Just reminiscing...

Is Thanksgiving really next Thursday?!?!?  Seriously, where has this year gone?  All I can think about is that in 4 days Kaycee will be 10 months old, then in a month will be Christmas and then she'll turn 1!  She is getting so big and moving all over the place, she is now standing all on her own and I just know that any day now she'll take her first steps!  I just hope I'm home to see it.  Working nights has been rough this time around, don't get me wrong I love working graves but now with Kaycee it's so different.  I'm not able to just sleep in and get the sleep I need except for on Wednesdays when my wonderful in-laws watch Kaycee all day for us.  But I have realized that I am able to function with 4-5 hrs of sleep.  But those 4-5 hrs have to be without interruption or else I am super ornery!  Poor little Kaycee, she's going to think that all her mom does is sleep, lol.  I just keep thinking about how I was pregnant this time last year and I could wait until she got here.  We still hadn't officially decided on a name (which by the way I think is one of the hardest things to do, pick a name for someone else) and I was leaning towards Brooklyn and Cody wanted to name her Ashley.  When we first found out we were going to have a baby we picked out the boys name right away, Carson.  But if it was a girl we were totally stumped!  So I pretty much knew that we were going to have a girl because we couldn't come up with anything.  Then Cody was looking through our atlas, don't ask me why, when he came across a city named Kaycee in Wyoming.  We both loved the name and kept in the back of our minds and when she was born it was clear that she was a Kaycee.  I love her so much and am truly blessed to have her in my life.  Here is a cute some little pictures of her when she was first born.  Love my little ladybug!!!

Little Stinker

Kaycee was not happy with her Halloween costume (she was a skunk!).  It lasted all of maybe 10-15 mins at a time on her.  But I think she looked very sweet!

Here's a few pictures of her in a little Halloween outfit:

Wow, November already, really?

I can't believe that Halloween has come and gone.  It's already November, soon it will be Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then Kaycee's 1st birthday.  Wow!  It doesn't even seem possible that this year has gone by so fast. I look back and think this time last year I was getting to that uncomfortable stage of my pregnancy, no position seemed to work when I would try and sleep.  She was kicking me all the time and especially at night but I always thought it was cool to watch my belly roll all over the place.  And now here she is, 9 months old, getting ready to take her first steps!  I've been reading through some other blogs lately about some very courageous mothers and some very trying times that they have had to go through and remind myself that when I'm having a bad day and I'm starting to get frustrated with Kaycee because I'm just so tired, I need to be thank that she is here and that I'm able to be frustrated with her!  These other mothers have lost their little ones or are about to and I just don't know how they are surviving and making it through day by day.  But then I see their tremendous strength in God and I'm just floored by it.  Makes me think that I need to check my faith and make sure that it's still there.  I know what I believe and I'm not going to sit here and preach it to you but sometimes I do forget and I know that I shouldn't.  I do thank God all the time for this little bundle of joy, she is my whole world and I wouldn't change a thing!