Teeth???

 

I thought this was so cute.  The dr. gave her a balloon after her appointment Monday and he loosely hooked it around her ankle.  Well we didn't even need it around her foot because she was hanging onto that thing so tight all the way to the car.  In fact when I put her in her car seat it wasn't even hooked around her foot anymore she actually hung onto it the entire time!  And she kept looking at it like it was the most amazing thing ever!!  And yes, in this picture she looks exactly like Colton to me :)

We're still not feeling well!  Last night and today was pretty rough.  Last night she was up every couple of hours and even when I would hold her or give her a drink of juice she would just scream like she was just uncomfortable.  And all day today I had to hold her.  Even if I was in the same room as her she had to be held.  So I know she just isn't felling 100%.  I haven't seen any buds in her mouth or swollen gums but who knows, she may have one poke through next week!  It would definitely explain the off and on fever, the clinginess, and the uncomfortableness.  I just feel so sorry for her and I w

Korbyn's Vacation

Unfortunately we haven't taken our vacation yet but Korbyn got one from daycare last week!  The daycare closes for a week every year during the summer and they do heavy duty cleaning/repairs etc.  In the past I never had to worry about when the daycare would close because obviously I didn't have to go to work when it did.  Of course in my fourth week at my new job I wasn't going to have care for my child and there was no way I could take off an entire week!  Although I would have LOVED to.  So Monday she stayed with Papaw Doug, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday my sister-in-law Katie kept her and Friday one of her teachers, Mrs. Felicia kept her.  She was all over the place!

This was Katie's and Felicia's first time to watch her and I thought it was very funny that they both hinted to me that she was high maintenance!  Not in a rude way, but they both just said that she requires a LOT of attention.  I hope now people understand why she was at daycare every day, even the days that I was off.  I love spending time with her but she's a very exhausting child to care for.  So nothing can get done while watching Korbyn other than watching Korbyn.

 These are some pictures Mrs. Felicia sent while she was watching her.  She's starting to hold her bottle!  Well not really, you have to place her hands on the bottle and then she'll hold it, but it's a start!

Little Rooster

Korbyn is a red head and every day is proving she has the attitude to match!  I'm starting to call her my little rooster :)  She's started this thing where she screams.  Sometimes it's when she's happy and other times it's when she's mad.  I think it's cute...sometimes. 

The first video is at home.  Monday when she woke up she felt warm to me so I took her temperature TWICE and she didn't have anything.  Well of course an hour after I get to work they call me and tell me she has a fever of 101.  So we head to the dr. to see what's going on and she has a summer cold, a pretty bad one too.  She has green boogers everywhere, can't breathe through her nose and does not feel good at all.  I couldn't put her down for even a second when we got home, she just wanted to be held so I know she didn't feel good.  And then when I would hold her she would just whine the entire time, poor baby :(  Then that evening her fever got to 103.6!  So we stayed home Tuesday too.  Around 6:30 a.m. she woke up and I put her back in bed with me and we slept until 9:00!  I can't believe she slept that long, but apparently we both needed it.  That morning she was feeling much better, but still was running a low fever.  I made muffins for breakfast and this is her enjoying them, screaming away!

The second video is in Walmart.  A couple of weekends ago Colton, Korbyn and I went to Bastrop to do some grocery shopping and so we decided to take her through the toy aisle.  She was in heaven!  She would scream at almost every toy in excitement.  While I was recording her we had about five different toys going at one time so she kept trying to look at all of them.  A lady came walking down the aisle and said "my!  Someone is happy!"  Yes she was :)

Avery's party

 Last weekend we had Avery's birthday party in Katy (Colton's niece).  My aunt had bought Korbyn this super cute outfit that I couldn't wait for her to wear.  Colton had a fishing tournament that morning so we were waiting on him to come home so we could head out, well he ended up being an hour late so by the time we actually got to Katy everybody was already swimming.  So we literally showed up and changed into our swimsuits, poor thing didn't even get to strut her new outfit :(  Naturally she had a blast in the water.  It was so funny because every time I would lean her toward me where she was almost laying on her tummy in the water she would just automatically start kicking her legs like crazy and start squealing!  I can't wait to go swimming with her again.

After the party we went to Bass Pro (of course) and I wish I would have gotten a video of her watching the fish in the big tank, it was priceless.  I set her right next to it and it took her a while to realize that there were fish in there.  Well one started swimming right next to the glass right in front of her and it must have caught her attention because all of a sudden her eyes got real big and her mouth just hung open watching that fish go by!  Then she realized there was an entire tank full of them and she just kept staring at them. 

We were in there for quite a while and we wandered over to the kid section where they had an entire rack of all these different kinds of stuffed animals that made noises.  They had almost every kind of animal, even flamingos (I had no idea flamingos made noises like that!).  Colton wanted to get her one so he started grabbing every single one, would squeeze it and let her listen to it then go on to the next one.  Every time he would squeeze one she would just look at it and didn't really have a reaction to any of them.  WELL...he pulls a quail and it starts making it's noise and she goes crazy!!!  She starts reaching for it and kicking her legs and squealing all at the same time.  We both just looked at each other and were like "ok, I guess we're getting the quail!"  She loves this thing!  Even when Colton was putting her back in her car seat in the truck she was straining to look where that quail was.

 It was dark on the way home so the pictures didn't turn out very well, but you can see her holding her precious bird.  I told Colton, "what a little tomboy, she had the choice of all these pretty pink, red and blue birds and other really pretty animals...and she chose a QUAIL!"  The girl knows what she likes that's for sure!

Resemblence?

There has been an ongoing debate about whether Korbyn looks more like me or Colton.  There was no doubt that when she was born and for the first few months she was Colton's twin.  But here lately I've been seeing more and more of myself in her.  And it's so weird how some days I'll just look at her and I almost don't even recognize her!  My sister in law and I were talking about that and she said she can remember thinking the same thing when her kids were young, it's just crazy how fast they grow and change when they're so little.

 When I saw the picture of Korbyn with Pawpaw I remembered that I had a picture just like that around the same age!  And he's almost wearing the same thing haha!

 This is with my mom's dad.

 This is of me right when I started crawling and the one below is of Korbyn.  Our noses are definitely different, but I think there are a lot of similarities.  I don't have any of Colton's baby pictures at the house so we'll have to get with memaw and then post one of him and see :)

PawPaw's 80th birthday!

 My dad's dad (pawpaw) had his 80th birthday party last Saturday.  He wanted to hold Korbyn and the poor thing had just woken up so she was like a deer in the headlights!

 These are all of the great grand kids.  They range from 14 to 7 months!  And the amazing thing is they all get along and play with each other so great.  And it was really nice because everyone in our family on that side was there!  Except my mom!!!  She never misses things like this but it just so happened that it was her turn to volunteer at the hall that she's a member of, they had a wedding or something going on.  And she could hardly find any other member to help her out let alone take over for her.  I know she wanted to be there because she loves being around when all the family gets together like this and she asked me to take lots of pictures, well of course I forgot my phone (pretty much my camera) so I just used Colton's.

 This was also Korbyn's first time to swim!  We came dressed for the pool but then didn't get in until later because we were taking pictures and eating and socializing :)  We bought this $2 float at Walmart and it said 0-6 months so I was thinking this would be perfect, well I don't know what 0-6 month old can sit in that thing!  It has two holes for her legs to go through but it's so long that it would fold up and then if I just set her in it it the front end would come up if I didn't have her right up front, so I just threw the float out of the pool and put her on my hip...so much better. 

This was right when we got in.  I even gave my nieces and nephews a little speech about how this is her first time in the water and don't be too crazy around her because I don't want her to be scared of it right off the bat and then never want to get back in.  They were all "ok!"  well they couldn't help themselves, they absolutely adore her and as soon as we even got close to the water they were surrounding us!  I didn't care, I'm not going to scold them for wanting to be next to her. 

In the picture she looks absolutely mortified!  But when I took her out of the float and put her on me she was a lot more relaxed.  Everybody was just waiting to see what her reaction was going to be.  At first she was like "what the hell is this!" but then she got warmed up and LOVED it!!!  Her legs were kicking the entire time I was holding her and even my nephews were jumping in about 5 feet from us and getting us totally soaked and she would just laugh with water all over her face!  I was so nervous that she was going to cry and get really nervous about it and want to get out, but I should have known this little girl would love it.  She probably would have just laughed if I had let her go under the water for a split second, but mommy was too nervous for that :)  So now we're ready to swim!  Which is perfect because cousin Avery has her birthday party coming up this weekend and it's a pool party...yay!

Big girl food

 Korbyn absolutely loves table food!  She won't ever finish a regular formula bottle now.  And if she sees you eating in front of her she will just look at your mouth and then start kicking her feet because she wants you to giver her some.  She isn't too limited on what she can have anymore, only of course if she can gum it because she still has no teeth, and I don't even see the hint of a tooth yet!  We're still working on the sippy cup.  She can't hold it (or her bottle) but she knows how to drink out of it like a pro.  And it's so much easier to just give her a few bites of what we're eating and she's satisfied.  I know I haven't posted in so long but every chance I get I'm doing laundry or the dishes or just picking up around the house!  I'm still waiting on my housekeeper.....

Lee county fair

 A couple of weeks ago we went to the fair which I haven't been to in a few years.  I can't remember why we didn't go two years ago but last year I was pregnant and so I babysat Cutter while all my friends, and my husband, went out and had a great time...well not this year!  Friday night Taylor, Jenn, and Cutter stayed over and then the guys got up and went fishing in the morning while Jenn and I took the kids to the parade.  It was SO humid I felt like my skin was going to drip off of my body!!!  I can't remember the last time I went to a parade, it was so much fun for the kids.  At the end they always have all the firetrucks come through with the lights and sirens blaring and Korbyn was sitting with Krystal (Taylor's sister).  It was so loud that we were having to shout and we were sitting a foot away from each other.  So I asked her to cover her ears because I knew she was probably going to flip out and get scared when they came by (keep in mind we were probably only 10 feet away from the trucks) but this girl did not move!  She was mesmerized and stayed just like that in the picture letting Krystal hold her ears for probably 5 minutes! 

Then mommy and daddy had some fun of their own that night :)

Outside baby

 This girl LOVES to be outside.  We've been going on evening walks, usually not until 7:30 ish because it's getting so dang hot!  But we'll meet up with my mom (since she's right down the road) and take the dogs with us, it's really relaxing and she absolutely loves it.  Every time I put her in her stroller she gets so excited, as you can see in the picture.  Her legs and arms were kicking and moving so much that the pictures are pretty blurry.

 Then sometimes we'll go swing until bedtime.  She likes to go really high, the higher you push her the better.  I think she's going to be our little dare devil.  She just likes to play really rough and she's not nervous or scared of anything!  The other day I had her sitting on my lap on the couch and she was facing me, well she wasn't fussing or anything and she just threw herself back onto my legs and I immediately dropped what I was doing because I just knew she was about to start screaming her head off.  Well when I look down at her, the little girl is just laying upside down and smiling like it was the best thing ever!

I took this video of her and sent it to Colton, I told him she was singing to him lol!

Seven months!

Korbyn can now scoot, and she's getting faster every day.  Her only problem is she goes in the wrong direction!  She likes to play on her tummy a lot more now (she hated it when she was younger) but she gets so frustrated because she'll see a toy in front of her that she wants to play with that's just out of her reach and she'll move to go get it but then she gets upset because she doesn't understand why it keeps getting farther and farther away!

 I put her on her tummy and when I came back into the living room she was underneath the couch!

When I had put her down she had those toys right in front of her face, I was out of the room for only a few seconds.

She is just so much fun to be around, all day long she's all I think about!  I just want to go give her a hug and a kiss and see her big smile and then go back to work...I probably could because we're only about 3 blocks away all day long :)

No time!

I've officially been at my new job for a week!  My department is pretty small, there's only 10 of us but they all seem to really get along so I don't think there's going to be any problems there.  My department is "employee benefits" where we're the broker for companies/businesses who offer health benefits for their employees and I handle the large group renewals.  I still have no clue what exactly I'll be doing day in and day out because everyone has been so busy that no one has the time to sit and train me!  I've been a shadow to a few of the ladies just sitting behind them watching what they do and trying to understand.  I know in a few months everything will become second nature but right now I feel like my head is spinning!  And it is such an "office" job.  I have my desk in a room with three other desks and NO windows.  There are two other girls who are also new (less than two months) who are still learning the ropes too.  So I don't know if it's because they haven't been fully staffed in so long but these ladies are SO busy!  They are there before 8 and are there after 5, which is what I thought I was getting away from, but they said it's usually not this busy for each one it's just that they've been understaffed so they all had to take on new responsibilities.  So once the other girls and myself get our licenses (to sell insurance) then it should calm down.  But we can't really do much because so much of it is speaking with our clients and legally we can't say two words to them about insurance until we have our license, so right now I'm bored but I know once I'm trained in everything I'll be staying busy, which I like.

But of course the day before I started Colton had to go back out of town for work for the entire week so it was kind of difficult having to adjust to everything by myself, but I told him that I didn't mind because that way I would only have to take care of one baby and not two :)  I have always been in amazement of women who work full time jobs and have small children because I always said I don't know how they did it all because I felt overwhelmed with keeping the housework up, keeping Korbyn well, keeping my husband well and working a part time job.  Now I'm doing all of that PLUS a full time job and like I said I always admired those moms who were able to do it and now I admire them even more!!!  I told Colton a while back ago that if I ever went back to work full time that we were going to have to get someone to come in at least once a week to help with the basic cleaning...well I'm so ready to get someone in here!  This past week I've accomplished NO housework, or anything else as you can tell by the date on my last post.  The only thing that has gotten done is bottles being washed, and that's it!  I feel like my house is disgusting!  And I told my mom that yes I could do it all on the weekends but I really don't feel like spending my only days off working.  And I'm sure there are those supermoms who can easily juggle small kids, a husband (yes that is considered work!), and a full time job...but sorry I haven't reached that supermom status yet and I'm not afraid to admit that I need help!

But I think I'll really like my new job once I can actually work and we'll see about getting this momma some help :)