Christmas 2009
By Marisa | December 26, 2009
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Noooo
By Marisa | December 19, 2009
She did not get the hand motion from us!
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Video and Santa
By Marisa | December 13, 2009
Took Molly and Katie outside after the blizzard. Katie did not initially like it, but cheered up once I started making Molly run through the snow drifts.
I took Katie to see Santa today, and it did not go so well:
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Blizzard
By Marisa | December 9, 2009
The big story of the day is that “After a snowstorm dumped 12 to 16 inches of snow on southeastern Minnesota on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, winds of 20 to 40 mph will whip it up and create white-out conditions.”
Poor Molly made it about halfway down the deck steps before she couldn’t break through the snow anymore.
She tried several times but couldn’t get any farther. I tried to convince her it would be OK to pee on the deck, but she knew that was wrong. So we had to go to the front yard, where the wind had blown all the snow away.
Mike cleared the driveway this morning before the plow went by. After the plow came, the snow was almost knee-height. Good thing we have the snow blower!
In non-snow news, we got the tree up this week and Katie is fascinated by it.
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Outside
By Marisa | November 23, 2009
Katie and Molly went outside to play in the yard over the weekend.
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Protected: Testing
By Marisa | October 31, 2009
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Technical Difficulties
By Marisa | October 25, 2009
I uploaded a bunch of pictures to our Shutterfly site, but now that site is broken. I’ve e-mailed customer service for help, but have not gotten a response yet.
In the meantime, here’s a video of Katie taking some steps. She’s getting more confident and walked a lot yesterday.
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Katie @ 15 months
By Marisa | June 21, 2009
Katie had a checkup this week. Here are the newest stats, along with her 1 year stats in parenthesis since I forgot to post those:
19lb 10oz (up from 17lb 10oz - a HUGE jump for Katie!)
28.75″ (up from 27.75″, again a good leap)
47.4cm head (up from 46.8cm)
She’s now in the 9th percentile for length and 7th percentile for weight. Her head is still huge - 87th percentile, but that’s a drop from the 91st percentile at a year. The rest of her is slowly catching up.
Other recent developments:
- Katie has 8 teeth now - all four front teeth (top and bottom) and all four first molars. The bottom left molar is completely out, and the other molars are in the process of coming through. She got her first tooth in late April, and the 8th just poked through, so they’ve been coming in fast.
- She has started traditional crawling, in addition to her army-man style.
- She is pulling up on everything.
- She said her first word last month - “ball.” She’s got some other sounds (mommommom) but ball is the only one that is clear and that we know she is using for something specific.
- I cut off her rat tail this week. She’d lost at least half of it, probably by it getting caught in shirt buttons, etc. I finally broke down and cut it off after she was yanking on it; since she’s had that hair since she was born I wanted to save it for the baby book and thought I should probably cut it while there was still something to save. She has not yet had her first real hair cut, although her bangs are getting long enough that the day is probably coming soon.
Recent pictures:
Katie tried watermelon. She thought squishing it was more fun than eating it. (She had eaten something else messy prior, which ended up in her hair).
We tried to block off the hallway with a chair, but Katie figured out she could try to agility tunnel her way through it.
She enjoys going after the vacuum, one of the things she loves that she knows we don’t want her touching (the others being the baby gate and the cabinets).
Crawling through an approved agility tunnel, with her favorite toy (ball) in hand.
Molly is not enjoying Katie as much lately, as Katie has gone from gently loving on her puppy to pulling on Molly’s hair. Molly is such a sweetheart that she just lays there and takes it. Occasionally Molly will get annoyed enough to get up and walk away, but she always comes right back to where Katie is so that the process starts over.
Katie stands up on everything and anything. Bathtime is kind of difficult now, as Katie keeps attempting to stand in the tub.
Last weekend it got up to 80, so we took Katie outside to play with the water table that she got for Christmas.
She was initially a little reserved about it.
Then she decided touching the water was good.
Sometimes when Katie is working hard, she sticks her tongue out.
Sharing the toys with Mama.
Not a great picture, but you can see the top two teeth.
She had a lot of fun with the table, especially when she dumped water on me instead of in the table. I am pretty sure she is going to love swimming.
Katie’s hair is getting long, but I just got 4″ cut off!
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Busy Bee
By Marisa | April 19, 2009
Katie got her first Illini hat last month:
Katie discovered that Mama’s calculator made a good toy:
Katie celebrated Easter:
Katie ate a breadstick:
BOB came out of hibernation! (Too bad it is 40 and raining here today, so we couldn’t use it):
Katie chased Molly around:
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Forward Motion!
By Marisa | March 30, 2009
After months of moving backwards and sideways, Katie has figured out how to move forward! It’s not real crawling, but more like a combination of the breaststroke and army man crawling. Good thing our stairway gate is coming today.
Other recent pictures:
Katie had her 2nd St. Patrick’s Day; I was dumb and bought a 9 month size top instead of 6 months so it’s too big.
I try to get Katie to wear her sunglasses in the car.
We got a new stroller.
Katie would not set her phone down to try out the stroller.
Katie’s other recent accomplishment is to shake her head no and to shake her body for yes:
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