As Promised

I told you I would be back to post pictures and here I am, with quite the load of pictures too.
Our Christmas card picture. We are working on the family picture, hopefully soon it will be taken. This was also her 7 month picture.


Daddy and Katelynn


Mommy and Katelynn


The binky goes the other way dear.


Getting ready for bed with daddy


She LOVES to eat avacados!


And some even manages to get into her mouth!


Christmas Eve, Opening her present from Grandma Mary


MMMMMM Ribbon


Katelynn looking cute


Who needs presents when you have a box??


Katelynn with her dolly from Grandma Mary


Christmas Morning, in her PJ's


Opening her stocking present, she is very excited too.


Playing with her Giraffe


Mike getting a Millenium Falcon from Ben


Katelynn and Eden



I hope that these will satisfy you all for at least a week. She is really so much fun and a doll. Have a happy and safe New Year!

Resoultion Time!

Okay. I need to make a resolution to be a better blogger in 2010. I am proud of myself for at least keeping up with Katelynn's monthly updates, but I need to be better. I want to keep better tabs on the things that are going on in our lives, even if Ben always cringes when I tell him that I am blogging about something he did. He really hates when people know things about it. I think he gets that from his dad. Oh well, he is a part of my family so he will be talked about like it or not.
So in light of this new resolution I need to document Christmas. Christmas started on Christmas Eve when we went over to Ben's parents and had dinner and opened presents with them. This year was a little sparse as we were the only ones in town for Christmas Eve. We had dinner and opened our presents from each other. Katelynn got her first dolly from Grandma Mary. It is a small soft doll that I hope she will love. (Right now she is loving anything that is not a toy. Why would she want to play with a toy!!) We also had so presents that we had to specifically open on Christmas Eve, and Ben was a little bewildered about that since I am a HUGE stickler about opening presents on Christmas Day (Ben would rather have us just give presents when we bought them and not wrap them.) But there were specific orders to open on Christmas Eve so we did. My parents gave us the book Twas the Night Before Christmas. It was the version where you could record voices and so they recorded themselves reading the story. I really enjoyed it myself. I am sure Katelynn will too next year.
Becca also gave us a version of Twas the night before Christmas that is a fabric book that Katelynn can play with next year. Becca also made a Santa for me and a wooden Nativity. For someone who doesn't collect Nativities I now have five of them. I loved how everything Becca gave was made. I have noticed also I seem to like the gifts that are made so much more than the one that are bought.
Christmas morning Ben and I were up before Katelynn, not long maybe ten minutes. I gave Ben the series Planet Earth and we have been watching an episode every day. A the end of the segments they have a Diaries portion about the people filming and I really feel bad for some of the things they endure for a 10 minute video spot that took months sometimes years to get. It is very interesting, if you haven't seen it I think you'll like it. Ben gave me a pair of earrings and a few weeks ago we got the Dyson Animal that I had been wanting and let me tell you I am shocked and amazed at how my dirt this thing picks up. I am really happy with it and it make me feel better since Katelynn is all over the floors now, not crawling just scooting and rolling. We gave Katelynn Sophie the Giraffe and My Pal Violet. I think she likes the giraffe since it is easily chewed on and squeaks very easily. Violet is a little too old for her even though it says 6 months and up, she can't make the sounds work so we will probably give it to her again for her Birthday, she won't know.


In the afternoon we went to my parents house and had Christmas there. Max and Jesse were so excited that we were there so that we could open the gifts they had for us. it was cute. They wanted up to open the presents right when we came through the door, but we waited for Damien to get there. Everyone was spoiled from Grandma and Grandpa B. Sarah used her couponing skills and got us a photo ornament and made a photobook since I have been totally awesome at scapbooking this year. My mom got her they Fisher Price Puppy that she can use and quite a few other things.
As the day wore on I got sicker and sicker and sicker. I was tore up. I knew I had a cold coming and so I took some Mucinex to get it over with and then a day into taking it I was running so bad. I then needed to take something to clog my sinuses again. I REALLY enjoyed Christmas but I don't think I showed it very well as I couldn't breathe.
Christmas is now put away at out house. I will blog about that another day. I need to get to bed and Promise to post Christmas pictures tomorrow.

Two Weeks!

Why is Christmas two weeks away!?! I am usually more on the ball than this. I need to snap out of my fog and get to some Christmas and Birthday shopping. We put our tree up last weekend and Katelynn hasn't really even noticed it. I know that this will probably be the last peaceful Christmas. Next year she will be into everything and nothing will be safe.
On Monday we went over to Beth and Kevin's and decorated Gingerbread houses. I think that I ate WAY too much frosting. Whenever we are at people's homes at night and we think that we will be there until 8 we try to have all of her bedtime stuff so that we get her ready for bed and on the drive home she will fall asleep and we just have to put her into the crib when we get home. That is what we did on Monday but the exciting thing for Tara and Brynne was it was her bath night and so I bathed Katelynn while the girls took their bath. They all loved it. Katelynn loved splashing and Tara and Brynne loved that she was with them.
Well, I have to get myself prepared for a talk on Sunday. So, I will talk to you all later.
Anna

7 Months

This needs to stop!! What happened to my little girl that would stay where I put her?? She has turned into this rolling maniac!! Her legs have been stuck under the couch numerous times and then she starts crying because she can't continue her maniac movement. If we sit her in the sitting position she will stay there for quite a while now I think the longest she sat was 45 min just happily playing with the toys around her. I had to pick her up because I was worried that she was getting numb butt from being in one place for so long.
She really is getting to be so much fun. She interacts well and giggles. She gets so excited when she sees Ben. If I am holding her she will turn her head intomy hair and bury her face into my shoulder. She flails her arms up and down in such excitment and kicks her feet. She really is a happy baby.
On our trip to Kansas she did so well. The hardest part for her was the sleeping. While there she learned to growl and I still need to get that on video. It really hilarious as she is biting on a toy and she just starts growling at it like she is a vicious lioness. She switched from her squeals to the growling. We were actually at Gates' eating dinner and she was having the time of her life in the high chair putting her two cents in to EVERYONE's conversation in the entire room we were in. Dave and Erin thought she was nuts, but she is our nut and we love her.
She is eating her solids well too, for the most part. She doesn't do so well when she starts blowing as soon as I put the spoon into her mouth and so we get everything everywhere. She has breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Breakfas is a cereal of some sort, lunch is something that she can mash, in a mesh baggy and dinner is whatever we got pureed. We have tried finger foods and she still gags on those so probably a little bit longer.
Everything belongs in her mouth. She has been teething for the past five months and we still have no teeth. Maybe one day. I am using Ben's computer so I will post pics later. I hope everyone is well.
Anna