AND WE'RE OFF!

Kate and I are about to embark on our first plane trip together without the assistance of Daddy, wish us luck!

SIX MONTHS OLD!!!

I can't believe it has already been 6 months since the doctor placed my sweet, brand new baby in my arms! It amazes me how much she has grown and changed! She becomes more fun every day, and I can't imagine how we ever lived without our little Katers. She truly is the light of our lives!


Just for fun, here is Kate the day we brought her home from the hospital:



And this was taken today:

Barfing Baby!

This weekend Kate woke up from a nap with a temperature of 101 degrees. Of course I called my Mom right away, hoping it could just be a fever from teething or something. Much to my dismay, my Mom said 101 was pretty high for just teething, so I called the doctor. They said to just keep and eye on it and if she had a rough night to bring her into the ER the next day. Well, she was up all night, so Sunday morning we headed into the children's ER. After waiting around for 45 minutes, they called us back to get us checked in and then informed us it would be AT LEAST a 5 hour wait. The nurse said, if she were us she wouldn't wait around and expose Kate to all the germs there. She said one more night wouldn't really hurt if it was just and ear infection. So we headed back home, Kate seemed to be doing better anyway. She slept fine Sunday night, but I still took her to the doctor Monday morning just in case. The doctor said her ears were fine, and her fever was gone, so it was probably just a little virus or something. Feeling good, I went back home and got on with my day, pretty pleased that Kate had plowed through her first real sickness. We had a great evening, the weather was a beautiful 78 degrees and we went on a 2 mile walk. Kate went down for her little evening nap and woke kind of fussy. I went to feed her and she threw up all over! Of course I called my Mom AGAIN, and then called the doctor, as Kate kept it coming about every 5 minutes for the next half hour or so, and then she was so exhausted, she passed out. It was the saddest thing to see, and Jason and I felt so helpless! We took the nurses advice and fed her 2 teaspoons of milk every 5 minutes for the first four hours and then upped the amount to 4 teaspoons for the next four hours. Luckily she kept all that down and is now back to eating as much as she wants (which hasn't been that much) and she has been passed out all morning! I really hope this is the end of the bug this time!

Some More Videos

Not a whole lot going on around here lately, so I decided to just post some more videos. Kate absolutely loves bath time. I swear she would stay in there all night if we let her.



A few nights ago I tried mixing her rice cereal with formula, and she did not like it. Apparently she was still hungry though....




That's all for now!

RICEKATE

Kate started eating rice cereal this weekend!













We're so proud of our big girl!

CHRISTMAS!!!

Ok, since January is more than halfway over, I figured I should just buckle down and post about our Christmas! We went up to Washington see my WHOLE family. We were able to go for 17 days, hence why I have waited so long to post, there is SO much to post about. Rather than getting into all the details, I'm just going to list the highlights, or at least the memorable moments!

-Kate's freak out session on the plane ride there. She and Jason were famous with everyone on the plane by the time we landed due to the fact that she screamed like a banshee and Jason got "reminded not to congregate at the front of the plane" over the loud speaker in his attempt to walk around with her and calm her down!
-Famous Daves!
-Reuniting at the Rainforest Cafe with my Sisters!
-Baking




-Shopping
-Visiting with my old friends
-Making gingerbread houses



-Ward party, complete with my little brother singing in a trio! He sounded awesome!
-The never ending pink-eye!



-7.5 hour trip (one way) to Bend, Oregon to and AMAZING house my parents rented, Kate slept almost the entire way! We were BLESSED!
-Christmas Eve pj's
-Kate's first Christmas, she sure loved to eat the wrapping paper!



-Sledding



-Hot tubing
-He-Man watching
-Family Pictures
-Endless Chinese food, fa ra ra ra ra!



-Car ride back home through Mt. Hood, it was snowing like crazy and BEAUTIFUL! We had to put chains on all the cars! Lucky for us, we were riding with my Dad, so we didn't have to stress about the drive and we could just enjoy the scenery!



-The BIG BROWN Christmas party
-Movie watchin'
-New Years Eve, I was in bed with Kate at 11, we are just a couple of party animals!
-Zoo lights!



It was "a very nice Christmas!" We loved every minute of it and are so grateful to my parents for making sure everyone made it home and providing a place for all 18 of us to fit!

JUST A VIDEO...

I am still planning on posting about Christmas, but I haven't even uploaded our pictures to our computer yet, so in the meantime, here is a video of Kate. Sorry about the poor camera angle, she always stops performing if she sees it, so I had to be sneaky. Please also excuse my annoying, high-pitched voice!