Congrats to Aunt Laura.

Laura will be graduating tonight from her massage school, the name of it is escaping me at the moment. But we will be unable to attend and I want to give her a big congrats and am so proud of her! :) We love you!!!

loads of new pictures

All images are from this past weekend when Nick, Stephanie, Natalie and Chris came to town for a visit. Some are from Missy's bridal shower and some are just new pictures.

Meeting Chris for the first time.

Meeting Stephanie and Natalie for the first time.

Meeting Nick for the first time.

Hi Natalie!

She is to cute!!!

New outfit.

She liked touching her toes.

New onsie and hat.

Sitting with Hillary.

Taking a walk with Uncle Kevin.

Mommy and me.

Nick and I with our daughters.

Say hi to Mallori!

With Whitney.

Chatting with Missy.

New outfit.

Mommy and I taking a nap. It was a long weekend!

What's so funny?

Today, about two hours ago to be exact, Katelyn laughed for the first time. It was great!!! I've been waiting for this moment for awhile now. I'm so glad to have been the first to get her to do it. Brad was unlucky and missed it, he was working. But I did give him a call right away to let him know. By tv time I got the video camera to show brad she was all laughed out. Hopefully we can keep her laughing. I'm so happy right now! :)

first cereal

On Saturday we gave Katelyn rice cereal with formula for the first time. It took me a little longer than I thought to get everything ready so she fussed a little bit and we had to give her the bottle first. After that we started with the cereal, she seemed to like it. Most did end up on her though! She would stick out her tongue every time we brought the spoon to her mouth so she had the motions down. She ate most of the cereal before we gave her the rest of the bottle. But she took to it so well, I was expecting her to reject it or it to be everywhere by the time we were done! She is such a fast learner. Here are pictures from the event!

4 mth appt.

I forgot to update yesterday on Katelyn's appointment but everything went well. She is a little over 14 pounds and is 26 and a quarter long. They said she is tall! She got her shots and did awesome. She actually didn't cry, she started to after her very last shot but Brad was able to calm her before it came. Brad said that she did so well because he was there! We found out that she hates having her head measured because she would not sit still for the nurse! Every time she tried Katelyn would turn her head back and forth as if she were saying no! It was funny. She will be starting cereal this weekend, hopefully she'll take to it. I'm expecting a mess! We'll be using the highchair for the first time also. So expect pictures after this event!

we have a roller

So recently Katelyn has started rolling over onto her stomach. This is great and while we haven't actually seen her do it, we have found her screaming on her stomach! She will do it and be ok for a few minutes and then get instantly frustrated and start bawling. Its actually funny, except for this morning when she woke us up at 3:45 am on her stomach screaming.

Today is Katelyn's 4 month appointment and I will update later or tomorrow.

Another story, this one from yesterday: I had Katelyn laying beside me on the couch playing with her. She had on booties and kicked one off. I took it and showed it to her when she grabbed it, looked at it and then promptly stuck it in her mouth! Obviously I took it back laughing. She is too cute.

4 months!

On Saturday Katelyn was four months. I cannot believe how time goes by so quickly. She is growing like a weed!!! On Wednesday we go to the doctor for her 4 month check-up so then we'll see how big she actually is. Also she'll be getting more shots, so I'm having Brad go with me this time to help me calm her down. I hope she does well with it. We got to spend time with both of our families this past weekend and Kevin & Hillary came down as well to see her. Here are some new pictures.

Isn't she adorable?!

Happy Mother's Day

I know it was yesterday but I never got online to post it but still wanted to say it.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

Mine by the way was fantastic. Brad got me the birthstone ring I've been wanting, its Katelyn's birthstone set in between two small diamonds. It is beautiful. Here is the picture from the jewelrys website. I love it.

Happy Birthday Brad!

Today is Brad's birthday, so happy birthday sweetie! Katelyn can't say it but I know for sure she's thinking it! :)

1 year ago today...

I found out that I was pregnant. It was 2 days before Brad's birthday and when I found out I told him it was an early birthday present! I can't believe its been a year, what a crazy ride! :)

Daycare...

Yesterday was Katelyn's first day at daycare. I was thinking of her all day while I was at work. Apparently so was Brad, he called Cathy to check on her. As it turns out, she was perfectly fine. All of the children were smitten over her. Katelyn wasn't used to all the noise and didn't take very long naps while there. Cathy said she was overwhelmed with it all. Other than that she did great. I was relieved. When I got there to pick her up she was sitting in a bouncer and had 5 or 6 little kids all around her trying to keep her attention. One little girl said, 'who is that?' as I was coming in. It was funny. They kept telling me how Katelyn would smile at them and how cute she was. They all liked her. She was the center of attention! Hopefully today and the rest of the week goes just as smoothly.

Here are some updated pictures of her in new outfits (her 3-6 month stuff).

Here she has her teething keys and was sucking on them prior to this picture.

She's been turning onto her sides and I was able to get a shot of her here, sucking on her hands.

Old Navy outfit.

No more pictures please!

Hi mommy!

In the outfit Uncle Kevin and Aunt Hillary got her for Easter.

She didn't want to look at the camera.

16 WEEKS

I don't have much to write about but I wanted to post that Katelyn is 16 weeks today, getting close to 4 months! She also wore her first 3-6 month outfit yesterday. She's wearing one today that might still be a tad big on her but is so adorable. (Its the one Kevin & Hillary got her for Easter.) I'll be sure to take a picture of her in it and post as soon as I can for you!