To my sweet Kyli-girl

From the moment we knew you were joining our family, we adored you. When we met you for the first time we were overwhelmed with your gentle beauty, your petite features, your long fingers. Your demeanor is sweet and delicate, your smile melts us, your movements are graceful and your laugh is contagious.

Kyli, you have awoken a greater creativity in me, a softness and protectiveness that is new to me.

I have so many hopes and dreams for you, but my deepest prayer of all is that you will know how perfectly and wonderfully you have been made. May you always know that you are adored by your mommy and daddy. But most of all, may you know that Your Heavenly Father was overjoyed when he created you and He is so pleased with his princess, Kyli Jo.

You have changed our lives, baby girl. You have given your family so much joy, laughter, and have forever blessed your mommy.

I love you sweet girl.

Happy Birthday Kyli

My beautiful little girl has turned ONE. She has changed my life and my heart for good. What a year it has been! Many joys and heartbreak at the same time. God has blessed us beyond our wildest imagination with his gifts- we can't wait to see Kyli grow- she is such a fun and loving little girl. Always smiling and laughing.

9 months old!

God has truly blessed us with Kyli. She is a joy to us everyday.

Updated photos

Friends and Family,
I am so sorry for not updating this blog regularly. Kyli keep me busy and always on my toes. I've instead uploaded a photo album online of her growing up. I'll to post photos here when I have a moment to spare, but in the meantime, click on this link for a full gallery: http://picasaweb.google.com/kathyslau/KyliEggleston#

3 months old!

Ok, so this blog updating this is harder than I thought. From getting Kyli to take her naps, to encouraging her to sleep through the night, and now she's teething, there isn't much time left in the day to blog about her. Oh dear, where does the time go? One thing I learned is that babies are always changing and to always try different things. Isn't that true! Kyli is always one step ahead of us. This week, she found her fingers then finally, her thumbs. Boy, does she love them. It settles her down for naps and helps her soothe herself to sleep. Its cute, because when she sucks her thumbs, the rest of her hand covers her face because she's so tiny. She will even fall asleep with her thumb in her mouth. Will we regret it later? Maybe, but for now I'm just enjoying watching her soothe herself. It makes me proud and happy that she has reached this development stage.
Last night she slept from 7pm -7am, woke up for a feeding, then went right back to sleep from 8am-10am! Crazy girl. She must get it from her mom, who loves to sleep in. You won't hear me complain about that! I'm crossing my fingers that it will happen more often. But then again, she's prob. playing a joke on me. ;-)

I can't believe how fast she has grown. Today, I put her 'newborn' clothes away. It makes me sad and happy at the same time.. sad that she will never fit those cute, adorable clothes again (and thankfully so, she's growing) yet happy that she's growing and thriving. At the moment, she is crying -waking up from her 'to short' nap. I'm thankful that I get to hear her cry, and that she is crying. When she was born, I longed to hear her cry, especially after her surgery, which signified to me that she was alive. Thank you God for giving us such a loving, complicated, healthy baby. We are so thankful for your gifts this Thanksgiving season.

12 weeks old!

Life with Kyli has been an adventure. Sorry for not posting any earlier, life with a newborn is more hectic than I anticipated! We do love every minute with her. All the cliches are true of parenting- since having her our hearts have grown softer, we love more deeply and fully and we also are grateful for the experience and privilage of being parents.

6 weeks old!

kyli is now 6 weeks old! She is delicious. We love every moment with her (although the sleepless nights are rough, I must say) and she is starting to smile when we make faces at her! ;-) We also discovered that our little girl is gassy. And I do me GASSY. She has been crying about several times during the night- which is hard for us because we have exhausted all of our efforts to console her. From placing her in different positions, to rocking her to sleep, and also making laps around our house, we have been struggling to find a solution for her discomfort. We're hanging in there otherwise. We had a bit of scare yesterday when she vomited her feeding-which sent us rushing to the doctors. Because of her condition, we have to closely monitor her intake and outake- especially when it comes to any abnormal vomiting, spit up, etc. So far, so good. We have been feeding her smaller dosages of breast milk more frequently and the vomiting has stopped! Please pray for her full recovery. At times, its hard to believe what she has been through in her short lifespan. We continue to pray and be the best parents we can to her, to help her recover from the trauma her body has been through. She gain about 1 lbs over the last two weeks, which is very encouraging.