Happy Birthday Baby!

It's hard to believe a whole year has gone by since Kate was born! I guess time really does fly when you're having fun! We feel so blessed to have that little bug in our family! She is so much fun to have around and gets more fun every day! She is truly the light of our lives!

We celebrated her birthday on Sunday, while we were up in Washington with family. Here's a few photos of the shindig:

Kate's cake experience

PRESENTS!!!!

Here is what our one year old Kate is up to these days:

*Giving "loves" (hugs with pats) to everything, including the watermelon in our grocery cart today!

*Putting any toy she can find up to her ear, she thinks everything is a telephone!

*Practicing to become the next Dancing Queen, she LOVES music and never lets a tune slip by without gettin' jiggy with it first! Favorite singer? I guess she takes after her Aunt Rebecca, she LOVES James Taylor!

*Loving anything Elmo! She spots that dude a mile away and points and grunts!

*Jibber-Jabbering all day long, nothing coherent yet, but she sure tries. She also is just starting to really love squealing super loud! Fun for us!!!

*Baby signing like a maniac, she surprises us with new signs every day!

*Becoming a professional destructo baby, she loves to help me "fold" clothes!

*Clapping at anything anyone else claps at, including people clapping on T.V.

*Copy cat coughing. If she hears a sneeze, sniff, cough, or someone clear their throat, she has to let everyone know she is sick too, by coughing!

Happy Birthday sweet baby Kate! We love you!!!

Nothing much to say...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then here are a few thousand!







How many words is a video worth?

Visit From My Mom!

Last week my Mom came down to visit and help watch Kate while I went into to Jason's school to be his first patient! It was so good to have her here, and we had so much fun! Her birthday was on May 11th (also Mother's Day) so we celebrated a late birthday for her, with a delicious cake I got at a bakery just down the road from us. It was a boston creme cake! SO YUMMY!


(would you believe my mom was here a whole week and I only took two pictures the entire time?!?!?! The other one is basically the same shot!)

We got her a puzzle for her birthday, and had fun putting it together with her, even though it was a Halloween puzzle. My mom is the queen of Halloween and puzzles! While she was here we also went out to dinner a few times, took her to Pops, (a fun little restaurant Jason discovered) went shopping and just hung out and had fun!

Kate loved having company and started jabbering a lot while Grandma was here! The first day Grandma babysat Kate, I expected to come home to a sweet baby excited to see her mommy, but was very surprised when Kate took one look at me, looked back at Grandma and started boo-hooing! I guess she was just having too much fun with Grandma and wasn't ready for me to come home yet!

And I know you are all wondering how Jason did on his first patient. Well, I'm pleased to say, he did an amazing job, my teeth have never been better! He had to take x-rays, do impressions, measure my gum depths, polish my teeth and a few other things that I have never had done before, so I don't know what they are called!

All in all it was a great week! We had so much fun having my Mom out here and can't wait to go up to Washington in a few weeks to see her and the rest of the family at my little brother's graduation!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

I just wanted to take a minute to let my Mom know how much I love her! She is such an amazing woman, and I look up to her more than anyone! She is one of my best friends and I love knowing I can call her up anytime, day or night and she is there to listen and give advice! She is the epitome of self sacrifice, I can't remember a time when her needs came before ANYONE else's! She is so loving, understanding, beautiful and strong. I am so blessed to have such an amazing example in my life of what a true mother is. I cherish all the memories I have with you, Mom, from playing Memory, watching "Days" while folding laundry, going to Winchell's Donuts after doctor's appointments, all the field trips and class parties you helped with, my many fancy birthday cakes, chocolate chip cookies in bed, to the long talks after I moved out about "needs and wants" and just about life in general. I was beyond grateful to have your help when Kate was born, I would have been lost without you! You are the BEST Mom in the world and I can only hope I will be half the mother to Kate that you are to me! Thanks for being so wonderful! I love you Mom! Happy Mother's Day, and BIRTHDAY!!!

A Month Of Milestones!

I don't know what made her decide that April was the month, but Kate has finally started doing some things! It feels like everyday there is something new! Here are a few of the accomplishments she has had this month:

-She did her first baby sign: more (still the only one she does, what a greedy little baby!)

-She got her first tooth on April 7th

-Her hair is finally long enough to put into a little clippy!

-She has learned to play peek-a-boo
(not the best video, she usually gets excited when she plays)


-She started to crawl on April 24th (well, more like a scoot)

-She finally figured out her Johnny Jumper is for more than just "hangin' out"

-She LOVES when you sing, her favorite songs are: "Popcorn Popping", "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Pat-a-cake".

-And finally, she has stared to pull herself up on things, the bookshelf, the bathtub, Dad, Mom, etc.

It's so fun to see her grow and change! We love her so much; she is such a blessing in our lives!

There's Been a Mix Up!!!

Apparently Gene Simmons and his wife were having a baby in the same hospital as us the day Kate was born. Looks like we took off with the wrong one. OOOPS!









All she needs now is some black and white face paint!

More Please???

We have been working on teaching Kate baby signs for a few months now, and a few weeks ago we got a little payoff! She started signing "more". She has gotten kinda lazy with it, she is supposed to continuously put her hands together, but she just does it once now. At first I wasn't sure if she was just clapping or if she was signing, but she has proven to us that she knows what it means!