Katie Update

Katie is almost 5 months old.  I know, we can't believe it either!
Here's some facts about our little princess.
1- She recently started blowing raspberries and now does it all day long.
2- About 2 weeks ago after letting her "cry it out" for 3 or so nights, she has a solid sleep schedule. Bed between 7 and 7:30 and will wake at either 12am or 2 am for a feed and then wake again between 4:30 and 5:30am for another feed.  She usually wakes up for the day sometime between 6:30 and 7:30am.
3- She is an expert at sucking her left thumb.
4- She has been laughing at us for over a month now when we tickle her but just this past week if we look at her with funny faces or startle her she will laugh!

Loves that thumb!

You wouldn't believe it if we told you, so.....

Just watch the video and take a quick look at the pictures.
This all happened during nap time.

 

This is NOT dirt on his car track.

Do you see it?

Oh my goodness.  We didn't know how to react when we saw this so we just laughed.

Who knew fingerpainting could be so fun, and gross.

Not that you want to see a close up, but maybe you do.

All over the door knob too.

It's finally snowing!

We spent our Saturday morning outside, enjoying the first heavy snowfall.
Eating snow and walking around the neighborhood.

Likes to taste the snow.

He loves being outside.

He couldn't really bend his legs.

He was so bundled up!

Spreading Christmas Cheer

We went to visit Santa today for the first time at the mall.  They did a great job of "Santa's little village" and Santa looked really authentic!  I wasn't sure how Mikey would do since last year he screamed.  It turned out surprisingly well.  There was no one else in line so we were able to take our time.  At first Mikey was amazed at all the lights, trees and reindeer and didn't pay any attention to the old man in the big red suit.  I had to sit Mikey on his lap and he did great.  He was a little shy but he sat their patiently while we tried to get a good smile out of him.  All the while, Katie was sound asleep in the stroller (you do not want to disturbe her schedule).  In hind sight, I wish I would have let Santa hold her in his other arm and had them both in the picture.

We are really starting to get into the Christmas spirit here.  Hope you enjoy.

Turned out better than I thought.  This was a picture of a picture.

 

Tummy Time

We are practicing on Tummy Time with Katie.  She's getting pretty good at it, but when she's done, she is D.O.N.E.  Recently she has also been trying to sit up by herself.  It looks like she is doing crunches.  Pretty cute!

What do YOU make of this artwork?!

So, while going through some of Mikey's daycare artwork from last week Scott made a declaration and was really enthaustic about it too.  What do you make from Mikey's artwork?  Check out the first two pieces below......

Paper cut outs stacked on top of each other.

Pieces of tape stacked mostly on top of each other. 
This actually rises about 2 inches off the paper.

Soooooooo, what Scott said after looking at his artwork was.......... "My son is a REPUBLICAN! Just look at this artwork, he likes to accumulate things (like wealth) and not spread things evenly (like wealth) all over the paper.  Ah, see whom I'm married too? :)  just kidding!

Here's some more of Mikey's artwork.  We have them all hung up in his room to look at and admire every time we go in there.

Art work hung on the wall.  It's easy to switch out since we hang everything on a string.

Some November artwork.

Some December artwork.

Getting his crafty on.

He loves doing crafts at home.

This smiley face sticker somehow made it onto his face, which he kept on all day!

My little snow bunny

We finally received a measurable amount of snow here in Chicago last Friday.  It was the 6th latest snow fall Chicago has seen.  We woke up to a light dusting of snow but I guess technically it was more than 1/10 of an inch that they measured at the airport.  Anyway, thought I'd post a cute pic. of my little snow bunny.

Super happy and she now laughs everytime I put her in here. 
She gets ticklish when I put the straps over her shoulders.

She's ready to go!

Here you get a great shot of how blue her eyes still are.

She gives us the best smiles now!