Bottle update

And the update is......NO MORE BOTTLES!!!!  YAY!  We've been off the bottle for a week and a half and it's absolutely wonderful. 

At first I started mixing formula and milk together in her bottle just to get her used to the taste then transferred it into a sippy, which she was already accustomed to.  We had a little trouble getting her to finish the entire cup of milk just because I think she wasn't used to the cold, but now she's a pro and will suck down an 8 oz. sippy of milk like nobody's business!

I know these pictures are kind of random but I just had to add them.  We all went over to my parent's house for my dad's birthday and I have four nieces and three nephews ranging from age four to eleven and they all love Korbyn.  Thankfully the girls are the four oldest because they love to hold her and play with her for hours on end and Korbyn eats it up...the boys not so much, they all have sisters so it's nothing new.  But I just had to laugh when I came upon Korbyn sitting and "playing" with the big kids.  Those legos belonged to my brothers and I played with them growing up and now they play with them almost every time they all come over.  The two older girls were in deep conversation trying to build a house while one of the boys was trying to build some kind of car and there's Korbyn digging her hands in the bucket and throwing out as many pieces as she can!  Of course I sat by her the entire time she was playing with them because she loves to put everything in her mouth and I knew she was going to find the tiniest piece and swallow it.  But thankfully she didn't and I finally lured her away to some safer toys :)

Dancy Dance

This is the first time Colton and I have ever seen Korbyn dance!  Her teacher told me that she started to bob her head to a car that makes music at daycare and I was shocked because I had never seen her do it nor have we really been trying to teach her.  Sometimes in the car I'll sing real loud and be moving around and I'll look back at her and she's just laughing away and I'll tell her "c'mon Korbyn, dancy dance!"

Last night she was playing with her toy (the one she's hanging on to) and you can't really hear it in the video but it plays music and she just started dancing and thought she was the funniest thing!  Colton is sitting on the couch and egging her on so I could get a video of her.  She just looks hilarious because she doesn't just move her head she moves her ENTIRE body!  I've never seen a baby dance like that before, but then again...she's one of a kind :)

Walking

Even though she hasn't even taken any steps on her own yet it's still SO exciting to see her walking behind something.  We were at Loranne's house and she just took off!  I was actually on the phone with my mom and said "oh my gosh I'm gonna have to let you go Korbyn's walking behind a toy!"  I know it's really not that big of a deal but I was about to burst with pride as I was watching her go.  She used to not care for that toy at all and every time we would put her behind it or on it she wanted nothing to do with it.  Now that's all she wants.  She loves when Colton and I push her around the house while she sits on it. I usually push her real fast and crash into something like the couch or the wall while we both crack up at ourselves and Colton will slowly push her around like an old grandpa!  But her face is priceless while her daddy pushes her around :)

11 months

When did this happen?!  When did I become the mother of an 11 month old?  

Sam and I are helping out in the church office at Martin Luther today so I have some time to make a quick post.  I wanted to post a video of her finally walking behind a push toy but I don't have my phone cord with me to download it, so when I get home today that's the first thing I'll do!  

Not too much has been going on in our little family, work work work...that's about it!  Colton started his new job on Monday.  It's kind of weird for me to see it as a "new" job because it's right next to his old one and he's pretty much working with the same people, just for a different company.  He's still in the oil field but now he's working on the chemical side of it and not having to run a truck.  When he started working for Texas Hot Oilers chemical was where he was working and then got moved to a hot oil truck later, so now he's back in chemical but with a company that's contracted with THO.  He absolutely loves it.  The money was better when he was in a truck because of the over time but just in the past three days I can tell a difference in him.  He always loved working on the chemical side and he's really good at it so therefore he's SO much happier.  I had a meeting the other night and when I came home the dishes were done, the laundry was getting washed, the house was picked up and I was blown away!  He used to come home and sit on the couch and not move until he went to bed, which was irritating as all get out but I knew he was physically working his butt off each day so I never said much.  I thanked him for doing all of that and he said I finally feel good when I come home to do it.  So we'll see how it goes, but so far it's looking pretty good and I'm so happy he's doing something that he loves.

Korbyn is doing awesome as always.  Growing up way too fast though.  She will move into the 12-18 month room in November and I'm SO nervous!  Just because that room is always the hardest transition for all the kids.  They start out in their infant room and get used to the same teacher, kids, toys, and schedule for an entire year and then all of a sudden they're stuck in another room where everything is new and they're trying to walk, get weened off the bottle, and now they're expected to sleep on a mat on the floor and not their crib...ahhhh!  I always felt so sorry for kids when they were going to be moved up into that room because they all have a hard time and now I'M having to go through it!  Of course it's only hard for about the first week (although some kids it takes longer) and I have high hopes for Korbyn, I know she'll adjust well.  So starting today we're going to try to start getting her off the bottle.  I just want that to be one less thing she has to go through at that time.  I talked to her teachers this morning (since I won't be in there today) and they said they would definitely try it.  And of course I keep staring at the clock wanting to call down there (thankfully I can call straight to the infant room from here) to see how she did because they usually get their bottles about now!

Work

 I've really surprised myself at how much I'm enjoying my job.  Going into it I was a little hesitant because I've never worked with anyone in special education but come to find out I absolutely LOVE it, and don't think I'm too bad at it either.  Thankfully I have the patience for it, I enjoy every little learning opportunity that comes along where we have to stop and Sam (the girl I'm working with) has to figure something out and then when she does it creates this wonderful feeling like "Yes!  You got it!"  Even one of the girls at the daycare asked me, away from Sam, "how do you do it everyday?!"  She said "Sam's a great girl but I just don't think I could do what you do!"  I think I kick myself a little harder each day for not sticking with my teaching degree but I wouldn't change anything because if I hadn't taken the path that I did I may not be where I am today.

And of course spending my days with Korbyn isn't too bad either :)  She is definitely the life of the party!  Even today her teacher said "if we had all Korbyns in here we would be so entertained all day!"  I love this picture because it looks like she's wanting to help out and feed the little baby.  But don't be fooled, she just wanted to poke the bag inside the bottle because it felt funny and made a noise.  Sam and I also take the older ones for a daily walk.  They absolutely love it!  I just can't wait for it to stay cooler during the day so we can go a little bit longer and I'm not sweating like crazy when we come back inside.

Busy body

 I can hardly keep up with this girl!  If and when I do get a couple of hours at home by myself I take advantage of it and use that time to get things done around the house, I should probably do absolutely nothing...but who has time for that?!  When I walk in the door I feel like a chicken with my head cut off because every direction I look there's something that needs to be picked up or put away.  And I feel like I'm constantly walking behind Korbyn and cleaning up.  She'll find anything to keep herself entertained.  The girl has plenty of toys laying out, but she could care less about toys.  She's so curious about everything and wants to figure it out on her own. 

I call my purse a black hole because EVERYTHING ends up in there.  When I do clean it out I'll find things in there that I completely forgot I had!  So she absolutely loves to go through that that thing.

 The other morning as we were getting ready to go to school I changed the toilet paper roll and tossed the old one that had about two more sheets on it into the trash, or so I thought.  When I come back into the bathroom it looks like a little puppy had gotten a hold of it!  The roll was empty but had a couple of sheets and she peeled them off and decided to tear them up into tiny little pieces and try to eat them.  And she was only in there for a minute!  Well the next morning I come in and she's standing up next to the toilet paper hitting it and making it roll and it was all over the ground!  I'm thinking we're going to definitely get a small Christmas tree this year and put it on a table out of her reach ;)

 But she's so stinkin cute that I could never get mad at her!!!

Videos

As often as I can I'll leave Korbyn at daycare and have Colton pick her up at 5 so I can go home and get some things done, it's far and few between but helps out so much.  Wednesday he was able to get her and five o'clock rolls around and I get a call from Colton asking me where the car seat was!  I usually leave it in the office at the daycare but it had completely slipped my mind and I had to end up coming back into town to pick her up.  But I guess it was a blessing in disguise because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get these videos :)

The first one is of Korbyn discovering her shadow.  I turned around to look at her because she got quiet and hurried to get my phone out to capture it, don't worry I wasn't looking through the lens while I was videoing her, I was watching the road!  And I apologize for not turning the radio down before I started filming, we like to jam out ;)

The second one is of her playing "where's Korbyn?"  As you can see she gets the concept but her skill is a little off.  But we know what she's doing.