Miss Kate turned 17 months old yesterday. She was up to 21 lbs 3 oz earlier this week when we visited the doctor because of a rash. Her two bottom molars are completely in, and the top ones are working on it. She's decided she loves to climb and can even get on top of the kitchen table. Scary! Katelynn's language skills seemed to have hit a turning point this month. She is saying all sorts of new words and loves to try to copy what adults say. Some of her new words are Ah (Anne, our housemate), ha (hat), moe (more), peas (please), eye, and nose. She also is able to point to a bunch of her body parts including her eyes, ears, mouth, teeth, tongue, nose, chin, cheek, chest, toes, feet, fingers, hand, arms, hair, and head. And of course she still likes making animal noises and can now do a dog, cat, sheep, cow, horse, pig, bird, and lion. She is even learning some matching skills with her animal fridge toy. If you show her one half of an animal, she will find the other corresponding piece. What a smarty!
Friday, May 22, 2009
17 Months
Miss Kate turned 17 months old yesterday. She was up to 21 lbs 3 oz earlier this week when we visited the doctor because of a rash. Her two bottom molars are completely in, and the top ones are working on it. She's decided she loves to climb and can even get on top of the kitchen table. Scary! Katelynn's language skills seemed to have hit a turning point this month. She is saying all sorts of new words and loves to try to copy what adults say. Some of her new words are Ah (Anne, our housemate), ha (hat), moe (more), peas (please), eye, and nose. She also is able to point to a bunch of her body parts including her eyes, ears, mouth, teeth, tongue, nose, chin, cheek, chest, toes, feet, fingers, hand, arms, hair, and head. And of course she still likes making animal noises and can now do a dog, cat, sheep, cow, horse, pig, bird, and lion. She is even learning some matching skills with her animal fridge toy. If you show her one half of an animal, she will find the other corresponding piece. What a smarty!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Happy Mother's Day
We had a good Sunday around here. Tucker cooked us up some brunch and then Katleynn took a good nap. We spent the late afternoon trying to find animals at the zoo with the Belks and the Lukaarts. And JT surprised me with homemade lasagna (from our mom's recipe, of course) upon our return. Katelynn even got me a gift card so I can go out on a date with her daddy. Happy Mother's Day!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Dr Visit Stats and some Photos
Katelynn had a check up this past Monday. At 16 months 6 days she is:
Skinny little thing; big big head! Her development is all on target or a little ahead. She was tested for allergies and a few other things to try to find out why she dislikes eating so much, but the results were all negative. Her weight is hanging in there, but not without a lot of struggle to get her to eat. Our new pediatrician (whom we really really like) is referring us to a feeding clinic at Children's Hospital where a team including a nutritionist, an SLP, and some other folks will evaluate her eating. Sounds like it could be helpful, or at least reassuring that we are doing all that we can. Here are some recent photos...
Katelynn loved the flamingos' squawking.
Mommy's favorite animal to visit at the zoo.
She must have a thing about birds. She did not like this activity any more than the peacock, and she was terrified of the ducks at the park the other day.
We started attending a swimming class for tots (6 months-3 years) on Tuesday evenings. She is really enjoying it, but could definitely use some more body fat. We usually only make it through 2/3 of the class before we head for the hot showers.
Katelynn and I are in the upper right hand corner. We sing lots of songs, and she is learning how to kick, paddle, and blow bubbles.
Weight: 20 lb 11 oz (12th percentile)
Height: 31 inches (53rd percentile)
Head Circumference: 18.7 inches (83rd percentile)
Height: 31 inches (53rd percentile)
Head Circumference: 18.7 inches (83rd percentile)
Skinny little thing; big big head! Her development is all on target or a little ahead. She was tested for allergies and a few other things to try to find out why she dislikes eating so much, but the results were all negative. Her weight is hanging in there, but not without a lot of struggle to get her to eat. Our new pediatrician (whom we really really like) is referring us to a feeding clinic at Children's Hospital where a team including a nutritionist, an SLP, and some other folks will evaluate her eating. Sounds like it could be helpful, or at least reassuring that we are doing all that we can. Here are some recent photos...
She was pretty freaked out by this giant thing!
Katelynn loved the flamingos' squawking.
Mommy's favorite animal to visit at the zoo.
She must have a thing about birds. She did not like this activity any more than the peacock, and she was terrified of the ducks at the park the other day.
We started attending a swimming class for tots (6 months-3 years) on Tuesday evenings. She is really enjoying it, but could definitely use some more body fat. We usually only make it through 2/3 of the class before we head for the hot showers.
Katelynn and I are in the upper right hand corner. We sing lots of songs, and she is learning how to kick, paddle, and blow bubbles.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
16 months
This cheeseball is 16 months old today! The weather has been gorgeous lately so she got to be in shorts. (The funny part is that these are size 3-6 months shorts that she wore last summer. My skinny little girl...) She weighed 20 lbs 6 oz three weeks ago, and we'll see how tall she is at her check up next week. This month, teeth #9 and #10 made their appearance. She has learned to say a few new words like eye, up, ball, and Puh (for Paul). She is learning how to unzip and remove clothing, she's learned how to scribble with crayons, and she loves to play outside.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter Egg Hunt
On Saturday, we took Katelynn to her first Easter Egg Hunt. We thought we just barely made it on time, but then we had to stand around with the other parents in the 0-3 area waiting for the guy to say go. Katelynn is trying to be patient...
Look at the crowd on the sidelines of the football field just waiting to push people out of the way for a little candy!
Finally, we got to go.
Score! She got a lot of fruit snacks and roll-ups.
Katelynn's pal Josiah got one lone egg. It was a little too wet for him to crawl around getting more.
Happy Easter!
Look at the crowd on the sidelines of the football field just waiting to push people out of the way for a little candy!
Finally, we got to go.
Score! She got a lot of fruit snacks and roll-ups.
Katelynn's pal Josiah got one lone egg. It was a little too wet for him to crawl around getting more.
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter
We tried to get a picture of just Katelynn with the Easter Bunny, but it was not to be. She started sobbing the first time she saw him, and even after he played peek-a-boo with her she was not going anywhere near his lap! So we settled for the family picture. She did fine with Santa back in December... what a difference 4 months makes.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Snow
While it's not exactly what you wish for over spring break, the snow in Montana was beautiful for our trip. Here we are trying to not be blinded by the sun.
Katelynn had her first experience of playing in the snow while we were there. The snowsuit is a little big because I had purchased it weeks ago in preparation for next winter. And the boots were a little small because we had to borrow some from Cousin Ivey.
Yum, yum.
JT has much better aim than I do!
I had to post this great picture of Tucker. The reflection of the sun on the snow was super bright, so Tucker asked JT to grab him a hat, and this was the result. :)
Sledding...
This tumble was the end to our fun that day!
A little different from our spring break trip to Texas last year...
Katelynn had her first experience of playing in the snow while we were there. The snowsuit is a little big because I had purchased it weeks ago in preparation for next winter. And the boots were a little small because we had to borrow some from Cousin Ivey.
Yum, yum.
JT has much better aim than I do!
I had to post this great picture of Tucker. The reflection of the sun on the snow was super bright, so Tucker asked JT to grab him a hat, and this was the result. :)
Sledding...
This tumble was the end to our fun that day!
A little different from our spring break trip to Texas last year...
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