Haircut

For out of town family and friends, here are pictures of my new haircut:)

This and That

The wonderfully fun and crazy holidays are over. We had a great visit with Meg, Will, and Laurel who stayed with Dave and I for 5 fun-filled and busy days! We ate, shopped, fed babies, opened presents, fed babies, bathed and changed babies, watched Jeeves and Wooster, fed babies etc. It was so much fun being moms together with Meg. It really felt like we were playing baby dolls together. Dave also had lots of days off which was so very fun just to live day in and day out life together all day for days one end:)

First Christmas morning as a little family! I loved having baby Kate with us this year. I think she enjoyed her first Christmas:)

Laurel liked to touch Kate and Kate of course completely ignored Laurel. And I'm not sure what Will was doing in the picture.

Laurel is starting to notice food and is fascinated with cups and mugs. Dad was letting her play with his water cup and she was enthusiastically licking it. Can you see her tongue? It was so funny watching her!

My sleepy baby taking a nap during our girls lunch out on Saturday. We were at Toast up in Davidson and Kate and Laurel were quite the to do in the restaurant.

Kate is starting to learn more "skills" which is making her more and more fun to interact with! She will sit in her bouncy seat or on the couch for long periods of time now and chew her hands or look at toys or objects I hold up for her. She can also follow them all over with her eyes. She is just noticing so many more things (like the spots on her pants today:) She hasn't figured out yet that she has hands so she doesn't touch or hold things yet but I can tell it's coming soon.   Today she was laying on my bed while I was folding laundry and she was just being so cute that I decided to take some pictures. 

Kate is wearing this lovely bib because she drools pretty much all the time and will soak her outfit.

Hammin it up together. She really goes to town on her hands! The doctor assured me she isn't teething though. 

"What is that thing mom is holding over my head?"

I love my baby girl's peepers! She is often very serious like this. I really wonder what her personality will turn out like. I never thought about having a really serious "take it all in quietly" kind of child....I am so not that way:)

Normally Kate will give the biggest smiles when you just talk to her and smile at her. She isn't too intrigued by silliness. But today I was sticking my tongue out at her and she LOVED it. Look how cute she was! It was making me laugh really hard. I just am having more and more fun being a mom. 

Growing

I took Kate to the doctor last Friday for her 2 month well check.

She weighed in at 12 lbs 1 oz (90%)

Measured 23 inches (75%)

and I forget her head measurement, but it was the 50th percentile.

The doctor said she is a very healthy girl!

A Day in the Life

I have come to realize that life with a baby is all about the immediate and routine. When she needs something she needs it quickly, and we do the same things over and over each day. I really love it. 

Every day Kate gets quite "drunk" after she eats:) She wears a bib because she is a messy eater!

She has some bouncy seat time every day. Today was the first day she actually watched the bubbles and little creatures! 

She laughs and plays with dad....

and mom!!!

Unfortunately, her favorite pastime is watching TV. She will sometimes stare at it for 10-15 minutes at a time (which in 2 month-old time is like an hour:) We will have to limit her TV time when she gets bigger I think!

Sometimes the shows get scary!

It's so hard to wake up from a deep sleep to eat!

Almost there!

Kate rides in her car seat almost everyday and isn't too fond of it....unless the car is moving:)

And after all that, who wouldn't need some sleep?

By the way, I highly recommend the Swaddle Me blanket she is sleeping in. She didn't seem to like it at first but I tried it again a few weeks later. Now it is one member of "The Indispensable Trifecta of Sleep" (aka, hat, paci, swaddle me blanket)

Kendra and Jeanie both tagged me to go to my 6th folder and post the 6th picture. It's baby Kate being checked and cleaned right after she was born. She looks SUPER annoyed. I would be too:) 

Now I tag my SISTER

Smiles All Around

***warning: this post contains a rather ridiculous amount of pictures. I couldn't narrow them down.***

Kate turned 6 weeks old on Saturday! In the last two weeks she has started to smile and coo! I think it is pretty much the cutest thing ever:) I took about a gazillion pictures of her this morning trying to capture a smile and was able to get a few. 

Her new favorite thing is "naked time". This is when she gets to lay on her changing pad with no diaper for a little bit. She kicks and waves her arms and talks and smiles up a storm! It's hilarious how much she loves it. I took all these pictures directly after naked time when she was still quite happy:) 

She gave herself a nasty scratch because I didn't trim her razor thumb nail in time.

This picture shows how big she has gotten! I can't wait to get her stats at the doctor in a few weeks.

Close range surprise face:)

"Come here, I wanna tell you a secret."

I love this one:)

Looking exactly like her dad while sneezing. (she and I both have a bit of a cold.)

Starting to smile!

Working those arms and legs!

I included this one to show how long and chubby her body is and how short and skinny her legs are. Last night David and I were laughing because he said she looks like Dogbert from the "Dilbert" cartoon strip. She really does:)