It's been a while

It's been quite a while since I've had an opportunity to sit down and type out a blog update. Where to begin?! Katelynn is now 5 months old. :) At our last doctor's visit she weighed 11 lbs! You can tell she's getting bigger because it's getting harder and harder to swing her in her car seat - guess we'll have to come up with another way to quiet her down. We did so much in the past 4 weeks that this blog is going to be full of photos!
Lets see, where should we start? We paid our taxes! And since I think that I'm funny, I put her in the following outfit:

We went to the Rockie's home opener! Chris was involved in the opening ceremony - they did something with the military so our tickets were only $1. Katelynn did really well. She made it through 3 innings - pretty good considering how warm it got.




We celebrated Easter with Chris's family! We went down to the Springs to Heather's house and had a nice dinner and an indoor Easter egg hunt. Katelynn was non-too impressed with this experience! I tried putting an egg beside her and letting her reach for it, but she wasn't having it. I also got a little creative and made my first Easter bunny cake!




Katelynn also got to sample her first taste of rice cereal. She seemed to really like it - at least she kept opening up her mouth for more. I mixed it with formula and she didn't seem to have any problems. I figured since she was doing well with that I might as well switch her over to formula in a bottle now. Well that's not working too well - it's making her very gassy! The poor thing is bloated and "tooting" up a storm! So I've backed off of the bottles and cereal for now. I'll let her get back to normal and then try the cereal again.






What else happened?! Katelynn got baptized on April 19th. It was a wonderful ceremony - I think the Priest used an entire bottle of oil on her head though! Poor thing, I had to take her to the bathroom to clean her face and get it out of her eyes.
Doesn't Chris look just like his Dad?!




And we can't forget the most important thing that happened this month! Katelynn got to meet her Nana and Pappa!!! They drove all the way from VA to meet their first Grandchild. I planned the Baptism around their being here so they got to be involved in that experience as well. They made it into town the day of our 2-day mini-April Blizzard! What fun it was. We had a blast while they were here and we can't wait until May when we head home for a few weeks. :)





This is Mom and Dad's car!

New things Katelynn has "mastered" this month. She has discovered her hands! You probably noticed that in just about every photo she has them crammed in her mouth. She also discovered her ears! Her new favorite pose is to hold her hand on her ear. She has also mastered rolling from her back to her tummy. The problem with this is she hasn't figured out how to roll back over, and since she doesn't like being on her tummy she cries until you roll her back over. This is a big problem when she does it at 1am, 3am, 5am and won't go back to sleep! It's been an interesting month indeed! Also Aunt Heather gave her a pink bunny/blanket/rattle that she absolutely loves (first photo all the way at the top!).
Well I hope that you enjoyed the photos! I'll try and blog a little sooner next time so there won't be as many photos. :)

4 months and 2 years

Katelynn is doing well! At her 4 month check-up last week she weighed in at 10lbs 6 ounces and was 23" long. She is doing great for being a month early!! She is finally out of the 0-3 clothes and on to the 3-6 month sizes.
We however were apparently 3 days early for her shots so we had to go back Monday to get those. Katelynn was none-too impressed with them! She didn't sleep well Monday night (to be expected) however she didn't sleep well last night and she's been very fussy today. When she woke up from her nap her ear was all red and she's been scratching at it, so it's off to the doctor's tomorrow because it looks like she might have another ear infection - the poor thing. The last thing I'm looking forward to is another doctors visit but hopefully this time the doctor won't go off on yeast infections and other weird things.
Katelynn is progressing well. I thought I'd include some photos of her most recent milestones:
She can hold her head up for prolonged periods of time:

She likes to suck on her entire hand, sometimes both at the same time:

She thinks it's funny when Mommy puts her in silly outfits:

She loves sitting on Mommy's tummy:


And of course she loves being held up in the air:



She got to enjoy her first "blizzard":

She rolled over all by herself 2 weeks ago and Mommy has been patiently waiting for her to do it again so she can catch it on film:

And last but not least she enjoys ridding around the house on Daddy's shoulders:


On to Chris and Me. On April 1st (yep, April Fools Day) we celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary. We decided to take a couple of days (4 to be exact) and head up into the mountains. We took Katelynn and Vinson with us. It was absolutely wonderful and very relaxing!!

Of course from the above photo we really need to work on getting an actual family photo! But where is the fun in that?! Katelynn wouldn't be crying and Chris wouldn't be making goofy faces - without that it wouldn't be a family photo! :)
So anyway, one of the guys Chris works with has a cabin that he rents out. It was absolutely beautiful and much nicer then we expected:

On Friday morning we woke up to a snow "storm" so we decided to go outside for a little hike:



Later that day all of the snow was gone, so we were happy that we had decided to get up and go for the hike:

Since the weather had cleared Saturday morning we decided to go and check out St. Elmo's - a ghost town about 30 minutes from the house. Well it actually took us closer to an hour to get there because it was up on the mountain and it was still snowing up there. It was absolutely gorgeous!!!
The road on the way up:


The actual town:


Chris and Vinson got out to stretch their legs, and Vinson decided to have a little fun by knocking Chris down:


On the way home we thought we'd check out another ghost town - South Park, but ended up getting lost and driving over Hooser Pass (completely snow covered making me a nervous wreck - I was driving) and ended up in Breckinridge (a large snowtown - similar to Aspen. It made for a nice scenic route home though. So, overall we had a great time, and it was so nice just to get away for a few days.




Did I mention that Vinson also really enjoyed himself?? He found a wonderful treasure during one of our hikes:

Hope you enjoyed the photos!