15 Months/Spring Break/Picture Overload

Another month down. Katelyn is growing and learning so much every day.
She can say no, momma (although her new favorite thing is calling me "MOM" she'll say it over and over just to get my attention and have me respond, then she just smiles), dadda, nana (what we call nick's mom) and that's about it. We are working on more words, and she's trying hard I can tell, but she can't put the sounds all together yet.

 Here she is one day. She was trying to climb into one of the shelves in our bookshelf. She got in and kind of just lied there scrunched up. It was so funny.

 Then shortly after she decided she wanted to sit in this tiny little box. She finds the funniest things to do. And.. if you can't tell from her very cheesy smile in the picture.. she thinks she is just so darn funny. I think she is too :)

 Here she is with her crazy hair after I took out her piggy tail. About to read something

 And Here she is on her BIG pillow. She LOVES her big pillow (it's actually mine from when I was pregnant with her, so I guess she can have it now. ) She'll just lay on it and hug it and roll around with it all the time.

 This was spring break in Colorado. We went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Nick and I have been before and it's my favorite zoo. You get to touch the giraffe's! They get sooo close to you. And you can feed them.. but I haven't been that brave yet. Katelyn was definitely not scared to pet the giraffe.

 if you're ever in colorado springs... go to this zoo!

 Katelyn and cousin Leila looking at the little animals. They are so cute together.

 Daddy and Katelyn at the Will Rogers shrine.. also part of the zoo, which you'll want to check out too

 The view at the Shrine. It's amazing!

 Nick's funny picture that he had us all pose for. Camera shot looking from the ground up.

 THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART OF OUR SPRING BREAK TRIP. Recognize that picture? It's a little different..... but hopefully I can remind you....
This is the place where Nick proposed to me... (get it, he's acting like he's proposing, but this time it's Katelyn in the picture... haha). I wish I could find the picture, but we haven't put all of our pictures on our new computer yet.
We went up to Garden of the Gods and hiked and found the exact spot and rock where it all went down. I loved being there and loved having Katelyn there. It showed me what one little question all led to. It was a lot of fun.

 Now I do have this picture....^^ of when he proposed....

see! now we just added Katelyn into the picture :) Such great memories..

 Katelyn's rock.. we kept asking her "where's your rock" and she would point to it, I thought it was really cute.

Taking a ride in Grandpa Jensen's tractor.

Ok... so back to her 15 month update:

She loves making noises of different animals. She does 'the elephant' we call it. She'll toss her arm up in the air by her nose like an elephant and go 'eeeehhhhh' or however they sound like.. I wasn't quite sure. She'll go "eeh eeh aah aah" for monkey. She says "woof woof" for dog. She makes a "caaw caaw" nosie for birds. She loooves animals.

She LOVES to climb on things. There is a daycare at the gym I go to and I asked how she was doing the other day and the lady responded "Good, she just likes to climb on things a lot.... but she listens when we tell her to get down." I couldn't help but laugh because I knew exactly what these ladies were dealing with as I've seen it many, many times at home. Her favorite place to climb up at home I think is either the couch/ottoman, or the coffee table.

So, here's a quick story talking about the daycare. I took her in for the first time and she acted like she really wanted to go get down and play. So I left as the lady took her from me. I only worked out for about 25 mins then went to check on her. I could hear someone crying and I thought "that sounds like Katelyn." I looked in and the lady was holding her, then gave her a ball and set her down. I asked if she had been crying and the lady said that she had. So I went in (Katelyn hadn't seen me yet) and I called her name and crouched down and held my arms out to her. She turned around and right when she saw me her little lip flared out and tears came to her eyes and she started bawling. She drug her little feet and ran over to me and hugged me. It was so sad. So I left with her and felt so bad. If any of you know me, you know I am certainly not one to leave Katelyn with ANYONE else. I get scared leaving her with my own family.. haha.

I try to go only when Nick is home now and can watch her, but I have taken her a couple other times after that and she LOVES it now. The past two times I have gone in I'll call her name and she'll look at me and smile and keep playing and wont want to come. So things have definitely gotten better.


Wow. hopefully you all didn't get bored a 1/4 of the way through that! thanks for reading...

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Weekend Adventures...

This weekend was pretty awesome. Nick stayed home the whole day on Saturday and we did a lot. He usually goes to school Saturday morning until early afternoon.
On Friday we had a little get together/birthday party with some friends and Katelyn's little friend who turned 2!

On Saturday we weren't planning on being out all day, but we had to make two trips to walmart for something silly.
We had to exchange a game at walmart because the cd didn't work. Well I grabbed it from home, looked in it, and saw a cd so we left. Nick looked in it. The guy at the register looked in it. And when we had exchanged everything come back home and Nick went to put it in to see if it worked... he found the cd to the game we had just returned! Turns out we had another game in the case that wasn't the same game. SO we had to go all the way back to walmart which was quite a drive because we drove up to go to babies r us. I went in and they had to go to the back and search through to find our case and our game that wasn't the same game, and we gave them the actual game. I'm just glad they found it (and Nick caught it in time) that we didn't have two of the same game sitting at home and lose a game.

Anyways, that took quite awhile of our Saturday. While we were up there we went to babies r us. We finally found a convertible car seat for Katelyn! She was in need of a new car seat. Her feet hung over the edge of her infant one. She may not be 20 pounds yet, but she had definitely met the height limit. We can't wait to put her in it, I think she'll enjoy the car rides much more!

We had to return some things at bed bath and beyond. We returned it and when we were browsing the store we saw this cool tent and I had to get it for Katelyn, it was only 20 bucks and she loves it.

After that we were leaving the parking lot and we saw this huge truck with a bunch of pens around it. I looked on the side of the truck and it said "endangered show". I saw puppies at first and knowing that Katelyn loves puppies I told Nick we should stop since she had been so good. They had tigers and these raccoons and dogs and another animal I'm not sure what it's called. It was so cool! Right there in the middle of a parking lot. Katelyn loved it and cried when we left.

 Nick and Katelyn looking at the dogs.

 there we are with the tigers!

They were letting people in to see the animals and get pictures with them. It was so cool.

Then we went to Kohl's because I got this 10$ certificate thing in the mail. I think Kohl's may just be my new favorite clothing store to shop at. I love their clothes and they always have great deals.

At the end of the day we went to a place called Lotsa Noodles. We bought a groupon for it so decided to use it. It was pretty good.

I really loved having Nick home the whole day and doing things with him. I can't wait until he can be home every Saturday with us.

14 Months

I was planning on writing every month about Katelyn's growth up until a year, but I found myself thinking of her today and how she is already 14 months old and how smart and talented she is getting. I figure if I remember and have time, why not blog about it for future reference.

Katelyn is getting so big. Physically and in other aspects. She is tall, but she is very thin. She eats pretty well though, people always tell me how tiny she is and I hope they know we DO feed her.. a lot.

Some of her favorite foods are:
-chicken nuggets
-tater tots
-crackers
-pepperidge farm cinnamon swirl raisin bread
-yogurt
-puffs
-mac n cheese
-pretzels
-goldfish
-pizza

She has a hard time trying new things, but if she tries it, most of the time she finds out that she loves it and will keep eating it. She ate a whole slice of pizza once. And I'm talking a big papa murphey's slice of pizza, it wasn't a small piece. I was so shocked. It was the bacon artichoke chicken kind, we love that.

She has recently decided she doesn't like to be rocked very much before bed. She squirms so I'll put her in her crib and within minutes she'll be sound asleep with out making a peep.

She knows so many words (not saying them, but what they are). We have a book full of pictures and I'll ask her where something is and she'll point to it. Even if we haven't studied the picture she can recognize what it is from seeing it outside/around the house and know if I've ever said the word before. Then she always quizzes me and points to something then waits until I say it and just keeps pointing and pointing. It's really cute.

I'm almost done decorating her baby room. I just need Nick's help to hang some things up.

She goes to bed at 9 and wakes up at 7.

She takes 2 naps a day, morning and afternoon.

She loves being outside. We take walks around the neighborhood as much as we can and she walks with me, no sitting in the stroller.

She loves climbing, especially onto the couches. I have to keep a close eye on her. She loves standing on boxes, or chairs.

She loves music and loves dancing.


We love her so much. We're so happy to see her learn and grow every day.

No pictures today. Just words.