Katelyn...

I LOVE our happy happy girl!  When she smiles her whole face smiles, I love to see her eyes light up!  She is always so happy and playful, especially in the morning!  She makes the funniest facial expressions!  She has her daddy's ability to raise one brow which is hilarious!  She always has her hands near her face, especially when sleeping!  They always land in poses that make her look incredibly stressed!  She sits and rubs her face as she is waking up and sometimes even claws her poor head!  

I love that waking up is the hardest thing in the world for her! She will stretch and grunt for 20 minutes before peeking an eye open!  It is so hilarious to watch!  When she stretches her whole body stretches, her back arches, her toes spread out, her legs get rigid, her arms fling...it is adorable!  I love this girl so much!

1st Getaway & 1st Bottle...

We had the chance to slip away for the weekend for Raymond to work in Ely.  Katelyn & I hung out in the hotel room pretty much the whole time but we were still happy to be close to Ray and lets face it, hotels are fun!  I took myself and Katelyn on a tour of Ely and it only lasted about 15 minutes and there was very little to see but oh well we enjoyed ourselves!  On our way there our drive was extended due to horrible fog and on the way home our drive was severely extended due to a blizzard.  It took us nearly 6 hours to go from Ely to Wendover (it should have taken 2 hours) so we decided to get a room in Wendover for the night.  We are so lucky to have such a good baby, even though she was stuck in a car seat and unable to eat for a long period of time she was happy as could be! It was kind of nice to just be able to relax and enjoy one anothers company.  We had dinner at the buffet downstairs which was delicious.  A random waitress wanted to hold our beautiful baby.  We felt like horrible parents carrying our child through the casino and smothering her with a blanket to decrease her exposure to smoke!  She is 6 weeks old and has been in 2 casinos...sweet?!?

Katelyn is so smiley and happy! I love that we are now able to make her smile! She is so close to laughing, she kind of gives a happy grunt when she is smiling and excited! She loves to listen to and watch her rattles, she loves the ceiling fans and lights.  She is always watching things around her, she is very curious!  She is already a tease!  She would be bright eyed and smiley until I would try to take a picture then she would hurry and close her eyes!  We played that game for 15 minutes!  She is so funny! She loves to watch our facial expressions and she will even raise her brow when I raise mine in an "overly excited" face!  

On our way home from Wendover the weather was much nicer.  We stopped at my Grandma Stapel's house and Katelyn was able to meet her. It took us all day to get home with errands/drive time but when we did it was SO nice to be home!  That night we gave Katelyn her first bottle (we realize we should have tried much sooner) and she screamed and screamed!  We switched bottles and she did much better and ate a whopping 3.5 ounces!  Ray was pretty excited to be able to give her the bottle and share that time with her.  I sat in the kitchen and cried.  It's true.  I really am not looking forward to leaving my baby!  It was a good weekend, I love being with these 2!

Katelyn...

My sweet girl slept a whole 7 hours last night!  I would have gotten ample sleep if I could just learn to go to bed when she does, instead I stay up and clean up the house!  She rarely cries so I just love this picture of her being mad!  Ray & Katelyn are still pretty good nap buddies, Ray told me "this is how Sunday's are meant to be" as he was cuddled up with his baby in his arms. Katelyn always has a "superman" stance with her arms as she stretches!  She also has the biggest yawns that scrunch up her nose! Life is good!

Katelyn...

This girl is so much fun, she entertains so much of my time.  I am yet to get bored of just holding her and watching her sleep.  She is truly a miracle. We sit in a rocking chair for hours each day, we sing, talk, make funny faces, watch/listen sparkly/noisy rattles.  It is the best way to spend my day.  She had 2 diaper blow outs 2 days in a row. It was awesome!  Especially when each one was followed with peeing during her bath! She is so calm and peaceful! She LOVES to watch the lights and fans and often has her head pointed up regardless of how I try to position her! She loves bath time and especially getting her hair washed.  I love that she has a mini mullet--its very long in the back and scant on the top!  It is still a strawberry blonde but is getting darker each day. She wore her first pair of shoes even though they were still too big but they looked cute!  She is liking her play mat more and more, she mostly loves when dad plays on the floor with her.  Tummy time doesn't go very well for the fact that she will try to roll over for a second then decides she doesn't care. She will just lay her head down and look around for a bit! We are so blessed to have her!

Family...

We had a great family dinner to celebrate Jessica's birthday...a bit late!  We had delicious soups and great company!  These kids were as crazy as ever and have so much energy!  They loved smiling for pictures (except for Brody, he just wanted to eat!) and dancing, playing games, riding "horsies" and just being wild!  Heather was the only one of us to have enough energy to keep them entertained for long! They all of course wanted to hold the babies and are such sweet little mommies!  I love my family!

One Month...

At One Month Katelyn is eating every 3-4.5 hours during the day, sleeps 7 ish hours a night and thinks her bed is midnight (since I keep a semi-NOC schedule all week I am ok with it! ).  She rarely cries, smiles in her sleep and whenever she wants to, holds our finger whenever she is falling asleep, loves to have her head rubbed, and has sweet strawberry blonde hair and deep blue eyes!

Briele & Baby Kate...

Briele came over to play with us for a little bit and I have to admit it was a little stressful! Briele is so active there was no hiding anything from her so after I threw out any self modesty that I had left we were great!  She only asked for a turn with the breast pump once...I think!  Haha!  She was quite concerned with what I was doing but when she found out it was Kate's milk she really wanted to make her eat it immediately!  It was quite humorous! 

Briele loves to hold Kate and give her "huggies"!  She did so good with her and just kept asking me to take more pictures!  Lately she hasn't wanted her picture taken so it was quite impressive that I took 20+ per her request!

Briele is quite excited that there are finally toys at Ray & Cole's house.  She comes in the door and immediately knows where to find what she wants.  This day she pulled out the play mat, a pillow and blanket and snuggled up to watch a movie!  Oh I love both of these girls and I love how sweet Briele is with Kate!

Katelyn...

Life is passing quickly.  I wish it would slow down, I feel like my baby is growing up way to fast!  We are having so much fun with her!

She has the funnest poses!  She attended her first baptism for her cousin Mariah!

We headed to Red Lobster with grandpa.  He had fun making Katelyn look goofy with our bow in the middle top of her head, didn't help that she was cross-eyed in the picture! She always has her hands by her face in the cutest little positions!

2 Week Stats!

Today Katelyn had her 2 week appointment!  She was a perfect little angel!  She let the doctor do whatever he wanted.  She had to get her heel pricked for her PKU and I hated it.  Her poor heel bruises were just going away and they had to poke it again!  I was holding her as the nurse pricked her and began bleeding her out.  Katelyn started crying and I tried soothing her.  She cried for just a moment when she took a giant breath, sighed and with a frown on her face rested her head against my shoulder.  It was so sweet and funny, kind of like she accepted that it needed to be done but still wasn't thrilled about it!

Height: 21.5 inches--91%

Weight: 8 lb 7 oz--51%

Head Circumference: 37 cm--90%

She still smiles and sleeps ALL day but we sure do love all of her sweet snuggles!

Happy New Year!

We started off the New Year with one of my favorite past times...by going to breakfast.  I have always loved going out with family/friends and having breakfast as delicious little diners.  Briele had a delicious giant Hot Chocolate and then grazed at all of our plates!  Katelyn enjoyed sleeping and relaxing.  She does the funniest things with her hands!  And last but not least, I LOVE bedhead! I love it!  Even though her hair is pretty short it makes me laugh when it goes every which way!  It is adorable! We chilled for the rest of our New Year's Day and sadly got ready for Ray to go back to work tomorrow! Oh how I wish we didn't need money!