posts are dwindling less and less each year, I have a new resolution to do at least one post a month, so that we will have something to put in our books at the end of the year.

Things are going really well as we are now a family of four. Those first few weeks were a little rough for Kaelyn. I didn't think she would really notice that we had a new addition to the family, but boy was I wrong. She was not happy about the loss of attention she was experiencing. As much as we tried to give her attention and loves and time, it just wasn't cutting it. It was like a flip was switched and our sweet little girl, that rarely had reason to cry, was just sad. She was really whiney and picked up a few habits from her little sister. She realized that when you cry, you get what you want. Whenever Bryn would cry, Kaelyn would join right in, and at times I couldn't help but cry too. She also started grinding her teeth way bad and hitting herself pretty dang hard with toys, so it would hurt, and she could cry. (Really sad I know)

It was then that I realized that we really did spoil her, not like we had an option...what else could we have done with our time and attention :) I also realized that Kaelyn really didn't cry for like that first year of her life. She never had a reason. We were so worried about getting her weight up for heart surgery that we never let her get hungry and she was just so easy going and chill, she just didn't cry. We knew that crying would burn more calories than anything, so we did everything we could to keep her content. I'm learning that there are times when one of my girls (or both) with have to cry, cause I am only one person and can't do it all and the same time. Last night I did manage to feed Kaelyn her bottle while holding Bryn and keeping the pacifier in her mouth so she would stop crying. Not an easy task, but I wished I had another hand to take a picture of it to show Wayne when he got home.

Well 2 months later we are all doing great and are much more adjusted, even Kaelyn. She is acting more like her happy self, which makes us all happy. She still isn't quite sure about little sister, but she gives her goodnight kisses every night, something that she won't even give Wayne and I anymore :( . She is very patient when Bryn cries now, which is such a good big sister.

Bryn is being such a good little sister. She is starting to have more awake time and gives us lots of big smiles and sounds. She is growing like a champ, at her 2 month appt. today she weighed in at a whopping 9 1/2 pounds. She was however EXTREMELY upset when they gave her the immunizations. I seriously have never heard a baby cry like she did, wow. I'm a little nervous that she has discovered she can reach such a high decible, I hope she doesn't pull it out too often.

See those cheeks, she wasn't born with those.

Smile for the camera little sis

Can I help you?

All decked out for her daddy-daughter date to the first Utah Basketball game

She was a hula girl for Halloween

Fake Smile

Real smile. Its kinda weird, Kaelyn gets "gold eye" instead of red eye in her pictures.

Hmm, wonder what that means?

Working on standing with Sally her EI lady.

We started the holiday season out with a band at the Rasmussen Christmas party. Here's Grandma Ruth with a bunch of her great-grandkids and a few grandkids and aunt Sherri.

This years line up of Great-grandbabies. Baby Cousin Quin was just a few days late for the picture.

Bryn and her cousin Evalyn with Santa. Evalyn was born on Bryn's due date.

Kaelyn on Santa's lap, I wonder what she said she wants for Christmas?

Bryn, Grandma Ruth and cousin Ava. Ava wanted Bryn to hold her finger,

something she is really good at :)