10 Months

I’ve fallen to a new low in the Kinlee-blogging habit.  I’m missing so much!!!  But today it’s about 10 months.  Amazing. 

 

To help her leave the letters alone next to her, I gave her one to chew on and keep her busy. And it worked…for a little bit.
 

Here’s a couple video clips of the post photo shoot outtakes.  I realized that I don’t take enough simple little videos of KiKi… so these are just that.

And then this one is from tonight…she didn’t do her best performance, but she’s pretty good with mama, dada, and sis-sis, and usually belle-belle too. 

Stats: 18 lbs 7.5 oz, 28 inches.  She’s wearing mostly 12 months, especially for length, though she can swim in the room around her in a 12 month sleeper.

Highlights from this month:  This kid is eating everything, and I’m continually amazed.  She likes fish, she likes veggies of all kinds. She likes chicken and rice, stroganoff, tortillas, pasta, and a variety of fruits.  She can eat a whole multi-grain/fruit bar for breakfast in no time at all.  She much prefers to feed herself, but she’s been better lately about taking from a spoon as well.  She can drink from a straw like a pro, and she does well with an open cup too. 

She is walking with only one hand assistance, and she loves going around with the walking toy or anything else she can push and walk behind…laundry basket, Braska’s tricycle, empty boxes, etc.

She is mostly sleeping through the night, but still has fairly frequent nights of waking at least once, sometimes going to sleep again quickly, sometimes not so much.  She’s got 8 teeth now and I think there might be some more on the way soon.

She misses her sister when she’s at school each morning, but she’s adjusting pretty well.  They do really love to play together, and if KiKi would stop yanking Braska’s glasses off her face, things would be just about adorable when they interact.

Here’s to month 11! (More posts soon!!! So many pics to share!)

Milestone: Or two or three

Kinlee’s been flying through the milestones lately.  I suppose she’s been doing that her whole life.  I can’t get used to it, and I definitely can’t keep up with the blogging that I’d like to in order to document it.  But I’ll do my best in short bits…

She had her first cereal on her 5-month birthday.  She was a fan.  I marveled at the fact that you could just offer her a spoon of mush and she happily opened her mouth. 

I’ve never experienced such a thing!!

She did have a few faces that were kind of funny, but for the most part, she was very pleased with this new element to her routine.


At 6 months, we started introducing some veggies, touched with a tiny little bit of pears to make it a bit more enticing.  She has done great with all of it except the green items.  Those will have to wait a bit more.  She’s a fan of squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and chicken with apples.

This past week, I gave her the little crunchy things from Gerber Graduates, and I just stared and laughed at how she just seemed to know what to do, and she enjoyed it!  This is so foreign to us with Braska and her feeding refusal.  I can’t believe that a kid can just take food, put it to her mouth, and eat it.  Chewing!  What a novel idea!!
 


She started army crawling just after she sat independently before she was 6 months.  She’s gotten quite fast at it and she can get anywhere she wants in no time flat. And if that weren’t enough, now the girl is crawling too!  She’s not even 7 months!  Maybe that’s normal, maybe that’s what all kinds of babies do, but I’m amazed at this little crazy girl.  No video yet, but we’ll get some.  She’s still kind of wobbly and slow about her steps, but she does it.

Check out this pic I got this week, it reminded me of another and I looked back on Braska’s blog to find it. 

Same hand-me-down shirt, same BabyLegs, and almost the same weight.  Kinlee is the same length as Braska was in that pic, and she’s less than a pound under the weight that Braska was there.  The big difference is that Kinlee was 6 3/4 months, and Braska was 16 1/2 months. Almost 10 month difference in age.  So funny to me to see how similar and still different.

Bouncing Baby Girl

Milestone: First Big Girl Bath!

Yesterday, Kinlee got to experience her first bath sans Bumbo or baby tub. She was hesitant at first.




But she ended up liking it enough that she insisted on going back in after I had taken her out at one point. She had tipped over and scared herself, and as she was sitting on my lap watching Braska and calming down, she practically dove back in. She squiggled and wriggled herself almost off my lap in no time, so I put her back in, and this is how it went... (for Reader/Feedburner subscribers, there's a movie clip next, in case it doesn't show up.)

Chatterbaby

I'm trying to do better at keeping up with Kinlee and her development, but she's so darn fast!  The new things come one right after another.  I'm very thankful that she's doing so great, but I realize now what a blessing it is to have time to enjoy each stage and accomplishment for a bit as we do with Braska.

I've not captured nearly as many things on video as I'd like, so I'm trying to get a few things to share...though these might be mostly interesting to grandparents. Fair Warning... baby videos coming.

To start with...she's decided to tell us what's in that little head with some funny babbling, incessant sometimes.  But I think it's cute...

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Kinlee in action

Since M's parents haven't been able to meet Kinlee yet, here's some video for them. Now remember, those of you looking for some excitement or something... she's 3 days old. She doesn't really DO much. So this is for the grandparents and other interested family, especially, but feel free to check out her cuteness in motion if you feel so led. (By the way, yes she is kind of half-dressed in the winter, but I was attempting to get her awake enough to eat. And what you'll see here is about the closest thing we've seen to "throwing a fit" as of yet.)

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My brother Jody and his wife Skye came by tonight. Skye got to meet Kinlee at only a few hours old, but this was the first time Kinlee got to meet her uncle. I think the introductions went well.


And now, just some more pictures....because I don't do baby books. And the pics have to go somewhere, right?

Sleeping in her super cool and cozy Boppy bouncy. Once Upon a Child rules!!

(And no, she's not as yellow as that makes her look.)

"And here's my knee..."


Can you see the little tiny blond spot on her head? It's actually a little patch of blond hair in the midst of the dark hair all around. Kinda cool if it stays that way, but I'm doubting it.

Have a good day!