Friday, April 20, 2007

8 Months Update

Katelyn is becoming more and more indipendant every day. She prefers to feed herself whenever possible and eats 3 big meals of solid foods a day now, plus snacks. She loves the rice cakes that Julia sent over from England for Easter. Thank you so much for the bottle as well. It is very easy for her to hold on her own.

She can sit up like a champ and has even begun moving around a bit, especially when she has stuff to push off of, like Mommy or Daddy's laps. :) She is bound to be crawling very soon. We also think she is teething again as there has been a bit of extra fussing lately and last night was extremely restless. She still loves people and playing with other kids. She also loves being outside and looking around at all the trees and plants around our house.

I think her favorite thing to play with, however, is our cat, Terry. Every time Terry comes in the room, Katelyn focuses all of her attention on her. She pets her whenever she gets within arms reach, sometimes a bit too roughly, but Terry is very good about it. She will walk away when she has had enough but has never retaliated in any way for all the yanks on the ears and tail. And she keeps coming back for more.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Vacation in Maine (Cont.)


Katelyn also got to go swimming for the first time while we were on vacation. She had a great time in the pool with us. We got her a play ring, which is a lot like her exersaucer at home, and she was able to kick around in the water without us having to hold her the whole time. She also got to experience going underwater completely. She didn't seem to mind it but was not completely taken with it, either.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Vacation in Maine

Two weeks ago we took Katelyn to Maine to see her grandparents and meet more of her extended family. This was her first airplane trip and she was wonderful. She was smiling and playful and many of the other passengers commented on how well she behaved. She loved having so many people to look at and interact with.

While in Maine, we spent a lot of time with Memere and Pepere both at their house and at the resort. They were both thrilled to see us and see just how big Katelyn has gotten in the past 6 months. They even babysat for an evening so we could could go to dinner just the two of us. Thank you for that. :)











Katelyn got to see her great-grandmothers for the first time as well. Both were very excited to finally meet her. We took each of them out to lunch and showed them lots of pictures.