Mommy's girl

Kelsey is starting to show us a little bit of her personality and it is just getting so fun. When she gets really excited she will flap her arms really fast and squeal. Its like she is swimming in the air.  Most recently she has started to dance! I love it so much because I love to dance and I can't wait for the day that we will dance together. Anyway, Kelsey will dance to ANY music that she hears. Our phones, the tv, actually music, movies, her toys, the microwave, and so much more. Sometimes she even dances to the tune that is in her head. I just love it so much! I tried to capture it on camera and naturally she got a little gun shy, but you will get the basic idea. It is so much fun to watch her.

7 months

I just love Kelsey so much. She was 7 months on January 2nd and our life is so much better with her around. She is really starting to get fun too! She talks all the time, really plays with toys, and smiles and interacts with us. We just love our Kelsey. It is especially fun because she can sit on her own, but can't crawl yet so when I put her somewhere I know exactly where I am going to find her when I am done. I am a little scared for a mobile baby, but I heard they can be fun too :)

Happy New Year!

New Years Eve was a blast as usual, but this year was especially fun because we had 5 of the 6 siblings in town. It was great to be with so many family members.

Post Surgery

On January 2nd Ethan got his cast off and is not sporting a soft removable cast! He loves it and so do I. He can do so much more on his own AND he had an allergic reaction to the hard cast and so to get that thing off was a huge blessing. His arm is still pretty gross and still hurts him a bit, but he is able to move it so much easier now

Dead Mouse

Kelsey has been sick the past few nights meaning she wakes up about every 50 min or so to cough or cry. Sad but not the point. The other night at 4:30 she woke up again and this was the 8th time that I had to try to snot out her nose. (I promise this is relevant) Anyway, I was super tired and not really with it. I pulled her out of her bed, blew her nose, calmed her down and went to go put her back in her bed and what did I find.. A DEAD MOUSE!!! I could have bet my life that a dead mouse was in the middle of my daughters crib. Like any rational tired mom, I started crying and woke up Ethan. He grabbed a bowl, covered the mouse, tied Kelsey's sheets around the bowl and took it out to the trash. While he was doing that, I was looking everywhere for the family of mice because mice never come alone. I couldn't find anything so I put Kelsey in our bed and we all went back to sleep (well kinda). In the morning, I noticed that Kelsey was missing one of the dark purple socks that she went to bed with Ethan went out to the trash, pulled out our bowl untied the sheets and some how during the night, the dead mouse turned into Kesley's purple sock!  I really hate mice, but if all mice are magic mice I might reconsider.

Ethan and I had a pretty good laugh over this one! All you tired moms understand :)