No No Momma!

So Kinsley thinks she's SOOO funny. When she's not supposed to do something i'll go "Ah AH!" and well, now she does too. It took a little prodding to get it on film but here ya go.

But even when she's "talking back" how can you be mad at this angel?

Nom Nom Nom!
Merry Christmas Eve!

FIRST Ponytail, sort of

Here's Kinsley and her FIRST attempt at a Ponytail! I think it's flippin adorable!

Chris has informed me that Kinsley does not like it... I informed him that "Kinsley" can deal with it.

Now here's my smart girl showing off some of her awesome skills!

Sorry it's sideways... i don't know how to get it to flip. God i love her!

God is so amazing.

So we've always heard that God has a time for everything and we don't always understand what he does and why but, we're to trust it's for the better. That's Really REALLY hard to do sometimes but this Christmas season I've been reminded why it's SO important to trust that he REALLY DOES know what's best for us and that everything will happen, just in HIS time, not necessarily ours.

See i have two friends that are best friends. They wanted to get pregnant at the same time so their kids could grow up together. They both went off the pill at the same time and started "trying" to get pregnant at the same time. Well, as you might have guessed, one got pregnant and the other one didn't. Everyone was optimistic, because these things take time and Friend B (we'll call her) will get pregnant eventually. Well Friend A gave birth to a beautiful baby, while Friend B was still not having any success. Friend B finally went in for fertility treatments, IVF, the whole shebang. Nothing.

Friend A's baby was getting close to two so they thought a sibling was due, so off they went to make one. Got pregnant RIGHT.AWAY. Again! YEA! Friend B... still going through rounds of IVF, the babies just weren't sticking. But, then, Friend A lost her baby. No reason, just the baby stopped growing early on and she miscarried. She was sad, trying to trust in God but it was so hard to understand because she KNEW she could carry a child to full term, she has proof of that in Child 1.

So while Friend A recovered and then started to try to get pregnant again, Friend B decided they were going to start the adoption process, after 5 unsuccessful rounds of IVF. Friend A got pregnant again, Friend B waited. Friend A found out the sex, Friend B waited.

Friend A is due the last day of this year. Friend B just got a call. A mother picked her and her husband to be the parents of the baby she can't take care of!

Today Friend B is holding a baby that was born days ago, and today the mother will sign over custody of the baby to Friend B and her husband. She will bring her baby home before the end of the year. Friend A will have her baby (most likely) before the end of the year.

So you see, God had a plan... it just wasn't in our time. These two best friends will get to experience having their children grow up close in age with each other. They will get to help and support each other. They will get to live out their dream, albeit in a different way at a different point in life... but they are living it, finally, together.

So trust and believe in God, ESPECIALLY in the time of his son's birth. He has a plan for you, he may not reveal it today or tomorrow, but he DOES have a plan for you.

I would be scared too of a fat...

Man in a red suit wanted to hold me?!?! So Wednesday last week Santa came to Kinsley's school! Well i already told you THAT story here, but here are the pictures of the second time Kinsley sat on Santa's lap!

This is my favorite one... she's looking at her teachers like "WTF people!"

 "okay so those teachers won't help me... will you?"

 "Yep i still don't like you... you're creepy looking"

We went to the mall on Saturday for that Santa. She did much better with him but as you can guess, still not the biggest fan! lol.

the cleaning lady...

Is apparently ME?!?! I know, who knew right? Yeah so I'm supposed to be the cleaning lady, in addition to the Mom, the contract specialist, the daycare dropper and picker upper, the wife, the dog carer, the laundry lady, the best friend, the good neighbor, oh and the cook.

I love EVERYTHING i do... individually. But it's flipping hard to do it ALL, ALL of the time. And i hate it that i can't and so often times i give up before i can even start. That and i drown my miseries in buying things for anyone and everyone. I think i feel if i buy this for this moment or place then all the other things i'm NOT doing will be camouflaged some how. hmmm

So here's my typical day:
-530ish (sometimes earlier, sometimes later) get up and get ready... oh and Kinsley is bound to wake up then for her bottle, so throw that in the mix. Get HER ready. Get my coffee made, our meals for the day into their designated lunch boxes, give the dogs a treat and out the door hopefully no later then 625.
- 630 drop of K at school drive to work and hopefully arrive before 730.
-730 to 4 work and use my lunch hour to go to the gym downstairs.
-4 leave work and pick up k at daycare somewhere between 445 and 5.
-somewhere between 5 and 515 get home to dogs jumping on me, Kinsley clinging to me, my arms full of bags... blah blah blah.
-so now i try to keep Kinsley happy, try to maybe play with her, feed the dogs, take them out, switch the laundry, get dinner ready no later then 6 and pick up what i can.
-6ish is dinner time. After dinner (often Chris isn't home) so then i take K upstairs and do the bath, bottle, book, bed routine... all this ends somewhere around 645-715, depending on 103984 factors.

TYPICALLY by 7 I'm sort of free, maybe to do something. So on my "to do" list.

-clean up the kitchen
-make coffee for the next day
-make sure there's laundry that's clean, even if it's not folded and put away
-pick up
-get the mail
-check some email
-MAYBE watch a show on the DVR since i'm running on fumes by this point.
-give the hubs some marital privileges.
-shower/bathe and go to bed.

I LIKE to be in bed by 9, normally won't happen until 10... and reading a chapter or two from a book would be nice too.

here's what else i would like to do
-clean my floors
-have everything put away
-vacuum
-dust
-fold and put away laundry
-actually follow through with marital privileges
-love the dogs (rather then despise the fact that they are in my house causing me more work)
-take said despised dogs on a walk so they are happier

Do you see where this is going? I know part of my problem is that i am NOT organized. I try to be, i know how to get there (briefly) but once i walk in that door and i have a clingy/crying baby, two dogs barking and jumping on me to feed them and let them out, A dinner screaming to be cooked, and heels begging to be released from my feet... it's all i can do to just get that done. I really just don't know where to put everything, how to organize it so that it stays that way. I mean what do i get rid of? I'm not a pack rat, i don't like keeping things just to keep it. But there's stuff EVERYWHERE! And please don't recommend flylady to me... she's crap... i don't care about polishing my kitchen sink, i just want to see it and know that it's not clogged.

This baby Language is something else!

So often times when we're playing with Kinsley we're constantly asking her to say "Mamma" or "Dada". Sometimes when she's signing she'll say "All done". and randomly she'll say Up. But that's pretty much the extent of her vocabulary. It's those random times that crack me up. The times where she says something that is so utterly appropriate for the situation, yet we just KNOW it was a miracle of jumbled baby gab coming together to make it SOUND like she was really saying something.

Like last night. She had finished eating her dinner and had signed "All Done" and "thank you" (because we always say thank you for our food once we're done eating) and something fell or something happened to make Cowboy ask a question along the lines of "what was that" and i swear ya'll it sounded just like Kinsley said "I did it"! Cowboy and I died in a fit of giggles. These moments happen all the time and NEVER when we prompt them.

Kinsley is 1 year and 16 days old and floors us with her moments every day.

Merry Christmas Ya'll!

Hey Ya'll, so remember when i was telling you about shutterfly and their super awesome christmas cards??? Well here is ours from them!

Awesome right? I just love them! I've received SO many compliments and since Kinsley is changing so fast it was so much fun to put her progression inside of it! Plus she just takes so many good pictures i don't know how i would have ever picked just one or two to share. I'm so happy with how these came out and will totally be using shutterfly again next year! Fast, cheap, and awesome! Just the way i like it!