he Kern Family is slowly finding themselves falling into a routine..I say this very carefully as everytime I think that something changes and we start all over again. Our little girl is developing in so many ways and it's hard to believe that we are quickly approaching her 2 month milestone! Our biggest development in the last couple of weeks is getting the cutest little smiles from our little peanut!! It's been debated who got the first smile as Daddy thought he did a few weeks ago but I am not so sure it wasn't "gas smiles", Grandpa Lint said he got one at the hospital but I think Grandma Lint got the first one a couple weekends ago when we were back for a visit. 
Playing the "tongue game" Grandma got a big toothless grin. Since then we have gotten several while speaking to her in funny voices. Daddy gets lots of them and Mommy found that she gets some playing pat-a-cake. : ) Also during our visit back home we found that Ashleigh is going to our "favorite" little baby sitter as she falls as in love with her cousin as we are! She loves to hold her and cuddle with her while watching TV.Another miles
tone was Liv's first tailgating experience on October 1st. Our good friend Katie turned 30 and a celebration was planned at an ISU game. We were fortunate to have terrific weather and were able to attend. And it happened to be family night at the game as well so we were able to help her celebrate and attend our first game as a family. It goes without saying that Alivia was an absolute Rockstar! She was a great baby, loved to see all her surroundings, got lots of snuggles from Katie, her sister Sara, and our friend Erika! It was a lot of fun even being a night game, she did amazing. I follow this up with the fact tha
t we have realized that our girl is a routine girl and when she is thrown out of that routine she makes us pay the day after with few naps, fussiness, and restlessness. But we have come to realize that this will be our repayment for having a terrific baby and something that we will have to continue to work on as anybody that knows us knows that we are very seldom in a "routine" and are on the go a lot.
tone was Liv's first tailgating experience on October 1st. Our good friend Katie turned 30 and a celebration was planned at an ISU game. We were fortunate to have terrific weather and were able to attend. And it happened to be family night at the game as well so we were able to help her celebrate and attend our first game as a family. It goes without saying that Alivia was an absolute Rockstar! She was a great baby, loved to see all her surroundings, got lots of snuggles from Katie, her sister Sara, and our friend Erika! It was a lot of fun even being a night game, she did amazing. I follow this up with the fact tha
t we have realized that our girl is a routine girl and when she is thrown out of that routine she makes us pay the day after with few naps, fussiness, and restlessness. But we have come to realize that this will be our repayment for having a terrific baby and something that we will have to continue to work on as anybody that knows us knows that we are very seldom in a "routine" and are on the go a lot. We als
o experienced our first "illness" with Little Miss Alivia as she suffered from her first cold this past week. The poor girl was miserable; stuffed up and congested. But we are thankful that it was "only a cold" and didn't turn into anything worst. She is slowly getting back to normal but I fear that she might have her mommy's susceptibility to the seasonal allergies with all the harvesting going on and the dust and stuff in the air she has a harder time breathing.
o experienced our first "illness" with Little Miss Alivia as she suffered from her first cold this past week. The poor girl was miserable; stuffed up and congested. But we are thankful that it was "only a cold" and didn't turn into anything worst. She is slowly getting back to normal but I fear that she might have her mommy's susceptibility to the seasonal allergies with all the harvesting going on and the dust and stuff in the air she has a harder time breathing. I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I have to go back to work in less than 3 weeks. This is a very bittersweet concept for me. I realize that I could never be a stay-at-home. I love my little girl unconditionally, I love seeing her every day; however, I love my "adult interaction" and quite frankly I have spent too much on my education to use it staying at home. That being said, I hate the fact that in less than 3 weeks I will be handing my precious girl over to a complete stranger that could never take care of her as well as I do (besides...who can??!) We are thankful to have found a daycare that could take our girl after the debacle with the initial daycare that we had set up and paid for that went under a few weeks ago. And it is a convenient place right behind our house. Aside from being strangers and not me taking care of her, I believe that she will be well taken care of and it's close to home for Jay and I to drop her off and pick her up.
Aside from the continuous growths that our little girl goes through every day and the upcoming fretting of going back to work, we are falling into our lives. Our little girl amazes us every day and we fall more and more in love with, as if that is possible!! We love being parents and are slowly getting to the "easier" point that everyone kept telling us would come! It's not a cake walk by any means but we are getting there!! : )
She's precious. It takes a long time to adjust to becoming parents. Sounds like you guys are doing well & taking it a day at a time. God's best to you as you continue to learn what being parents is all about!
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