Perfect for Hallmark Greeting Card!

Just came across this picture of Cinnamon from this Christmas. I think it would make a perfect Hallmark Greeting Card!

February 24th - Katelyn 8 months milestones!

Today was Mike's 33 birthday and Katelyn turned 8 months old!

Many great things to celebrate.. we had a nice family dinner, followed by tiramisu for desert, Mike and Ashley blew out the candles on the cake, opened presents and watched Ashley and Katelyn being themselves :)

Katelyn is really getting to be a big girl she's reached so many milestones in such a short period of time that we are just overwelmed with excitement!

Yesterday she was doing the army crawl and today out of nowhere she decided she wants to crawl on all fours! She's so good at it as if she's been doing this for a while.. Pretty amazing! (She can also go from crawling to sitting position pretty easily!)

Also, today we spotted Katelyn's second tooth on the bottom! We know it's been bothering her for a while, so it's nice to see that it's finally out..

Also, this week we introduced Katelyn to rice krispy cereal. She got to practice picking up the bits of the cereal with her hand and feeding herself. Definitely a quick learner, she quickly figured out how to pick it up and get it in her mouth. I think she liked the taste. And it's a great way to keep her occupied!

From the first look of it, she appears to be a righty! Ashley showed signs of being a lefty very early on.. so we were curious to see if both of them would be the same.
I guess they won't be sharing softball mits, golf clubs or scissors..

I'll post the videos of Katelyn's accomplishments hopefully tomorrow.

Katelyn's first time eating by herself

Ashley making Katelyn laugh

Ashley playing princess dress up

Ashley loves to play dress up. She has a treasure chest of pricess dresses, shoes and crowns. For her 3rd birthday Indira (our au pair) gave Ashley a beautiful princess Belle dress. It's a little tight on her and it sheds glitter like crazy, but she loves it!

Ashley and Katelyn outside (Feb. 7th)

Winter Fun Time

We got an unusually large amount of snow so far this winter. Ashley has been really enjoying playing in the snow. I hope this is a memory that she remembers when she gets older. She's spent a lot of time building Snow Forts with Mike, a skill that Mike has that I didn't know about.. it's really cute. Mike is so into it he even researched it on line to get some ideas for how to make it better. The snow fort in the picture is so big that it can fit two adults or 3 little ones! And it also doubles as  a slide!

This week Katelyn said Dada and Mama for the first time!

Data was first, followed by Mama couple days later. Ashley said Mama first around the same age, but refused to say Dada. We tried to get her to say Papa, but the best she could do was Mapa. She eventually said Dada, but it wasn't right away.

One last video of Katelyn - showing off her sittings skills :)

Another Katelyn Video Clip - 7 1/2 months