Mommy needed another cup of coffee before dressing the kids this morning.

Kaya now likes to pick out her own clothes.  Let me rephrase: she throws a tantrum if she doesn’t get to pick out her clothes. Her choices alternate between her elmo pajamas and her rabbit shirt. Today she chose her rabbit shirt with the bottom half of her elmo pajamas. So I chose my pajama pants too.

Kaya’s new solution to bright sunlight in her eyes.

My recent days have been filled with training for Epic, UNC’s new electronic medical record that will roll out in a few weeks. The best part about it is the gigantic baby thrift store next door. Apparently it happens every 6 months for a week at a time and I’m definitely going back in the fall. Look how big the shoe room is! So grandmas, Kaya already has a two year old birthday party dress.

This past weekend was the annual Kircher family reunion/dude ranch getaway. Some of the family was confused on the date of the weekend (oops!) so it was a smaller showing than in some years past, but we had a great time. Kaya LOVED the bounce house and Tommy even took her skiing (Tommy was on skis, carrying Kaya). The weather was cold, which was a welcome relief from the usual rainy 40 degree weather that is not very outdoor-friendly. Good food, great family, good times.

This baby knows her roots!

Today we used up the last of our breastmilk supply. It’s sort of a sad milestone. I mainly stopped nursing a few months ago in order to handle chemo at work (yes, I hate you first year of fellowship). And now the meticulously pumped milk (which we had to buy an extra freezer for, and moved in dry ice from Boston) is gone.  I’m nursing my next child until they’re 8, just so you know.

The Last Bag

We journeyed out to Asheboro this weekend to check out the NC Zoo. It was wonderful, although a lot of walking. But it was quite nice to see broad pastures for the animals. And the chimp closeups for the baby were awesome. Highly recommended.

Meet our weekend mascot Jerry.  He is tons of fun!

We were quite disappointed when we moved back to Durham to find the Piedmont had stopped serving brunch. Well, they started up again this month and Sunday brunch includes live jazz. It was pretty good, but not baby friendly so I’m not sure we’ll be going there much. They brought Kaya her milk in a beautiful ceramic cup and that’s when I knew it was not for us. The brioche French toast was very good, but also not the same exquisite platter it used to be. We’ll stick to Waffle House which comes with plastic cups and a much smaller bill.