Kaitlyn's 1st Christmas

I was able to see Christmas through the eyes of my baby girl this year.  Christmas is much more magical when you have a child!  Kaitlyn loved looking at the lights, pulling ornaments off of the tree, helping wrap presents, and helping mommy bake Christmas cookies!

The thing that she seemed to enjoy the most was pulling ornaments off of the tree.  Thank goodness we have plastic ornaments!  Everyday after we got home from work, we had to sit in front of the tree.  After we played for a while, she was content to go play with her toys, but always had to come back to the tree every so often and pull a few more off.

She's also learned to unwrap presents pretty well!  She got a lot of practice from the four different Christmas' we had!  We started the Christmas festivities at Grandma & Grandpa Smith's by opening presents.  Her eyes continued to get bigger with each present that was opened!  Next, we headed to Great-Grandma Smith's for Christmas Eve with all of mommy's aunts, uncles, and cousins.  She really enjoyed watching all the great-grandkids run around.

Christmas morning we had brunch at Grandma and Grandpa Smith's and looked through our stockings.  Next, we drove to Grandma and Grandpa Reineke's for lunch and presents.  By present time, Kaitlyn was a pro and ripped into her pile of gifts!  After a short nap, we headed home for our final Christmas.  Kaitlyn was pretty much done by then, so mommy and daddy opened her presents.

The next morning was filled with chaos as Kaitlyn saw all the toys!  She spent the next few days going from toy to toy to toy!

Our living room looked like a toy store exploded! 

10 Months

At ten months old, Kaitlyn:

·                     has mastered crawling.  I didn’t think she could get faster, but she sure has!  She’d much rather be on her hands and knees than attempt to walk.

·                     has taken her first steps!!!!   On Dec 23^rd, she took her first step towards her daddy!

·                     eats 3 meals a day and gets four 6-8 ounce bottles.  She’s still our little garbage disposal.  We haven’t been able to find anything that she won’t eat.

·                     still only has two teeth.  I can feel four teeth through her gums on the top, but nothing’s poked through yet.

·                     Pulls up on anything and everything she can get her hands on.

·                     is mostly wearing 18 month clothing with a few 24 month items mixed in.

·                     keeps busy all day long.  She doesn’t sit still for long and loves to go from toy to toy to toy.

·                     Laughs all the time.  She starts laughing to make you laugh….she’s such a happy baby!!!!

·                     Has learned a few new signs!  She’s mastered milk and eat, and has added drink and diaper to her list.  Mommy isn’t very good at signing for everything just yet, so we’ve just been working on a few basics. 

Spaghetti night!

Love those big blues!

 

Mohawk!!!!