Kaitlyn: Month Seven

Our Precious Boo Bear,

I cannot believe how fast time has been passing by. It seems like we were just meeting you for the first time last week. You have grown and changed so much in this past month. Your personality is getting bigger by the day and you are definitely the sunshine in our lives.

This past month, we introduced you to solids, and what an adventure that has been. The first time, you cried when we put you in your high chair, and you spit almost all of your cereal back out at us. Now you are excited to eat, and actually open your mouth for more food. However, when you are all done, you lock your jaw and turn your mouth from side to side to avoid your spoon. I think your favorite food so far has been carrots, although I want to reintroduce more of the foods we gave you initially to see how you respond to them now.

You are now eating 20-24 ounces of breast milk a day. It is hard to say exactly how many times a day you are eating. Sometimes you drink half a bottle, other times you drink a bottle and a half or two bottles of milk at a time. We make you six 4 oz bottles for the day, and you usually have 1-2 oz left over at the end of the day. You are also eating about a jar to a jar and a half of baby food a day. You are still eating the baby's "first" foods, although I have a feeling you will be moving on to the "2's" soon. 

With all your eating and growing, you are now wearing bigger clothes. Some of your clothes are 6-9 months and some are 6-12 months, it just depends on the brand and their sizing. Your little thighs are getting so chunky and they are absolutely precious!! :o)

We also had to put you in your medium diapers (size 3 for disposable use) and adjust all of your one size diapers up a notch. Mommy is excited that she got to order more fluffy mail!! You have lots of cute new colors of diapers to wear, including polka dots, leopard print, and bold blues, pinks and purple!

We took our first out of town trip as a family this month, too. We went to Lake LBJ after the fourth of July to spend some time with your godfather, TJ, and Aunt Lindsay. You had so much fun being spoiled all weekend!! You did so well being on the boat; you loved the wind and water on you, but you weren't too sure about your life jacket unless you were being held. Uncle TJ even blew up the kid's pool for you and you had so much fun splashing at the Lake House. I can't wait to see you and Daddy tubing at the lake when you get bigger! 

You are still our little snuggle bunny, but only when you are asleep! You are now a baby on the move! Between rolling, sitting, standing up and crawling some, you are able to get almost any place that interests you. This is definitely keeping us (and daddy especially) on our toes. You tried to attack daddy's XBOX the other day and he almost had a heart attack. lol!

As usual, you are meeting (and exceeding!) all of your milestones. Some of the things that you are now able to do:

-Sit without support

-Drag objects near you

-Lung forward on your hands and knees and take a few steps crawling

-Jabber (you like to babble and screams excitement, although when you are learning something new, you focus very intently and do not make noise)

-Experience Stranger Anxiety (oh goodness, this has been interesting)

-Stand while holding onto something

-Bang objects together

-Pull self to standing (this is an 8 month skill)

We love you so very much, Kaitlyn, and are extremely proud to be your mommy and daddy. God has blessed us tremendously with you as a daughter and we cannot wait to see what you learn and accomplish in this next month.

Love,
Mommy

"How Old Are You?"

Preview of Seven Month Photoshoot

As the months go by, these are becoming more and more interesting. :o) Katie is able to "participate" much more than before. I will publish her seven month update tomorrow, but I had to take her pictures this evening because I am working tomorrow. Enjoy!

Kaitlyn Can Stand!!!

Eating Solids, It's been an adventure

I am sure most of you will have a hard time believing this, but our daughter is pretty stubborn. Feeding her has become quite the challenge and usually involves lots of silly faces and entertaining her enough until she opens her mouth and we can get some food in.

Happy Fourth of July

I am late in posting this, so I am just going to show you our weekend in pictures. We celebrated at the Hyatt Hill Country with my family and had such a great time!

Katie is ready to celebrate!

Daddy and Katie ready to hit the pool

Katie and Daddy getting in the water

Floating the river with Mommy

Hi Mom and Dad!!!

Paul and I

Napping by the pool with Grandma!

Mom and Papa

Paul, Katie and Me

Paul and our godson, Andrew

Grandpa and Katie waiting on the Fireworks

All tuckered out!

We hope that everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Fourth of July!

Kaitlyn's First Haircut

Today, my mom needed to get her hair cut, and we thought we would ask Miss Janet if she would be able to trim Katie's hair while we were there. It's about four inches long already and her "bangs" are in her eyes. She doesn't really have a "hairstyle" at this point as her hair is long in patches and growing back in others. She has very long bangs though, and a couple of "wisps" of long hair in the back.

Janet was able to trim up her bangs and "soften" the wisps in the back. Katie did fairly well. She didn't quite know what Janet was up to, but she enjoyed playing with Janet's necklace and she certainly liked all the attention! :o) She looks so cute!!!

Before

Playing with a comb

Playing with the sparkly necklace

Katie with Miss Janet!