Kaylee's 4 months old!!

Kaylee is growing up a storm. She starting eating rice cereal on Aug. 3, 2008 for the first time and she LOVED every bite of it. She kept moving her legs back and forth to mean that she wanted more! The only time she has not liked it is after we visited the doctor for her 4 month appointment the doctor said to mix with my milk b/c she is on the smaller side to help get more calories in. I didnt start doing it at first bc I am producing just enough milk for her and it is very difficult to pump anymore out.
Her four month appointment went great..except for the shots...I hate hearing her scream like that! She now weighs 11 lbs and 15 oz. and 23 and 3/4 inches long! The doctor was very happy with where Kaylee is developmentally too. The peds. office gives you a sheet to show you what you baby more and likely will have accomplished for the next visit..6 mth visit..only by God's grace is it that Kaylee can do it all already...nothing I have done only God! She has been for a while doing most of these things: coo's, blows bubbles and makes "raspberry" sounds, laughs and giggles all the time and mommy and daddy know how to tickle her to where she just can't stop laughing, reaching, grabbing for her toys and playing well with them, hold her head up with no difficulty, supports her weight on her legs, holds body stiff when being pulled up from the ground and much much more. Please don't take this as bragging, I have done nothing to have Kaylee where she is now except play with her and spend time with her at home..also by God's grace. I am writting all of this b/c it will be many months before most family will see her again and I just want to let you know where she is right now. The doctor said the next thing she should be accomplishing is saying "mama and "dada". Oh how we can not wait to hear those words one day!!
Kaylee loves to play games and have books read to her. The only problem is she loves the TV. I have nursed so often that I would turn the Tv while nursing so now it draws her to it any time it is on. We are defiently working on this though bc she loves it way too much. She loves her Baby Einstein movies! She usually watches one every day. We are still having difficulty with her taking a bottle. I was always with her so it was just made more sense at the time for me to feed her...little did we know that bc she didn't have a bottle after 2 weeks of age and then at 6 weeks for a weekend while visiting grandparents...it would hurt her. Now it is hard for me to go anywhere without her bc Josh can't take care of her bc she wont take a bottle. We are working hard to get her to take it at home and at church. She is in the nursery on Sun mornings/nights and on most Fridays while I am at MOPS meetings preparing for this year to come.

Kaylee is rolling over

Kaylee and I just got back from Tennessee. We were there for 8 days and hung out with Mimi. Daddy missed us extremely bad. He said we were not allowed to travel without him again...he just couldn't take it! How sweet. Kaylee learned to roll over but mama never got to see her do it. The Sunday after we got back, the 20th of July, we were at our friends house for lunch and she rolled over for mama and dada. Hip Hip Horray!! Now that she figured out how to do it without difficulty she doesn't want to stop rolling over. She is still not sleeping through the night. I am waking up around 12:30 am and 4:30 am and 6:30 am to feed and once 6:00 am comes she is wide awake but she lets mommy sleep until 8:30 (her next feeding)...which I have really needed. Kaylee is going about 2 1/2 hours between each feeding. She just got over a growth spurt. She was eating every hour. All mommy was doing was feeding.

Life in North Carolina

Josh and I have been married for over 3 years now. God has and is continuously blessing us and our marriage. Kaylee was born on April 10, 2008 at 9:35 pm. She was born on Josh's birthday. She is now 3 and 1/2 months old. She is growing so fast. I already put up her 0-3 month old clothes and brought out all of her 2-6 months clothes. I just dont understand how anyone could have a child and not believe in God. How amazing it is to see a baby that the Lord created in my womb and now is out in this world. How blessed we are that God is intrusting us with her. Just to look into her beautiful eyes and see how she is such a gift from our Lord! On the way home from the hospital I looked at her and was reminded about how important it is to share the gospel.
Josh is working full time at State Farm while I am staying at home raising our precious daughter. I am so grateful to be able to stay at home and raise our child. Josh is about to start his second year at Southeastern Baptist Theological Semianry. Due to working full time and having Kaylee Josh will not finish for about four more years...Lord willing.

I am 7 weeks PREGNANT!! God completley surprised us with this news!! GOD IS SO AWESOME! He is already showing us how He is going to take care of us and the baby(s)....i am praying for he/she/them due to the fact that we are both in line for twins...i would LOVE it...and if we have twins i want to be able to tell them that i have been praying for the both of them since i found out i was pregnant. i found out on August 21st(Tuesday Night)! On August 24th(Friday) I found out that all that we have to pay with the docs. visit, the pregnancy and $7 for an Advil is a $20 co-pay at first first doc. appointment which is Sept. 17th and a $250 hospital entrance fee...PRAISE BE TO GOD!! Most families have to pay a couple thousand dollars. My company is coving 100% of doc. visits and pregnancy costs!!! THANK YOU LORD. Then Friday afternoon my dad surprised me. My dad came up with a sneeky plan to make sure i would be home friday night..josh was out of town working. My dad had me put on my shoes and get josh on the phone. We went outside to wait for my aunt and uncle who were suppose to be coming in town for business and taking me out to dinner. Well to my surprise my dad called my grandmother "gran" and she said "Merry Christmas Early". There was a SUV with a bow and ribbon on it! I had prayed when i was pulling into our aparments that we needed my car to last bc we did not have to money to buy one right now . What is so cool is how God worked. When we found out we were pregnant, my gran had already bought the car and there had been insurance on it for over a week! At that time noboby..not even us...knew we were pregnant but God knew and He knew we needed a new vehicle and He took care of us! GOD IS AWESOME AND SO GOOD. HE ALWAYS TAKES CARE OF YOUR NEEDS!!! PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!!