I have grown so much...
This is something we started doing in the NICU, this is the Birthday Bear. It is something to show us how she has grown.
3 months
It is hard to believe she was so tiny, she is soo strong.
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11 months and 3 weeks...
Wow, next week it happens, Mikayla will no longer be an infant. I can not believe my lil 2.2 pound miracle is fast becoming a toddler. I look at her and think wow, we are doing it, we are really being parents. To watch her grow and learn and get to say "hey I taught her that" is by far the greatest feeling I have known. She is now 18.9 pounds and 29 inches long. She is doing great growing and developing into her own.
Here are what we call the "Birthday Bear" pictures. I take them about every 3 months, it is awesome to see how much she is growing. I want to continue this tradition until she graduates and then when she has kids I will give it to her. Hope they like pink lol!
3 months
6 months
9 months
1 year (well almost lol)
She has 6 teeth now, the 2 on the bottom and 4 on the top now!! She still isn't big on eating but she loves to taste and have bites. We are starting her on plain milk this month however we have to supplement her twice a day with pediasure to make sure she is getting everything she needs until she is eating like they want her to be. But her development teams (two teams that come out every other week) think around 14 months old she will not have the need to suck as much and will be more interested in filling her belly with food instead of milk (basically her adjusted year). She jabbers and talks all the time now. Her vocabulary includes: Daddy now not just DaDa, Mom and Momma (FINALLY lol), Hi (whispered only lol), she also tries to say Gie (Aggie is her puppy and she calls them by yelling GIE!!), she tries to say TaTa (her Aunt Tata is my sister Krista--I couldn't say Krista when I was little), she says Lolu (I love you), she will even say no on occasion. She is working on saying bite, byebye, and everything else she hears lol. She figured out how to clap a couple weeks ago and now loves to clap, she sings to us (another one of her fave past times, MUSIC everything and anything to do with it). We are working on holding up one finger when people ask how old she is, we hope to have it down for her party. Here is Kaykay's party outfit and 1 year pictures I did.
She is and I hope always will be, lil Miss Independent. She still insists on holding her bottle by herself. She wants to feed herself and eats anything we do just in tiny bits. She loves pees the most. She army crawls all the time. The only thing she is behind on development wise really is Gross Motor; crawling, pulling up, walking, etc.. But they think as soon as she gets a little bit bigger and gets a little more strength she will be unstoppable lol. Here are some pics from today:
This is Kaykay and her new big girl jammies, and of course her blankie, it is still the only thing she WILL NOT share with Baxbax. LoL she is such a silly girl.
Here are some pics of her helping me make Daddy's birthday card.
What happens when Mommy is done taking pictures...
She wants to be going non-stop which is soo much better then the preemie days of wanting to sleep all the time and reacting from to much stimulation. She has figured out the stroller is quite fun and loves to ride and watch stuff. We were hoping she would hit the 20lb mark by her first birthday so we could turn her seat around for her. However the only thing her teams wanted her to do was make 12lbs by her first birthday so she is doing so awesome. She is the nosiest lil girl though, she wants to know what/who it is, how it works, why its here, etc... Lol Here she is getting ready for a lunch date with her Grandmommie.
She still sleeps great. Her fave thing to do is just hang out in the floor with you and play. She knows where we keep the toys and crawls over and grabs what she wants or just plays over by them. She also loves loves loves to play with the Wii boxes lol.
For Mother's Day we all went fishing, it was a ton of fun. Kaykay woke up and gave me a gift and then wore her new bikini fishing, too cute!! Yes she did eventually wake up lol.
Fishing at the lake:
Her daddy hates it lol, and says she better enjoy it now because its the only when she gets to ever wear LOL.
She had her first family reunion too. Eric thought he would have fun and take her to play on the toys and she had the same serious look on her face the whole time LOL! It was hilarious!!!
That is about all we have been up to lately, besides just being silly here at home and getting ready for the birthday party. We are enjoying being able to get out of the house with her more now (if you couldn't tell). We can not wait until next weekend, this has been a journey that though terrifying at times turned out amazing and a constant reminder of how blessed we are. Its something we wish would never have happened but we will be forever changed because of (for the better I like to think). I know its far from over, but this stuff is a piece of cake compared to the constant NICU lol. I cant wait until we celebrate her birthday! I can guarantee another blogl to follow that lol.
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10 months and 1 week...
I look at her and I see my lil girl that my baby is turning into. She is now 17.8 pounds and 27 1/4 inches long. And is really breaking into the toddler she will be. Her adjusted age is the age she is supposed to be, if she wasnt born 3 months early.
She has 3 teeth now, the 2 on the bottom and her new one on the top, which is the left eye tooth. I thought she would get a middle top in first but she is bucking the system and doing things her own way which isnt a surprise lol. She says Daddy now not just DaDa, she also tries to say Gie (Aggie is her puppy and she calls them by yelling GIE!!), she tries to say TaTa (her Aunt Tata is my sister Krista--I couldnt say Krista when I was little), she tries to say Lolu (I love you), and she says Hi and waves. The little stinker still wont say Momma unless she is fussing.
She is lil Miss Independent. She wants to hold her bottle herself now, and only wants help if she is sleepy. She wants to feed herself and eats anything we do just in tiny bits. She loves spinach and tomatoes the most. She rolls all the time, however if she was patient she would realize she could crawl but she just doesnt have that kind of time lol.
Here are some pics from today:
This is Kaykay and her blanket, it is the only thing she WILL NOT share with Baxbax. I love the middle one where she is looking at me like "what? you have never seen a baby eat before?" LoL she is such a silly girl.
She wants to be going non-stop which is soo much better then the preemie days of wanting to sleep all the time and reacting from to much stimulation. Here she is hamming it up for the camera with Daddy:
She loves having her picture taken, she also wants to figure out everything: what it does, how its made, what if feels/taste like, etc...
She loves her Baxbax and gets really concerened when he cries or if someone is doing something with him:
We went and got a new car seat for Kaykay, one without a bar and one for the other car. She was in a bigger seat already however it had the bar that went across her lap and she didnt like it. She thinks this is so cool, I cant wait till she is big enough to turn around and have a whole new world open up to her!
Here we are at Sam's, we had to grab diapers and some other essentials lol. She loves Daddy's hat, if she isnt trying to eat it she is trying to wear it lol.
That is about all we have been up to lately, besides just being silly here at home. I am enjoying being able to get out of the house with her more now (if you couldnt tell). I cant wait until we can start going to church again, just 1 more week!! I will leave yall with this picture of my sweet baby taking a nap, she is getting so big.
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