Baby Bling

Kaitlyn now has some Baby Bling!

We got her ears pierced tonight after we had her 11 month pictures taken. I have been wanting to do this for awhile but I was too scared to do it, I knew Kaitlyn wouldn't remember and would recover quickly but I was afraid I would start crying.

I mentioned to Shaun while we were eating dinner that I wanted to stop at one of the places in the mall to see how much it would cost. His reply was this would be a great time to just do it because Kaitlyn is already on antibiotics. So that was it decision made.

Kaitlyn did really well, she was a little squirmy in the chair when Shaun was trying to hold her to get the "dots" put on her ears. Shaun had to use one hand to hold both her hands down and then hold her back with the other hand against her forehead. She KICKED when the lady did the first one and started to gulp in air, the second one started the first wail. I looked up and there was a mother and daughter walking by they both had the "oooo" poor baby look on their faces. While her cries were very sad the panting quick screams kind of wail, she calmed down pretty quick. She was squirmy and got mad at me when I tried to clean them before bed but all in all not as bad as I thought it would be.

She has really cute little 14K white gold studs with little CZ's. They are really cute! Now we just have to clean them twice a day for awhile, hopefully she will get used to it!

Give Kisses

Kaitlyn will give me kisses now. She comes at me with an open mouth and kind of licks me but it's cute!

Love that little girl!

Another Tooth

Kaitlyn got another tooth today! I think it's the top right if you are looking at her...BUT it's hard to tell becuase she won't let me look at it! HA HA.

She's a lean mean food chewing machine now!

Curls and Stairs

Kaitlyn's hair is getting longer, when her hair drys she has one curls behind each ear. She looks like a munchkin from the wizard of oz but it's really really cute.

This weekend Kaitlyn discovered that she can climb the stairs. Today she climbed all the way to the top, with some encouragement from Mommy. But she did it herself, she was so proud. Cute lil bugger! Now she just has to figure out how to get back down without scaring herself!

We are very lucky, Kaitlyn is a very good baby. She takes a little time to get warmed up to people and comfortable with her surroundings but she is a very happy baby no matter where we take her these days. She went from 9:30am-3:30pm with no nap while at an ACS event and she just crawled and walked around. She was happy the whole time laughing at people and smiling. We are very lucky to have such a sweet baby girl!

Another Ear Infection

Kaitlyn has another ear infection...after a fairly bad night. She had a fever of 101.4 in the middle of the night. I am afraid that she got mommys ears and will have to get tubes in her ears sooner or later. The doctor says she has to have 4 or more ear infections within 6 months before they would send us to an ENT doctor. This is her 4th total ear infection but the last was in December so technically she is up to 3...but by the time we get to her recovered from this one there isn't time for her to get a 4th. We shall see. Poor sick Katie Lynn.

WALKING!!!!

Kaitlyn is officially walking! She still prefers to crawl if she needs to get there fast but...she is walking. She does pretty well when she has something in both hands or is trying to get something. It's really cute when she just wanders around the house checking things out from her new stand point. The farthest she has gone is about 13 steps but she will stand up in the middle of the room and just walk away. I'm so proud of my little girl.

On a side note, Kaitlyn is doing really well playing by herself. She will play in her "play room/area" alone without freaking out and screaming until you go sit with her. She is growing up so fast. She knows how to work her ball popper, how to turn it on and that the balls have to go back in it. She is too funny!

A mind of her own

Kaitlyn really has a mind of her own. Not only does she tell you Uh-oh when she drops something or is doing something she shouldn't be, she has started to tell you Nah. Currently it's her word of choice, I can't tell if she actually is trying to say no but if you ask her "Kaitlyn come here" Nah, "Kaitlyn let go" Nah. It's pretty funny.



She has also started holding on! For example she loves to get my keys out of my purse and when I try to take them from her she will hold them down in her lap and won't let go. Sometimes she will tell me Nah. She gets really upset when you take it from her. She is a trip!



I don't know when you would actually say this is Kaitlyn First word....she has said a couple of things but hasn't really repeated them as if she really knew what she was saying. She has been babbling since she was about 6 months old and will string syllables together but I don't know if you could really could any of that as saying DaDa or Dad because she doesn't repeat it.



Things Kaitlyn has said -
DaDa
Dad
PopPop
Ma
Mom
Uh-Oh
Cat
Kate
Ba Ba (then grabbed her bottle - she only did this once)
Hi
Nah
Neeno (she said it today twice clear as day, when I tried to get her to go it later she wouldn't)
My
This (Dis)
Yes (yesh)
Yuck (uck)

I would say her real first word and knowing what it means is Uh-oh. Though I am sure that Shaun would argue her first word is DaDa.

2 Steps!

Kaitlyn took 2 steps by herself tonight! Here we go!!!