Another big mile stone for my little prince!
You started sleeping through the NIGHT!!!! YAY. It couldn't have come at a better time, mommy and you really needed to start getting some good sleep through the night.
You had been sleeping in our bed since you were born. I LOVED snuggling you at night and feeling you breathe on me, I love your smell and warm touch, I LOVE to feel you next to me so little and precious. BUT night started to be harder and you were not sleeping well at all, waking up every hour, tossing and turning and being fussy. During the day I could tell you hadn't gotten enough sleeping. Nap times started to be the same way, you were just overly tiered that you could settle down and relax and get in a good sleep state.
At your 6 month check up i asked the doctor how many hours of sleep you should be getting and it was about 15 to 18 hours a day, you were only getting about 10 to 12 hours. He told me maybe I should start sleep training you, and that it would not be easy and some kids take longer then others.
Sleep training consisted of basically letting you "cry it out" and "reassurance".
I was not sure I could do that, but he said if I start it to make sure I stick with it other wise it will never work, If i start and stop and then try to start again it would be really hard on us both so to make sure i was ready to stick with it for sure.
I started that night.
I changed my night time routine with you.
1. bath time
2. good lotion rub down
3. feed you your bottle in the rocking chair out side of your room
4. laid you down awake in the crib
5. turned on my app that had ambient sounds on it (heat beat and fan together)
6. turned off the light and gave you kisses and told you i loved you a few times and to have a good sleep.
7. gave you a binki (you don't like them but you will suck on it for a few minutes for sleeping times).
8. walked out of the room and shout the door (it was cracked open)
The first night you were sad that i was not laying by you to help you sleep, you cried (not hard, just a wimper) for about 20 min (really hard for me to hear and not do anything but sit by your room) and then fell asleep, you woke up a few times but i let you cray it out and you only cried for about 4 min the few times you woke up. The next night got better and you cried for about 10 min and went to sleep only waking up once during the night and cried for about 3 or 4 min and wend back to sleep. The third night you cried for about 2 min and then fell asleep on your own and didn't wake up during the night. The next 3 or 4 nights you didn't even cry when we put you in bed and you didn't wake up at all during the night!!!
We are 10 days into this and you are doing sooo great. you know when you are laid in your crib that it's time for a nap or bedtime, sometimes you fuss for a minute or two but then you drift off to sleep, most of the time you don't make a peep and just put your self to sleep. its so nice that you learned so fast and you are so much happier during the day now that you actually get the amount of sleep your little body needs!
Today we ran a 5k (3.2 miles) in the color me rad race...Nick and I took kaylin and Kiptin and ran the race with them.
Its such a FUN race event, you go in with a pure white t-shirt and then while you are racing they throw "color bombs" at you and you become this mess of powder color. The boys loved it. kaylin would try to run as fast as he could through the color bomb station so they would get him "dirty". Once we got back to the hotel he ran right in and started washing his face and hair...hahaha it was funny, he doesnt like to be "dirty". We had a blast!!!
Kaylin did such a GREAT GREAT job, he ran most of the time, I piggy backed him a few times to give him a rest and he walked some times to rest but mostly for being his first time ever going that far he did such a super job :)
here are our fun pictures!!
I LOVE MAKING MEMORIES TOGETHER!!!
What a little stud this boy is. I had to snap a pictures while at church yesterday of my little Khai man and his adorable sunday outfit...and cute squishy cheeks i want to kiss all the time!!
SIX months old today!
Khai you turned 6 months old today...i cant believe a half a year has come and gone, before we know it he will be having your first birthday!
You have been growing like a weed, tomorrow we go in for your 6 month check up and i will update with your stats.
You have been a cranky little man for the past week and today your FIRST TOOTH popped up through your gums..your bottom front right one!
I LOVE your smiling face, seriously when im in a bad mood or wake up on the wrong side of the bed, as soon as you give me that little smile of yours and your face lights up, it makes that moment just perfect. I wish you would bless me with some sleep and start sleeping through the night but we are getting closer...I hope.
You roll over now.
Your hair is getting sooo long on top.
You got your first tooth today.
You wake up about 2 times a night.
You wear size 3 diapers.
You wear size 6 to 9 month clothes and some 9 to 12 months.
You are SUCH A HUGE MAMA'S BOY.
You think you have to be held at all times. seriously AT. ALL. TIMES.
You LOVE to drink from a cup, when daddy gets water from the fridge your faces lights up and you hold your hands out for the cup.
You like pears.
You like banana's.
You dont like apples or anything else very well yet.
You love when your brothers come around until they annoy you and then you start screaming.
You are really a super baby who just loves his mommy...i dont mind I love spending my days with you!
My life could not be happier then in these sweet moments with you! I love you to the moon and back.
Love Mommy
6 Month Stats....
Weight: 18 lbs 12 oz
73% for weight
Height: 28"
93% for height
Head circumference: 17 1/4
52% for head
Your really are a Huge boy khai...where did you come from??? You tower the percentages over your brothers at this age!!!
We finished the cedar city half marathon today!
Made my goal (2 min past my goal actually, but close enough to count) 2:32:36.1 was our final time. we would have made it A LOT faster probably about 20 or more minutes faster but at mile 9 I slowed way down about a mile an hour slower so my calves would hold up the next 4 miles. I wish i could have pushed a little harder but I am still VERY proud that I crossed the finish line and that nick stayed right by my side and held my hand over the line and pushed me to keep going...because REALLY people, this was not an easy task..maybe easy for those who really train for it and are mentally prepared to run 13.1 miles at one time, but for us who didnt train AT ALL it was super mentally hard (and really hard from the waste down)...my breathing was perfect and never got out of breath or tired in that way but my calves where on FIRE and sooo tight the last 4 miles and that was the mentally draining part...the last mile was the KILLER because you are so close to it being over but you are just drained and its so hard to pick up and push, to push your self past that pain...but it was WORTH it. We (and when i say we i mean me ) had to walk about half of the last mile which slowed our time down sooo much but i had to get the energy up to run that last half mile to the finish , it was so awesome to run to the finish and cross that line!!!!
I LOVE my husband for running this with me and supporting me, he really kept me going!
What a great feeling it is to have accomplished this task that not many can say they have done. who know maybe we will run it again next year!
13.1 miles because we are only HALF CRAZY!!!
Since getting married I always thought it would be a challenge to run a half marathon. I wanted to do it a few times the past few years and I really trained hard last spring and summer and got into really good shape (the best i have ever been i think) but a month before the race we got the surprise news about little khailo joining our family and my doctor said it wouldnt be the best idea for me to put that much stress on my body while pregnant, so i didnt run.
I knew i would be having little khai in march of this year and that it would be almost exactly 6 months post baby, the thought to run it again this year kept creeping up in my mind but i knew it would be next to impossible to train while having a newborn baby. all my hard working out before i got pregnant really paid off this pregnancy, i was pretty much back down to my pre pregnancy weight by june with only having to work out a few days a week for about 10/15 min. but I was not running like i had been last spring/summer, it was hard to find a 20 min window to run 2 miles (sad i know) and i was just happy with the weight i was loosing from what i was doing. During the summer a group of me and 3 friends decided to make a walking group and we would walk/jog 4 miles so we went out about 4 nights a week for a few months and then summer came to an end and life got CRAZY again...leaving no time to work out yet again.
my sweet neighbor said she was running the half and that i should run it too. At first i was thinking i have not trained NO WHERE NEAR enough to run 13.1 miles at one time. and then the thought came over me to just do it...take a chance and do it.
I knew if i didnt try this one i may not have another good chance...i asked nick if he would run it with me and he said haha nope, your nuts for wanting to run that far for no reason. and then the sweet man that i first fell in love with said he would run it with me if i wanted him too. I dont just want him too I NEEED HIM TOO...he will push me and make me do what i think i wont be able too do. running this with him is special to me, it something neither of us have done and its going to be BY FAR the hardest thing we will have both done yet...i KNOW childbirth will be much easier then what we are about to do, im sure by mile 9 i will be begging to just be in labor naturally and not going through the intense pain im imagining i will be in.
This week i have trying to stay calm and trying to just tell my self that i can do this and i can finish and push my self farther then i have ever done before in my life.
Iam worried cause i have only ran up to 6 miles thus far, mostly i have only been having time for 2 to 4 miles at a time while khai is down for his longer nap.
I just want to prove to my self "i CAN do hard things" and I will. my goal is under 3 hours but i would like to do it by 2.5 hours or even less then that but i dont know what the race day will hold or how my body will react after 7/8 miles so only time will tell but the biggest GOAL of this is to FINISH, cross the line alive :) and be proud to say i ran my first half marathon!!
I hope this race is great and I am excited to share it with nick, he is the one person that can push me farther then i think i can go.
Im excited for our boys to see us cross the finish line and to accomplish this goal and check it off my list!
wait for the update after our big race. cheer us on saturday morning!!!
(here is the map of the run we will be taking on, 13.1 miles down cedar canyon)
Labor Day was fun this year, most years we head up to Parowan and go to the fair and then the nicks grandparents house but this year we just wanted something different and wanted to just let the boys get out and have some fun!!
We bought them each a paint ball gun and they have been wanting to go hunting so we thought we would head up to three peaks for the afternoon and let them "hunt". We loaded the guns and headed out over the rocks, kaylin saw the first one and BLASTED it...its tail went flying off and it ran for cover! we then found one and kiptin got his gun and blasted that one, it didnt get away...they shot a few more and kept their "TROPHY'S" in a bag. We came across this HUGE one and nick and i shot it about 50 times but that old thing wasnt giving up...nick and kaylin caught him and we decided to let the poor thing go after a few pictures with the BEAST.
The boys had so much fun and said they cant wait to go again this weekend!
We then headed off to see the "Planes" movie with the boys and grandma and papa haslem...then got some pizza and krave frozen yogurt after that.
Grandpa decided that he wanted to take the boys up for an air plane ride so we headed to the airport and they to fly the plane with dad and grandpa...this was kiptin's first time up in a little air plane but they said he loved it!!
And he's off!!! He was so excited all morning and kept asking me over and over again "can i go to my school yet" (it was a LONG 4 hour wait). He meet his cute little friend Colin there and they headed down the stairs together (they are the cutest little friends ever!)
He is growing up so fast, each day we tell him that we are not going to let him grow up anymore and to stay little for us and he says no way im going to grow up like kaylin!
My heart melts with each of his cute smiles everyday, I just want to freeze time and have my boys stay this way. We love them more then life it self and they will always and forever be my little babies!!
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