8/24/2018

Katherine,

You have been a busy little bee in the last three months.  I don't do the post monthly in the second year, just two extra posts in your second year a 15 month and 18 month post.

You are constantly on the go.  You don't seem to have much trouble walking in shoes now.  Though your Daddy still makes fun of your bowlegged rocking walk.  He has told you that you look like Memaw did right after her knee surgery.  She loves on you and tells you to just ignore him.  You really like to run up and down, if you can call it a run, on the ramp in the lunchroom at Church.  You seem to get a kick out of picking up speed going down it, so you do it over and over again.  You still aren't really fond of wearing shoes, so we only do it out and about, but you don't seem to mind sandals quite so much.  Guess it's a Florida thing.

5/29/2018

5/26/2018

Climbing is the big thing now.  If we don't leave off the light in your room, you will go in there and climb halfway up the ladder to Rebecca's bunk.  Then laugh at us when we tell you to get down.  You can climb up in the little rocker and in Ruth's little chair in her room.  You like to climb in and out of the bumbo seat that Grandmother and Granddaddy got you for Christmas.  You will drag it around the room, when the kids turn on a movie and climb in to watch it with them.  You will climb and wrestle all over your Daddy.  And, when no one picks you up fast enough, you will grab a fist full of pants, grunt, and try to swing your leg up and climb up them.

7/14/2018

You babble more and more of the time, but unlike your siblings, there aren't really any clearly recognizable words.  You sometimes seem to say Yeah, bye (about a thousand times in a row), and uh-oh when you drop something.  You say Da-da for anything and everything over the sun, but will go and find him when I ask where Da-da is.  You clearly understand alot, because I can ask you to go and get your puppy and you will.  The little dog Unca Nick and Aunt Alex got you for your birthday is clearly your favorite toy.  I can ask where the kitty is and you will get a blue cat that belongs to Rebecca.  You also know that Neela is Rebecca's toy Austrailian Shepard.  You will go to the kitchen if I ask you if you want a cup, and wait for me to get it.  You do grunt a lot at us to get our attention, and sometimes almost sound like you are going to hyperventilate.

6/12/2018

6/17/18

When you get excited which is often, you kinda squeal, kinda make this rapid whiny sound, like you are going to hyperventilate.  You really love animals and do it anytime you see one as you try to get to it.  You also laugh whenever someone else laughs, and love to be tickled.  You are probably more hands-on and expressive than the other kids were.  You will randomly come sit in my lap, and either patty cake with your hands, or grab mine and make me do it.  You want me to sing the song to you.  And you are always pleased when I do.  Things that the others might have asked for, but didn't do.  I guess you need to be more visual since you don't talk much yet.

8/1/2018

Your personality has really blossomed over the last few months.  You love your siblings.  You think Britt is the funniest, like to sit in Ruth lap to watch tv, and play with Rebecca, but you sure do hate for them to pick you up and carry you around.  You have clear likes - vegetables and fruit of any kind, and clear dislikes - most meat.  You prefer to eat on the go and not be strapped down.  You love milk and water but hate cokes.  You seem to have developed a taste for lemons in the last week, taking them off everyone's cup and plates.  I think you have 12 teeth in now.  You had 5, almost immediately cut 4 molars, and then three more eye teeth.  You might be working on some more teeth this week, but I don't stick my hand in to find out any more.

7/22/2018

We turned your seat around, almost a month ago now.  You had figured out how to get your arms out the top of the harness and would roll most of the way over in the car seat in order to crane around to look at us.  Sometimes I wonder if you are a contortionist, even on the tightest setting you can climb out of the high chair.  You had nearly reached the limit on the car seat, but I wasn't quite ready to turn you.  Daddy is convinced that you fussed less facing backward, I think you just fuss alot in the car seat.  But we are on the go and it's not an option to be out of it, so we'll just live with the complaining.

5/25/2018

This week, I have washed up the 12 to 18-month clothes and packed up the 12-month clothes.  You may always be a petite thing on the short side, but you are growing.  And since your first haircut, you have only gotten more and more of the crazy curls.  I love you, our dainty little love.  You are such a joy to your Daddy and me.

Love,
Momma

8/24/2018