5 Months

 Katelyn 5 Months

Well, Katelyn is just about 5 months old. She will be 5 months on the 30th. I can't believe how fast she is growing. I never knew how much love a parent could have for their child. I've always heard how much parents care for and saw how much my parents did for me and loved me, but having your own child is the best way to truly understand this.

Well, I just wanted to mention that because I've heard so many sad stories lately involving children. A toddler found sitting in the middle of the road at midnight all alone, a toddler who died of heat exposure because she was left in a car for over 2 hrs. going to daycare, another 5 month old baby who was burned on over 40% of his body with the mother sitting right next to him tanning. It makes me sick to hear all of these stories. Take care of your babies, they are so innocent and deserve the very best.

Each month I am going to try and get a good picture of Katelyn all dressed up and with a nice background so I can put them in her baby book and see how much she changes over time. So i've been working on taking pictures, and also editing them afterwards. I hope they look alright and not "too" photoshopped, if you know what I mean. I'm trying to pick a favorite one for this month to go in her book, I'm having a hard time deciding though, any suggestions?

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Katelyn also just recently tried rice cereal. She loved it.

I think she knew what was coming.

She was eyeing it and leaning over to grab it before I even got started.

She loved grabbing the spoon!

mmmm.. yummy mommy.
You should have seen what happened when I was done. I wish I had the picture, but she stopped, stared at me, then I took it away and she threw her arms up in the air and started crying and grabbing her head. It was so funny. She wanted more.

Also lately, Katelyn has been sleeping on her tummy. I know they say not to, but we don't put her on her tummy. I still put her on her back, then I'll go in after a couple hours after she's been put to bed and find her on her tummy. The first few times it scared me and Nicholas and I would roll her back over. This didn't really help though because sometimes she would wake up, or she would lay there on her back for a second then fly back on her tummy. haha, it's so cute. I guess she really likes it now.

Here is what she's been doing lately:

-Sitting (really well, we sat outside once and watched daddy wash the car and for about 10 minutes she sat    up with out falling once!)

-Rolling over. ALL. THE. TIME.

-Taking her binky in and out of her mouth

-Screaming, laughing, talking, smiling

-Blowing bubbles

-Pulling momma's hair as much as she can

-Still sleeping about 30-50 minute naps about 3 times a day

-Going to bed at 9:00 p.m. waking up at 4:00 a.m. to eat then back to sleep until about 7:30-8:00

-Pushing off in the crawling position to take that first leap

-Grabbing and eating her toes

-Rolling on her tummy before mommy can put her diaper back on (she does this all the time now with out fail, I didn't know a diaper change could be so hard!)

-Eating rice cereal.

-LOVES going outside. She definitely doesn't like being indoors all day. Sometimes going outside is the only way to make her happy. She knows what she wants, silly girl.

-One last thing, Katelyn loves reading with me. I lay down with her, hold up the book for her to see and we read the whole story and bible stories everyday together, then after wards I let her touch the book and she can read it by herself. She is SILENT the whole time, I love it!

Oh the joys of being a mother...

you have to write about every little thing...

I love being a mom. I love having a baby who makes me proud. I love seeing how much she grows and changes each day. With Katelyn doing something new everyday I just can't help but write about it. It's amazing how the littlest things like her learning to use her little voice, or rolling over, or smiling, or laughing, or.. holding herself up on all fours..

just make me so happy and think how wonderful she is.

Katelyn is just over four and a half months old. I can't believe in this short period of time she has learned so much. She doesn't actually crawl or move her hands and legs, but she can hold herself up for a good amount of time.. all of these pictures were taken at once and she held herself up the whole time! :)

she was slacking at the end pushing herself back like she wanted to sit on her bottom haha.

I think she's getting the point of it though. I'll hold her belly and she'll move her arms forward then her legs and I'll help her move from one spot to the next, or go after a toy. So hopefully she's learning. I love my baby girl.

Peek-a-Boo

She found us!

One of the things I've loved about Katelyn rolling over is that she'll do it in her crib sometimes after she's woken up. Nick or I will go in there and we can see her little head. We'll call her name and slowly she'll push up, turn her little head and you can see her little eyes peeking at you through the bars. It's SOOO cute! She sure does make us smile :)

How did you get...

From Here...
To Here..??

We don't know. When we're with her she'll play with us and the most roll over , but when we go grab something for 5 minutes or so she is off the blanket and in a whole new place. We don't know what she does to move so far sometimes, but she gets there!

Katelyn learned a new trick:

 
(p.s. for some reason I think I sound so rude to Nicholas in the video, but I promise I wasn't trying to be mean. For some reason I'm just like "YES SHE DOES" in a very demanding and stern voice haha.) 

Katelyn just recently has been awesome at the whole sitting thing! I don't know why, but this is something I've been waiting for! I feel like it's such a big accomplishment. And she is doing a great job! We practice all the time and finally our practice is paying off :)


She's such a cutie!

BYU FAN

Whoa.. hey there!

I can sit

In many different places..

And there she is... cheers for baby Katelyn!!

Happy Mother's Day

To all the wonderful mother's out there, I wish you a happy mother's day. And also to any mom's to be I wish you a happy mother's day. As well as those who sometimes go unnoticed, I thank many who are not yet mother's but act as mother's to all of us including our children. Thank you so much for all you do! I am so thankful for the mother's that Nicholas and I have been blessed with. We appreciate them very much and are so glad they can also be mother's (grandmother's) to our sweet baby Katelyn.

Here is Katelyn's happy mother's day wish to the mom's. She has a cute little mumble/pout/mad cry whatever you want to call it haha. And while doing it sometimes I swear she says MUUUUM, MOMMA. I've been teaching her :) Although I'm sure she has no idea what I'm doing when I point to myself and say MOMMA, she just stares at me.

MUMMA

And lately she's been moving around all over the place. We'll often leave her for a second on the blanket and she'll be off of it a minute later on the carpet, or on her belly, or rolled a few feet. She scoots in her bed, on the floor. She pushes herself up to the corner of her crib and almost every morning now I'll go in there when she wakes up and she's on her belly pushing herself up.

SCOOCHING

I think i'm just going to start crawling now..

Lately Katelyn has been spending quite a bit of time on her tummy. Not that we force her to, she just rolls over. It's funny because I think she's scared to roll back onto her back because when she does she rolls really fast and sometimes falls hard, so she'll stay on her stomach and push up and scooch with her legs, but then get tired and won't roll back onto her back. She does know how to though, because randomly she's done it several times. She just doesn't want to.

She's 4 months old. I can't believe it. She gets way up there with her arms. I think she'll be quick to crawl, but at the same time, maybe  she's just teasing us and will take awhile. We will see.

She laughs all the time with us now. At random things. Sometimes she'll just laugh if I lay next to her and start laughing, it's really cute.

I think she's becoming more attached, to both Nicholas and I. Lately she just wants to be held a lot. She wants to make sure we are in sight, if not she gets mad. She likes to move around and go places. I'm constantly putting her on the floor then a few minutes later, trying to sit her in her bumbo chair, then picking her up, walking with her around the house, going outside to check the mail, going on a walk, sitting with me at the computer, sitting in her boppy.. she just can't stay in one place for very long! She likes to see new things.

She has quite a few toys, but I can tell she gets really bored of them after awhile. Like today she didn't really want to play with anything, but I had this necklace with little beads that hang down from it and she was grabbing for it and so I finally gave it to her, then when she started yanking hard on it I took it away and immediately she started crying. haha, she definitely knows what she wants and knows how to get it.

Like when she doesn't want to be burped and just wants to keep eating she'll push on you and push up with her legs, arch her back, scream.. she's quite the character.

When friends are over though, she acts on her best behavior. It's funny she just stares at everyone and sits there. Longer than any times she'll sit still with just mom around.

She sleeps very well now. Goes to bed at nine every night and wakes up at 4 or 5 to eat, then goes back to sleep until 7:30 or 8:00.

She pulls her binky out of her mouth ALL the time now. The only problem is she doesn't know how to get it back in, so then of course she gets a little frustrated and mom has to come over and help her by taking her hand and putting it back into her mouth. Then she's happy again. :)

I started swaddling her again at night. She likes it. After only about 3 weeks she hated being swaddled at all, now I think it keeps her nice and warm and for some reason she just likes it again.

She got two shots at her last appointment. She did so well! The first one she only let out one scream and then just looked at me and completely stopped. The second one though you could tell hurt. :( She cried and I cuddled her and she just did this cute little sob and breathed in really hard, it made me so sad.

She's growing. At her last appointment she weighed 11 lbs. 15 oz. So i'm assuming she's 12 or more pounds now. And she was 24 inches long. I can't believe it. She's almost doubled her weight since birth, that just makes me think of how tiny she was!

I love her eyes. They get so big sometimes, and other times they are just sweet and her eyelashes curl up.

The boys at cub scouts just love her. Today they were tickling her feet and talking to her and playing with her. She likes seeing them all. She probably has a crush already, who knows.

We love Katelyn so much. She is such a happy baby. I can't believe how quick she is growing. I probably write more than people actually want to know, but I'm thinking one day I'll print some of my blog off to keep as sort of like a journal. And I just like documenting things. I have had tons of journals, I even have one for Katelyn that I write in about things we do and special moments we have together, that one day I will give to her to read when she is older. I love her so much.

 

Katelyn 4 months

05/04/2007

May 4th, 2007...

Is when we got engaged.

I remember being so happy. We flew out to Colorado for the weekend and I had no idea Nick would be proposing to me. It's kind of a funny story for those of you who don't know. Nick and his brother, Daniel, both proposed on the same day. I was told that we were going hiking so that Daniel could propose to Julie (my sister-in-law now). And they told the exact story to Julie except that it was Nick proposing to me. It worked out pretty well. On our hike Nick whispered to me that we should hurry and go ahead and let them fall back so Daniel could stop and propose. As we were doing that Daniel and Julie were slowing down so that we could get ahead and Nick could propose to me. So you can see why us girls weren't confused about us splitting up, we thought we were giving the others their space to propose. 

So anyways, Nick took me up on a ledge overlooking the area, Garden of the Gods. He set up the video camera and I thought he was going crazy because he kept testing it and asking me to like scooch down a little on the rock, then scoot to the right, and doing random little things like that just to make it perfect. haha. Then he was being all nice and pulled out some fingernail polish....... and that was when I thought "Oh my... you're kidding me, is this really happening?" Yup at that moment I knew he was going to paint my nail and then put a ring on it. :) It was great. So he of course proposed after that and I said yes and life has really just been so great with him ever since!

I'm glad for the memories I have with Nick, especially this one, ones that make me happy and remind me of how much I love him.