Our Christmas

So here is our Christmas in a nutshell....

The monday before Christmas we went over to my Dad's house and celebrated with him and his wife Tina. 

 Katie was a bit overwhelmed at all the presents but she soon got into the excitement and started opening gifts.

 She helped me unwrap my new sewing machine...yay!  (Another post to come soon of my adventures in sewing)

                                                       Rich showing off his new jacket.

              There were two big toys to put together, a little tikes car and a tinker bell kitchen. 

We had the rest of the week to relax and get ready for the four Christmases that followed Christmas weekend. 

 Katie and I decorated cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve.

 We went to my Grandma's Christmas Eve night.  Katie was the center of attention and she soaked it up.  She got the hang of opening the gifts at Grandma's.

                                             Grandma Sue made some Christmas pajamas.

Christmas morning we enjoyed our family Christmas....we made homemade biscuits and gravy for breakfast and watched Katie unwrap all her gifts.

 Katie's two big presents from us were a tunnel......

 and a block table.

I forgot to bring the camera to Rich's parents and to my Grandmother's so no pictures of those two trips.  We went to Rich's parents and ate a turkey dinner and opened presents. 
We went to my Grandmother's on the day after Christmas.  My cousin was in from California and she stayed with our grandparents Christmas night so it was great to get to visit with her.  Katie loved sitting on her lap and playing with her ipad. 
With 5 Christmases to get through it was a very busy week but we enjoyed all the time we got to spend with our family.

14 months old

Katie turned 14-months-old today!  She is doing so many different things, so quickly that it is hard to keep up with them all. 

*She still loves to eat.  The only thing we've found so far that she doesn't like is brocolli and honestly who can blame her there?  Some of her new favorites are bologna and yogurt.  She's still a big fan of cheese, pasta, bananas, strawberries, grapes, peas and pretty much anything else you put in front of her. 

*She's really starting to walk.  Yesterday and today she has done more walking than she has crawling.

*She loves to climb.

*She loves her baby dolls, stuffed animals and books.

*She's having a lot of fun jumping on our bed and falling over onto the pillows.

*She makes us laugh a lot with her hollywood style drama and cowboy death scenes (really she throws her arms up in the air and falls over with a dramatic auuughghgh!)

*She says dada, mama, doggy, papa, yeah and obi dada (we think that means hold me dada)



Katie withdrawals

We've been pretty busy recently so for those of you suffering Katie withdrawals here are some pictures of our baby girl over the past few weeks.  Enjoy!

                                                   Katie on her 13-month-old birthday

                                                        13-months-old

                                                     Eating Thanksgiving dinner.....she loved it all!

                                                      Eating marshmallows with Daddy.

                                                         Thanksgiving day

                                     Drinking hot chocolate for the first time while we decorated the Christmas tree.

 She's been making this face a lot for pictures lol!

 Yep, we've got our hands full....you turn around and you never know what she'll get into.

 She pushes her walker all over the house and takes 3-6 steps at a time by herself.

                                                        She loves her baby dolls.

 She's really starting to build with her blocks...we got her a mega blok table for Christmas.

 She loves playing with her friend Knox, they chase each other all over the house.

                                  Getting ready to go see Santa, there's that goofy look again.

                                                 Santa gave Katie a coloring book.