3 months and Christmas

Where does time go?  Oh my word!  It seems like Kiley was just 6 weeks old, I went back to work, and BAM!, now time has been "fast forwarded" to 3 months already!!! Well, throw in the holidays and all the hustle and bustle involved with that, plus a lingering illness and it's easy to lose all sense of time.  Christmas was truly a beautiful day.  We enjoyed having Scott's mom stay with us Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  She got to see Kiley on Christmas morning and watch as we opened her gifts.  It was a most enjoyable time!
Later that evening, we traveled to my Uncle's for Christmas with my family.

Patiently waiting for Santa...

3 Months - couldn't keep the fingers out of the mouth

more tasty fingers...

Daddy opening one of Grandma's gifts for Kiley.  She is snoozing away.  The excitement of Christmas was too much!

Kiley continued sleeping, so we kept unwrapping.  She LOVES this puppy from Grandma!

Grandma loves her "Kiley collage" we made her.

Over Christmas Break, we were right in the middle of  "tummy time" and guess who fell asleep?  

My Aunt Pat got Kiley this adorable pink coat and I  HAD to try it on her.  It's  ADORABLE!!

Wardrobe change... another gift.  A tad big for now, but not much longer and I won't have to roll up the sleeves or legs.




Summing up the last month or so...

Recently we transitioned Kiley into her crib, from her car seat.  She had to sleep upright because of her mild reflux and cough/stuffiness.  But... the cold is sloooooooowwwwlllllyyyyyyy going away.  Just a little coughing in the morning and a little at night before bed.

She is up to 6 oz. now of formula every 3-4 hours.  We are trying an experiment with Alimentum to see if that helps with any of her symptoms.

Kiley weighed 11 lb.s and 2.5 oz. at her Dec. 23rd doctor appt.  She slipped a little percentile wise in weight because of her illness.  But, we bumped up her oz. and frequency to "chub" her up a little more.

She is a happy girl MOST of the time.  We call her "Smiley Kiley" all the time.   She's cooing up a storm most days.

We have several nicknames for her.... "Stinkapotamus" (for obvious reasons),  "Squirmalicious" (always moving and kicking, especially during diaper changes) , "Kiley Monster" (for her moody moments), "Drooly Bug" or "Little Spittlebug", (I need to find a way to make burp clothes a fashionable part of my outfit.)

We received information from our agency that the adoption finalization will take place either April 2nd or April 9th.  We are super excited for that!  We just finished our 4th post placement visit with our social worker this week.  All went well.

She will more than likely be baptized on April 15th.   The church requires adoptions to be legal before baptizing.   Kiley has been coming to mass with us and doing pretty good!  She usually sleeps for the whole thing.

Tomorrow, we go back to work and school and daycare. : - (  Mommy here is praying for a snow day!  I have thoroughly enjoyed snuggling with my sweet baby girl!

I hope to post her 4 month pics in about 3 weeks.  Hope everyone stays warm!