Things I Want to Remember

I really need to do a Memorial Day post, but in the meantime here's a list of a few things that I want to remember... with a few Memorial Day weekend pictures slipped in!

If you've been following my blog for any amount of time, you know that this blog is ALL about Kate. :)  Basically it's her baby book.  Since she is changing so much and doing so many new things, I wanted to do a post on some of these things so I don't ever forget them!  So, here we go...

1. Kate has learned to spit.  Perfect.  One minute she'll be crawling around on the floor, and the next minute she'll be frozen in place (still in the crawling position), looking at the ground.  When I look to see what she's doing, she'll be making a big spit puddle in the floor.  She thinks it's amazing.  I think it's disgusting.

2. She's learned to share, or at least wants me to copy what she's doing.  When I'm playing on the floor with her, she usually has a toy that she is chewing on.  She'll be chewing away and then realize that Mommy's not chewing on anything.  So she'll crawl over to me and try to shove whatever toy she was playing with in my mouth.

3. She has started turning her head to the side to look at you.  It's so cute, but hard to explain.  She'll be staring at you and then just cock her head to the side and smile.

4.  She LEANS where she wants to go and has total faith that you won't drop her.  It's getting pretty bad.  This past weekend, she did it to my dad while he was holding her on the couch.  She just leaned over the edge toward the floor.  Luckily he had his hands on her, or else she would have face-planted onto the floor.  She does this all the time!

 
5. She LOVES her Daddy.  She's a happy, people-person kind of baby anyway, but when her Daddy walks into the room she just lights up.  He gets the best smiles.  Not that I'm jealous or anything.

Sick Girl- Again

I have a sick little girl, again.  She did great until 7 months and now it seems like she is catching a cold just about every month.  She's on #3 right now.  You wouldn't tell from the pictures below that she's sick, but she was pretty pitiful Tuesday night and Wednesday night.  

Kate's such an independent little baby.  Normally, she does NOT want to be held or cuddled.  She does like to be carried around but for the most part, she would rather crawl around, play and basically do things on her own.  However, on Tuesday and Wednesday, all she wanted to do is be held and cuddled.  I'm not going to lie, I like that part.  I don't like the part where I can tell she doesn't feel good.  She would cry, then crawl over to me, get into my lap and just lay her head on me.  So sweet and so sad. 

Tonight she's still congested and stuffy, but at least she's happy again...

Practicing Her Steps

We are SO lucky that Kate's Nana keeps her during the daytime while Kevin and I are at work.  We know Kate is well taken care of, and maybe getting a little spoiled.  That's okay though. I keep hearing that that is what grandparents are for.

Kate has lots of toys at Papa and Nana's house and her Nana picked up this walker toy at a consignment shop.  Because they have hard wood floors, Kate had trouble controlling it and it kept getting away from her.  We have rugs and carpet mostly so we decided to try it out at our house.  The toys on the walker keep distracting her and she would much rather be standing up and playing than pushing it around.  BUT, here's the proof that she can push it and walk, even if it's not intentional!

That's My Girl!

I TOLD you that Kate likes books!  :)  She has a whole box of toys, and what does she pull out?  This is her favorite book right now.  It's a First Words trainer book- a gift from her great grandmother in Charleston.  Kate loves it!

Happy 9 Month Birthday!

I'm a little late in posting this, but oh well.  Kate turned 9 months old on May 10th so here is her monthly update (finally)!

She went to the doctor the day after she turned 9 months old and weighed 21 lbs 2 oz, which put her in the 89% for her weight.  She was 29 1/3 inches long, which put her in the 95% for her height.  Can't remember her head circumference but it was along the same percentiles.  I guess to sum up the stats, she's definitely still on track for being much taller than her 5' 1" Mama.  

She LOVES to eat and it does seem like she's wanting less and less formula and more and more solids.  She definitely wants table foods, and we try to let her have small tastes of our meals.   

She still sleeps well at nights.  Normally she goes to bed between 8 and 8:30 and wakes up around 7 or 7:30 in the mornings.  Naps are another story.   She hasn't been napping as well the past week during the day and basically fights taking a nap.  Then she'll go to sleep as soon as Kevin gets home with her and then sleep from 5:30 til 7:45ish.  I've had to wake her up from naps to feed her dinner and give her a bath before bed.  So we're still working on the whole napping thing.  However, today she took a 4 hour nap so maybe she was just saving it all up for the weekend. 

We THINK she's teething and are looking for her top teeth to pop through any day now.  She's been putting her hands in her mouth a lot- especially her thumb.  She'll have her thumb in her mouth facing up and just push against her top gums.  She hasn't been especially fussy but she's had a LOT of dirty diapers the past week.  Isn't that a sign of teething too?  So it's either the teething, or those sweet potato puffs that we just realized were sweet potato.  :) 

And what's a monthly update without lots of pictures?  So, here they are...

Oh Kate, you've grown SO much in the past 9 months. I can't believe that in just a few more months, we will be celebrating you being one year old!

           

           

            

 

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Haven't done this in a while but I'm jumping back on the Wednesday bandwagon.

Here we go!  Here's what I'm loving this Wednesday.

1.  I am more of a chap stick or lip balm girl.  Occasionally I'll put a little color on my lips but I don't usually buy lipsticks.  I LOVE Burt's Bees lip products.  I have a ton of them, but this is my latest favorite...

It's pink grapefruit-  so yummy, refreshing and perfect for summer. 

2. I LOVE this all-purpose cleaner by Method.  All of the cleaning products are (now) locked up and baby proofed, but this brand is also non-toxic, which is a big plus with a baby in the house.   And it cleans great!

3. Baby pig tails. So fun!

4.  Our new baby-containment system when we're working in the yard.  Technically it's not new, this was just one of the first times we brought it outside.  Kate wasn't too thrilled with her situation.  She'd have rather been eating grass.

5. This post by Kevin about my first Mother's Day as a Mommy.

6. Our upcoming beach vacation!  3.5 weeks and counting!

What are YOU loving this Wednesday?

Clemson or UGA?

As most of you know, I'm a Clemson fan and Kevin is a Georgia fan.  I come from a BIG family of Clemson fans, but Kevin is basically the only Georgia fan on either side of our family.  So he's a bit outnumbered.  However, he is determined that Kate will have an equal opportunity to choose which team she likes.  Just our luck, she'll end up being a Gamecock fan and make us both mad. :)

Anyway, a friend of our gave us this Clemson pillow pet for Kate.

However, Kevin wouldn't let me give it to Kate until he found the matching UGA counterpart. 

Instead of just giving them to Kate, we decided to put them on the floor and see which one she went to first.  Well, you can't tell it from the pictures but she definitely chose the Clemson one!  That's my girl!

And even when they were stacked, she moved the Georgia one out of the way to get to the Clemson one.

Future CLEMSON fan!  Go tigers.