Katie's First Thanksgiving!

Ahhh so much to be thankful for. This was Katie's First Thanksgiving and she loved it. She unfortunately couldn't have any turkey at the table with us but she sure loved sitting at her high chair and watching all of us enjoy our meal. She banged her toys and played around and was so patiend the entire meal. She wanted to help me get ready so the night before thanksgiving I put her on the table before I set it and took the cutest photo! She thought it was so funny to sit on the table because I had never put her on a table before. heeheh she is so cute!

We woke up early and had a bath to get nice and clean and dressed in our new turkey day thanksgiving outfit. She was just the cutest. Here is a picture of mommy and Katie before company arrived.


Daddy had woken up and had been working on the turkey all morning and Katie wated to help but she couldn't help cus daddy wouldn't et us in the kitchen ;) He is very particular about his turkey as he should be because it turns out wonderful in the end! Our dinner was delicious and we even had time after to take some photos of the three of us. I even picked one for our christmas card which I ordered after guests had left ;) I'm so excited to send out christmas cards with our new addition to the family... KATIE!!!
Now that thanksgiving has come and gone that only means one thing... CHRISTMAS IS COMING! I am so excited about Katie's first Christmas!!!!!!

2 teeth on their way

We were up for two nights every hour. It was awful!After checking every morning for teeth I can now see two small white speck in her bottom gum. It is so adorable. She hasn't been up more than usual since those two nights but she has started to chew on my fingers and I can feel the sharp edges of the teeth coming up through the gum. Last night I told bri to stick his fingers in her mouth to feel and he hadn't seen them and when she bit down on his finger he was like WOW I FEEL THE TEETH! It was so cute cus he didn't believe me that they were on their way cus he hadn't seen them. ;)
I don't know how long it will take for them to come up so people can see them but I know they are there and she is a drool machine! Now I know what people mean by their babies drool through outfits and have to wear bibs around the house. Katie has started drooling so much I keep a bib on her all day these days!

Up all night...? A TOOTH!

Last night Katie had me up every hour. It was terrible. I had given her tylenol because I have a feeling teeth may be on their way. She is chewing everything, drooling a lot more, and she spit up, which I hear can happen during teething. Although she didn't have the fever or the over fussiness yesterday or the runny noes which I also hear is common for teething but needless to say I gave her the tylenol incase her little gums were hurting.
Tylenol didn't help! EVERY HOUR! I haven't been up every hour since she was a newborn and even then she gave me 2 hours! Sheesh! Although I'm not as tired as I thought I would be today maybe it is because I am so excited!

I usually wake up every morning and the past week have been checking Katie's little mouth to see if any white is showing.... TEETH! This morning I checked and it's not easy to check, Katie isn't a fan of mommy's fingers in her mouth but I didn't see any teeth. As the sun started to go down (4:00 these days!) I checked again because Katie seemed to be over fussy for a baby who was changed, fed, and had nothing in particular to complain about and since she is normally a happy baby this was unusual for her.
I couldn't see at first so I gave Katie my finger which she immediately put in her mouth like everything else(don't worry it was clean!... for those of you who know how I am a clean nut around Katie when it comes to washing your hands!) and I pulled it out with an "ouch!" because she bit me as she always does but this time I felt something... could it be....?? a tooth??
Sure enough I managed to open Katie's mouth just enough to see the little white nub of a tooth on its way! I was so excited I started jumping up and down and when I had a moment alone with Katie later on in the afternoon I even made up a song about Katie and her first tooth on it's way. Ha Ha it was accompanied by a silly dance while waving my arms around! It was a great night.

This was Katie Laughing at me after I did my silly song and dance for her!

Bananas

We have been busy little bees this week. Katie is trying all kinds of stage two combination food like apple, strawberry, banana and apricot with mixed berry which seems to be a favorite of hers but not of mine because it leaves a nice purple stain on everything it touches although everything comes out pretty well in the wash so no worries. This morning we tried a banana when breakfast was done. I chopped a banana and put the pieces on her tray and she picked them up (by the way bananas are slippery little things so it was hard for her to pick them up) and just squished them in her hands. She got one piece in her mouth but the majority got squished in her little hands before making them to her mouth. I ended up putting pieces on my finger and letting her eat them off the tips of my finger. Most that went in just came back out. She didn't really understand how to swallow pieces of something rather than puree food. Because god knows she is a pro at eating puree. She is my little piggy! She loves food!!! I'm not sure how else to give the pieces to her without them squishing. She did start coughing once cus I gave her a piece that was too big which scared me to death of course but she was fine. She worked it out on her own. But YEAHHHHHH for trying something new!

Starting Meats

We have made a bunch of changes this week. I think maybe too many but; we started 3 meals a day, added stage 2 foods, and began meats in her diet. I know that may have been too much change but she is doing pretty well so far. She loves all food. Always has. My little piggy eats pretty much everything. The first two days she only ate 2 meals and didn't want the third but today she ate all three meals and coincidentally followed the same schedual as yesterday. She has never had 2 days in a row with the same schedual. Humm... getting on a schedual??? yeah fat chance! but we are trying! Stage two foods are pretty much the same as stage one except bigger and combinations of a few fruits or veggies and katie seems to like them all.
As far as meats... ugh they grose me out but chicken and rice and turkey and rice have both been a success. Daddy has been feeding her lately because he has been coming home early lately so he can help! Katie gets so excited when Daddy feeds her!

Rolly Polly!

Katie was so cute today. she was rolling over and over and over. She wouldn't stop. She usually rolls once a day or so and sometimes its on accident but today she was rolling off her blanket. It was so adorable. I grabbed my video camera of course to catch it.