Slow down sweet girl!!

Forget the bottle, and the sippy cup! I can drink out of mama's cup!

(Well, not really, don't worry.) This girl is just grabbing EVERYTHING she can get her hands on...and then it's straight to the mouth. One of her favorite things lately.. she will see my longhorn cup sitting on the coffee table or end table, and starts smiling and talking... and wants to touch and grab it.. SO funny! She also likes anything that lights up, i.e. my cell phone, which I really don't let her touch, the house phone, etc, she just loves how it lights up and beeps... so Santa, if you're listening, at the moment she is loving anything that lights up and plays music!!! Luckily, I found a few toys I  received as shower gifts that light up and make noise, she just has to learn how to really hold onto them=)  Cate, sweet girl, you really need to slow down, you are growing up SO fast!!!=(

Little Miss UNpredictable!

That's EXACTLY what she's been the past couple of days! She has been keeping her night routine, sleeping about 11 hours at night, goes to bed around 8pm, wakes around 3 or so to feed, then usually right back to sleep until 7 or 8! She has been taking about 5-6 30 min on the dot cat naps during the day, UNTIL the past 2-3 days... have been ALL over the place. I think (obviously) she is transitioning to taking the 2 -2 hour naps or so a day. So when the transition is complete... it will be a little easier. I thought I might have figured it out last weekend, when she was up for a longer stint, I fed her, then she slept for 2 hours and 15 minutes!!! I thought, that makes sense, she went to nap on a full tummy, instead of sleeping 30 min and waking up because she may be hungry!!! I tried that again the next couple of days and no workie=( I could usually plan what I wanted to get done during her 30 min sessions.. maybe a nap for myself, maybe a quick workout, maybe cook, maybe clean, maybe blog, run an errand or two, talk on the phone, have some me time...now it's a total guessing game, like many things are with a baby, right?!?! Just when you get in the swing of things... and just when you think you have some sort of pattern established.. it changes...or so I've heard, and have experienced! Even right now, I laid her down at 9:30, and it's 10:28 and she's still sleeping, and I would have thought she would have woke by now to eat!!! And last night, we gave lil miss her bath at 8pm, and had the bottle ready, and she wouldn't take the bottle!!! Normally we can't get the bottle warm fast enough! We couldn't believe it!! She was SO tired, she just went to sleep, and slept straight thru until 1am!  Oh well.. as long as she is keeping her night routine (somewhat I suppose)...she can do whatever her lil heart desires during the day...=) I can adjust!!=) I LOVE LOVE LOVE and am so blessed that I get to spend every day with her and experience all these things with her! It's absolutely the best job in the world, and the BEST job I've EVER had!

And now, ladies and gents, for her newest trick...she's found her feet!! Still working on rolling over=)

LOVE this face!

 

This next week we have her 4 month check-up!! We are very excited about seeing Dr. T, and seeing what her new stats are...=) Any guesses?!?!=) Stay tuned for the update!

Must be nice...

to do this ALL day!

He still sleeps in HIS bed at night... but this is what this little guy does from about 8am, until about 3-4pm, (unless we go for a walk), he maybe gets up once to come see what Cate and I are up to, go and check out what's going on in the back yard, then come 3pm, he is ready for his raw hide sticks, and food. After he is full, he disappears again until about 9pm in the evening... Sometimes I forget I even have a dog... some days he is out with us more if we are playing on the floor with toys, he wants to be a part of that activity, but for the most part... this is his life.. oh the life of a 10 year old weenie dog=)

Cate's first Halloween!

Cate's first Halloween included another trip to LG for the weekend! We had a great time! The town has a trick or treat around the courthouse square so we went to people watch, and for me to see, and Cate to meet some of my friends! SO fun! I couldn't decide what to dress Cate as, so she just went in a cute outfit from her Jojo, along with a tutu=)

Stacey and Aubree meet Cate!

Aubree LOVED Cate's shoes...

Cate got to meet her cousins and Great Aunt Dorothy!



Brandy and Emma, Emma is 10 days older than Cate!

Sweet Jaxyn

Auntie Ash, always posing for the camera 

This socializing thing is tiring! Time for a nap with Daddy!

Can't wait to dress her up next year and hear her say "trick or treat!"

Lifesaver!

The exersaucer is a LIFESAVER!!! We received this as a shower gift, and I wasn't really expecting to receive it off my registry, and figured if we didn't get it we would just put it on Cate's Christmas list, since that's about the age she would more than likely be able to use it. Well, THANK GOODNESS she got it early...

Who would have thought a 3 MONTH OLD would be ready for her exersaucer, when the recommended age is 6 MONTHS?!?!  She obviously LOVES it and though she can't really make everything do what it is suppose to do on it, she does love to look at all the animals, listen to the music, and touch and move some of the animals, talk to the animals...keeps her busy so mama can cook, clean, blog=) etc. etc. A BIG thank you to Ginger, Ashley and Teana!

Make ya smile AND laugh Monday!!!

This was the best anniversary present ever!! We came home from our anniversary dinner, changed her PJ's and this is what she gave us!!!

Sorry, she is yet again, semi-without clothes. It's funny, every time we lay her on her changer, whether it be upstairs or on the pack and play downstairs, she just loves getting changed.  Of course it's always a last minute, "Quick!!! Get the camera!!!" So it is what it is=) She's been "squealing in delight," as the books say, for about two weeks now, sometimes so loud Daddy has to get his earplugs. This was absolutly the best anniversary present ever!!!

VERY impressive!

Just to let you know, this video was actually taken October 14, and since then, she has pretty much perfected this skill...needless to say, we are quite impressed! We just didn't think a BABY could to this at THREE MONTHS!!!