Saturday, October 31, 2009

A Day at the Park

Katie playing at Chick Fil A
I like this one.
Then we headed to a local park. This was the 1st time I've taken her to a park. I never had a chance last spring and it was just way too hot this summer. She LOVED the swings. She cried every time I took her out of them.

They have swings at school too. So this wasn't her 1st time to get to swing, but it was the 1st time I've seen her in one.


I'll post video soon. They are still uploading.

Happy Halloween 11/6/09 at OneTrueMedia.com

Happy Halloween!

"Mommy, Daddy, I'm ready to go trick or treating!"
This was our 1st time to go trick or treating with Katie and we had so much fun. Last year we dressed her up but stayed home and answered the door for trick or treaters. At her daycare party this year she got a cute little pumpkin bag she took with her for trick or treating. It was fun to watch her walk door to door. She had so much fun she was squealing along the way.Memaw and Aunt Mindy came with us too.
"Hmmm, this house looks like fun. I think I'll go in!"Her bedtime is usually 7:00 or 7:30 so we came back home at 7:30 to sit out front and hand out candy. Katie wasn't acting sleepy so we decided to let her stay up as long as she was having fun. She played in the candy bowl taking pieces out of the bowl and making her own pile in her lap. And she walked and walked and walked on our walkway to our front door and to the sidewalk. I think she was just happy to be otuside... with no boundaries. I finally put her pjs on at 9:00 and she finally started rubbing her eyes and stuff. When I put her down, she was out before I even left her room!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

My Montage 11/3/09 at OneTrueMedia.com

Pumpkin Patch

I took too many pictures to post and couldn't narrow it down to just a few so above is a video clip with about a minute and a half of pictures with some video clips at the end. Enjoy! OK. So technically this was not Katie's 1st pumpkin patch. I insisted we take her last year for pictures and she slept most of the time we were there. She was only 6 weeks old at the time. This year was a lot of fun. Now that Katie's walking, we were able to let her walk around and "explore." This is still my favorite pumpkin patch I've been to. It's worth the 45 minute drive. We didn't do the hayride because it had rained earlier in the week so it was muddy and the hayrides kept getting stuck. We DID ride the little kiddy train though. I think Katie liked it. They have lots of cute photo ops at this pumpkin patch, face painting, and several bounce houses that Katie will be able to get into next year. The only think it's missing is a petting zoo. (The one we went to last year had that.)
I love this picture of Katie walking with her daddy.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Fall Festival

A few weeks ago we went to our Fall Festival at our church. We missed the costume contest. We forgot about it until it was over, but Katie LOVED her costume. It's so soft and furry. She giggled when I put it on her.

It was so much fun to watch her walk all over the place. This was the 1st time I saw her climb stairs. Andy taught her a couple of weeks earlier but I wasn't home at the time and then I got sick and hadn't tried to let her climb them.

She couldn't really do the games although Andy helped her try. She enjoyed digging in the candy buckets though. Her favorite were Nerds because she liked to shake the boxes. Once she discovered those, she would dig through the buckets until she found a small box of candy.

She also got to go on the huge bounce house slide with Daddy and see a firetruck and meet some firemen.
Our Little Lamb

Sunday, October 4, 2009

More Birthday Celebrations

We got Katie's "big girl" car seats and the night after her birthday party she got to ride in it for the 1st time. She LOVED being in her new seat and being able to see Mommy and Daddy in the car. She talked to us the whole way to and from dinner.We went to Texas Roadhouse and let them know she had just turned 1 year old that week. They put her on a saddle and sang their song to her. She was so cute. She didn't know what to think of all these people around her singing to her.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Happy Happy Birthday

Well, Katie's birthday party was very eventful to say the least. I decided to make her cake and thought it would be no big deal to ice the cake the morning of her party. That was way more of a challenge than I thought it would be. Thank goodness Andy's mom knew how to ice a cake smoothly and was there to help. Besides not knowing how to smooth the icing out, we ran out of icing about half way through. In the end, at 1:30 I woke Katie up from her nap for her 2:00 party. Cake was still in pieces all over the counter with icing everywhere and Andy's mom finished icing the cake and putting it together for me while I fed Katie. I think it turned out great. And now I know next year not to wait until the last minute to make her cake!I had a cold but luckily Katie had been fine all week long... until she woke up at 1:30. She looked terrible. Poor baby. Her eyes were so red. She wasn't fussy, but was very cuddly. She clearly did not feel good. She was such a good sport though. She enjoyed her cake and made a pretty big mess with it.She got lots of great gifts and helped me open most of them in her new rocking chair.Her Aunt Mary made the adorable dress and birthday bloomers. She made her a birthday bib to match the bloomers too but I don't know if I got a picture with that.She had fun playing with her new toys for a little while,then cuddled and slept for a while with Daddy, Memaw, and Mimi.After her party, I took her temperature and it was 100.2. She took a nap and woke up looking and feeling totally fine. Little stinker. Literally sick for her party and that's it. Ha! Despite her not feeling great I'm pretty sure she had a good time. And after her nap she stayed up late playing with her new toys.

Friday, October 2, 2009

12 months!!!

Wow! I can't believe it's already been a year! One year ago on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 4:46pm our precious baby girl was born. She was 7 lbs 14 oz and 20 inches long. Today she is 19 lbs 3.5 oz and 29 inches tall.

It's been such a wonderful year. We are so blessed to have a healthy baby girl. She has changed so much and it's so exciting to see her personality unfold as she learns about this new world around her.

Just in the last few weeks she seems to have grown up so much. She's figuring out how her toys work. Before she mostly picked them up, hit them, banged pieces together, etc but now she's beginning to know to put pieces together, push buttons, etc.

She seems to know what we're saying more than before. And I think she's saying things more intentionally. Her newest one is "ball." I'm not sure that's what she's saying. It's still just "ba" but she says it when she's holding a ball. Balls are her favorite toys at the moment.

She also loves chewing on socks! Her clean baby socks of coarse. At school they gave Katie a birthday hat with all her classmates names on it. They sang Happy Birthday to her and gave her a little birthday goody bag.After school we took her to Baskin Robbins for some birthday ice cream. She got cotton candy flavor and loved it!
This was the 1st time she's really noticed birds. Usually with just a few in the sky they're too small or too far away for her to really notice them. But at Baskin Robbins tonight there were TONS of birds. She was so fascinated by them. :)