8 Month Potratits

Since I took Kate's 7 Month pictures so late, it seems very fast to be posting new ones, but since we went on 2 very fun vacations right around the 12th, I decided to take advantage of it & take Kate's "portraits" on the beach and in the mountains! Brace yourself: A LOT of pictures below!

These were the pictures that were taken in Angel Fire, NM. We were there last weekend (more to come on that!). Our friends, the Colemans, went with us & Jennie took some really great shots of Kate. I also had her take some family shots too...but you'll have to wait for those!

And, of course I had to take a few myself...

There were a few outfits that were too big for Kate that were for cold weather that she never got to wear before it got hot here in Texas, so I wanted to get some pictures in this outfit. My mom bought it before she was ever born...I just love the little jacket!

Happy 8 Months Kate!

I'm late this month with Kate's update, we were out of town, but are home now. Hopefully I'll finally start to get caught up!

What a month! I feel like Kate is turning into her own little person this month. She has DEFINITE opinions, shows her little independent personality often, and much much more. I just love getting to know her & am having so much fun being a mom. What a joy to watch this little girl grow & learn each day!

This month Kate...

--LOVES to be sung to & is starting to do some motions to songs - "If you're happy & you know it" - she claps...not every time...but usually, "This little light of mine" - she sticks up her pointer & especially loves when I blow on her finger for the verse about Satan blowing it out, "ABCs" - can stop any meltdown. The minute I sing it she's smiling & watching...it's hilarious.

--clapping

--crawling - and it gets faster everyday!

--turns her head when she doesn't want something

--is aware of loud sounds & is usually intially scared and jumps further into my arms, but gets over it soon: the garage door, the waves at the beach, etc.

--still haven't found anything this girl won't eat: added cheerios, peas & carrots to finger foods

--sleeping the same as last month - won't let go of that 3rd nap (although it's just 45 min now), but I'm not complaining!

--pulls up - on EVERYTHING! It started with just her crib, but now it's everything - her highchair, our legs, baskets, coffee tables, EVERYTHING!

--still just 2 teeth :)

--sits with her toes pointed most of the time

--is funny about textures - after she touches something or puts something in her mouth if it's a funny texture (sequins, paper, etc.) she does this funny little shuddering thing.

She had just put this paper in her mouth - here she is doing the little shuddering thing!

--gives kisses

--"Dances" - when we're in restraunts with music she tilts her head to the right over & over

--loves the bath even more now that she can crawl around & explore the whole bathtub

--points - not really at anything, just points :)


--reccognizes familiar faces

--when asked "Where's Daddy?" She will look all over until she finds him then squeals with glee - she ADORES him!




--seems to be pretty tough - we are having MANY falls now that she is crawling & pulling up (already 2 bruises!), but it takes a very hard one to bring any tears!

in this picture she has a bruise on her left cheek

--"sings" when one of her toys plays music. I'm not sure if it really is singing, but it sounds different than regular babbling & it sounds the same everytime!




Now that we're back from all our fun vacations, hopefully I'll get some new videos posted of her doing some new things: singing, motions to songs, dancing, etc.

My loves...

We just got back from a great trip to the beach with my family. I am up to my ears in laundry & cleaning house so that we can leave again on Thursday for a fun trip to the mountains!

Of course while we were at the beach I had to get some fun pictures of my little girl. I also ended up with a quite a few cute ones of her daddy also.

I love these two...

so sweet

hanging out on our balcony


good lookin...

look at those pointed toes!

kisses?

the head turn!

Bandit Reunion

This past Friday we had our annual reunion with our friends from A&M. We get together every summer - usually for just 24 hours - and it is 24 hours of FUN! We play games, eat too much, and remember lots of old funny times - water drinking competitions, box jumping, staying up til the sun came up, "God answers prayer", dinner club, and much much more! We always stay up way too late - especially now that we have kids that get up at 8 no matter what! This year Courtney & Trent hosted us.



Of course this year we forgot to actually take pictures of the adults, but this was us last year at Ashley & Randy's house...

David, me (Kate in utero!), Courtney (holding Madison), Trent, Ashley, Randy, Michelle (holding Kendall, Alden, & Scott

We did get a few pictures of the girls...

Madison loving on Kate - everytime she was next to her she would rub her hair - it was so sweet! She's going to be a great big sister!

Madison & Randy playing in the morning

Kate waking Scott up in the morning

Our attempt at getting a picture of the girls. This was as good as I got...

Maybe next year :)

We added up that since the first of us started graduating in Dec of '03, we have gotten together 9 times...we were pretty proud of ourselves. It began with just 7 friends, but now a bunch of us are married, there are 3 kids with 1 on the way, and I'm sure many more to come!

I'm already excited about next year!

Happy Birthday!

We wanted to tell 2 very special people Happy Birthday today!

Today is our "Papa"s (my Dad's dad) birthday. He turned 83! (I think!)

It is also Jackson's (our nephew - David's sister's little boy) birthday! He turned 2!!
Kate really did want to tell him Happy Birthday too...just got a little distracted :)

We hope you both had a special day today!

7 Month Portraits

I decided that starting this month (I may change for the 1 year) I would start taking Kate's monthly portraits myself. David's parents got me a VERY nice camera for Christmas that I love, so I decided to finally put it to use for "portraits". **WARNING*** There are A TON of pictures in this post...but I just couldn't decide!

I am a little behind (ummm...2.5 weeks!) on the 7th Month, but I was waiting for my mom to come to town. I had planned on taking the pictures outside, but since we woke up on Monday & Tuesday mornings to rain, we decided I should take some inside to make sure we got some.

I definitely took WAY more pictures than they take at a studio, so like I said...tons of pictures! Enjoy!

When we woke up this morning, it wasn't raining!!! So, we packed up the car & headed over to Maude Cobb. When we pulled up, I realized in my hurry I had left my camera at home. Yep, went to take pictures, didn't bring the camera. If we went all the way back to my house, it would've been naptime by the time we got back, so we just decided to use Mom's Cannon point and shoot to see what we could get. I think we did pretty well...

Thank you for coming to visit & spoiling us Nana!