San Diego/ Kevin's Birthday

So it is now 1:10am and I can't sleep so what better to do than to blog about our amazing week out in San Diego!

April 16th was Kevin's Birthday!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the sweetest, funniest, and amazing husband and father I could ask for!  It was a nice way to start the vaca.  We started his day by having lunch at Phil's BBQ featured on Man Vs. Food.  SO DELISH!  All at the bash were my mom and dad, my sister Claudia, my best friend and her husband Manda and Mike Diaz, Kevin (of coarse), Me and Kaylee :-).  We all then went and visited my grandma Melba who got to meet Kaylee.  I wish I could have spent more time with her while there!  I also for got my camera (boo on my part) so I will have to post those pictures later because I had to take them on Kevin's camera.  Next we went to my parents for some make your own triffles.  Yum!  That night we went to my parent's ward YW fundraiser where they did a Beatles sing along with a silent auction as well as an occational ....loud auction?  Anyhow, I think it went well and I REALLY enjoyed seeing my dad perform.  Since I live so far away I never get to see the stuff her does!

 Triffle Baby!

 Kaylee and Aunt Manda get along so well!

 So my dad tried to find Lennon glasses and this was all he could find!!  HAHA  He is SO funny!

Michal, Manda, and Me after the Beatles Sing a long!

The main purpose of this trip was to see family as much as posible so we made sure all our grandparents got visited.  Monday  we went up to LA where Kevin's grandma lives and had lunch with her.  She is so amazing!  Plus we got to stop by at my grandparent's house (my mom's side).

 Kaylee with her Great Grandma Genie

 With her Great Grandpa Earl

 With her Great Uncle Bob

With her Great Grandma Burroughs (Kevin's Grandma)

It was such a joy to have them all meet my little girl.  Again, I need to get those pictures with Grandma Melba.  She will get her own blog post I think.

Other events that happened is we celebrated my Aunt Ruth's Birthday!  Her birthday was on April 20th so we celebrated it a day early at Taco Tuesday at On the Border.  YUM!  I couldn't finish the 3rd taco.  I only ate 2.  Kaylee then proceeded to cut a tooth that night providing many tears to the house hold.  Thankfully, my parents and sister were very patient with the crying and said they either didn't hear it or it wasn't that much of a bother.  They were probably being nice, but I appreciated it for sure!  Thursday we had a BBQ at our friend Lori's house!  THANK YOU!  I was glad to spend time with her since I have been telling Kevin how awesome she is like forever.  Plus Kaylee had fun in the pool. (videos to come)

 On the Border, Dad, Kevin, and Claudia

 Ree and Kaylee, drinking the salt...not really :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT RUTH!!

 Love this of my mom and Kaylee

 Lori, Aunt Ruth and Kaylee (to the Left)

Kaylee and I right before her pool plunge! (to the Right)

I will finish on another blog I think.  I will give sleep another shot!! Good Night!

6 month old Kaylee Girl

So on Sunday, our little Kaylee girl turned 6 months old!  I can't believe half a year has gone by already. It sure has been a blessing to have her in our life and we look forward to many more years.  Here are a few pictures of our cute girl.

 Kaylee has been teething for quite some time now.  Still no teeth.  But I think that it is going to happen VERY soon.  I'm excited and terrified (I'm breast feeding).  She will look really cute with little teeth.  She is chewing on EVERYTHING.  I do feel bad for her when I can tell she is hurting though.  Also you can see that she is mastering the art of sitting up.  I still have to be close by, but she is getting a lot better.

 She is a master at rolling everywhere.  If she sees it on the floor she knows that with enough patience, she will figure of the angle necissary to roll to it.  She al can scoot herself in a circle.  She can do an inch worm crawl but doens't do it often.  I figure it will be like the rolling thing.  She will do it occasionally and then one day she realizes that she can use it to her advantage. 

 Our little girl now is 25.5 inches long, 16 lbs 5oz, both in the 50 percentile.  Then her head is 43.5 centimeters still in the 75%.  Wow!

 Kaylee can also straiten her arms and hold it for quite a while.  She can also hold the crawling position for a while and then plops.  For now she prefers her inch worm crawl.  Love this kid!

I love when she does this.  Smile with a paci in.  She is such a blessing in our life and I feel so blessed to be her mommy!

Hangin' out

I haven't posted something in a long time.  Well it feels like a long time.  Last weekend was General Confrence so we got to hang out together and try to pay attention while our cute daughter played (and "talked" and screamed a bit) on the floor.  We watched Saturday morning session with our friend Mary Beth Russel who was very nice and brought pizza, breadsticks and dip.  I made homemade bread but it hardly seems a fair trade.  The food was delicous.  Here is a little video of Kaylee playing.  She has been inch worm crawling lately.  Just the beginnings of actual crawling and you can see her try in this video.  She actually doesn't do it here.  But if you ever do catch her do it, it is amazing.  It will be crazy to see her actually bust out a ton of crawling someday. Please excuse random napkin on the floor...



We sure love our Kaylee girl!!

Hello Sun

So as a California girl, born and raised in a place where snow is in foreign lands and cold is 50-60 degrees, I am always happy when I can finally bust out my flip flops and sunscreen and do stuff outside.  Whether that is a walk or a picnic in the park.  I have recently made it a goal of mine that if it is sunny outside or not raining, I must go on at least one walk and enjoy the nature outside.  Kaylee likes it too.  She is a fan of wind.  Recently, we went to a picnic in the park with some of our friends from the ward and enjoyed some sandwiches (with homemade whole wheat bread that I made!) and some great company.  It was fun to see that kids play and talk with our friends.  Here are some pictures of our outside adventures lately (with more to come).

 We had Kaylee in her car seat/stroller combo, that we got from my Grandma Melba.  It works great and I LOVE using it.  She had a lot of fun sitting in it and playing with toys.  It was very windy and she enjoyed opening her arms to let the wind blow right on her face.  Big smiles from this girl!

 Kaylee loves her friend Claire Jones!  They are 2 months apart and both super cute!  I love how babies are fascinated with each other! 

I love this picture!  We got this outfit for Kaylee since we are going to San Diego soon, we thought it would be fun to get her a nice summer outfit.  The hat fits JUST right so I don't know how long that will last (with her 75% head!)  But the outfit will last a while.  I love it.  It is very picnicy.  If that is a word.

 This is after a walk we went on around our apartment buildings.  I usually have Kaylee on me, but Kevin hadn't done it yet so we tried it out and it was very fun.  Kaylee has a fun time with daddy and I actually got to see her during a walk.

This one is not outside, but how cute is this picture!  Our friends the Jones gave us a two week pass to the YMCA out here and we have tried to go as often as we can in that time period.  We love to swim and we think Kaylee enjoys it too!  We love her suit.  I call it her California surfer girl suit!  Yea I don't even surf.  But I think that is what it looks like and anything California makes me happy.  I am so blesses to have my beautiful little family.  I have the best husband who is a wonderful father to our best daughter ever! Oh guess how I make her smile for pictures now?  Raspberries, the tongue thing that sounds like a fart.......

Yea on that note, LOVE  you all! ~The Sprouls

Little Swimmer Girl!

Last Monday we had an exciting FHE at the pool with our friends the Jones!  They have a little girl that is 2 months younger than Kaylee named Claire.  So we brought our babies and went for a swim at the Y for Kaylee's first time in the water!  We got her a little floaty and a little swim suit and I think she looks adorable!  She was so funny trying to "get" Claire and she was so excited to see her friend!  Thank you Amy and Nick for this wonderful experience!

 

Side note, because I am so proud of her, I introduced the sippy cup at 5 months in hope that she could get use to it and make weaning easier.  It took like 4 days to get to this...

Yea she is drinking from it.  Of course this one has a soft tip.  So we will see how she does with a hard tip later on.  I will take this.  VERY proud because I know it does not happen with a lot of babies. Oh and I am not weaning her now by the way.  I just give her a little breast milk to learn the skill and eventually it will have water in it when she is allowed.  Still a good eater and sleeper.  Such a happy baby.  We are SO lucky!

We've got ourselves a 5 month old

I can't believe that 5 months ago I had a newborn and was struggling with the recovery of a c-section.  But it has been so wonderful having Kaylee girl in our lives and has made our family so much happier and closer than ever!  She has been able to roll over since she turned 4 months but the last week she discovered she can use this talent to get what she needs whether that is to roll over to a toy, or roll over to mom or dad, or roll into the coffee table over, and over, and over until mom and dad move her.  She REALLY wants to be able to sit up.  I see the desire there, and she is desprately working on those ab muscles.  So I help her out sometimes by sitting her up and helping her work on her balance.  Sometimes she will be sitting up all by herself and then relize she is doing it and topple over.  I catch her of course...most of the time.  She is feeling all better now other than the boogers.  But no fever, and still as happy as ever.

Some things Kaylee likes to do are take a bath, spit up when mommy doesn't have a burp cloth near by, play in her play gym, look in envy at the remote control and our phones, talk (in baby talk) as loud as she can and as soft as she can, eat rice cereal, cuddling, and laughing at daddy.  She is also a fan of diaper changes.  She always has been.  She is happiest when naked.  Here is a video of her rolling over.  It took me 2 minutes to get her to do it so if you want to skip to the last part go for it.  She is so cute!




And here is one of her laughing.  I had to hide the camera from her so the video isn't great but the laugh is GREAT!  Plus there are some shots of her cute little face!



It will make you smile for SURE!  It is way cute.  Not long either.

Also, in less than a month Kevin and I will be walking in the MS walk.  If any of you are in Louisville and want to walk, it is free.  I have already raised some money and I am going to put in a little bit myself as well.  But you don't have to pay to walk.  I would LOVE the company.  It is short walk and I am going to bring Kaylee and her stroller.  If you don't live in Louisville and would like to date please do so!  I would really appreciate it.  As some of you know my mom has had MS at least since 2004 when she found out.  If you want to find out more, join my team or donate please visit HERE. 

Such a great life we have.  We are so blessed to have the family and friends we have. 

Sniffles and Sneezes

What a weekend it has been.  Last week about Thursday Kevin started feeling a little under the weather.  On Friday he worked mostly from home and I started hearing a few sniffles from Kaylee.  By Saturday morning all 3 of us were sick.  Kevin has stuffy nose, a throat thing, and just felt blah!  I had a slight throat thing but I guess I was having drainage because nausea was hitting me pretty hard (no grossness from me though).  I probably felt the best out of all of us.  Kaylee had a stuffy nose and a fever.  Her fever we were able to get down from 100.6 to 99.0 with Tylenol.  99 was today and 100.6 was Saturday.  We had to use saline solution and the "bulby" to get the snot out.  Not much came out.  But we tried.  Last night she scared me a bit because there was blood in her spit up!  We called the nurse service that answers questions after hours and on weekends and they told us that if she does it again to call again and we would probably be bringing her in.  They also told us to bring in the rag to the doctors office so they can test it.

Well after a night where I slept in her room and she woke up once really upset (not like her by the way she sleeps through the night every healthy night), Kevin talked to out pediatrician office about the event and they wanted to see her.  So we brought her in and found out the following.

-She is surprisingly happy while being sick.

- She will be OK.  Because we had to use the "bulby" some of her sensitive capillaries were irritated and some may had burst causing her to suck down that mucus and blood into her stomach.  That is why it was in her spit up.

-Our once 4 month old weighing at 13 lbs 2 oz is now our almost 5 month old who weighs 14 lbs 11oz.  What?!

-We just need to put some Vaseline in her nostrils and help her little stuffy nose to be unstuffed.  We got some tips from the doc.

-Oh also, she is so cute the doctor wanted to take her home with her!!  Ha ha 

We love our Doctor's Office!

We are lucky that even though all of us have been sick (and I haven't been sick in a LONG time) that Kaylee has been so happy and has had few moments where she really realized how sick she felt.  Thank you Juice Plus for keeping us healthy for so long and for this speedy recovery!

You can find out more about Juice plus HERE!