Our Little Cowgirl ~ Almost 17 Months Old

Kimbri found this cowgirl hat on the bottom shelf in our bedroom closet a while back, and now she always goes to there and gets it and likes to wear it around. 

Some other things that Kimbri does lately (at almost 17 months old):

-When her food is all gone she raises one hand way in the air and spreads her fingers all apart, motioning that "it's all gone gone". Haha.

-She randomly walks on her tip-toes around the house. 

-When we turn on the Christmas tree lights and the lights on top of the piano, she says, "ooooo" - but in a super high pitched girly voice. I can't describe how cute and funny it is with words.

-Kimbri has always loved to "read" books. When she was younger she wouldn't really let me read the books to her, she just wanted to flip through the pages and look. But now she loves to bring me one book at a time from off the book shelf and we read them! She's a little bookworm! I love sitting down and reading with her. Lately, however, there has become less and less room on my lap due to my ever-growing belly. Baby Garrett needs to hurry up and make his debut! 

-Whenever something is baking in the oven, I'll turn on the oven light and she loves to look through the oven window and see what's in there. I think she knows now that whatever is in the oven eventually comes out and she gets to eat it! 

-Her favorite food is probably bananas. She absolutely positively LOVES bananas. Some other foods that she likes are oranges/clementines, apple slices, grilled cheese sandwiches, green beans, mashed potatoes, and pasta with red sauce! -Just to name a few. She won't really eat chicken. I guess it's maybe the texture? If I discreetly mix it in with a bite of mashed potatoes or something then sometimes she'll eat it, but not always.  And of course, she loves cookies! She usually gets spoiled and Grandma's house with those :)

-Kimbri has always been a pretty good sleeper. She is almost 17 months now and she usually goes to bed around 6:30pm (sometimes sooner and sometimes later), and sleeps anywhere from 12 to 14 hours... which is great! But she only takes usually one nap during the day. And it totally varies, sometimes only 45 minutes and sometimes 2 hours!

-She loves to wear her "prettys'" a.k.a. any sort of necklace or bracelet. I used to keep my jewelry box on a lower shelf but recently Kimbri has discovered it and can open the drawers and get things out. She would always go straight for the drawer with my bracelets in it and put them on her arms and show me.  I had to move the box to a higher shelf but I got our a couple bracelets for her to have and play with. She also loves to put on all the beaded Mardi Gras necklaces at Grandma Haycock's house!

-For some reason Kimbri loves to put things in and out of boxes, tupperware, bags, etc... Lately she has had so much fun with these little colorful bear figurines that go with a book that my mom gave her. She loves putting all the bears in any sort of container and then getting them out, and repeating the process over and over! 

-And of course Kimbri loves to go visit Grandma's house in Spanish Fork and Salem! Along with all of her many aunts and uncles! Kimbri, you are loved by SO many people! And we all love you so SO much!!! 

Our little girl is growing up so fast! I can't believe how fast time is flying by. I love you Kimbri with all my heart! 

Hand-Me-Down Christmas Jammies

I'm not sure who all wore these Christmas pajamas among my siblings or other family members, but they were in a box of clothes my mom gave me. The pants are a little small and somehow made their way off Kimbri's little legs by morning time, but we had to take some pictures of her in them for documentations sake! Haha. Maybe I'll find a picture some day of me in them...who knows? 

Sick

I haven't updated the blog in a while... probably because we've all just been sick and I've had no energy to do anything lately :(  I guess being sick, taking care of a sick baby, and being huge pregnant all at the same time is hard...at least for me it is.

A little over one month ago Kimbri came down with the croup. Even though she got the medicine in her fast (they just gave her a shot), the doctor said that she would have the symptoms, a runny nose and cough, for a couple weeks after. So just as she seemed to start getting better I came down with a very sore throat and runny nose. Then Rick got it. And Kimbri just as Kimbri seemed to be getting better her cough suddenly got worse. 

Rick and I both started feeling better and got over the sore throat and runny nose thing. And it seemed like Kimbri was just not able to completely get over it. Just as I would think that her cough would start to sound better, it would just go right back to the way it was before. I kept thinking she would get over it soon and didn't want to be the paranoid mom bringing her kid back in right after taking her in for the croup just a month before. 

But one night that thinking changed. Kimbri sounded so bad during the night. She coughed and coughed and coughed some more. She slept through the night but just kept coughing. I've been a pretty light sleeper ever since becoming a mom, and I heard every time she coughed. And it started to worry me. Because it wasn't just a cough anymore, it was a wheezy, hard to breath sounding cough. 

So we scheduled a doctors appointment for that morning. By that point her oxygen levels were super low. They would rise and then dip and repeat that process, just over and under the borderline for hospitalization. So she had two breathing treatments and then they decided she would be okay to go home but they had a machine sent to us that night so we could do breathing treatments at home. 

The breathing treatments, along with a steroid medicine stuff they gave her, helped a ton! I felt so bad for our little girl. I guess this is the season for this type of thing, unfortunately :(

I'm sure grateful for doctors! And I'm glad that little miss Kimbri is feeling so much better!    

Pots & Pans

I'm not sure if I ever posted these on the blog... so I decided to just do a quick post with them. 

Kimbri totally enjoys taking every pot, pan, skillet, bowl, etc... out of the cupboards while I'm doing dishes or cooking dinner. It keeps her very entertained :)

Cookies

Last week was not a good one around the Stone home. Rick, Kimbri and I were all sick. Ugh. It was not fun. Last Sunday, as in one week and a day ago, not yesterday, we were feeling so yucky and sick that we didn't go to church. And as I slept and slept and slept, and rested on the couch, Rick decided that cookies sounded good. I obviously did not feel like making cookies. And Rick knew it, so HE decided to make cookies! I don't think he's ever made cookies since we've been married! Go Rick! And they turned out really yummy :) Probably not the best thing to eat when you're sick but I had to try a cookie that my hubby made all on his own! 

Here are a couple pictures I snapped to document this awesome event:

Santa

This past weekend I decided to participate in the Spanish Fork and Salem Chamber of Commerce Christmas Fair. Hardly anybody came. So that was kind of a bummer... but on Saturday, Santa Claus was there from 1-3pm. Rick and Kimbri came to visit. As you can see from the pictures, she was terrified! I totally thought she would love sitting on Santa's lap! Obviously I was wrong. Haha. 

However, she loved the candy cane that Santa gave her. It made her tears disappear just like that!  

Decorating for Christmas

Yes. The day after Thanksgiving we did it. We decorated for Christmas!! Last year was so so so crazy and hectic with both Rick and I in school and working, and still adjusting to parenthood, that we didn't even get around to setting up our Christmas tree until it was almost too late! So this year we decided to do it the day after Thanksgiving, while Rick was still on break from school and we had much more time to spend together as a family! The break truly was soooo relaxing. Rick is accepted to medical school and so he didn't have to worry about applications or interviews. He didn't have to worry about school because he had a couple tests and papers due right before the break so it was very enjoyable to just be together as a family! 

Here are some pictures I snapped of Rick and Kimbri decorating. Notice Kimbri's bracelets (which are really my bracelets but she knows where they are at in my room and goes and gets them all the time). She loves wearing her "pretty's". 

Rick fluffing the branches on our tree.

Daddy and Daughter, decorating the tree together:)