Cate - 5 months

Our little (haha!) Cate Bug is 5 months old!  She is such a joy.  She is really beginning the interact with her environment, including her brother.  He is apparently the funniest thing on earth, closely followed by Mommy folding laundry.

Cate found her feet.  As soon as I take her diaper off to change her, she flings her legs up and grabs both feet.  Makes diaper changes challenging to say the least.  She also mastered rolling over in both directions.  Our days of putting her on the floor and finding her in the same spot are over.

he is starting to sit up.  She does amazingly well for her age.  I think it's because she has such a firm foundation - wink, wink!  Sitting up gives her a whole new perspective on her world.  I think she likes the view.

We also celebrated Cate's first Christmas this month.  Definitely worthy of its own post.  I "celebrated" NewYear's with strep and the flu.  Not worth its post - uuuuggggghhhhh....

Christmas 2014

Cards.  

Tree.  

Lights. 

Gingerbread.  

Movies.  

Pajamas.  

Cookies,  

Santa.  

Way. Too. Early.  

Presents.  

Breakfast.  

Family.  

Fun.  

Jesus.  

Christmas.

 

Cate - 4 Months

Things are really getting interesting around here!  This month, Miss Cate found her voice.  Between here and brother, Mommy and Daddy can hardly have a conversation.  They are both very chatty.  Cate also started laughing which has got to be oe of the most delightful sounds on earth.  Of course Daddy gets most of her giggles!

She still gets some pretty mean hiccups at least once a day.  I think it's mostly due to worsening reflux. We had to switch her medicine and she pretty much spits out the entire dose of the new stuff (Zantac).  I'm crossing my fingers she grows out of the reflux soon.

Cate has mastered grasping objects this month.  She is really starting to play with her toys.  It's a lot fun watching her to manipulate things in her environment.

Cate's first Thanksgiving started off by being dethroned as youngest grandchild.  We welcome another sweet baby girl to the extended family around 2am on Thanksgiving day.   Baby Everly was almost exactly the same size (height and weight) as Cate Bug.  I told myself I wasn't going to forget how small she was - I lied! I cannot fathom that Cate was every that small!  Good thing I have so many pictures to prove it.  :)

Weighed in at 16 pounds, 1ounce and was 25.25 inches long this month.  Did great with her first round of shots!  Still loving her momma milk.  

Dear my Blue Eyed Girl:  Please stop growing. 

Love, Mommy.