Ready for Summer!

Is anyone else ready for summer?! After many days of cold weather, rain, and high winds - I am just about over winter for the year. Even though the weather was not the greatest most of this week, we still tried to make the best of our time at home!

This week started out pretty interesting - Kelly tore his achilles tendon while playing basketball this past Monday. His surgery is scheduled for this coming Tuesday at St. Josephs Hospital. Thankfully his parents are able to come down and keep Kaitlynn while I go with Kelly to the hospital for his surgery! Keep him in your prayers on this Tuesday - surgery is at 1:00pm.

Regardless of the weather, we stayed busy this week while Kelly was working. I had bible study on Monday night - we're reading The Mission of Motherhood; we took meals to two families from our Sunday school class that had recently had babies, went to our 4th week of music class, had playgroup with Julie & Shandy here at the house, and headed to Hayesville Friday & Saturday to spend time with family!

Finally able to wear shoes and keep them on most of the time!

Kaitlynn LOVES her feet!

Kaitlynn got lots of cuddle time from her Nana & Papa in Hayesville!

While we missed out on the 4 inches of snow in Atlanta,

we were blessed to have 3-4 inches of snow in Hayesville!

Willa's second snow in Atlanta! There was still

a lot of snow on the ground once we got home from N.C.

Sunday 2-14-2010

We spent Kaitlynn's first Valentine's Day relaxing at home after our trip into N.C.!! Kelly fixed an amazing dinner for me Sunday night once Kaitlynn went to bed. As much as I love Valentines Day, I am so lucky to have a husband that lets me know everyday how much he loves me and how much I mean to him.... not just on Valentines Day :)

We gave Kaitlynn her Valentine gift - a card & a red monkey

like Curious George - her favorite :)

Our best Valentine yet - our daughter, Kaitlynn Leane

Kelly fixed an amazing dinner filled with some of my favorite foods for our

Valentines dinner at home Sunday night. We had fillet, twice-baked potato,

grilled asparagus, yummy bread, and a caesar salad!

Kelly also got me the most gorgeous arrangement of flowers. My

favorite thing about them - they were a combination of roses and

calla lilies - the same flowers we used in our wedding :)

A few things Kaitlynn is up to these days:

Baby Food:

1/2 jar of fruit for breakfast, 1/2 jar of veggies for lunch, & 1/2 jar of fruit & veggies for dinner (two entire stage one jars each day)

Formula:

-with the increase in baby food, Kaitlynn has slowed down a little bit on formula, which is very normal from what our PED told us! Whew.....

As of today, Sunday, she's taking 4-5oz. every 4 hours.

Naps:

-We've finally transitioned into two naps a day!

Kaitlynn's naps are now around 9:00am and 2:00pm.

Extra:

-starting to support herself while sitting for a few seconds before falling forward.

-finally enjoys independent time in ExerSaucer for 20 minutes or so!

-finally slowing down on diaper changes! Not exciting to anyone else but me and Kelly. We only have 8-10 diaper changes now instead of 20. It's awesome!

**6-month well visit is Monday, February 22nd! Cannot wait to see how much our baby girl has grown**