How my family entertains me

Grammie played with me in my pen.

Mimi cuddled with me on the couch

Grampie showed me Leon the scarecrow.

Grumps swing danced with me

Uncle Mike and I said TOUCHDOWN!!

and the grand finale... I made my grandparents do the wave OVER AND OVER again - it was AWESOME!!!

My First Thanksgiving

This week I got to spend the WHOLE WEEK at mimi's house because my mommy had to do stuff around town for her 10 year high school reunion. I love Mimi's house and I especially love all the fun Fall decorations she has around the house. She named all her scarecrows just for me, and whenever I'm there - I have to visit each and every one a few times a day just to say HI.

Here I am in the Green Bean Casserole Dish before they made dinner.
I am thankful that I get to spend my Thanksgiving with Mimi, Grumps, Uncle Mike AND Grammie and Grampie... we had a great big old sleep over and I loved having everyone to play with.

You know how sometimes when more than one person is taking a picture some people look the other way... well, that's not what happened here!!! Daddy was holding up one of my favorite scarecrows Leon to get my attention and apparently it got Mimi's attention too cause she kept looking at it and not the camera:) See.. Mimi kept looking at Leon!

Here are my grandmas in my pen!

Grammie and Grampie decided they really liked some of my toys... here are their favorites... maybe for Christmas I will give them their own since they like to play with them so much.
Hope you all had a GREAT Thanksgiving. We are already getting ready for Christmas!

P P P P PUFFS

Kaitlyn says Dada... all the time. Sometimes she's just babbling and sometimes she looks at him and says DADA like... hey what's up dude?

She learned how to sign More... well, her interpretation of the sign anyway - except she only really does it when we are giving her PUFFS and she wants more... so for all we know - she thinks more means PUFFS...

The real kicker... is that now she tries to say puffs... listen.
No, she hasn't even attempted to say Ma Ma.... I guess I just can't compare to Puffs:(

First Steps

Yes, that's right... this weekend... Katie decided she would take her first steps all by herself. She has been traveling all over the house holding onto EVERYTHING in sight.. and she was starting to get brave enough to let go and stand on her own for a few seconds at a time and then she took a few steps before she fell down.

She did the same thing the next day... and tried it again today. She doesn't get far... but she has no fear so we just watch her extra carefully now and will try to have the video camera handy!
Here she is standing up by herself.

Aunt Judy in Maine sent her these really cool board books about buses and she LOVES THEM. She can already point out the bus, helicopter, cows, tow truck in them and she only got them Saturday. She will sit down amongst her LARGE pile of books and just hold them up to you one by one for you to read to her. She points to things and waits for you to tell her what it is... it's very cute and very tiring:)

Here is me telling Grumps to give me a french fry out to lunch!

here I am with Mimi playing in my pen

Here I am at my new favorite place to hang out... in front of the window. I started out looking for daddy at night but now I stand here all the time and look at everything. My favorite is when the squirrels go by on the power lines.

And here is my final trick of the day. Grumps taught me how to "beat my drum" like from Lucy and Ricky...

Happy almost Thanksgiving everyone:)

Vintage!

Here I am wearing some Vintage clothing - straight from mommy's old closet and hanging out with Miss Marion and Mimi!!!

Here I am in my farm. I LOVE MY FARM. I can turn the light on and off. I can feed the cow, I love opening and closing the barn door and all the other cool stuff I learned to do with this toy. It's the best investment mommy and daddy have made so far as I play with it all the time!

And lastly, here I am on the swings with daddy in the park over the weekend. It was so nice out, we went for a walk and ended up on the swings:)Happy Wednesday!

Little Sponge

It's so true what they say about kids being like little sponges. Katie soaks something new up, practically every day!

She has now added Elmo, her keys, and her rubber ducky to things she can identify from last week. She can clap her hands together - and if you go.. YAY!!!! She will stop what she is doing and clap.... whether you are clapping or not. She learned how to give kisses and hugs today and it's just the SWEETEST Thing! (don't ask her for a kiss when she's eating, cause it would be YUCKY!!!!!)

Here she is kissing daddy this morning!



She still loves her books and every day I try to work with her to teach her something else to remember. It's amazing to watch her wheels spinning while she figures it out.

Example of our exchange.
Mommy: Katie... can mommy have your duck?
Katie... desperately looking for the duck... hasn't seen it yet
Katie... Claps her hands until she sees the duck - or points to the bee on her farm of turns the light on on her farm.
Mommy... laughs hysterically at Katie's clever diversion!!!!

She also learned how to mooo today as well as "warm up" her vocal chords.
Here is a picture of my vocal warm up.


We are having a grand old time with her... except that she has gone on a food strike and doesn't want her baby food anymore and doesn't really want finger food anymore either unless it's what you are eating... so since we can't really give her what we are eating yet, we are struggling with mealtime.

When we have time to upload the video... we will:)

My first real boo-boo

That's boo boo like a ghost.. not bow bow like bow and arrow;)
I got into my first fight today with a toy box and I lost... Mommy was packing my diaper bag for our walk and I pulled a box over and it clipped me on the nose... it bled and mommy was very sad. She was more upset than me... I just wanted to climb on the box.

Later that night I was trying out my new dance moves and clapping with the music to my monkey. If you listen closely... you will hear me humming when the monkey stops... I like to keep the music going! I start humming here and try to get the monkey to start... then I share my bink with him. All in a days work!

Happy Halloween!!!!!

For my first Halloween I got to pick out a pumpkin at a pumpkin patch, pick out a design for daddy to carve in it for me and go trick or treating at the Danbury Mall with my faves:) We even got to go to a few houses in their neighborhood... but it was cold and rainy, and I didn't want to stay out long so mommy, daddy and I waited for everyone else to finish.

Here I am with the stash from the Hill house... only a few trick or treaters came... so I got to use the candy for a photo op!

Here's Pooh at the mall, waiting patiently while all the adults ate lunch and here I am eating my costume banana.