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7 Months (Belated)

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Katie

This is going to be a day of blog catch up, so you’ll see her 7 month post, our Christmas post, and her 8 month post all at once!

A few of my favorite things at 7 months:

When she see’s herself in the mirror of her activity jumper, she squeals with delight!
Daddy found a ticklish spot on her tummy and she has the funniest little giggle
She is starting to look for things… for example, if she drops something on the ground, she realizes where it is and turns her little head to see where it went
When I take her to her room and hold her close while whispering “it’s nap-time” she puts her her head on my shoulder, closes her eyes, and sucks her thumb…sooo sweet!

We were in California for Kayla’s 7 month birthday, so these pictures are a few days afterwards. She is growing so fast! Kayla enjoys various fruits and veggies and we even had a bit of a nursing strike for a week or so! Hopefully we will make it to a full year with nursing, but if not she does great with her solids and is gaining weight really well

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R.I.P. Gummy

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Brady

This summer in the midst of drought not seen by Texas in decades I noticed the leaves on one of my largest trees turning brown. I panicked a bit because I did not want to lose this sweet gum which I affectionately nicknamed “Gummy”. It provides good shade and looks nice in the yard. I scurried to water it plenty on a regular basis but over the next few months it only got worse until it was completely brown and certainly dead.

Since it was dead I had to do something because it would rot and eventually start to lose branches which would hit our roof directly beneath. This past weekend I got a company to cut it down. It was hard to bring myself to do it, honestly. Not only because I had some emotional attachment to this tree (stop laughing) and did not want to admit it was dead but because the cost to cut down large trees is absurd.

Anyway, I went forward it and here are the pictures. R.I.P. Gummy.

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6 Months and Thanksgiving Weekend

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Katie

We spent Kayla’s 6-month birthday with Brady’s family for Thanksgiving. Before we left we took some pictures in her chair to compare her size. She is getting cuter and cuter as her personality comes out!

Some new things she is doing:

Sitting on her own
Eating rice cereal
Laughing and squealing
Blowing bubbles and making the “brrr” sound
Jumping in her bouncer
Sucking her thumb

Kayla did okay with the travel. We drove up to Longview Thursday morning (4 hrs) to be with Brady’s mom’s side of the family at Aunt Sally’s. As always, it was very relaxing, and full of delicious food and good company. Becky took some pictures of the group and some of Addisyn and Kayla together. Isn’t Addisyn adorable!?!?

On Saturday we got together with Brady’s Dad’s side of the family. There are 4 (including Kayla) little baby cousin girls that were born all within a few months of each other! It was fun getting them all together so they could meet and play (i.e. poke each other in the face) . We had some good food and caught up with the rest of the family. It was a nice time. Check out this picture of Kayla sizing up her little cousin Addisyn. She doesn’t look scared though.

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Family Pictures!

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Katie

This last Sunday we met with photographer Natalie Blazei to get some family photos. I was super excited after seeing some of her photos of other friends and she did not disappoint. I love the vivid colors and how we just seem to “pop” right out of the background. She has already given us a sneak peek of a couple, so I thought I would share!

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Halloween

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Katie

I made Kayla a chicken costume for Halloween. I had a lot of fun doing it, but when we got to the Festival at our church and attempted to put it on, it didn’t fit! I was super bummed. We went in anyway and Kayla got to meet some goats, a piggy, and some other animals at the petting zoo. Afterwards we went to our neighborhoods annual block party. We threw a kitty cat hat on her and put her in the bjorn and enjoyed talking to new people and eating hot dogs. Along with the other pics, we got a picture of her with the chicken hat on and the feather onsie in front so you can get the idea.