This Week In Katie!!

Yes Katie is wearing her pants on her head, she keeps getting food on them so we came up with a new solution that we could all live with. She actually thinks it's funny and doesn't mind them being there so we just let it be. She started eating puffed cereal on Wednesday, she played with them more than anything but a few did make it in her mouth and I think two made it to the digestive track. We are on the move here!
The point of this picture is the crazy amount of drool that this child produces, she's a fountain! She is teething in a big way, chewing and biting everything and anything she can get her paws on. I had taken her bib off to take a few pictures and within five minutes the front of her shirt was soaked. Lesson learned, all pictures will now contain a bibbed baby.
Finally we have solitary sitting Katie. Her skills are getting a lot better; sure she still flops over from time to time but I don't have to keep a hand on her back for steadying. (spelling?) She's getting a lot more sturdy on her feet too, she can actually stand on her own for a few seconds. At 16 lbs. she is a lot more solid than I would have guessed, plus she has my giant feet so I guess that helps a bit.

Happy Memorial Day!!

We spent the holiday at Nat's Aunt Fran's house and luckily that house comes with a pool so not only were we fed well but we got to cool down with a swim. As you can see Katie had fun playing with her Grandpa, then cousin Samantha and finally cousin Jessica. We had a blast and unfortunatly my fair skin got a bit too much sun so I have to go aloe down......Hope everyone had a great three day weekend!

It's Our Anniversary!!

Today for our anniversary (#6) we had a cranky baby day. We are pretty sure she is teething, even my mother-in-law said she felt a bump and could see white caps, so her craziness is somewhat excusable. She took two 45 minute naps and a two 10 minute naps, not nearly enough for a happy baby. Oh well, you will have these kind of days, she's still adorable and she did perk up for a few pictures and in the last picture she is indeed sucking on a rubber ducky and falling asleep at bath time. I hope these teeth hurry up!

Enjoying the nice weather.

Katie and I took a hike yesterday at Nixon Park here in Jacobus. (the town I really live in even though our postal address is York) It was a perfect day for a walk, about 75 degrees, and although there we some school kids on field trips it was basically empty for us to explore. We saw a Garder snake (in the wild), some butterflies and stuck our feet in the creek, it was very cold and I don't think Katie enjoyed that part of the trip. The last picture is of Katie in front of a turtle exhibit, you can't see the turtle becuase it was right behind her, it swam up to her and she loved it. Ok well today it's supposed to get into the 90's so we will be playing indoors.........Ugh.

Happy Birthday Ben!

Happy 2nd Birthday Ben!!
Katie was so excited about your birthday she went right home and put a duck on her head! (Just thought it was a cute picture!!) Hope you have fun with all of your new Thomas The Train stuff, it's so cool!

Our Family Photo Session

Here are some proofs (?) of our family photo session yesterday. I think they turned out great, but we are a good looking family so what would you expect !!!

Katie Was on The News!!!

So York's local Fox affiliate was at Katie's NICU reunion on Sunday and Katie was the star of the segment! I know what you are all thinking, well Heather works for Fox 43 so that's how Katie got on TV, not the case; Katie got discovered all on her own!! Sorry about the picture quality, I took pictures of the paused TV with my camera so they aren't the best......Happy Monday!

Some Very Cute Pictures!!!

We had family pictures done today at my parents house and along the way I found some pictures to take! Katie had her first up close encounter with Sydney the cat, neither seemed to be bothered by the other so no scratches or hair pulling. (Sydney did end up running away after a few minutes, I think we were pushing the envelope by laying Katie on top of her?!)
Aunt Liz with Katie after the pictures were done. Katie did alright with the photographers, but you could tell she would rather have been sleeping.
Aunt Sarah and Katie, in her picture dress. This is Katie's new favorite face, we taught her how to moo like a cow and she can't do "m" sounds so it's just oooooooo. So far it the only sound she will mimic.

She's Sitting, well sort of.......

Katie is getting better at sitting on her own, every day she can sit a bit longer than the day before. She is now able to pull herself up to verticle when she begins to fall forward but if she starts to fall to either side you better be there with a sturdy hand because she will bite the deck!

This is an example of falling to the side, I had to put the camera down after this shot because she went straight forward and planted her face on the sofa cushion. She's tough though, so don't worry.....

New Things Katie Can Do....

Within the past two days Katie has realized that she can eat her feet and now I can't change her diaper without a foot slipping into her mouth.
Another new development is sitting. She isn't too great on land, but in the water she can sit forever and play with her ducky of course!

Cute Pictures

All dressed up Katie!
Katie in bed with Mama and bear.
Contortionist Katie trying to see what that flash is all about!

Guess Who Is 6 Months Old?

Today Katie turned 6 months old, it's been half of a year already! Time flies when you are having fun, I really get that now; it seems like only yesterday that I was pregnant. Since we are both getting over being sick there wasn't too much celebration but we did have a doctors visit and they like to celebrate by sticking needles in her chubby legs, four shots today.(poor thing) Other than the shots we found out that she is 15 lbs. which puts her just above the 25th percentile, she was 25.5 inches long which was in the 50th percentile for height (woo-hoo!!) and her head was 16.5 inches around which was in the 30th percentile. So she is firmly on the charts, finally, and developmentally she is right where she should be, she even sat on her own for the doctor today (she's a ham and all of the nurses there know it already!). After her appointment we came home and Kate slept for almost 3.5 hours, stupid shots, and when she woke up she was sore, hungry and generally ticked off at the world. She was only happy if I was walking with her, so we did some walking around the house, talking to every stuffed animal along the way. By about 7pm life returned to normal and for the first time in a long time I joined Katie and Nat for their evening walk. We didn't get too far, with only one lung functioning at normal capacity I was beat doing a small loop, but it was fun to get out as a family and enjoy the spring air. Well I am tired so I'm calling it a day, talk to you all soon!!!

Getting there....

We are all starting to turn the corner, I think. I still feel and sound horrible, but it's a better horrible than yesterday. Katie is starting to eat more, so I think she might be feeling better too. Now if she would just start to sleep again.............

Getting better!

We are all in recovery mode here at the Burt household. Katie went back to the doctors office yesterday and was given a breathing machine that Nat has to hook up to her every 4 hours for treatments. She hates it! I think the problem with Katie is that she is too young to be given any real drugs unless she is in serious destress and what she has seems to be a really bad cold, so we are trying anything. I think the treatments are working, she slept last night from midnight-5am without waking herself up coughing, so small progress. As for me my fever finally broke, yay, and now I am in the coughing everything up mode. It's disgusting, but I am feeling better.
We took a little break today and drove over to the new house. I think Nat needed to get out of the sick ward, plus it's only a 5 minute car ride so we took a little trip. As you can see the roof is now done, the front part is a metal roof, the brick work is done and on the inside most of the wiring is now done.
Just as we were getting ready to leave the house two deer ran across the back fence, they are right over by the mulched area on the left of the picture. I guess they got lost because they stopped there for a minute and then turned back the way they came? At this point I was totally wiped out and had to go back to the car, so we don't really know where they went. Ok well back to bed with me, Nat has, has, has to go to work Monday so I have to get better, those are direct orders.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

Worse....

So now I have pneumonia, ugh. There probably won't be any new pictures for a while or any posts since I am supposed to stay in bed and get healthy. Hopefully these antibiotics will kick in and make me feel a little better soon; right now my lungs hurt, I can't take a nice deep breath without coughing up a lung, and I have the sweats. Lovely. Ta-ta for now, enjoy the rest of the week!