Baby Kate is 6 weeks old!

Kate has had a big week! She got to meet a friend from Texas who was in Richmond for business and she got to meet her new friend, Charlotte. My friend, Jill and I were due a few days apart and our girls ended up both being born on the 17th. Today was the first day they met and we had such fun catching up and holding eachother's babies! They were so different, it was so neat to see. I included a picture of Kate wearing the same outfit on day 3 of her life and at 6 weeks...a BIG difference. Milk does a body good!!!

3 days old (she has her legs pulled up inside the onesie)

6 weeks old (she has filled out her onesie now!)

...Thanks Hilary and Carson, we have LOVED this sleeper!

More 6 weeks pics

Tights are way too long :)..JB, the dress is precious on her!

Very content :)

Kate and Charlotte She wasn't too sure about this bonnet, but her other hats wouldn't stay on her head and it was very cold outside

Meeting her friend Michael

5 Weeks Old! WOW

Hard to believe that its been 5 weeks since Kate was born! She got a visit from her Papa last week and she has now gotten to meet all of her grandparents! We had a great visit with him and Mike got some extra help in our backyard before winter comes. Kate loved sleeping on him and she always seemed to calm down in his arms. Thanks for the visit Papa!

Here are some things that Kate loves doing and is able to do now:

• Smiling at her parents (LOVE THOSE DIMPLES!)
• Walks with mama and Tucker (who is actually very good walking with the stroller and after getting run over twice by it, he is now afraid to walk in front of it which makes it easier to walk with him)
• Waking to nurse once a night (except she seems to have fallen in a bad spot these last couple of nights!)
• Lifting her head on her own and holding it there while on her tummy
• Batting at objects in front of her
• Cooing (Mike thinks its funny to actually 'coo' at her and he sounds like a pigeon. I told him that when they say that babies coo, they don't actually mean 'coo'...he obviously thought he was being funny :))

Wide awake!Sleeping peacefully
Time with Tucker
Tucker thought for just a minute as he fell down on Kate's pillow that this might be a nice place for him to rest...
Sleeping on Papa

Papa, Kate and Daddy

More time with Tucker
If you can't tell already, Tucker likes to be in the mix!
Conked out!
Happy Halloween pumpkin head!
We are ready for fall!Tummy time isn't so bad anymore (only if you leave me there a couple of minutes!)

I said I was getting bigger!!!

Well Well Well...we have a big girl on our hands! Kate went for her month check-up today and weighed 9 pounds, 15 ounces...10 pounds here we come! She was 21 1/2 inches long too and was in the 75th percentile for both her weight and length. Her doctor said she looks great and is very alert and healthy. We were very pleased with her progress. I put her in a onesie of her's this morning and had to take it off because her arms were a little too chubby for the arm holes :)! AND we love every bit of her!

New pictures of me!

A few new pictures we took this week. I love the pictures we took today of her in her TCU outfit. We were laughing so hard when we took it because little Kate did a nice loud job in her pants and we think that's why she was smiling! Enjoy :)

Sleepy time on a Saturday morning

Look at that belly...I love milk! :)

GO SOONERS!
Little croaker!
A TCU fan already! I look great in purple and I love my outfit from my friends Lauren and Jeff :) And look at that smile, (mom thinks its gas though!)

Daddy and me
I like my baby gym
I This is okay for the moment...
Tummy time sucks I love my swing!

Another new parent moment...

I had to share another "moment" I had being a new mom and not having a clue :). I went to Target to just get a couple of things the other day (by the way, just running in to get something at the store has taken on a whole new meaning...) and I get Kate out of the car and put her car seat on the stroller and stroll in. Well I walk in and think to myself, 'Wait...where do I put the things I'm going to buy??'. I obviously hadn't thought about the fact that you cannot get a cart and push a stroller at the same time nor can you carry a basket. SO for other new moms or future moms, you will have moments like these, A LOT of them because your whole world has changed and there are just some things you don't even think about! So just picture me walking around Target holding a pack of Red Bull (for tired dad) and big thing of diapers, cards and crackers. I probably looked like I was shoplifting because I had stuffed the diapers under her car seat :). I know there will be many more moments like this, hope this one makes you smile!

PS I weighed Kate the other day and she weighed 9 pounds...yea, I knew we had a chubbers on our hands!! She looks great and is obviously growing since she gained almost a pound and a half in 2 weeks!

We are getting bigger!

Kate is 18 days old today! Yea! We are by ourselves now after Mimi (Mike's mom) left yesterday morning. She had a great visit here last week with us and Kate and was a huge help to me around the house and in the kitchen. We are were also glad to have another hand to help out at night, even though Kate is sleeping much better at night. She will feed and then sleep for 3 or 4 hours and wake up to eat again...this little chubbers likes to eat! :) She is growing too, even though we don't know exactly how much she weighs now, we do know that the dress she wore home from the hospital was tight around her neck yesterday. We go back to the doctor for her month check-up on the 16th. Here are some updated pictures of her over the last week or so...enjoy!

Go Cowboys! Both in gameday gear!