Thursday, January 14, 2010

Kate's 9 Month Development



















It's hard to believe that our little Kate is already 9 months old!  She is crawling everywhere.  She has been "mobile" since the beginning of December, but now she is officially crawling.  She started army crawling, then went to an interesting move of being on her hands, one knee, and keeping the other leg straight out to the side to push herself along.  It was really funny to watch.  Now she is crawling on hands and knees and moving quickly.  She LOVES to eat - anything really!  She does not like to drink her bottle - never has and apparently never will.  Some days we are lucky to get her to drink 3 ounces at a time.  She is sleeping through the night for the most part.  She is very strong willed and has a temper.  I thought that she would be my laid back daughter since the Ella is strong willed.  But if things progress like they have been, she may be more stubborn than her big sister!  We are in trouble.  She has 4 teeth now - the two top front teeth popped through within the last week.  She loves to play with Ella and gets stiff with excitement when she sees her.  At her doctor's appointment she was 17lb 3oz (25%) and 29 in (90%).  Growing like a weed.  Both girls will be taller than me by age 6 if we keep up at this pace!

How We Spend Our Days...

Just some random pictures of playing at home, playing in the snow, and just enjoying some time at home...I love these days!  Don't mind the mess...we'll have time to clean when they are in college, right?















Christmas 2009

Our Christmas celebrations started on December 20th with Ella's Christmas Program at Sunday School.  I knew that she wouldn't sing (she told me that she wouldn't)  Stubborn little lady.  She was cute - the pictures are kind of dark so you might not be able to see her.  They were all wearing "crowns" and she had hers on upside down.  She ended up getting a little sad at the end - not sure why - just wanted her Mommy. 


















That same day was actually my Grandma's Christmas celebration, but we had to miss it because of the program and it's a 5 + hour trip that we didn't want to make 2 times in one week!

On December 22nd Santa came ot our house.  Santa knew that we would not be home for Christmas so he came on Monday night since we would be leaving for Grammy & Grampy's house on Wednesday morning.  This was the first year that Ella really understood what was going on - it was fun to see her get so excited.  And from some of the pictures you can tell that it didn't matter what she was opening, she was thrilled!

We spend Christmas Eve at my parents and then my Grandma's house.  And Christmas Day we go to Aunt Cheryl's just to hang out and eat and talk.  And this year on the 26th we were able to get together with some of my high school friends.  Of course I didn't bring my camera!  I haven't seen some of them in years - it was great to catch up with everyone.






This year Ann, Zac, Pete & I decided that we were going to wear Ugly Sweaters to Mom & Dad's for Christmas.  Zac came out first with his on.  Ann & I were cracking up.  Mom couldn't figure out why we were laughing.  She didn't think that it looked out of the ordinary for Zac's wardrobe!  Hilarious!  She said that if Ann & I would have had ours on that she would have realized something was up.

Grammy & Grampy came out to go to the Zoo Lights with Ella on New Year's Eve.  Then they volunteered to watch the girls so we could go out.  We decided to go out for dinner and drinks.  We were home by 10:00 and then played cards until 2010!
















Grandma & Grandpa celebrated the Saturday after New Year's which is nice not to be so rushed during the week of Christmas.