Praying for Bentley...and So Should You!

Over to the right of my blog you will see a button "Praying For Bentley". She is this wonderful, sweet, beautiful, STRONG, loving girl (who I have not had the chance to meet) but know she is all those things and more! Her mom and I have become "blogger friends" (I would like to think). As I am typing, this sweet girl is going through open heart surgery. This could last up to 6 hours. Bentley needs ALL the prayer and thoughts right now, that anyone could give. As do her parents, siblings, grandparents, & friends of the family. No child or parent should have to go through this. God does have a reason for it and we may never know, but we've got to trust in Him. I know (from reading) that Crystal (the mom) has a very strong faith. I pray she will not forget that and can stay strong (as hard is that may be at a time like this)
As I sit at work today, I can not stop thinking of Bentley, Crystal, and Ryan (the dad). I've teared up a few time just praying. I cry when I go over to Crystal's blog to check for updates, but I KNOW with all my HEART that Bentley is going to be okay. She have tons of prays going her way!! I trust that God will take care of this beautiful girl.

Momma's First Mothers Day

My first mothers day!!! Wow, I feel so lucky to be a part of this day now. The best gift ever is to be a mother. I had a great mothers day weekend. It started out with flower being sent to me at work from my "loving husband and daughter". I was SOOOO surprised and thought they were just beautiful!

My Flowers

The card

I guess you can say I picked out my own mothers day gifts. Brad was going to take me to Kirklands in a few weeks (the best store to by decor for your home) to pick out a few items. Well, Friday night we went to Tractor Supply to get his mom some things for her yard for mothers day and I found me a Rooster for my kitchen!! My kitchen is in roosters, reds, yellows, green, & some farm animals (I love my kitchen). Then we went over to walmart and I found another rooster there. Then I found me some pillows I've been looking for, for my couch. So needless to say, that ended up being my mothers day gifts, and I was very happy about it! (no pictures of the pillows or rooster yet)

Heather had the kids make there mommas a very cute mothers day picture. This is mine! It's my first refrigerator hanging!!


Saturday we spent all day at the KJT horseshoe pits, for a benefit tournament for my sister-n-law Andie's niece, who has leukemia :( What a turn out that was! Praise God for the wonderful people that are nice enough to support her and her family. I am proud to say that Brad and his dad won 3rd place out of 50 teams! After a long long day out side Kynlie was pooped and went to bed so easily (maybe I should take her out every night...HA)



Are those not the sweetest pictures ever???


The Pappy


The PawPaw




Playing

Sunday we had lunch at Bubba's BBQ in Ennis (AWESOME FOOD!!) with Brad's mom, dad, sister and her family. We a had a great visit! Then that evening we cooked out on the grill with my mom, dad, brother, and his family. The weather was perfect! I couldn't have been happier on mothers day!

Me and Kynlie on Mothers Day!(you can kinda see some of my pillows in the picture)


OH...and some flowers I got to pick out for myself for mothers day (it's great being a mom...lots of gifts...hahaha)


Swinging and napping. (her legs are not that long)


Sweetest face in the world!!!!

8 Months

Kynlie turned 8 months yesterday. Only 4 more months and we'll be celebrating her first birthday. It's so hard to believe time is just flying by so fast. I love every minute of it, but wish it would slow down. I love this age, she's doing so much and interacting with others so much.

So, what's Kynlie doing at 8 months:

*She's crawling all over the house
*She'll pull up on every piece of furniture or her tall toys and stands forever
*She's saying DA DA and BA BA or BU BU
*She loves to scream VERY loud, when she's playing or when she's upset
*She LOVES LOVES taking a bath and splashing the water ALL over the bathroom (she thinks it's funny)
*She knows what her bottle and paci are. She'll cry if she sees her bottle and you don't give it to her right then.
*She can take her paci in and out of her mouth to either, eat or make sounds and puts it back in
*She is letting others hold her with out crying and I can stand in the same room
*She doesn't cry (as much) when I walk out of a room
*She LOVES to swing in her outside swing
*She smiles so BIG when Daddy goes to get her out of the car when we get home at night
*She eats everything I put in her mouth. (that reminds me, we need to try chicken and gravy again and see if she likes it any better)
*She's still a breast fed baby (GO MOMMY)
*She loves it over at Mrs. Heathers with all the kids
*She cries every time I put her sleeper on :(
*She goes to bed at the same time almost every night 8:30
*She is still sleeping in her bed ALL NIGHT long!
*She takes her naps for Heather at the same time every day. (she's a good scheduled baby)
*She loves to play with her blow up ball, TV remote, plastic hangers (I know weird), and my cell phone
*She's getting a little hair and it looks like it might be brown
*Her eyes are starting to change. They are a little blue, green, and brown. I think they are going to be brown like mommy and her beautiful cousin Bailee. Brown hair brown eyed beauties...nothing wrong with that!!
*She pats me on my shoulder when I'm holding her (it's so sweet)
*She still looks just like her daddy
*She weighs 16 lbs and still can wear some 0-3 month clothes (depending on what it is) but I buy and she wears more of 3-6 month clothes. She's a tiny little thing

I don't have any pictures to share at the moment, but I will soon.

Driving Mommy's Car & Standing Up

That's right! Kynlie started driving already! Well, I'm sure that day will be here before Brad and I are ready. Isn't she just a cutie pie "driving" mommy's car. I was cleaning it out on Saturday and her and daddy were just hanging out in the garage and daddy sat her down for a minute and this is how she ended up....standing and "driving".






Speaking of standing!! Our sweet growing girl is pulling up on everything she can get her hands on and standing up. She loves it! We've put the legs on her toy so she can stand and play now. She's getting so big and I love every minute of it. She'll stand forever and play and talk to us. She's also trying to stand in the bath tub, but we're trying to put a stop to that...we don't want any ER visits. She's a brave one!









We have a bow puller on our hands! Momma doesn't like this :(



Tomorrow Kynlie is 8 months!
Sunday Is My FIRST Mothers Day!!!! I thank God that he's allowed me to be a Mother to this sweet precious girl.

Swinging

We bought Kynlie a very cute PINK outside swing this past weekend. Heather has one at her house and she LOVES it. So of course, the nice momma I am, went and bought her one. Unfortunately, we do not have a place in our back yard to hang the swing up. So we took it over to memaw and pappy's until daddy can rig something up. Hopefully daddy can get that done fast so we can swing at night before dinner time. Here is my beauty queen enjoying her swing



WEEEEE WEEEEE



Higher mommy higher



I think it's so cute how she's holding on.

Screaming Child

Kynlie has learned how to scream. She will scream to the top of her lungs and then stop and give me a big smile and then start up again. The video shows! Then it's so cute (or as a mommy I think it's cute) she sees her foot and tries so hard to get it.



Update:
She's been eating great. We've tried chicken with chicken gravy and she DID NOT and I say it again DID NOT like it. She cried every time I tried to give her a bight. I tried to trick her and add it with her rice cereal, but she's too smart and knew. So that's out the window. We did try chicken and veggie last night and she did pretty good, still not her fav. (smells awful!)
She's still sleeping through the night IN HER BED!!! WOO HOO for Mommy and Daddy!!
She's crawling all around the place and getting into everything but her toys.
She's starting to pull up on things. She might be standing before we know it.
She's still saying DA DA DA DA and now saying BA BA BA.

Kynlie is amazing. She brighten my world so much and I thank God for her everyday!
Here are a few pictures to make you smile! Enjoy the weekend.

Freeze Frame Time

Only if you could freeze frame time at moments. I love watching Kynlie sleep, laugh, smile, play, play with her daddy, take a bath, & so much more. These are some moments I'd love to Freeze Frame...