The Craziness Begins

The craziness of the next couple of weeks officially started Friday. We started off the day great! Kaley ate over 3 tablespoons of cereal! That is the most she has eaten to date. She was a full and happy girl as we left to go for our helmet fitting. Kaley was the picture perfect baby throughout the appointment. The envy of everyone. She didn't cry or fuss. The appointment was a lot easier than we were expecting. All they did was give her a burglar pantyhose ski mask and sit her on a stool that was surrounded by about 20 cameras. They took 3 different pictures where all the cameras fired at once and then made a 3D image from that and it's over. I am so glad that we were able to get in after they stopped casting (which just occurred Wednesday). So that was it for that appointment. We go in Monday, April 7 to get the helmet and then every Friday after that to get it re-sized.

Up next, the walk through/orientation of our new home. We dropped Kaley off at Emily's (a friend of mine from work) for her first non-family baby-sitting. Then John and I headed off to meet my Dad, who drove in from Houston, at the house. We went through the whole house with the field manager, Juan, and marked everything that needed to be fixed with painters tape. I think Juan got sick of walking behind me and taping everything because he finally just gave up and gave me the tape to do it myself. He also told me that he should hire me to go through all of his houses before he presents them to the families to check over everything. I was just a little picky! But I am allowed to be because it is not only our first home but a new home which means it needs to be next to perfect! The house really looks great and most of the work that needs to be done is paint touch ups. We are all set to close next Friday and could not be more excited.





I have to go feed Kaley so John will continue...Whatsup, whatsup, John here to continue on with the craziness of this week. After we got back, we found our wonderful dog cowering in the corner. This usually suggests that the puppy did something she wasn't supposed to. Everything looked okay in the apartment except for an envelope on the floor that was half eaten. As I was looking at the envelope, trying to figure out what it was, I remember talking to our bank yesterday and ordering our cashier's check for the down payment on our house. My heart sank to the floor. Emily went in to investigate and thankfully Balyla only chewed up the half of the envelope that did not have the check. It's a little wrinkled but still legit. The FedEx person must have slipped the check under our door while we were out.

Emily and I had some errands to run on Saturday morning, so Pops got to spend some time alone with his granddaughter. After that we took full advantage of Pops' knowledge (and gift cards) and headed out to Home Depot to prep for the new house. We got all of our paint brushes and some quarts of paint to test on the house this coming weekend. Emiy has issues making up her mind on colors for our rooms. Hopefully she will like the colors that we picked out.

Grandpa Vasel surprised us on Thursday with some gorgeous pictures of Kaley. We are very grateful to have a professional photographer in the family. For more information on the wonderful photographer who took these amazing pictures please visit vaselsuniquephotography.com.

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Kaley started another solid food this weekend. Apples! She has tasted apple juice already so it wasn't quite new to her. It was still funny to wacth the first few bites.

This next week will probably feel extremely long because of the anticipation of getting into our new house. If we have any volunteers for movers please let us know.

Peace out

Do I have any green beans on my face?

Greenbeans for breakfast?

Kaley started her second new solid food on Sunday morning. Yummy greenbeans. She didn't react quite like she did with her rice cereal, but she still gave us some adorable faces.
We spent Easter over at Grandma and Grandpa Vasel's. Kaley wore her Easter dress and looked as cute as can be. The Easter bunny gave Kaley some bright pink Crocs and matching sunglasses. She is all set for the warmer weather to come in.
This week is gearing up to be a crazy one. Kaley goes in to get fitted for her helmet on Friday and shortly after we do the walk-through of our house. We will keep you updated on how it goes.

Holding the bottle like a big girl

Updated picture of house

Bad Therapist Mommy

I have officially failed as a mommy-therapist. Kaley has plagiocephaly.....to many of you that probably sounds terrible but it's really just a fancy word for her having a flat head (I just wanted the drama of the big word). It's not really that bad and can be fixed by a helmet.

After noticing it just over a week ago I had a couple of the PTs from work look at her. They agreed that it was flat and that she has some tightness in her neck from constantly looking to the left. Everyone thought that her head was probably too mild for a helmet but I decided to be on the safe side and go in for a consultation anyways. We were able to get in Friday morning and even the guy that did her evaluation said he thought it didn't look too bad until he did her measurements. Then he found that it was worse than he thought...which means we will be going to get measured and fit for one in a week and continue going every week until her head is perfect again. They think it should only take 6-8 weeks which is good.

John and I are just thankful that she is healthy and we aren't dealing with anything too serious. We still love out little girl more than anything and think she is the most beautiful baby in the world, even if she does have a funny shaped head!

Anyways, enough about all of that. Uncle Lee came to visit last weekend at the beginning of his spring break and Granny (Maz) came down this week over part of hers. You can already tell that Kaley has all the men in her life wrapped around her little finger. Her Uncle sure does adore her. The night Granny got here Kaley got the giggles for the first time. She has had little tiny laughs up until now but nothing like this. She was all out laughing! Just goes to show how much she loves her Granny.

We went to go look at the house yesterday and things are really coming along. They were just finishing with the carpet when we got there. Having the carpet in makes it feel more like a home. There is still quite a bit of work to be done between now and next Friday which is when we do our final walk through. Only 2 more weeks until we get the keys to our first real home!

Kaley on our way to brunch with Uncle Lee and Susan.

Happy girl!

Sweet baby girl.

Bubbles!

At first I thought she took after her daddy and couldn't wear sunglasses cause her face was crooked but now I know her face is crooked cause she has a flat head...hmm, makes me think does daddy have a flat head too?

I guess that is all for now, we wish everyone a Happy Easter weekend.

Designer in Training

Sorry for anyone who has checked the blog recently and found it a complete mess. John was teaching me how to design it myself to make it cuter and then I was just trying to do things by trial and error. So we apologize if you couldn't see it or read certain parts for the past couple of days. But isn't it cute now?

4 months - Doctor's Office and Solid Food

Kaley turned 4 months old last Friday and celebrated by taking another trip to the doctor's office for a check-up. The appointment started off well with Kaley getting weighed and measured. Kaley is now 13 lbs. and is 25in. tall. Then things started going south when the doctor had to clean out her ears and give her a shot. She didn't like that too much. We have never seen so many tears in our lives. To stop the tears Mommy took Kaley on a shopping spree and bought lots of new outfits. That made everything better.

Kaley has changed so much in the last few weeks. She has rolled over a few times, she has started reaching for things, and I think we heard our first laugh last night.

Kaley started her solid food over the weekend. We introduced her to some rice cereal mixed with grape juice and water...yummy. Her reactions to the new tastes were adorable. We got lots of pictures and video of her first bites. She is very uncoordinated but it seems like everyday she has more and more food stay in her mouth instead of coming back out onto her bib.

Uncle Lee is coming into town this weekend and has actually volunteered to babysit so Mommy and Daddy can go out for a night on the town. We'll see how that goes.

The new house has made good progress. We have a scheduled walk through with the builders in about a week and we are still on schedule to close at the end of the month. We are so excited and can't wait to be out of our apartment.

Other than that we are just taking everything one day at a time and trying to enjoy every moment with our daughter as she starts growing up.

Kaley's first bites

The fam lounging on the weekend

She wears a bow so people quit thinking she is a boy. She needs some hair...

Sunday morning in the bath robe

Yummy fingers

Ready to go for a jog in the new stroller