Thrush...yes, it's more than just a little bird

That's right the babysitter called me the other day and said she thinks Caitlyn has thrush. Oh joy. So I went to pick her up and took her home while waiting for the doctors office to call back. Thankfully since this is so common they just called a script in for meds. Unfortunately since it's contagious one of us had to stay at home with her the next day. Jordan asked if I had any sick time left to which i responded no I don't. For those of you who may not know I used all my sick time, vacation and personal days so I could get paid for my maternity leave. So Jordan got to stay at home and take care of Caitlyn.

-Kacey

AND OH WHAT A DAY IT WAS!
Caitlyn didn't sleep but 20 minutes at a time about three times. She likes to scream now, immediately, if she thinks things aren't going her way. I hope it's just the sickness, 'cause this is rough. Regardless, we made it until Mommy got home, and now she's cooking me dinner for my birthday. Oh yeah, it's my birthday. For those of you who forgot, don't worry; I forgot too.

In career news, I'm going to be operating camera for a tv show pilot in Saint Louis this weekend. It's gonna be a few long days, but worth it in the long run, I hope. This is through some contacts I gained in working on a film in Saint Louis through most of July. I almost feel like a grown-up.

Now, pictures:

Caitlyn scoots around as she sleeps as evidenced here:

Here's a cute one:

She does smile at me occasionally:

And winks at the dog:

And somehow she learned this way too early. She's not supposed to stick her tongue out at me until she's at least 2, I thought.

I interrupt this photofest for a picture of 2 really cute girls:

It's football season! Almost. Unfortunately I think I'm letting her watch a Tennesee/Oakland game. Not the prettiest. Then again, I'm probably going to subject her to the Rams this season. Sigh.

After this, apparently she figured out how to work the remote:

We don't get great TV:

But she finally found something worth watching:

She does like bath time. I'm making it a point to not take bath pictures that she'll hate me for when she's older.



And she does get tired once in a while, fortunately for us:



That's all for now.

-jordan

Back to work and more

That's right, I'm back at work. It's not that easy to just go back and leave my baby with a sitter after being with her non-stop for 9 weeks. Although I'm glad to report that she is doing great with the change, she doesn't cry when I leave her or get anxious when I pick her up. The sitter says she's easier than her daughter. I keep getting told that Caitlyn is such a wonderful baby so I guess I should believe it. We decided to go with a home day care so Caitlyn would get more one on one attention and still get the interaction with other children. There is the sitters daughter who is 6 mons old and a little boy who is 5 mons old. So Caitlyn is the youngest and gets a little more attention than the other two.
I am glad to be back at work it does give me interaction with adults at least. Besides I don't do well when I'm at home for very long even if I have a little one to take care of.
So for those of you who didn't know Jordan took a job in St Louis which started July... so this meant I spent the remainder of my maternity leave and first week of work being a single parent. Soooo not easy by the way. I don't know how she does it but every time I thought it would be safe to eat or nap or shower she'd start screaming and need to eat, be held or changed. The upside to being on my own with her, at least one, was that I set her schedule and no body has been around to mess it up. She even sticks to that schedule at the sitters house too. I also got to bond with her a lot. We started talking to each other, or really she'll start cooing and I respond then she looks at me. Although she goes back and forth like that with Jordan and the sitter, that doesn't seem fair. We have also started working on sitting up and standing. Actually she started it, she doesn't like to lay down when she's awake. She loves to stand with some one supporting her of course, and she'll sit up but when you go to lay her down because she's heavy she'll scream until you let her stand again. I tried to get to roll over but she hates being on her stomach when she's awake. She does move really good in her bed a night on her stomach so I stopped trying to get her to roll over. I have also found out that she likes to hear the song "Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes". I started singing it to her and she smiles and laughs. I've tried a few other songs but I don't get the same response with them. I love my baby.

Jordan took Caitlyn to her 2 month check up fri the 8. She must be eating very well since she's 10 lb 6 oz and 23 1/4 inches. I'm not entirely sure where she gets the height from, nor am I sure it will last. Oh well. She also got 3 vaccines. Jordan said she didn't like those at all but like a good father he said she'd be fine and didn't make a big deal out of it. She only ran a slight fever afterwards to but that went away with a little Tylenol. The doctor told us we could give her some if that happened. So a few days later and she hasn't reacted to any of them so hooray for that. Her next appt isn't for a couple more months. I'm almost afraid to see how much more weight she'll gain. She is such a good eater.

We took another trip into St Louis the past weekend as well. I'm not sure we will want to do that again. It was stressful for all of us. Poor Caitlyn was thrown off her schedule and was passed around so much she was sooo not happy. The sitter said she slept most of the day today I think she was making up for the lack of sleep she got the past few days. Anyways the reasons we went is was first Alex's 4th birthday party. Yep that's right he's 4 if you can believe that. It was good, the kids had fun and the food was yummy.


They played water balloons oh my



Opened presents


Ate Cake

Like father

like son

and played with the toys. Oh yeah and this is what we saw of dale



Over all a good party.

Another reason we went in was so that I could spend some time with my sisters and go to Tera's bridal shower. I don't have any pictures of those cuz I forgot the camera. I can tell you that Caitlyn has finally met the rest of my extended family, I think. The shower was fun even if Tera didn't want to play any games. I guess to each their own. I know that doesn't sound like it would be stressful but trying to pack that stuff in with church, seeing my best friend before she leaves, diner with family and making sure we left semi on time to make sure we made it home before Caitlyn's bed time. Oh and I forgot to mention that we took the dog with us since we didn't have any one to watch her, maybe because we forgot to ask until friday. Let's just say we learned a few important lessons about traveling with a kiddo and a dog. We'll see how well we learned them next month when we go in for Boy and Tera's wedding.
Now to end this long post with some adorable pics of our little baby.