Like Mother, like daughter.

When Kaiah was first born, everyone always said that she looked just like me. Then, as she got older, more and more people began to compare her to Jer. My mom just found a picture of me around Kaiah’s age, though, and I can definitely see the resemblance!

Kasie, 1985

Kaiah, 2010

This picture doesn’t really do it justice. When I hold my picture up to Kaiah, it is so similar! I love my little mini-me! She is at such a funny age right now and I just know that it will fly by – and I hate, hate, hate how much I have already forgotten about her earlier months! Things I love about baby now:

• She pulls the most stuck-up snob face every time she is super happy. We can never get pictures of it, though! She scrunches up her nose and wrinkles her forehead. I call it her stink face.
• She is a little monster. She doesn’t cuddle and she doesn’t coo – she creeps and she growls.
• She still doesn’t crawl, but she army crawls like a pro!
• She has just started standing up in her crib – and now doesn’t ever sleep because of it!
• She will eat anything and everything we give her.
• Her laugh isn’t a laugh at all – but a half-cough half-growl exorcist type thing.

She is just too much. I can’t believe that I get this little entertainer every day! I am so grateful that I have her and Jer to bring me all the joy in the world. When everything else goes to pot (like it always seems to), I know that I can come home and feel safe and wanted and loved and needed and respected and encouraged and like a part of something so wonderful, so absolutely wonderful, that everything that happens outside of my front door doesn’t seem to matter anymore. That is what family is to me!