6 months old!!

On Wednesday June 30th 2010 Katelyn turned 6 months old. 

I can't believe that it's been half a year since we had her. She is so sweet and makes us so happy. She still smiles so much, and is even happier now that she can do more things! I think she has a lot of Nick's personality.

She can do so many things! She can:

-Sit up

-She can crawl

-She eats solid foods

-She is starting to climb up things and pull herself up

-She still naps 3 times a day

-Goes to bed at 9 wakes up around 4 a.m. to eat then back to sleep until 7:30ish

-She laughs all the time

-She scrunches her nose up like this:

 My sister has a really nice camera and we love taking pictures of Katelyn, here are a couple she took! They turned out great!

She is absolutely adorable and growing up so fast! We love her. :)

Utah!

ok so this was kind of a random and quick decision, but we bought me a ticket to go to utah this monday!! i'm so excited. 3 more days! I can't wait to see my little brother i just LOOOOVE him. he is so funny and we have so much fun together. I also can't wait to see my sister, we have a lot of plans going on, including summer shopping at the mall, seeing ECLIPSE!!!! woohoo. and a lot more! :)

Family Fun

3 Things about the title:

1. We had family come and visit us today and it was a lot of fun!

2. I finally got my June family fun magazine that I've been waiting for awhile now!

And last but not least,

3. School's out for SUMMER! Now it's time to relax, and have fun as a family :)


First, today Carlie (Nick's cousin) and her husband Seth came from Tulsa to visit us so I could show Carlie how to make baby headbands. It was SO fun! I'm in love with one of the headbands she made (the blue one Carlie) so I might have to copy her. haha. We talked for a little, went to lunch, talked some more, went to the store and got the supplies, came back home, made a few things and they left. I'm so glad they could come! Thanks for coming down you guys!

Second, I recently have been receiving these Family Fun magazines. I don't know if someone signed us up, or if we got a free year subscription from somewhere, but I absolutely LOVE them! I hadn't got my June one and usually you get them before the month starts, so I figured maybe they combined the months of June and July.. and sure enough they did. I kind of wish they hadn't, but I'm excited to see the 4th of July crafts! :)

 My Family Fun magazine and on the corner is one of the headbands I made Katelyn. I like it, I don't have any purple ones (out of the millions I have made) so I was really excited to make a purple one. Now time for a new outfit! ha. OK I just remembered I do have a purple bow, but not a flower.. so it's not the same.. right? Gotta love those little girls and all their accessories.

I really suggest getting this magazine if you have young kids, or kids in elementary school because they have so many cute ideas and fun crafts to do! I can't wait until Katelyn is older and we can do some together.

Third, SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER!! Woohoo! Time for vacations. I am so excited, and every day I tell Nick "YAY, now you get to spend ALL day every day here with me and Katelyn!!" haha. More diaper changes for him ;)

K so in the picture that really means the end of Nick's school year.. in case that's confusing for any of you. It's been fun sending Nick off to school every day (although some days I just say bye in bed.. oops) I kind of feel like a mom in practice haha. Well, I know I'm a mom, but not yet to the stage of sending kids to school. So anyways, I guess this tradition kind of came from my mom, but she always took pictures of us on our last day of school each year, so.. here is Nick's picture on his last day of school for this year, yay! I'm proud of you Nick!

I hope you all are enjoying your summer and we can't wait to get out and see some more family members! love you all,

love,
Nick & Dana

So sweet..

I just love her!

I just want to say that Katelyn has an awesome sleeping schedule, naps, eating, going to bed ect. that is almost RIGHT on everyday. With in 5-10 minutes. For example, yesterday she went down for her first nap at 9:43 a.m. today it was 9:45 a.m. next at 12:56 pm. Today is was 12:58. Next nap, 4:20 p.m. and of course today 4:23 p.m. It's really amazing, it's like she's got this clock inside of her and when the timer goes off she's like "OK MOM, Time for my nap!" or time to eat.. or whatever else.

She is just so sweet.

She seems to be doing something new every week. It's kind of funny, she wont do something for too long, so I really can't say what she'll be doing in a few weeks from now.

About a month ago she would just scream at the top of her lungs with the highest, squeakiest, girliest, little voice. It was so funny. Not that she was mad or anything she just did it ALL. DAY. LONG. and she would even laugh and smile afterward. I'm pretty sure it was her way of discovering something new.. "Oh, I can yell"

Next she did this MUUUUMM, MUUUUMMMA, MUUM MUMM MUUM thing. And then about a week later... it was gone.

Then just recently she's been doing this blluuuuuupppp thing, blowing bubbles or blowing on her fingers making this puffy vibrating noise with her lips. It's so cute.

Last week or so she did this bird noise, like eaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkk,(i dont really know how to write it to describe the sound haha). And she would just smile.

Now she just likes to chew on her thumb, not suck, chew.  Also on her four fingers, and on her little rings, she'll just sit up and chew chew chew, and stare. It's funny. Maybe she's teething? If she is, she's been a trooper and hasn't complained much!

I wonder what she'll do next? It's amazing how babies seem to do something new everyday.. or is that just my baby?

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 :)