Week 4: July 4th - July 10th

I wrote about our exciting July 4th in my last post. Colt was off that weekend. Kinley had been a little fussy on the 3rd when Josh was here for dinner, but over the weekend she was real fussy and all she wanted to do was eat every hour on the hour. I think she started comfort feeding a little too. My guess is she was going through a little growth spurt because I know mid-week we had a pretty rough night and were up all night too. 

July 5th, my great-nephew, Cohen was born.
Bailey, Cohen and Jacob

And some pictures of what we were up to that day

Daddy getting her ready for a walk

Snoozing on Dad

Monday, July 6th, we had a doctor's checkup that afternoon for Kinley. She weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. (7th percentile). She was up a pound from her previous appointment 11 days before. She was 20 inches long (18th percentile) and her head was 34.5 cm. around (10th percentile). She had a tiny diaper rash that had started up before the appointment. We had been using Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive and had started using wash rags instead of wipes. It cleared up in no time.  I got out later that day while Colt was on daddy duty for a little while. It was the first time I'd left the house in a while so I went all out and went to HEB, Target and Michael's!

Tuesday, July 7th, Tooter and Linda came down to meet Kinley for the first time. They brought us a baby gift, as well as a couple gifts from other's that were planning on attending our shower in Forney. We really weren't taking Kinley out too much at the time so we just ordered Jason's Deli for dinner while they were here and went and picked it up.  That day was also the day that Kinley's eye started accumulating "gunk" and looking infected.  That morning when I went to get her out of her bassinet, she couldn't open her eye at all. I called Colt and he told me to put a warm wash rag on it. He came home and looked at it at lunch.  by the afternoon it was refilling every 5 minutes and starting to swell a little as well as starting to spread to the other eye. He text our pediatrician and said that he thought she had a little case of conjunctivitis so she called in a prescription for us to put in her eye to help clear it up.

Kinley's poor eye that afternoon

Kinley with her great grandma, Grandma Linda

With her eyes all doctored up

Cuddling with Mom that night

This was the next day. I can just imagine her saying "get the light out of my eyes."

We kept doctoring her for a few days.

I think Lucky started using the boppy more than we did. It was the perfect size for him to fit in to take a nap.

Dede, Nicci and Davallen came to visit on Thursday, the 9th. This was the first time for Nicci and Davallen to meet Kinley. We ordered takeout from BJs while everyone held Kinley.

I got ready that day and was no longer in maternity shorts. I wasn't back in my normal size just yet but it was a start.

The two of us snuggling in her nursery before our company arrived.

Hanging out in her rock 'n' play...She only got to wear this little outfit one or two times before she outgrew it. 

Her paci was as big as her head.

 Still can't get over how much she's grown since then.

Cousins meeting for the first time

On the 10th, I'm pretty sure Kinley smiled at me. It may not have been a "real smile" but it sure seemed like it.  This was another little cute face of awe that she made when she was a newborn.

Her preppy look and onesie that the Forney hostesses got her that she only got to wear once. There were several that she never got to wear!

Other happenings from the week:
 Alex stole Kinley's sleep sheep off the ottoman and took it off as her own toy. I found it in another room all slobbery. We're definitely going to have trouble with Alex mistaking Kinley's toys as her own, and I'm going to have to do a better job of keeping them out of her reach. I found where Alex had started the destruction of another Care Bear that they had given Colt at work. It was one that talked and danced. It currently has parts sticking out of it's arm.

Kinley started trying to hold stuff around this time, like her bottle and her paci. She also started spitting her paci out.

Pretty sure her sticking her arms up and stretching real big was one of my favorites still at this point! 

4th of July

 Evidently we spent our 4th of July sleeping!
Colt and Alex were on the loveseat.

Kinley was with me on the couch.

Lucky was snoozing on the other couch.

 Colt did go and get us Meg's that day because I was wanting pecan pancakes. They got our order a little wrong, but it was oh so good! Their pancakes are probably not quite as good as the KOA pancakes we had in Hawaii and definitely not as cheap, but their white chocolate mocha is definitely better than Starbucks. Now that I have reintroduced dairy and started reintroducing egg a little into my diet, I might have to make an order or visit soon because it's been months, and it sounds good!  

Newborn Pictures

Here are  just a few of Kinley's newborn pictures. Our pictures were taken by Antlers & Lace Photography by Jessica Sprowls. She's the wife of one of the medical students here. She also took our family pictures in November. These were taken when Kinley was 19 days old. There are lots of good ones, and some funny ones of her yawning and making funny faces, but these are the ones that our photographer edited. 

June

Besides having a baby, another big thing that happened in June is that Colt finished up his intern year at the end of June. That means, he finished up having to work 12 hour shifts in the emergency department! Now that he's a second year, the months that he's in the department, he typically works 9 hour shifts. Then he spends a little more time at home wrapping up charts.

Most of our pictures from June were of Kinley and I've already posted but here are a few "extras."

June 6th - the dogs living it up before Kinley arrived

June 9th - Whenever I let them outside, they stare at me through the office window until I let them back in.

I cut out the name, but at the end of June, Colt got this in his mailbox from a patient that he saw. I thought it was nice since I hear a lot about angry patients that get mad at him for not giving them what they want!