4 months old

We started rice cereal over the weekend..I think she liked it! We are waiting for our highchair to be delivered..I found a cool one online.



We just got back from Katelyn's 4 month checkup. She is 13 lbs 3 oz and 24 inches long. She is following the 50th percentile curve. Everything looks great! The doctor said that she pulled a "6 month move" when she was testing her strength. It must be all the workouts in her exersaucer that I found at a garage sale. She loves that thing. We already started cereal because I could tell she was still hungry after her bottles...we can move on to baby food at 5 months.

Vacation to Crystal Mountain

We had a great time with our family this weekend up north at Crystal Mountain. We had awesome weather! This was Katelyn's first vacation and she was very good. She slept in the car the whole trip there and back. She didn't sleep well at night, but thankfully there were many hands to help her tired parents during the day! Steve and I even got to go on a "date" to the beach and for some ice cream on Thursday afternoon.


Here she is being a good girl in her carseat:

Friday was perfect for the pool and we spent all day out there. Levi loved the water. We even put Katelyn's suit on, but the water was a little too cold for her to stay in there a long time.

Saturday, the guys went golfing on the Mountain course. The girls took the babies to Gwen Frostic where we picked up some notecards and then we went to Crystal Gardens in Frankfort. They had an antique shop and a little nature hike. The gardens were beautiful.

We relaxed, ate great food, treasured the time with all of us in one place, and enjoyed not having a schedule!

Father's Day

We enjoyed Father's Day as our little family and also with our extended families. It was a busy day and Katelyn wasn't feeling well with her first cold...but we still had a great time. We are so thankful to have been raised in homes with loving, Christian fathers. I am so thankful to have Steve as the father of our children. He is the world's best dad! Lately, he and Katelyn have been enjoying dancing together on the kitchen counter. We love you Daddy!

Watch out Daddy

It is a known fact that Steve controls the remote. I have tried to steal it from him many times when he drifts off to sleep while watching golf or baseball. Somehow he always ends up with the remote..no matter how hard I try. Well..now it's two against one! Watch out Daddy!! Ha Ha Ha!

3 month update

We've made it through 3 months! I can't believe how quickly the time went. Katelyn has changed our lives and we have been learning a lot along the way! Just this past week for the last four nights, we have had a good sleeper. One night we even got 9 hours of sleep! My mom and I were talking about how Steve and I wanted her to get to the stage where she slept through the night (who wouldn't) and we wanted her to grow up to do that...well now we can't go back to the newborn stage anymore! I have learned that we need to enjoy every second and that the stages that try our patience won't be that way for long. Other milestones..Katelyn has also been finding her hands and putting them in her mouth, grabbing her feet, and she laughed out loud for the first time while looking in the bathroom mirror. She also has already developed some stranger anxiety..but usually warms up to people after a short time.
We have a few trips planned for this summer, but for the most part we will be at home many nights after our baby girl goes to bed for the night. Steve installed some speakers outside by our bonfire pit. We will be spending many cool summer nights out there listening to baseball or our ipod and relaxing together...so come on over!

Check out..

Rebecca Ingram Powell. She has a great blog that I came upon after reading an article of hers in our church nursery information packet. I actually won a contest on her blog and will receive a free magazine subscription and two of her signed books! Her blog has some neat insights and I have enjoyed reading it.

Cutie in the Tub

Just can't get over how cute she is when she takes her bath. She loves to splash around. After the bath she hates the routine of aquaphor, cortisone, and desitin...but her skin really needs it!