New Pumpkin Pictures!

wow, so much to update...

Well I haven't posted in a long while so I was going through pictures and realized that I have many to post. First...our baby is growing up so big. I wish that George's side of the family could all see her soon. She is HUGE, compared to the last time they saw her. I finally had to break down and buy her 12 month PJ's today, when i got her ready for bed i was bummed that they actually fit, my baby girl is growing up. So last weekend George had Kiersten and they went out in the woods on a hike to go check George's tree stand. the night before the hike we put her in the backpack to see if she liked it...Here she is....

 

And then the official day that they went out...definitely a daddy's girl here... I have to say that the camo does bring out her eyes hehe!! 

 

and here she is playing with the cheapest toys in the house...

Playing with her Hershey...

Her...deciding she needs to eat some dirt!

Which leads us to Bath time...She LOVES bath time. Cries every time we take her out!!!

     

First weekend away..and the new glasses

Kiersten had her first weekend away from her parents this last weekend. My mom came up on Thursday and left with her Friday morning to go to Orofino. George went to hunting camp for the weekend and I worked all weekend. So we were without daycare so my family stepped in. Love family. Anyhow it was probably harder on me than it was on her. I think she had a great time...she was spoiled for sure and I don't think she was set down on the floor but once the whole weekend. I went down on Sunday night and Kiersten and I came home on Tuesday.

We also got Kiersten's glasses Friday but i took them down on Sunday... the first couple days were okay...she did okay in them... but daycare yesterday said they were a nightmare and I have experienced the nightmare this morning. Every 2 min she is pulling them off and chewing on them. It truly is a nightmare. Her eye doctor is out of town this week but i have a message out to her about it and hopefully she will get back to me the beginning of next week to see if there is anything else we can do. they definitely are not effective if they aren't on her head!!
Here are a couple of horrid pictures of her in her glasses!! I love her all the same though!

My big Girl!!

So she is growing up...

First clue she is growing up...she is getting teeth. two to be exact. I noticed one poking through on the 24th of this month and then the other front bottom tooth i noticed this morning. Doesn't seem like they have affected her much except I'm wondering now if the cold symptoms were all teething symptoms. I guess we will see with the next teething time.
Second clue she is growing up... she can pull herself up in her crib. She has tried many times but today was the first day I saw her actually succeed.

Getting  breathing treatment.

And then crashed out on Daddy

Kiersten standing up.

Bath Time Fun.

More fun...not really!!

So Kiersten has had a cough for a very long time. Almost 3 weeks. I finally broke down and took her to the doctor after she couldn't sleep last night cause she was choking and coughing on a post nasal drip. She also had a fever through the night. We were up almost every hour through out last night...
so we got to the doctor. She didn't have a temp anymore...but her lungs still sounded cruddy for the doctor to hear and she also was coughing a lot and had her runny nose. So the doctor thinks that she may have allergies. Dr Westcott said that most likely she was just getting sick then the smoke in the air over the last week up here caused her allergies to pipe up as well. then on top of that with all the drainage from her nasal area she thinks that caused her to start getting an ear infection... She said it was borderline on treatment but she treated it anyway because she thought Kiersten looked miserable!!
So all in all Kiersten was high maintenance this doctor visit. She got 4 prescriptions:
Antibiotics for her ears,
numbing drops for her ears,
singulair an allergy medication
and albuterol breathing treatments
and a breathing treatment machine!!

Hopefully she will be feeling better soon!!

Milestones...

Kiersten doesn't crawl totally yet...but she definitely knows how to get some where if she wants something. She can roll anywhere she wants to go and about a week and half ago she started army crawling. Where she propels herself forward by her elbows. Its pretty cute.

and the other proud milestone...she says MAMA.....
Her first word was Mama... She has been saying it for about a week now. Sometimes after prompting but mostly just when she wants me(ha ha just kidding) She jabbers a lot and says it, and also when she is crying she says it. Her other word that she started saying on Saturday was Dada. But it isn't as consistent just yet....but George is working on it.
But for the record..... First word: Mama.

Glasses

Kiersten went and got fitted for her glasses...they are ugly...
we will get the official set in 2 weeks!

Mark and Kim's Wedding

We had my brothers wedding in August. It was a lot of fun and I hope it was a perfect day for Kim and Mark. Congrats to both of them. I have to say Kim looked amazing in her dresses. (yes I said dresses). I also have to say I was a pretty proud mom... Kiersten looked so precious in her dress and wagon!!!  Here are some photos of us at the wedding.

Disappointing Day ...but it could have been worse!!

Well today we had Kiersten's eye doctor appointment. We saw a pediatric specialist eye doctor up here and she concluded after many different exams, (you would be amazed at all the things they can do with a baby) that Kiersten doesn't focus with her left eye. She said she has a lazy eye and although you can't see it with the naked eye...her left eye looks in towards her right vision field instead of focusing on the object at which she is trying to look at. So her left eye seems to wonder around instead of focusing on the item. therefore she has to get baby glasses. Dr. Marossy said that with the glasses it will help her left eye focus on an item which will strengthen the ocular muscles around the eye (which control the eye ball). She wants to see her again after she has been wearing the glasses for 6 weeks. She also said that by fixing her left eye that with time she should straighten her head tilt out. If things are not fixed by 12 months of age they may look into more serious interventions, surgery being in that list. But she feels that the glasses should fix it....but no guarantees. So we will see with time.
So we have a set of glasses on order. Should be here in about 10 days. But we will be out of town, so we will get them the week that we get back from the wedding. And baby glasses are not cute. they only had 2 pairs for us to choose from... they both were round frame style... plastic type frames with shatter proof lenses. they gave me 4 colors to choose from, a translucent white type color, two different pinks, and blue. But i couldn't see the colors that were available...just new the names of the colors. I did see the clear white color and they were ugly. the girl recommended this pink color that was called something rose. So that is what we got. We will see what they really look like when we get them. Until then... I'm enjoying my baby without glasses!!!

How many medical professionals does it take...

Okay So Kiersten had her 6 month appointment yesterday. I thought that she was tall, because she is fitting into a lot of her 9 month clothes and I had to buy her 9 month pj's. Anyhow evidently clothing companies do not know how big a 6 month old is. And it takes 4 medical professionals to measure my child...4 different times, and they all came up with the same conclusion, 26 inches. I guess they couldn't really believe it because she was at 90 percentile in height last appointment and she is only at 52% now. So she is 52% in height, 70% in weight, and 80% head circumference.
The doctor is a little concerned because the muscles of her neck on the left side don't appear as strong as those on the right so she tends to tip her head to the left a lot. (which when she was really little she would never turn her head to the left). So her doctor referred us to an eye doctor to make sure she is seeing okay and doesn't have anything going on behind her eyes (evidently some kids tip there head if they can only see good out of one eye, to compensate). She has that appointment August 4th. then we have to schedule an appointment with a physical therapist to help show us ways to stretch or strengthen those muscles. I'm going to see what the eye doctor says first before I schedule the appointment with the physical therapist. So I will update everyone then. But for now here is a couple more picture!!