Sweet Katherine,

You seem to get sweeter by the day.  You have the happiest disposition.  You just watch everything around you with a smile. You seem to like sitting with us in the dining room while we do school.  You have really out grown the rock and play, so we have started sitting you in the bouncer on the table, though you often like to sit in my lap.  You have started laughing this month.  Giving you lots of kisses seems to make you laugh a bit, with your big smile.  But what really gets you going, is when Daddy shakes you.  After your bath, when he is drying you off, he'll peddle your legs, and bounce you on the bed, or reach over and shake your chest, and you just laugh and laugh.  Your tooth is also all the way in now.

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This past week I FINALLY saw you roll over with my own eyes.  You are doing it alot lately.  You also like to push yourself around with your heels when you are on your back and by trying to scrunch up your legs and then push with your toes.  It's not safe to have you on the bed anymore, unless we are literally sitting right there with you.  Your biggest thing right now is attempting to sit up.  Of course you have tried to swing yourself upright for well over a month now, but in the last week you have gotten much more insistent with it.  You swing yourself up when you are reclined and can even balance like that for a short time.  You still detest tummy time, and don't like to lay down flat.


You also got to experience your first hurricane this month.  Though you slept through it.  Seriously.  You might have been awake for 3 hours a day the week of the Hurricane.  Since getting back home, you have settled more back into your routine of wake around 10 for the day, and only cat napping a little in the late afternoon.  There has been one change to your routine though.  You are waking up once during the night to eat again.  I'm, as usual, worried about my supply.  We've even debated giving you a bottle of formula before bed to see if that helps.  However, you really hate the bottle.  We've only managed to get you to take it once in the last month, and Daddy doesn't really want to start that anyway.  I have to admit I don't either.  I have never loved breast feeding, but stopping would be like closing a chapter, I'm not sure I'm ready for either.  Because of the waking during the night, you've only slept in your crib once.  Though you do nap in there sometimes in the afternoon.  More often than not though, you nap in the living room floor on your quilt.

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 You seem to be more interested in toys this month.  You really like the rattles.  Anything that makes noise, you will follow.  Your siblings, sure do love to make you smile and watch them, when they have it.  Playing with your feet is also a big thing.  You found them on the trip to Arkansas and they have been fascinating to you ever since. You also seem to have become attached to your lovey.  You hang on to it, and hold fist fulls of it when you are getting sleepy.  When you see me pick it up, you start wheeling those hands around all over the place, and open your mouth.  Speaking of which, we have no problem getting you to take a pacifier now, even if you still prefer me as your pacifier.  You sometimes try to turn your head back to the pacifier when you drop it at night, which cracks me up.  But you also will chew on your first two fingers, and the side of your fist, if it's not handy.

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You light up our home little rainbow.  And, I know at some point the "honeymoon" will end, and you'll back talk, destroy the house, and be willfully disobedient, but right now you can do no wrong, even if your Daddy is grumbling about the lack of sleep and beginning of celery season.

We love you, more than words can say,
Momma

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