Growing up...

Here's a few new pictures of Kate from the last couple of weeks. She looks so much older to me, especially in this first one. She is sitting so well and loves to rock back and forth. She starts to rock when music plays which is so cute. The girl does not like being on her belly and rolls out of it every time. If being on her belly is the way she learns how to crawl, I do not foresee crawling in her future any time soon! Although she CAN scoot across an entire room on her back when she is kicking mad!! She does loves to stand though (with a little help obviously) so we'll see where that takes us! She has her first tooth and it came in a few weeks ago. I think the 2nd one is coming thru, but she won't let me look into her mouth for very long!

Flashback to the 80's!

"I'm so excited and I just can't hide it

I'm about to lose control and I think that I like it, like it!"

I saw this headband in her drawer (don't know where it came from) and put it on her because I thought it would be funny. I immediately thought of this song and the lovely Jessie Spano from Saved by the Bell...for those of you who know what I'm talking about, you will understand the lyrics of the song and why I thought of Jessie Spano! :)

Here is my child of the 80's... :)

Giggles!

The sweetest sound there is... (Note: pay close attention for our secret to getting Kate to sleep through the night... j/k)

Happy Belated Easter Greetings!

It was quite a week in our household! Kate started cutting her first tooth mid-week and a runny nose accompanied it. Then my family came to visit and spend Easter with us and we had a full house and lots of fun. Kate enjoyed having so many faces to look at and her parents enjoyed all the extra hands! Our weekend involved us taking Kate to the ER because she had something blow into her eye the day before and after sleeping with it in there, it would not come out. It was horrible to witness her crying like that while they got the speck out, but after a good nap in her mama's arms, she was back to her normal happy self. Sunday morning she woke up happier, but her cold had progressed and so had her cough. You will note in these pictures, her nose is running down her face and she is very, very close to meltdown mode in most of the shots. Monday morning I took her to the Dr. and she had her first ear infection. She was laughing and talking in the dr.'s office, so you wouldn't even have known something was wrong with her. She has been quite the trooper!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Easter and was able to stop and be thankful for our Savior and the blessings He gives us daily.

a sweet grandparents pic
just the girls

mike, me, kate, allison and jay

slaughters and cothrans

our family

Happy Easter!

not happy Easter

melting down

the Easter bunny still visits us and came to see Kate for the first time :)

hanging with auntie allison, post ER visit

Baby Shower

My book club hosted a wonderful baby shower at my house this past weekend for our dear friend, Teresa. She is due at the end of the month and doesn't know what she is having, which is so fun! We had fun giving her gifts, food and a great book shelf, very appropriately from the book club girls. We love you Teresa!

The world famous diaper cake!

Book Club xoxo

Tired Child+Yucky Vegetables+Swatting Hand=BIG MESS

Our red-headed child, as she appears here, has decided that she hates peas, only slightly tolerates squash but loves sweet potatoes and loves to make a complete mess. This is our darling Kate at dinner the other night. I was attempting to trick her by sneaking in bites of peas and squash between the sweet potatoes, but the smart kid could not be fooled! She spit it out, hit the spoon with her hand and just completely wiped it all over herself. She even had it behind her knees! Welcome to eating with a baby I guess! :)

Kate's Photoshoot!

Mimi's Visit

We had a great visit with Mimi this past weekend. She came to spend a few days with us and Kate. We had fun getting pictures taken (which I will upload here next), they watched me walk/run a 10K and we had fun going out to eat. Kate is learning all kinds of new tricks and is learning to bang her fist at things, grab things not within in her reach and she evened reached up to cover her ears when she heard the blender at a restaurant that was too loud. Wow! :)

Looking at these first three pictures, why even buy toys? This little munchkin likes things around the house, obviously! :) She pulled the hanger right off the hook and brought it to her mouth, well she is putting everything in mouth!

One of her favorite books

Hanging with Mimi

Sitting with friends

Bouncing with her best friend of all!