I have too many name ideas for the amount of children I want. I wish I could do themes, if not for all of them then for pairs. These two close ages kids are named after classic authors, these two after classic characters, and these two after...cooking. Yes, I sorta like a cooking theme. Except I only found one cooking name I'd like, which is Julienne. I'm learning how to Julienne carrots right now as well. Anyway, I can't stick to a theme. I originally wanted all K names for girls. That didn't work, our current name has no K's. I also wanted double L's in at least one of the names, as I have all double L's in all three of my names, Bill has them in two of his names, and Katie does as well. It would have been a subtle, neat tradition. I tried to do it with our girl name but it doesn't look quite right. Such a shame. So, no themes here, just fun ideas.
We're slowly creeping towards midnight on Katie's first new years eve. She must know that it's a night when everyone is supposed to stay awake as she has had nothing but two minute naps. Sorta sucky, as I want to be part of the party we're having. Not as easy with a sleepy baby who doesn't want to miss a moment of fun!
She currently is getting her nap in while nursing. Well, not really nursing as much as she won't let go of my nipple. I'm sure Katie will at least get to see her first new years ball drop.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Katie is Eating!!
This morning Katie got her high chair. We woke up early (sorta...I couldn't get out of the bed for an hour after waking, it was like my bones liquified!) and went to Babies R Us. Last week we went there are were told that my favorite high chair was being restocked on Wednesday. So today we go down, no high chairs. We called over an assistant and asked if they were still in the back, thinking if they were just off the truck, then maybe they didn't have time to restock them yet. But she scanned them and said no, not only are they not here, there were none ordered and their computer said to replace that high chair with something else as they probably won't be getting more at all! This, despite that they just put up a big Animal Krackers display case showing the swing, high chair, bouncer, etc just this week. Walmart and target doesnt carry it at all. Well, since I had wanted the high chair for Christmas and didn't want to fool around waiting even longer, we went with Bill's choice. It was more expensive and did a million things (it seats two kids at once, a toddler and a baby) but since we had $20 left on a gift card from the baby shower and I had a 20% off coupon, the high chair was then the same price as the one we wanted to get. So in the end we got a better high chair for the price of the one that was just a basic high chair that just matched the swing.
So we got it home, had it assembled in ten minutes, and put Katie in it. She loved it, surprisingly. It let's her sit up and play with toys, plus she can now be right next to me at the counter watching me cook, which she enjoys. She's not fond of the strapped in part, but she hates being strapped in to anything.
The high chair was bought now originally because the swing needs to get put away soon as she's reaching the weight limit, and so she can be more content sitting outside of my arms. I hadn't planned on feeding her anything for a month of two yet, but today she ended up eating anyway, which she loved! I fed her some liquidy mashed potatoes from the stewy pot dinner I made of green beans, potatoes, ham and mashed potatoes. She really liked tasting something different. It took her a few times to understand how to keep it in her mouth, but she kept opening her mouth and trying to grab my hand to shove more in! I'm going to get her some Cheerios to play around with and see how she does with the potatoes. I'd like to start her on yogurt, as I heard a few recurring cases of baby yeast going away once yogurt was introduced into their diet. If I can never have us get yeast again, I'll be very happy!
I took video and pics of her eating, I'll have to add those later.
So we got it home, had it assembled in ten minutes, and put Katie in it. She loved it, surprisingly. It let's her sit up and play with toys, plus she can now be right next to me at the counter watching me cook, which she enjoys. She's not fond of the strapped in part, but she hates being strapped in to anything.
The high chair was bought now originally because the swing needs to get put away soon as she's reaching the weight limit, and so she can be more content sitting outside of my arms. I hadn't planned on feeding her anything for a month of two yet, but today she ended up eating anyway, which she loved! I fed her some liquidy mashed potatoes from the stewy pot dinner I made of green beans, potatoes, ham and mashed potatoes. She really liked tasting something different. It took her a few times to understand how to keep it in her mouth, but she kept opening her mouth and trying to grab my hand to shove more in! I'm going to get her some Cheerios to play around with and see how she does with the potatoes. I'd like to start her on yogurt, as I heard a few recurring cases of baby yeast going away once yogurt was introduced into their diet. If I can never have us get yeast again, I'll be very happy!
I took video and pics of her eating, I'll have to add those later.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Katie's First Christmas!!
Katie enjoyed her first Christmas this past weekend! Well, maybe not so much the daily dress ups in Santa and tulle dresses with tights (as she hates to even wear socks) but she was a definite fan of the rest. Except for a giant teething melt down while meeting many family members for the first time, she was good all weekend. She loves seeing people, and she LOVES wrapping paper and bows!
We took her to midnight chirch on Christmas Eve. The church was beautifully decorated with trees and lights. Katie actually let me sit inside the mass for longer than two minutes. In fact, we sat in on the choir and then half of the mass before she woke up and had to move out to the mother's area. Bill went with us, and we ended up listening to the rest of the mass and singing songs on the sofa they have in there. We also finally got a meeting date for our first catacysm class, even though the rest of the students are already over half way through their lessons. It doesn't matter too much - either Katie gets baptized in the spring or we wait another year and she can be baptized with the next baby.
Even though Christmas is technically over, Katie and I are still making the most of it. We're slowly opening her toys, we play around the tree, and we still have all of our lights lit and our stockings full. I'm not ready to let go of the holiday season yet! My inlaws take down their tree on Christmas night. Here, we keep it up and shining for as long as it lets us! (Or, at least into the New Year!) I love the way the house looks with a Christmas tree. Next year, if we have the funds for it, I plan on putting up our artificial tree and buying pink lights for it and princess ornmaments.
There was, of course, many many pictures taken over the last weekend. Here are some of them:
Trying Katie's first pigtails on Christmas Eve Eve:
We took her to midnight chirch on Christmas Eve. The church was beautifully decorated with trees and lights. Katie actually let me sit inside the mass for longer than two minutes. In fact, we sat in on the choir and then half of the mass before she woke up and had to move out to the mother's area. Bill went with us, and we ended up listening to the rest of the mass and singing songs on the sofa they have in there. We also finally got a meeting date for our first catacysm class, even though the rest of the students are already over half way through their lessons. It doesn't matter too much - either Katie gets baptized in the spring or we wait another year and she can be baptized with the next baby.
Even though Christmas is technically over, Katie and I are still making the most of it. We're slowly opening her toys, we play around the tree, and we still have all of our lights lit and our stockings full. I'm not ready to let go of the holiday season yet! My inlaws take down their tree on Christmas night. Here, we keep it up and shining for as long as it lets us! (Or, at least into the New Year!) I love the way the house looks with a Christmas tree. Next year, if we have the funds for it, I plan on putting up our artificial tree and buying pink lights for it and princess ornmaments.
There was, of course, many many pictures taken over the last weekend. Here are some of them:
Trying Katie's first pigtails on Christmas Eve Eve:
Fast Asleep after some Christmas Eve partying:
After coming home from Midnight Mass, we put all the gifts under the tree:
Katie's stocking
Playing with her first doll. She loves the big eyes, the hands, and the hair!
Some of the gifts I got: a cast iron pan, a new skillet, a big pan and grillet, and an awesome set of knives (I played with cutting carrots into the smallest slivers for a good two hours!)
Playing with ribbon and bows
Our pretty girls:
Smiling up at her daddy:
No lie, she kept trying to play with Belle over and over. She obviously knows that Belle is already her favorite princess.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Dog land
Bill nearly broke his finger last night after a 100 pound jig box fell on it and very nearly needed stitches. So he took the day off today to give it a little time to heal. Since its a Wednesday, we decided to pack the family up and take Sophie to her doggy social. It changed a lot in the last four months! They changed the location so now there's lots of room. Where there used to only be 8-10 dogs, tonight there was at least 20. Katie loved it! She woke up in the store, she must have thought she woke up in doggy land! She cooed and giggled the whole time we were there and half the owners came up to coo at our baby and our dog. (everyone adores Sophie there, and Sophie knows it!)
I've been working on a craft idea for a few days now. It's a knitted tube scarf with fleece ends for my sister. I was doing pretty well, had about 25 rows on it, until tonight. Why? Well, Katie was whining and telling me she didn't want me to knit. I said "just let me finish this row, there's only a few stitches left!" She obviously wasn't waiting around second in line for that crap, because she kicked my needle as hard as she could. Not only did it fall out of my hand, but I lost most of the stitches. So guess who's working on row #2 again?
I now have most of Katie's first birthday party planned (of course I even have the cake sketched out!) I know quite a few people with little kids (or will have little kids) that will hopefully want to come and even though katie won't remember it (as I keep hearing over and over) she'll still enjoy the day. And I need an excuse to make cake. So...it's happening! Her first birthday is the only one she may get for a few years as I may have a tiny baby for her second birthday and be incapable of pulling it off. Of course, there's still the danger of me havin morning sickness and being pregnant on her birthday. In that case, I may need reinforcements.
I got all but 1 gift wrapped for Christmas now. The last one I'm still working on. Hopefully tomorrow I can do a trial run of some new cookie recipes before having to crank out the 14 dozen needed by the 21st. I miss baking, haven't managed it in weeks (even with new supplies!)
I've been working on a craft idea for a few days now. It's a knitted tube scarf with fleece ends for my sister. I was doing pretty well, had about 25 rows on it, until tonight. Why? Well, Katie was whining and telling me she didn't want me to knit. I said "just let me finish this row, there's only a few stitches left!" She obviously wasn't waiting around second in line for that crap, because she kicked my needle as hard as she could. Not only did it fall out of my hand, but I lost most of the stitches. So guess who's working on row #2 again?
I now have most of Katie's first birthday party planned (of course I even have the cake sketched out!) I know quite a few people with little kids (or will have little kids) that will hopefully want to come and even though katie won't remember it (as I keep hearing over and over) she'll still enjoy the day. And I need an excuse to make cake. So...it's happening! Her first birthday is the only one she may get for a few years as I may have a tiny baby for her second birthday and be incapable of pulling it off. Of course, there's still the danger of me havin morning sickness and being pregnant on her birthday. In that case, I may need reinforcements.
I got all but 1 gift wrapped for Christmas now. The last one I'm still working on. Hopefully tomorrow I can do a trial run of some new cookie recipes before having to crank out the 14 dozen needed by the 21st. I miss baking, haven't managed it in weeks (even with new supplies!)
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Pink paper
I wrapped Katie's Christmas gifts yesterday in white mistletoe wrapping paper that I got on sale. I actually enjoyed wrapping them, which is a big deal as I usually hate wrapping gifts.
Well then today, don't you know, I find EXACTLY the wrapping paper I've been searching for for the last two months. A princess PINK Christmas wrapping paper. SERIOUSLY?? I bought it anyway, and I thought maybe I could take her gifts out and use that wrapping paper for Bill's gifts and rewrap Katie's in the pink. But no, I couldn't. I had a big "moment" last night while wrapping them. It was the very first time I wrapped a gift for Katie and put her name on it. I've dreamt of wrapping a daughter's gift with the name of Katie on it for so long. And I finally did. I can't undo that for pink paper that Katie won't notice anyway.
I'll probably put it away for next Christmas instead. She'll recognize it then anyway.
We made more salt dough ornaments yesterday. We captured Katie's handprint again and even got Sophie's paw print on one. I then made flour paint and painted katie's handprint pink. Which was difficult as I had to paint with a spoon and I griped about it. This morning Bill went out for milk and he brought me home some paint brushes! (and Oreos, I love Oreos...)
It's now two weeks before Christmas. It's actually going by too fast, once it's over it's depressing that it takes a whole year to come back again! But next years will be a lot of fun, with an 18 month old and perhaps another on the way. So much can change in one year!
Well then today, don't you know, I find EXACTLY the wrapping paper I've been searching for for the last two months. A princess PINK Christmas wrapping paper. SERIOUSLY?? I bought it anyway, and I thought maybe I could take her gifts out and use that wrapping paper for Bill's gifts and rewrap Katie's in the pink. But no, I couldn't. I had a big "moment" last night while wrapping them. It was the very first time I wrapped a gift for Katie and put her name on it. I've dreamt of wrapping a daughter's gift with the name of Katie on it for so long. And I finally did. I can't undo that for pink paper that Katie won't notice anyway.
I'll probably put it away for next Christmas instead. She'll recognize it then anyway.
We made more salt dough ornaments yesterday. We captured Katie's handprint again and even got Sophie's paw print on one. I then made flour paint and painted katie's handprint pink. Which was difficult as I had to paint with a spoon and I griped about it. This morning Bill went out for milk and he brought me home some paint brushes! (and Oreos, I love Oreos...)
It's now two weeks before Christmas. It's actually going by too fast, once it's over it's depressing that it takes a whole year to come back again! But next years will be a lot of fun, with an 18 month old and perhaps another on the way. So much can change in one year!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Ramblings
18 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!
I can't wait to make Christmas tree cupcakes and a baby Jesus cake (I'd love to get gumpaste and make an actual baby Jesus for it.) I also have lots of Christmas cookies to make, since I promised my little brother. I need to get my hands on cookie cutters though! I don't think he wants his Christmas cookies to be all in the shape of hearts!
For some reason, Katie looks like she went from baby to little kid over the last few days. I keep saying she barely looks like a baby now! She knows how to do so much, she's doing lots of baby babble and her face is just so different from months ago.
She also got really light colored hair now. It keeps showing up as gold blonde for the last 3-4 days. I think it's really getting light now.
I was starting to get a bit worried about April these past few weeks, as that's when we're supposed to start ttc. I figured with everyone I know either having a brand new baby, finding out they're pregnant, or finding out the gender of their baby lately that I'd be like "awww, I want another!" oddly enough I haven't been at all. Not even tempted by little newborn babies or the excitement of pregnancy. I've been relieved that it's not me! Which was worrying as i want to set up Katie with a close sibling. However, a few days ago Bill was being a jokester as usual and he came up and put his hand on my belly and said in such a tender, sweet voice "hello, new baby." I knew he said it only to panic me, but it did the opposite. I finally felt something good, some anxiousness for when that does happen. And now that we have two solid names for a baby girl or boy (plus a few backup names) I feel more ready. Not so ready as to try next month (like Bill does so be can get his Libra) but by April I should have that want back, especially with how fast Katie is growing up! She hardly resembles my little baby now! April is only 4 months away already!
It's the simplest things Katie does that I know I'm going to be sad when she stops. Katie loves for me to sleep with her right now because she gets night terrors. So when I'm nursing her to sleep, she often reached out and holds my finger, or sometimes grabs a fistful of my shirt to ensure that I can't slip away when she falls asleep. I also love when she tries to wipe the sleep from her eyes with the back of her chubby starfish hands. It's so adorable the way she does it. It's neat to see her not only noticing her hands, but to be capable of controlling them now. She hasn't slapped herself in the face and then blamed it on me for a while! She has no real interest in her toes, however.
I discovered today that Katie's nose is the perfect, exact shape of a crispy cereal piece in Count Chocula. Even Bill agreed it was!
We got more fish yesterday as some of ours from our very first batch had died about a month ago. Katie loves all the new additions, she can sit there an watch the fish swim up to her for hours. I bought some Mickey ear fish too, just to add a little Disney in the tank for her.
I'll add pictures later.
I can't wait to make Christmas tree cupcakes and a baby Jesus cake (I'd love to get gumpaste and make an actual baby Jesus for it.) I also have lots of Christmas cookies to make, since I promised my little brother. I need to get my hands on cookie cutters though! I don't think he wants his Christmas cookies to be all in the shape of hearts!
For some reason, Katie looks like she went from baby to little kid over the last few days. I keep saying she barely looks like a baby now! She knows how to do so much, she's doing lots of baby babble and her face is just so different from months ago.
She also got really light colored hair now. It keeps showing up as gold blonde for the last 3-4 days. I think it's really getting light now.
I was starting to get a bit worried about April these past few weeks, as that's when we're supposed to start ttc. I figured with everyone I know either having a brand new baby, finding out they're pregnant, or finding out the gender of their baby lately that I'd be like "awww, I want another!" oddly enough I haven't been at all. Not even tempted by little newborn babies or the excitement of pregnancy. I've been relieved that it's not me! Which was worrying as i want to set up Katie with a close sibling. However, a few days ago Bill was being a jokester as usual and he came up and put his hand on my belly and said in such a tender, sweet voice "hello, new baby." I knew he said it only to panic me, but it did the opposite. I finally felt something good, some anxiousness for when that does happen. And now that we have two solid names for a baby girl or boy (plus a few backup names) I feel more ready. Not so ready as to try next month (like Bill does so be can get his Libra) but by April I should have that want back, especially with how fast Katie is growing up! She hardly resembles my little baby now! April is only 4 months away already!
It's the simplest things Katie does that I know I'm going to be sad when she stops. Katie loves for me to sleep with her right now because she gets night terrors. So when I'm nursing her to sleep, she often reached out and holds my finger, or sometimes grabs a fistful of my shirt to ensure that I can't slip away when she falls asleep. I also love when she tries to wipe the sleep from her eyes with the back of her chubby starfish hands. It's so adorable the way she does it. It's neat to see her not only noticing her hands, but to be capable of controlling them now. She hasn't slapped herself in the face and then blamed it on me for a while! She has no real interest in her toes, however.
I discovered today that Katie's nose is the perfect, exact shape of a crispy cereal piece in Count Chocula. Even Bill agreed it was!
We got more fish yesterday as some of ours from our very first batch had died about a month ago. Katie loves all the new additions, she can sit there an watch the fish swim up to her for hours. I bought some Mickey ear fish too, just to add a little Disney in the tank for her.
I'll add pictures later.
Friday, December 2, 2011
5 MONTHS!
Wow, it's the 2nd today! I totally nearly missed that Katie is FIVE MONTHS OLD today! Time is just flying by.
I was looking at her newborn pictures yesterday as I'm putting together an order for Shutterfly, and I can't believe how different she looks already. Her face in general looks like a little kid with distinguishing features. Her hair is at least twice the length and twice the curliness. And she's just SO tall now! She's grown over an inch every month so far, and doubled and a half her weight. Five months doesn't seem like an eternity for most, for me it is - Katie already seems so old!
I adore how much joy she finds in everything. There's nothing quite like playing with a 4/5 month old where everything is so exciting and fun. Now that she's using her hands more, can see things better, and can understand things, she's just delighted at such simple things. It's fun to re-explore the world through an infant's eyes.
It's just a shame she can grasp the idea of Christmas yet, or she'd go crazy in excitement. Next year, she's going to be my little Christmas princess.
I was looking at her newborn pictures yesterday as I'm putting together an order for Shutterfly, and I can't believe how different she looks already. Her face in general looks like a little kid with distinguishing features. Her hair is at least twice the length and twice the curliness. And she's just SO tall now! She's grown over an inch every month so far, and doubled and a half her weight. Five months doesn't seem like an eternity for most, for me it is - Katie already seems so old!
I adore how much joy she finds in everything. There's nothing quite like playing with a 4/5 month old where everything is so exciting and fun. Now that she's using her hands more, can see things better, and can understand things, she's just delighted at such simple things. It's fun to re-explore the world through an infant's eyes.
It's just a shame she can grasp the idea of Christmas yet, or she'd go crazy in excitement. Next year, she's going to be my little Christmas princess.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
A first thanksgiving and beyond!
I know, I know - its been a while since I posted anything! It's not because I'm bored of this, I swear. It's just that I kept starting blog posts, then not finishing them, and then they'd become too outdated to post. So I'm going to attempt to sum up how things are going.
Katie had her first thanksgiving last week. She did surprisingly well and let me eat almost my whole dinner. This year we went to my mom's house, and Katie loves her little aunt and uncles so she behaves really well there usually. To think, last year I spent the day traveling nearly two miles, throwing up the entire way, and then barely getting to eat (possibly how I'll be again next year!)
The day after, Katie had a busy day. She met her great uncle, her second cousins and Santa all at once! Poor Katie waited and waited for Santa and suffered through three outfits changes. Then when I finally convinced him to come see her, she instantly fell asleep! Oh well, she saw him for a little while!
We got katies first Christmas tree on Sunday! It's the earliest ive ever decorated but I was too excited to wait. We got a perfectly plump tree that Katie, my sister and I decorated along with the rest of downstairs. I LOVE having a tree in the house! It makes all of downstairs glow and the whole place seem more cheerful. I love Christmas! I keep wanting to wrap Katie's gifts but I want to see if I can find any pink paper first.
This Sunday, Katie will be meeting more family for the first time. Her oldest uncle will be visiting from South Carolina. The last time I saw him was two years ago - so much has changed for both of us since then!
Today I was frustrated (for the third day) at the lack of neat ornaments for baby girls first Christmas. I was looking for pink and princessy. Nothing! And disney's semi ok but badly reviewed one was way too much. So, I made one myself. I made salt dough and made one with Katie's handprint, one with Katie's footprint, and two large princess decorations for her room. I'm thinking about making more Christmas ones, it was fun!
KatieKate is awake and crying, so I'll have to finish later!
Katie had her first thanksgiving last week. She did surprisingly well and let me eat almost my whole dinner. This year we went to my mom's house, and Katie loves her little aunt and uncles so she behaves really well there usually. To think, last year I spent the day traveling nearly two miles, throwing up the entire way, and then barely getting to eat (possibly how I'll be again next year!)
The day after, Katie had a busy day. She met her great uncle, her second cousins and Santa all at once! Poor Katie waited and waited for Santa and suffered through three outfits changes. Then when I finally convinced him to come see her, she instantly fell asleep! Oh well, she saw him for a little while!
We got katies first Christmas tree on Sunday! It's the earliest ive ever decorated but I was too excited to wait. We got a perfectly plump tree that Katie, my sister and I decorated along with the rest of downstairs. I LOVE having a tree in the house! It makes all of downstairs glow and the whole place seem more cheerful. I love Christmas! I keep wanting to wrap Katie's gifts but I want to see if I can find any pink paper first.
This Sunday, Katie will be meeting more family for the first time. Her oldest uncle will be visiting from South Carolina. The last time I saw him was two years ago - so much has changed for both of us since then!
Today I was frustrated (for the third day) at the lack of neat ornaments for baby girls first Christmas. I was looking for pink and princessy. Nothing! And disney's semi ok but badly reviewed one was way too much. So, I made one myself. I made salt dough and made one with Katie's handprint, one with Katie's footprint, and two large princess decorations for her room. I'm thinking about making more Christmas ones, it was fun!
KatieKate is awake and crying, so I'll have to finish later!
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