Kyndall's ONE!

My sweet baby girl on the day she was born. December 30, 2008.

My baby girl one year later. December 30, 2009.

What has she been up to?

-Kyndall is officially in 3-6 month clothes and size 2-3 Pamper Swaddlers.

-She weighs 17lbs 1oz and is 27.2 inches long.

-She has moved to her big girl car seat. Shes still rear-facing, but out of her infant seat.

-Kyndall absolutely LOVES music and dances to almost any and all.

-She will "talk" your ear off. [When shes in the mood.]

-She's not walking on her own, but can get around with her push toy or holding on to some one's finger.

-We are DONE with baby food and eating only table food. Her favorites are bananas, applesauce, pineapple, mashed potatos, green beans, and french fries.

-Kyndall is still nursing, and I'm perfectly fine with that.

It has been an amazing year, and I'm looking forward to what the next one has in store for us!

Wordless Wednesday: A look at the year

Picture Me Monday

Ok, so I know this is later than I normally post this, but I've been a little under the weather yesterday and today...This is a picture taken on Christmas Day at my Granny's house. Her house isn't very "kid friendly" so we had to improvise on ways to entertain Kyndall before lunch and gifts. I found this tin, and she LOVED it! She would drum on it, roll it to her cousin, and her favorite was to climb up all by herself and sit on it. She was so proud of herself. She just smiled as if to say "Look at me! Look what I did with no help."

Baby's First Christmas

Here are just a few pictures from Kyndall's first Christmas!
Of course, every babies' favorite thing about Christmas. Playing with the wrapping paper!

Kyndall looking in the bag to see what goodies awaited her!

Playing blocks with her cousin.

ROCKET!

Isn't she the cutest? Super excited about her gifts from Santa.

Along with the pictures that are here, we had a good Christmas. Kyndall hit the jackpot! She got lots of goodies from Santa, Grandma and Grandpa, Momma and Daddy, Uncle Mikey, and family in Shreveport.

However, we didn't have a lot of time to recover from Christmas before we started looking forward to Kyndall's 1st birthday! (That post to come soon!)

December 25, 2008

One year ago today, December 25, 2008, was my last day of "freedom." I had been diagnosed with Pre-E just 11 days before-Dec. 16, and put on mandatory, strict bed rest.

The week of Christmas was an eventful one, to say the least. On Dec. 22, I went in for a growth scan, and Kyndall was measuring small, but she had been the whole pregnancy. Later that morning, I went to the OB for my first appointment of the week and my protein levels were much higher than she would have liked so she sent me to the hospital, giving me a small chance of making it to Friday without a baby. After spending 12 hours in the hospital under observation, I was sent home with orders to monitor my BP every 2 hours and return to the hospital if my BP was 140/90 for 3 checks in a row[thank goodness that didn't happen!]

Christmas Eve morning, I thought I was having contractions and uncontrollable head shaking. So off to the hospital we went at 4 in the morning. They determined that I was just having Braxton Hicks, and I was not seizing, but gave me some meds to help with the BP levels, and we were home later that same morning.

Friday, Dec. 26, I went in for my second OB appt. that week, just have my BP checked twice and told to go straight to the hospital. After 8 hours of monitoring, the on-call OB(who had sent me on that Monday) decided it was going to be best to admit me for hospital bed rest so they could monitor me better, and I would be in the best place possible if anything were to happen.

Here, I am, one year later with a healthy baby girl who will be one on Dec. 30, and I could not be more thankful/ grateful/ blessed. It was a scary time, but I wouldn't trade it one bit because of the end result.