Beach Babe

Kiera adamantly refuses to wear a hat at the beach. I have tried every kind of hat we have, I have tried to distract her with toys, ANYTHING, but she will not keep it on...so I spray her entire head with sunscreen :) It's worked so far. The beach itself is a lot of fun...and yet an adventure with Kiera Rita. She loves loves loves the sand. It's always all over everything, which is fine with me. I'm sure she's ingested quite a lot of it as well, but a little roughage never hurt...builds that great immunity she seems to have. I've been taking her on Saturdays when Sean works to a free beach that I love on the river in Pt. Pleasant. It's great because it's not crowded, the parking lot is a hop and skip away from the sand and did I mention that it's FREE! So I love it. She usually spends most of her time going from the towel to the chair and back again bringing a ton of sand wherever she is. But yesterday she decided that it would be a fantastic idea to crawl away from our blanket like a little crab. Sigh. I thought I was so lucky, but wasn't for long. She's exhausting...but she was also exhaustED because we went home and she slept for over 2 hours! All that after taking an hour and a half long nap in the morning, so that was the best part! One of my friends sent me a link to a Preschool Rock class for Saturday mornings that I'm also seriously considering. That would be so much fun...for me :) haha...Kiera LOVES music and dancing and making noise with things, so this may be right up her alley...I'm just concerned that it won't hold her interest for 45 minutes and I'll just be chasing her around. But if not this year, then definitely next.

I'm off to relax for a few minutes while she's napping this afternoon!

Little Miss Tude

Kiera has decided that it's cool to have a mini tude...it's simply adorable :) She knows exactly what she wants and moreso what she doesn't want and lets you know about it...quite loudly. She's also getting pickier about food, which is fun. Last week Donna was in and I made Kiera eggs and eggos for breakfast. She put a tiny piece of the egg in her mouth...by complete accident because she was going for the eggo and wasn't paying attention...and the milisecond it touched her tongue she screamed bloody murder. It was hysterical! She cried and cried and cried like her life was ending! I swept it out of her mouth, but the crying wouldn't stop and she wouldn't eat anything else off her tray for breakfast or lunch...I guess she thought I was trying to poison her. Freaking hilarious. Along with her mini tude she's also aquired the love of kissing. It's the cutest thing. She'll come over to you, lean in and put her lips on your lips...sometimes open mouthed which is super. She will also kiss the animals which I just love! Sometimes she will get mad at you, swat at you, feel bad, and give you a kiss. It's something else!

We had a glorious Mother's Day. We went to Allaire State Park again, as we did last year, and the weather cooperated this year! We walked around, took her on the swings, and ate some lunch and played in the grass outside the chapel that Sean and I got married in. I just loved every minute of it! The one piece that was missing was my mom, but Kiera fills my heart so much that I actually didn't cry this year...shocking.

Sean has begun a "new job" this week. He had to leave his archaeological job because they weren't paying their employees...sooo he's back at the Fudge Kitchen four days a week and two days with his professor at Monmouth University. So there are four days when I will be a single mom and it's exhausting! Sean's been away before, but there's always a light at the end of the tunnel...we're stuck here until October!! Urg. I know that it's what has to happen so that we can pay the mortgage, but I've never ever been so tired. I got up at 5am this morning, showered, got ready, got her up and out of bed, bottle, dealt with the dogs, got all our bags together, out the door to Nicole's by 6:45, 20 minutes to Nicole's, 40 minutes to work, WORK, WORK, WORK, meeting after work until 4:30, 30 minutes home, Nicole dropped Kiera off, PLAY, PLAY, PLAY, eat, bath, bottle, bed, CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN. I'm done. He'll be home late tonight and I'll have a hand tomorrow and then he goes away again...sigh. So I have to pull it together and know that this is what our family needs right now and just smile when he actually gets paid!

I'm off to finish watching American Idol...GO ADAM...and pop into bed!! Good night!

New Blog

I felt SO bad that I've been a complete Blog-Hog on my Motherless Daughters' blog that I've decided to create another one for strictly Kiera business...

There are so many days when I just want to babble on and on about Kiera and being a "working mom" and I feel bad laying it out there on my other blog when I should reserve that for sad "mommy days".

So check in here for doses of Kiera nonsense...working mom craziness...and rants in general :)

Kiera had a very hard week...she's had a runny nose, so we thought it was just because of her teeth, but it ended up being because she had a 102 fever and an ear infection :( Sean rushed home on Tuesday...because my job doesn't allow for such things like caring for your child in emergencies...and took her to the doctor. She's been on meds since Tuesday night and seems to be doing much better...phew!

Otherwise this weather SUCKS and I'm hoping for some sun tomorrow??!! We really need to get out of the house very soon! Cross fingers for me!