I realize I haven't been posting here as often, and I'd really like to blog more mostly because I love going back and reading, but life is BUSY! Holidays are here, which means at night after Kate goes to bed and I finish picking up a bit and getting stuff ready for work the next day (and Brett helps so much!), I mentally juggle whether I should decorate the tree that we got today, go through 2,000 recent pictures, work on a Christmas card, order gifts, blog, put away piles of clean clothes, or....SLEEP!
And speaking of sleep....at 15.5 months old, my sweet Kate FINALLY slept through the night consistently! I don't want to jinx myself, but it's been 10 days straight so I think we're in a pattern. Praise the Lord. Actually, that probably deserved a post all to itself. Moving on :)
During the day we're working, and awake time and weekends we are constantly playing with and chasing Kate. I wouldn't have it any other way. She is the most amazing baby girl and I absolutely love watching her little mind go. These days, she gives hugs and kisses, loves books, tells the dogs "no no," tells us/points to exactly whats she wants to eat, talks (babbles) in paragraphs with so much emotion, has about 20 words, is OBSESSED with Elmo (I know), and wants to be outside pretty much all the hours of daylight.
Out the back door with Daddy, straight to the orange trees every time.
Nothing makes her happier than picking a tangerine, sharing it with us (so we can pick out the seeds), and getting covered in sticky juice and then dirt! She probably changes clothes 5 times a day on the weekends.
You see those little curls at the back? Oh my precious.
You see her wet shirt? Because she insisted on running through the hose and cracking up when Daddy was watering plants.
It's Thanksgiving weekend, so "Cott Cott" and "Eremy" (as Kate says) were both home. She is super excited to have some more playmates!
She stays busy with books, and can even point out certain pictures (dog, shoe, baby, banana, bird, etc).
She'll pick out a book, hand it to us, and crawl into our lap. And my heart melts into a puddle.
She makes animal sounds for tiger, cow, bird, duck, monkey, elephant, fish and is really getting the hang of the Gator chomp!
Probably because she got lots of practice as the GATORS BEAT FSU today!!
Go USC?!
So that was a completely random post, but I started going through lots of pictures and decided to do a little catch up on here. There is SO much more that we've done and I know I can't get caught up on all of it, so I'll just try to post fun little things when I can!
I'm going to sleep now...an hour late. See? I try to do a little post and then I keep adding pictures...
Maybe that Christmas tree will decorate itself.
I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful. We are so grateful for our family, friends, health, careers, home, pets, football :) and MOST of all, our Kate Elizabeth. She turned 16 months on Thanksgiving....that day we celebrated the most incredible 16 months of our lives.
How did we get so lucky?
