4 Months

Kinsley is 4 months old today! She is growing so fast and about ready to have a lot of firsts. She is very close to rolling over and is showing signs that a tooth may be coming soon. She is also able to tripod sit for a few moments, but likes to pick her hands up and that throws her off balance. She is getting better and sitting up in her jumperoo and is starting to like all the toys on it.


In other news, Kinsley is still working on getting over her cold. We went for a follow-up yesterday and the doctor felt like she still sounded pretty tight in her chest for having been on antibiotics for a week. So we are now doing breathing treatments at home, have another week of antibiotics, and a week of steroids to help her breathing. We're really hoping that getting this aggressive will make the difference. She is definitely breathing easier today after her breathing treatment. We are just glad to have all this on board so that she didn't have to get worse again.


Tomorrow we will be heading to Grandma and Grandpa Benson's for New Year's (and a late Christmas). We can't wait to see everyone and have one more weekend of relaxation before back to work next week!

Christmas

Our Christmas week turned out to be more exciting then we bargained for. On Tuesday the 22nd Kinsley's cold took a turn for the worse and our doctor in Charles City sent us to the Mason City hospital. We were lucky enough that she didn't have to be admitted, but she did have a breathing treatment and is now on antibiotics. We've got our fingers crossed that she'll finally be able to kick this cold she's had for a month. She's been on antibiotics almost a week and still has a stuffy nose and a little cough, so I'm really hoping things don't come back once the medicine is gone.

Since Kinsley was feeling better by Thursday Michael and I decided we would head to his parents. The weather had cleared so we did our Christmas at home that morning and headed south in the afternoon. Christmas Eve was with his mom's family, and Christmas Day we spent with his dad's family. Kinsley slept through all of her Christmases except one! She is so lucky to have so many people that love her, and she will be looking good in the new year with all the clothes she got!

In her jumperoo, she's still got a little growing to do to really enjoy it.

Her Leapfrop puppy, Violet, is so cool it can say Kinsley's name and sing songs with her favorite things in them.

A dolly from Daddy.

Kinsley loved Michael's cousin Taylor.

With great-grandpa Owens

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Kinsley got to meet Santa Claus today at the Rudd FireStation. She did really good- although she was really interested in the firetrucks too. When we got home we also did a photo shoot under the tree. Happy Holidays to everyone and a Happy New Year if I don't get a post in before then!

Bundled up to go to the babysitters

Our early Christmas present from Daddy- a Moby wrap

Our Santa was a little photo shy.

One with Santa's face- and Kinsley looking at the firetrucks

Under the Christmas tree

One with the puppy a co-worker's friend got for her

I love this one because you can see how excited she is to see the puppy

Shrieker

It's official- Kinsley has found her outside voice. The last two days she will lay on her mat and just shriek and smile. It's still pretty cute, but we'll see how long that feeling lasts. Not much other news to share, just trying to stay warm inside and counting down the days to seeing our families at Christmas and New Year's.

The Shrieker

Kinsley and Cloey just chillin'

Close-up of Kinsley nomming her rattle

A girl can't have too many things to entertain her

Let It Snow

We are officially snowed in here in the Northern Tundra. It has been fun to have the day at home with Kinsley, although I hope we don't have too many snow days to make up come June. Other than that life has been pretty routine. We got our house decorated for Christmas over the weekend and Kinsley is getting over her first cold. I'm hoping in the next couple of weeks to have shopping done and some presents wrapped and under the tree. We are looking forward to Grandpa and Grandma Owens coming to visit this Saturday (and getting a new sink put in!)

Kinsley says "The weather outside is frightful!"

The view from our patio door

Just a cute one

Kinsley's getting so big she can sit in her play chair!

A Little Late

So....I missed posting on Kinsley's 3 month by a few days. We did take her pictures on Nov. 30 but we've had a super busy week so there hasn't been much time for blogging. Kinsley also had her first cold this week (stuffy nose, nothing serious) so we made a quick trip to the doctor just to make sure nothing else was going on. She now weighs 15 lbs 14 oz!! Everything else checked out okay so we've just been doing a lot of sitting in a steamy bathroom and things seem to be clearing up.

We are hoping to get a lot done at home this weekend to top off our busy week. One of my main goals is getting decorated for Christmas. I can't wait to have the tree and lights up because I know Kinsley will love looking at it. Hopefully I will get my shopping and wrapping done soon too so there can be presents to go with it!

Coming down with a cold, so not the happiest of pictures.