Date Night with Daddie

Next weekend Mikey is going snowboarding with the guys, so I took advantage and went out on Saturday night. Kiley had a date night with Daddie. Uncle Brandon came over and they had dinner and watched movies with Kiley. I went to dinner with the girls. It was fun to get out of the house and have some "me" time. I also went and got a facial on Sunday after church.

Kiley helped Daddie pack for his trip. She is just chillin in the bindings of his snowboard.

Daddie had to take over Kiley's evening feeding duty when I was out. Kiley has been taking a bottle of formula every night and is sleeping a lot longer!

These are a couple pictures that we took of Kiley this weekend. She has such a pretty smile.

She loves her Baby Einstein Gym. She doesn't like to just lay in her bouncy or swing anymore. She needs some brain stimulation to keep her occupied. She loves holding the birdie in her hand.

Yes, Nonie, I know her legs aren't covered. It was 80 degrees outside that day. I promise she was warm enough.

Kiley's Big Day

Kiley had a big day today! She started by watching history be made. We watched President Obama's Inauguration all morning and afternoon. I know she isn't old enough to understand, but I will be able to tell her that she was part of it when she gets older.

Kiley watching the Inauguration.


Closeup of Kiley watching the Inauguration.


Today was also Kiley's two month checkup. It went very well. She weighs 9lbs 10oz and is 21.5 inches long, both in the 25 percentile. Dr. Nale was very happy with her growth. He checked all of her knooks and crannies and she looks great! Unfortunately she had to get two shots, but she was a trooper. We have a very tough girl.

Kiley on the scale getting weighed.


Daddie entertaining Kiley while she waited for Dr. Nale.


We got some cute pictures of her in her diaper while we were waiting.


She was all smiles.


Here is a close up. She was so patient.


Getting her ears checked.


Kiley, say aahhh.


Kiley showed Dr. Nale how she likes to stand up.


Look at the big girl!


She fell asleep in Daddie's arms before the shot lady came.


After her appointment, Kiley got to go to Daddie's work so that Daddie could show her off to his coworkers. She was a very good girl and loved all of the attention. You can see that Daddie has her picture on his wallpaper on his computer. I can't believe he can get any work done with that cute face staring at him.


Kiley's day got even bigger as I started this blog. We got home from Mikey's work and I went to let the dogs out and our backyard was filled with smoke. A house on our alley about 4 houses down caught on fire. It was very scary. The wind was blowing towards our house and the streets were filled with smoke. There were tons of fire trucks and emergency vehicles. Apparently people chase these things and there were tons of cars and people on our street watching the house burn. There were also news helicopters flying around. It was quite a scene and very scary. I don't think anyone was living in the house. They were in the middle of a remodel. Here are some pictures.


Here is a closeup of the back fo the house where the fire was the worst.


This is the front of the house.


You can see all of the people watching.

Our weekend

With Kiley getting a little bit older, our lives are starting to get a little back to normal. We had a fun weekend. Friday after work, Marmee came by to visit Kiley. Then I made homemade pizza for dinner and we watched movies. Every once in a while, our cable provider gives us access to all of the movie channels for the weekend. This was one of those weekends. Mikey gets super excited and Tivos a bunch of them.

On Saturday, we hung around the house. Mikey cooked BBQ chicken on the grill and it was delicious. Kiley got a bath and then I took a shower and we got ready for Mikey to take us out to dinner for Baird date night. We went to Blue Goose and it was delicious. Kiley was such a good girl. She stayed awake while we waited at the bar to be seated. She loved all of the lights and the people. Her brain was probably going a mile a minute. Once we were seated, she fell asleep and let Mommy and Daddie enjoy a great dinner. It was so nice to get out of the house and enjoy the night. It was a big step for us in parenthood.

On Sunday morning, we went to church. This time we sat with the rest of the congregation instead of sitting in the baby room where we sat with her on Christmas Eve with people coughing everywhere. She stayed awake the whole Mass and she was such a good girl. I think she enjoys all of the music. After lunch, Mikey went to play tennis and I took Kiley for a walk. We try to take advantage of these nice days and get some exercise.

We had a great weekend, complete with a night out and church on Sunday. Our lives are starting to feel a little normal again. We are so thankful to have such a good girl that we can take out. Her 2 month checkup is on Tuesday!! Here are some pictures of our weekend.

Kiley in her bathrobe before her bath.


Boo and Buddy enjoying the beautiful weather outside. Aren't they handsome boys!!


Kiley with her favorite rattle. We are working with her to hold it by herself. She let go and it slid down her arm before I could get a picture.


Kiley and Mommy before our big date.


Kiley, Mommy and Buddy on the couch before our date night.


Daddie and Kiley at Blue Goose.

Our New Neighbors

Well, not exactly our neighbors, but George W. and Laura Bush are moving about 6 miles from us. They are putting a gate in at the entrance of their street, so Mikey went by there last week to take a picture of their house. They are doing a lot of renovations. Mikey said the house was full of people working. They move in this week!

Kiley's 2 Month Onesie Picture

Recent Kiley Pictures

Here are a few recent pictures of Kiley that we wanted to share with everyone. Her eyes light up and her beautiful smile warms our hearts!





Kiley loves to stand up and she loves to bounce. Mikey got her bouncer down from the attic and put it together. Once we put her in it, we realized that she still has some growing to do. She will love it once she gets a little bigger.

Girls Night Out

On Saturday night, Kiley and I went over to Tricia's for our annual Christmas Party. Yes, we know that it is January. It has become tradition for us to celebrate Christmas together in January. There is always so much going on in December and it allows us to extend Christmas just a bit longer. Kiley was such a good girl. She slept most of the time. I woke her up around 930 and gave her a bottle. She was awake and played with the girls for a while and then went back to sleep. We had so much fun eating yummy food, catching up with the girls and opening presents. Here are some pictures from the night.

Kiley with Stacey and Ashley.

Kiley with Tricia and Shannon.


Shannon, Stacy and me with our new 2009 planners. It is a big joke between the 6 of us. We are the organized ones of the group and love our planners. We get them out each year to record big dates going on in each other's lives for the upcoming year.

Texas Weather

On Saturday, it was about 80 degrees, so we decided to take advantage and have a family picnic. Mikey went to get Freebirds for lunch and brought it back. Freebirds is the perfect picnic food. We set up a blanket and Kiley's little Baby Einstein Gym. Kiley was such a good girl the whole time and she even fell asleep. We covered her gym with a blanket to block out the sun. It was such a beautiful day and felt so good to get out. In the last couple of weeks, we have had a few days with the weather in the 70s and we have taken Kiley out for a jog in her running stroller. She has done really well and it is a start to get Mommy back into shape. Less than 2 months until I have to be in a bathing suit for our Hawaii trip! I need to start those New Year's Resolutions!

So, most people have heard the saying that if you don't like the weather in Texas, just wait 10 minutes. Well here is a perfect example. After our picnic on Saturday, the temperature dropped 40 degrees on Sunday and here is a picture of icicles on our back porch on Monday.

Daddie's Girl

Kiley is 8 weeks old today. I can't believe it. She is almost 2 months old. I know I say this all the time, but she really does change every day. She is getting more alert and more curious. She is holding her head up great and she is acknowledging us more and more. When she hears our voices, she looks for us. She is definitely a Daddie's girl. He is so good at calming her down and putting her to sleep. She feels so comfortable in his arms. When she hears his voice, she looks all over for him until she sees him. She is gaining weight also. Her 2 month checkup is later this month, so we don't know exactly how much she weighs, but our arms are getting sore holding her. She is getting more rolls on her little legs too and has upgraded to size 1 diapers! Our little girl is growing up.

Mikey put together Kiley's Baby Einstein Gym over the holidays (Thanks Aunt Tamra!). She is getting close to the age where she can start grabbing for things, so we thought we would start to stimulate her brain. Here are a couple of pictures of her in her new gym.

If you look closely at her outfit, it says "If you think I am cool, you should meet my Dad." Kiley definitely enjoyed her time with her Daddie over the holidays while he was off. He went back to work today and we sure miss him!


She looks so curious in this one. Oh, and you can't see, but her little socks say Daddy's Princess on the bottom of them!

Happy New Year!!

Wow, 2009!! We had such a great 2008 and we have so much to look forward to in 2009. We hope you will be receiving your New Year's Card in the mail from us in the next day or so. This year we put our blog information on the back of them, so hopefully we will get some more readers! We had such a good time ringing in the new year with Kiley. It was our first New Year's Eve as a family of 3 (5 with Buddy and Boo!).

Unfortunately my first blog of the year has started out disastrous. My ability to multi task has back fired. I am so sad. I was copying our New Year's Eve pictures from our camera to the computer and trying to calm Kiley down at the same time. When I came back to the computer, I deleted the pictures from the camera like I always do after I download them. As soon as I deleted them, I turned back to the folder I was downloading them to and it wasn't finished. We had a few videos of Kiley that took much longer to download than normal. I lost half of our pictures. I am so upset at myself. I definitely learned a valuable lesson from this. I will post some of the pictures that we still have. So sorry Mikey, Kiley, Gretchen and Ben. At least we have the memories.

Since Kiley is so young, we decided to stay home and have a low key New Year's Eve with her. Our friends Gretchen and Ben were also looking for a low key night, so they came up to spend the night with us. We decided to start the tradition of Fondue on New Year's Eve. We made all 3 courses: cheese, steak and chocolate. They were all delicious. To make things more exciting, Mikey decided that we should have a theme for the night. We decided on a Cinderella theme. Gretchen, Kiley and I all dressed up as Princesses and Ben and Mikey as Princes. Gretchen and I actually wore the bridesmaids dresses from my wedding (I wore Mycah's). Kiley wore her Juicy Couture dress that we brought her home from the hospital in. We were all pretty in pink. The guys dressed up in bow ties with a few special touches that made their outfits fun. We all wore house shoes with our attire. We had so much fun with each other. Dinner was great, we spread it out throughout the evening. We ate the cheese fondue around 730, the main course around 930 and then the chocolate after midnight. We counted down at 11pm with the Time Square celebration and then at midnight with the Victory Park Celebration. The Victory Park celebration sure is getting big. There were so many people there. I thought it was neat that Ryan Seacrest showed Victory Park on his Time Square Party!! We were party animals and didn't go to bed until almost 3am!

On New Year's Day, Mom, Dad and Mycah came up for New Year's Dinner. Mom cooked our traditional good luck dinner: Pork Roast & Sauerkraut, Mashed Potatoes, Black Eyed Peas (made from scratch by Dad), Squash and Rolls. It was delicious!!

We wish you all a very healthy and happy 2009 from our family to yours!! We hope you enjoy reading about our 2009 adventures on our blog!