So we are working on solids here and as you can clearly see macaroni and cheese was a big hit. I hadn't thought about the fact that the way babies eat, by squishing things between their fingers, she would have cheese all over her hands. As an added bonus to cheese hands she hit a tired spell in the middle of dinner and rubbed her eyes and cheese and noodle bits went everywhere. (If you look closely you can see some in her eyelid!) I wonder what we will try tomorrow?
Just crawling around the kitchen.
Watching the sprinklers in the backyard.
I took this picture from the other side of the sliding glass door, I liked it?!
It has been a pretty boring time at the Burt house and trust me when I say I'm not complaining. I took this picture of Katie yesterday while she was eating lunch and you can see her two bottom teeth, her chompers, so I thought I would post it. She is working on her two top teeth now; I was pretty sure she would wake up this morning with a tooth, she was a drool machine yesterday, but so far nothing. Ok well that's it from here for now, I'll take some more pictures later today!
Don't know why she started chewing on the giraffe but now she carries it around in her mouth everywhere. Odd............
I finally got a picture of her crawling, which is easier now because that's all she does and she is getting FAST! She loves to move and already hates baby gates, she's too smart for us. Ok I just thought these two pictures were cute! Have a good day!!!
It was a cold, rainy day today in York, with nothing to do but PLAY!! Katie has resumed her 5:30am wakeup routine so we had a lot of free time to play and goof around. My friends Michelle and Mandy came over for a visit with their children Makenzie and Mark, how do you like that all "M" names?! It was nice for both of us to have friends over; I love having adult conversations and Kate is enamored by big kids right now. (She was literally hanging off of Mark at one point.) With all of the commotion you would think she would be wired but she ended up being a 3 nap baby including one nap while everybody was still here, she just got played out. When all of the playing was over at our house we moved the party over to my parents house for our Tuesday night dinner where she had Grammy and Grandpa, Aunts and Uncles and cousin Beamer (a chocolate lab) to play with. Needless to say she passed out in the car on the way home and slept from 6:30pm-5:30am, YAY!!! Ok well it looks like another day of gloom for us here, the high today is 74 degrees, so we will be in all day............any visitors???? 
So today was a big party day, first up was Tilly's baby shower. Tilly, the one in the black shirt next to me, is expecting twin girls in November. Her son Ben is the little guy on the construction equiptment a few posts ago, cute little blonde dude. We had a great time socializing with everybody, including former swim team mates from Dallastown; GO WILDCATS!! Tilly got a lot of good gifts and thank goodness because two babies at once calls for a ton of stuff. Katie started getting cranky around cake time so we grabbed a quick bite and took off for home and a quick nap.....
(Startled Katie just waking up from a tiny nap at Tilly's shower!)
Man am I glad Amy told me to get this thing, Katie LOVES it!! She hasn't quite mastered moving from one side to another but she will stand in one place for almost 30 minutes and just bang away. It has been a nice distraction from the teething, although not totally distracting; we seem to go from pleasant to raving loon in under a minute. One tooth has successfully made a break for the surface and another one is going to make a run for it sometime in the next day or two and she has been flashing really gummy smiles all day which my sister Liz and I think has to do something with her upper gums bothering her. (the tooth that's in is on the bottom and the one that's about to come through is right next door.) Her miracle transformation to sleeping baby has also been looking more like hoax work as well; last night after an hour of sleep crying Nat went over and gave her some Motrin and rocked her back to sleep. I'm hoping and praying that it is just this teething stuff and once some more of the fellas pop out she will once again return to sleeping baby. Who knows? Ok well someone is trying to grab the laptop from me so I had better put it away before bad things happen. Have a good weekend!!
So the girl loves her "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse", nothing wrong with that. She only really likes the beginning and the end of the show when they sing and she will stop dead in her tracks, as seen above, and start bouncing. Also note that she has been standing on her own for about a week and she's already cool with only holding on with one hand; I'm not so sure I'm "cool" with it but I guess that's the mom coming out in me.
This is her newest toy, a music table. My friend Amy and I were talking about what our daughters were up too, her daughter Lauren is about 6 weeks older than Katie, and it became abundantly clear in the midst of the conversation that we had no age appropriate toys for Katie; we were letting her pull herself up and play on the coffee table. (I'm a bad Mommy!) So Katie and I made a mad dash for Target and bought this play table and a walk behind toy that converts into a car that she can sit on and push along with her feet. Phew, it's hard work keeping that little chicky busy. I think she likes the table, but we will have to wait for the other toy, Daddy is going to put that one together! 
Just two pictures of Katie I took this morning, the dress is cute but she really can't get her crawl on so we took it off, oh well it was cute while it lasted!
This was a banner morning for the Burt's, Katie made it through til' morning without an overnight visit from Mom or Dad!! YAY!! Now before we go celebrating Katie's new found sleeping ability let me just add that we had to listen to her cry it out for about 45 minutes at 2:15am before she fell back to sleep, then the cat had a cry it out session around 4am. All in all not bad, pathetic that it isn't bad, but we have learned to live on little sleep. I'll let you all know how she does tonight, now that she's mobile it's a whole new ballgame and we don't know any of the rules.
Today Katie, my Mom and I played with our friend Ben Sheets, isn't he adorable! Luckily he is in a "Bob The Builder" stage because we have a ton of construction going on in our neighborhood and man did he love it. Too bad it was stinking hot outside and Suzi couldn't hang too long.
Everyone in the family comments on how Katie and her Dad have the same facial expressions so I thought this picture might help prove our point. Strange, eh?
I almost can't believe it myself, she is 9 months old!! How fast time flies. We had her 9 month checkup this morning and she weighed in at 19 lbs. 3.5 oz. and measured 28.5 inches tall. (50th percentile for weight and just abover 75th for height) Just to put everything in to perspective she was 4 lbs. 6 oz. and birth and 18 inches tall, not even near the growth charts, not even close. So our little miracle continues to grow and learn on schedule, what a blessing. Now if she could just learn to sleep..................
We are all moved in and mostly unpacked, but still no camera cord. Nat had to run out and buy a new converter drive for me in part because the cord is still missing and secondly because I kept bugging him about it! Katie is on the move, literaly, beginning to crawl, pull up on furniture and roll from one end of the room to another. She is also working on a tooth and it is bugging the crap out of her. She turns 9 months old on Wednesday so she will be visiting the doctor for a check-up and a shot. (Yes, only one!)
My parents had been on vacation for the whole moving period, you heard that correctly they left me for 3 weeks, and returned last Sunday. This is the kilt they bought for Katie in Scotland, how cute. It's a size 2 so we hope it will fit sometime this spring.
