Kimber's 6 month pictures {part 3}

See part one here and part two here

 

While on girls shopping trip in early November, I found these shorts at H&M and knew I wanted to use them for Kimber's 6 month pictures!

 

We took a majority of the pictures inside since it was freezing the day of her pictures. If I remember correctly, it was about -10 degrees outside! Even though it was so cold, I wanted to get at least one picture outside in front of pine trees. We found a park with a perfect line of trees, jumped out of the car for a couple pictures and jumped right back in the car! But I love the pictures and it made the cover of our Christmas card!!

 

 

 

Kimber's 6 month pictures {part 2}

See part one here

 

Since we took pictures in early December, I wanted to do Christmas themed pictures. I found the ruffle diaper cover & headband at Hobby Lobby and knew it would be perfect! It took us a while to set up the Christmas lights - what a pain those were and it took a lot of editing by my photographer for them to look good.  But we were able to get some cute pictures of her with the lights & Christmas bulbs, so it was worth it. 

 

This is a case of looking at picture inspirations on Pinterest and not realizing how much work goes into them. It took us over 30 minutes to set up the lights and not many turned out with the  'perfect bokeh lighting' and it took editing to get them to look good. I did uploaded some unedited pictures and might do some more editing on them to get the lights to look right.

 

 

The 3 pictures {below} are my favorite from this outfit {and the lights look perfect in them!}

Kimber's 6 month pictures {part 1}

Since we're getting ready to take Kimber's 9 month pictures, I figured it was time to get her 6 month pictures up on the blog!!

 

We went to Caleb's studio for her 6 month pictures. The night before our photo session, the heat went out in the building so it was really cold when we first got there. Of course the first outfit I put her in was a romper, so she was pretty cold!! It took her awhile to warm up, but after she did - she was happy and ready for the camera.

 

I've seen so many pictures on Pinterest of babies in lace romper & pearl necklaces and I knew I wanted to do it for Kimber's 6 month pictures! I made the headband to match the romper and I love the way the pictures turned out!

 

 

This picture {below} is one of my favorites!! I plan on making it into a canvas for her room.

Fun at the park

We headed to Omaha on Saturday, March 15 to celebrate Blake's birthday. We got to Omaha early, so we met Oobie & Doug at TJ's place and went to the park to kill time play. I was hoping there would be a swing at the park, so Kimber could have her first swing ride but there wasn't any. We had to settle for her first time on the slide & teeter-totter thingy instead. It was pretty windy, she had an ear infection and she was off her schedule - so we didn't get too many smiles from her at the park until the end when I was bouncing her up & down on the teeter-totter!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Another holiday. Another excuse to buy cute clothes for Kimber!!

 

Tube Surgery Day

Kimber had surgery to get tubes in her ears on March 11. It was a long and exhausting day that started at 4:00am. I got up before everyone else in the house to pump, since Kimber couldn't eat before her surgery. We had to check into the hospital at 6:00am and her surgery was scheduled to start at 7:30.

 

She slept on the way to the hospital, in the waiting room and in her post op room until we finally woke her up around 7:00 so they could weigh her and give her Tylenol before she went into surgery.

 

We were a little concerned that she would want to eat when she woke up, since she's used to eating right away in the morning but she didn't fuss at all. She played with her toys and watched cartoons until it as time for surgery.

 



 

 

 

The nurses came in to take Kimber and she went right to them with a big smile on her face. I thought it was going to be hard when they took her from me, but since she had a smile on her face and was clapping her hands - it was hard to be upset.

 

Nick & I were starving, so he ran down to the gift shop to get us muffins & something to drink. We took a couple pictures of us waiting and the doctor walked in the room to tell us the surgery went great! He said her right ear was a little "angry", which is the ear that had the most recent ear infection but he was able to cleaned it out and the surgery went well.  It had been less than 10 minutes. I couldn't believe it was already over! She went to a recovery room until she started opening her eyes and then they brought her back to our room.

 

 

She cried/fussed/whined for about an hour after she got back to the room. There was nothing we could do to console her. They warned us that she would be like this coming off of the anesthesia {and so did my SIL that just went thru the same surgery a couple of months ago}, so we were prepared for it. We let her cry, taking turns holding her and trying to comfort her. After she calmed down, I was able to nurse her and she kept everything down so they let us go home.





 



She fell asleep on the way home and took a 2 hour nap when we go home. A good nap is exactly what she needed!

 

 

After she woke up, she ate lunch and played for awhile but within an hour she was ready to nurse and take another nap. She took a little cat nap and when she woke up - she was {mostly} back to her normal happy self! She had a huge smile on her face & was ready to play!!

 

 

Overall, the surgery went well and the recovery didn't take long. There were times over the next 2-3 days that her ears seemed to bother her. I think she could sense that the tubes were in them. We'd give her Tylenol and it seemed to ease the fussiness. And on the 4th night after surgery, she slept from 7:00pm - 6:00am. That was a first! So I'd say it was a success!!