New Pictures

These are some of Kaiya's 3 month pictures that Bekah took this weekend. We thought we would experiment with taking our own before doing studio photographs just to see how we could do. I'm pretty happy with these ones -- we'll do studio pictures at 6 months to see how those turn out.

Flower Power

Last night we went to Tony's soccer game. It was an outdoor game and about 90 degrees out during most of the time. Kaiya was pretty good -- just really hot. She did manage to pull out some grins for the camera while we were there...





She's still too little to keep her 0-3 month shorts up! :)

Pictures from Jen

These are pictures that Jen's mom took while watching Kaiya. AJ is Jen's son, who Kaiya stays with while I am at work. They have lots of fun together and like to lay next to each other and just giggle and smile at each other.

Nice to know she is having fun while I'm at work. :) So much for missing mom! :)

Look at her big lips while she is sleeping -- this could be Angelina Jolie's baby!

Friday night at Bekah's

Last night Kaiya and I came to visit Bekah in Rolla. Our friend Maurine was coming for a baby shower so we rode along. We didn't do anything exciting, just enjoyed relaxing together. We are going home this afternoon after lunch. Bekah took some cute pictures though, so I thought I would post them while I was here.
(The picture of her wearing blue is from May.)

Love this picture! It was taken about 3 weeks ago, but thought it was cute enough to post a little late. It's a hard life for these two -- gotta catch a cat nap when you can!

Funny Birth Announcement

Saw this in a parenting magazine and thought it was funny. I just filled in our names for fun.

Thankfully it's a complete exaggeration, but seems so true at times...

It's a baby!

(and a mom!)

Born: Kaiya Grace Hyser

Gave Birth: Rachel Lucinda Hyser

Date: March 12, 2006

Weight: Baby's: 5 lbs, 6 ounces. Mom's: Let's see: She's eating 500 extra calories a day for breastfeeding, plus half a pound of chocolate to stay awake, plus all the lasagna her friends can cook. You do the math...

Eyes: Baby's: Blue Mom's: Bloodshot

Hair: Baby's: Brown Mom's: Unwashed since last Tuesday and falling out by the handful.

Length: Practically forever -- at least 26 hours of labor, plus 3 hours of pushing. And that's not counting those eight visits to the hospital the week before, when Rachel thought she was in labor but it was really Braxton-Hicks; or the half hour after the baby came out, when her OB

kept doing things down there that are best not thought about...

Oh, and the baby was 18 3/4 inches.

Sex: Never again.