Abbie's Birthday

Two weekends ago, Katelynn got her first experience at Chuck E Cheese. That place was a little overwhelming to me on a Sunday afternoon, but the kids sure had fun. Abbie (Katelynn's cousin) turned 7, and not only did we get to celebrate her birthday, but we got to see a bunch of Katelynn's other relatives too, including her birthmom Tonia, her sister Makayla, and her grandma Pam. The lighting wasn't the greatest, but here are some our best photos...

Grandma Pam, Katelynn, Tonia

Katelynn and ToniaSisters

Tonia, Makayla, and Katelynn

Miss Abbie - The Birthday Girl

Makayla and Katelynn climbing in the slide

Tonia helping Katelynn ride with Barney

Grandma and Grandpa

Back in the first weekend of November, Grandma Sue and Grandpa Ben came for a visit. Katelynn had a great time playing with them. She even got BOTH of them to give her a ride on their backs like a horse! Grandma and Grandpa also helped us get a van for our expanding family and Katelynn is very excited that it's green (her favorite color). We can't wait to see them again at Christmas.

23 Months

Ugh, I am so behind in posting, but I'll have to back track later! Katelynn is 23 months old today. I can't believe she'll be two in a month. Katelynn continues to be very talkative and surprises us all the time with words and phrases she says. She is still obsessed with monsters, but she has started to learn about Christmas and Santa and is beginning to recognize those things when we are out. She is doing well with learning her colors, and we've started working on some counting. This weekend, she started singing the ABC song to us, which we've never tried to teach her. She must have picked it up from the daycare at the gym. She's also started watching some movies, and her favorite so far is Monsters Inc. The big news of the month is that we started potty training and she is doing so well. She hardly ever has accidents at home and we are about to start venturing out more in big kid underwear. (She picked out some horse, Dora, and Elmo ones.) Hopefully she'll have it all down before the boys come. We've enjoyed visits from Grandma Sue and Grandpa Ben this month, and we got to see a bunch of Katelynn's relatives at her cousin's birthday party, but those will come soon!

Pumpkin Patch

So this post is long over due, but the weekend before Halloween, we visited the pumpkin patch. Here's my cutie trying to find a good one.

Tickling Uncle JT

"Cheese"

There were lots of animals to see too. Apparently this horse was a little hungry because it bit Katelynn's hand. It was a little traumatizing and now she says "Neigh bite!" whenever we talk about a horse.

Aren't we cute.

I'm not sure their chart is measuring just right because she was almost three feet at the last doctor visit.

Last Year...

... was much better weather!

Halloween Party Yesterday

22 Months

Katelynn turned 22 months old on Wednesday. I forgot to take her picture and realized it 5 minutes after putting her to bed, so I got her back up and did a quick snap. Thus, Katelynn is in her "meow jamas" as she likes to call them, and the lighting is horrible. The picture at the bottom is from the next day. Much better. :)

Katelynn's bottom left canine is all the way in, and the right one is almost completely grown. I don’t think the top two have popped through yet, but she is not very cooperative when I try to check, so I’m not sure. I think Katelynn’s new favorite food is an ice cream cone. We get them sometimes when we go by McDonald’s, and now every time we drive by she asks for one!

Katelynn continues to be very verbal and uses lots of three words phrases. Right now she is obsessed with pumpkins and monsters, and she loves visiting Target to see the Halloween decorations. She is still working on her colors and has blue, green, and pink down; and sometimes she gets yellow, orange, and red correct. She also continues to be very active, and people always comment on how we have a gymnast or an athlete on our hands. She’s a bold climber, and loves to jump, do somersaults, and do the splits. She can climb in the pack-n-play without help, and I'm sure she'll be climbing out of her crib in no time.

22 months +1 day

The Boys

We had another ultrasound yesterday to check on the twins. Everything is going well.

Evan Tyler (Head is on the right)

Aidan James (His head is on the right,
with his hand coming up to his mouth)