ewww...

I think the title says enough..

took your advise

I took the advise of JM & MRSDAVIS and tried feeding Kathryn sweet potatoes...

Thanks gals! It worked!!

a couple of videos

Here is a video of Kathryn's play time...

You'll see at one point her grab on to the blue bars. She is trying to eat the frog.

I'm including this video so you can see the many faces of Kathryn... and her redneck bib.

what's going on

I've been asked to give an update on Kathryn's happenings. So here is what is going on...

one...two...three

We think she can count! Or at least recognizes us counting to three. Sometimes all you have to say is "one" and she is all giggles. Usually the counting results in Mommy blowing on her stomach, Daddy "dropping" her a little, or something else silly in her face. Sometimes I just count to three to hear her giggle.

icky rice

I've only been able to give her a little bit of rice each night. Sometimes I don't bother if she's in one of those moods that I know I'll be wearing more of it than will make it into her mouth. Not sure how to get her to eat. There were a couple of nights she ate almost all of it. Other nights she just screams. Tonight would be one of those. Any tips or tricks? I'm supposed to have her on baby food by Christmas. At this rate, I don't see that happening.

scooting boogey

Kathryn isn't crawling yet and doesn't really scoot either. She can seem to do circles either on her back or tummy. She still doesn't like tummy time for more than about five minutes, but she is getting better at it. She can go back and forth from back to tummy, but still only to the left. I am making her practice/figure out how to sit by herself. Not sure when that is supposed to happen, but figured she could use the practice.

sleepy time

She's still sleeping about 7 to 8 hours at night. I promise I lay her down on her back, but she doesn't always stay. Like now for instance. I can hear that she has flipped over and not liking it. Time for Mommy to flip her back and find her paci. We'll see how long that lasts. I miss her three to four naps a day before Eric gets home. Now I get one around 10 and another around 3. She then wants to nap again sometime around 6:30. Usual bed time is around 10. Tonight she fell asleep around 9:30 so we'll see how long of a night I get.

time to shop

She is in six months shirts of which I have a good supply. After six month clothing, I have sporatic pieces and sizes... all the way up to 2T. Pants she is still in three months and even a few 0 to 3 still fit. I did buy bigger socks since I had been told the ones I had were too small. I don't think it matters because she has figured out how to pull them off.

toes!

She has found her toes. It makes diaper changing time nice since she sometimes holds her feet out of the way. But she still love to be a "naked baby" (this term usually gets a giggle out of her also).

and teeth!

There are now two very sharp bottom teeth! Yay! But this means she is teething and anything that she can grab goes to her mouth. Even then she doesn't have to be able to grab. She left a pretty good mark on my upper arm the other night. I'm not sure which is worse... bite marks or hickeys.

I think that is a pretty good wrap up of where we are now. Here are a couple of pictures :)

Eric calls this her "Fight the Power" pose.
Not sure what power she is fighting...

If you click on this one to make it larger, you can see her two teeth.

I was scrapbooking and she was playing/eating her toys

a new cousin

Check out Elisha's blog for Kathryn's new cousin Esther!

http://lowenumber2.blogspot.com/


I'll do an update on Kathryn with a couple of pictures tomorrow.

rice, rice baby

(this is the third post of the day. keep going to read more)

We were told at the last doctor's visit we could go ahead and start trying to feed her rice. So this is our real first attempt. I think she made more of a mess than she actually ate. But I had fun trying and making silly noises.

a payne family picture

While we were in Atlanta we made a trip up to Rome to spend a little bit of time with my side of the family. Here are a couple of pictures. Thanks to my Mom for taking these.

a princess party

This past Saturday, Grandma Waugh hosted A Princess Party shower for Kathryn in Atlanta. Kathryn got to meet new people and loved all the attention! Aunt Sarah sent games to play and we had fun playing bingo, trivia, and guess the baby animals name. We also played The Price is Right with baby items. I was way off on some of them. Thanks to Grandma for hosting!!

Here are a few pictures from the party.

No princess is complete without a tiara.

Kathryn helps Grandma with her Bingo card.

Mommy & Kathryn

The food spread.

Kathryn saying hi to Daddy.

look what Gramps found...

You may have to click the picture to make it larger to really see it, but Gramps found a tooth!! Kathryn's bottom left middle tooth is coming in. I usually check a couple of times a day to see if there is anything poking through yet. I guess with all the activities of the weekend I just had been paying attention. Sunday afternoon we got ready to leave my parents and Dad (Gramps or Grumpypa) saw something in her mouth. Course he felt it and said "She has a tooth". I didn't believe him. But there it is and it is a sharp little thing too! So at four months and a day or so she has her first tooth coming in!!