6 Months

Our little girl is now 6 months old. Matt and I were just talking the other night how it's so hard to imagine our life before Kaitlynn was born. We decided that we must have been very bored!

Here is a small sample of her rolling, scooting and talking skills...



I couldn't get off of work for her 6 month appt. on Tuesday so Matt took her. I of course had to type up a list of info. about her with the answers to the questions they usually ask about her. He did a very good job and got all of my questions answered! Since she is still spitting up so much and sometimes it is just clear liquid the pediatrician said that even though it doesn't seem to bother Kaitlynn that we still need to treat the acid reflux. She gave us a different medicine to try and we're going to start giving her more solids/less formula to see if that makes a difference. Hopefully it will help. It is a HUGE pain to have to constantly be changing clothes (hers and ours!) cleaning the carpet, etc.

I do think that she is starting to even out a little bit in the height and weight department. She weighs 17 lbs. 1 oz. which is now in the 75% and she is 25 1/4 inches long which is is in the 50%.

Kaitlynn and I went over to Jo and Jarred's the other night for "game night" Jo's sister's family also came over and their boys absolutely love "Baby Kaitlynn" as they call her!
Here is Nicholas trying to entertain Kaitlynn with Joanne who is currently growing baby #2 in her belly! Congratulations you guys!
Nicholas trying to make her happy by making silly faces. You can tell it's really working!
Once I took her from Joanne she immediately went to sleep but then we had the dilemma of where to put her. The best solution we came up with was the dog bed! Yes...we really used Sammy's bed...although Jo assured me that Sammy has never even slept in it and we put a clean blanket over the top so she didn't even touch the bed part. I can just picture my aunt Diane slightly freaking out right now...ha ha! She rolls so much that it makes me nervous to put her up on a big bed even with pillows around her. I was a little worried about her suffocating so I checked on her a LOT!
Saturday evening I went over to Chantay's house because Kristi and her boys were over there hanging out. Kaitlynn really enjoyed seeing her boyfriend, Drake.
Here she is giving him her best flirtatious smiles...
Averi wanted in on the fun, too! I think it's hilarious that it really looks like Kaitlynn and Drake are chattin' it up!

New Shoes/Early Halloween

Hello! Sorry it's been so long since I've updated but things have been pretty crazy around here. Kaitlynn and I are adjusting to our new schedule together and I'm starting to settle in to kindergarten and am finally getting some loose ends finished up.

First of all...here are some new pictures of Kaitlynn. I know I'm biased but I think she's just pretty darn cute!

Her aunt Sarah got her these adorable pink and brown shoes for a shower gift. They don't usually stay on for very long but I wanted to make sure we got a few pictures of her wearing them. Thanks Sarah!

Here she is in a Halloween costume I bought last week, although as you can tell in the one picture the 0-9 month size could not possibly be snapped around those slim thighs! Before I changed her I couldn't resist taking a few pictures!
Here's our little snuggle bunny!
I LOVE this one...hee hee!I was going to be a good mommy and make her a costume but I just don't see myself having time to get it done. I'm still trying to think of some ideas, though. I'm obviously going to have to return this one. Matt thought she was super cute in this but he still wants her to be a pumpkin. I'm debating on having her be a pumpkin now since we already have pictures in this...we'll see!

Some more good news:
-Kaitlynn has finally been approved for an individual health insurance plan since she's been cleared of her heart problems which will be MUCH cheaper than having her on my school plan.

-The test I took for my early childhood certification wasn't accepted in Missouri even though I passed (Long story!) FINALLY since dealing with this since my maternity leave in April my school district has agreed to help out with some of the cost and I'm going to re-activate my Iowa teaching license and then update my Missouri teaching license. Missouri is now a reciprocal state so after doing this I will then have Early Childhood on my certificate, as well as getting back my reading endorsement.

I'm just so glad to almost have this taken care of and to know that I'm going to be in kindergarten for at least this year!

Matt had Kaitlynn all day on Monday and they had a great day together. He'll have her 2 days next week! I think he enjoys spending that time with her because he really doesn't get to see her much other than feeding her and dressing her in the mornings for me. The past month 1/2 his days off have landed on the weekends and/or he's had training on his days off so she's been at Kathy's pretty much every day. It will be nice that the next couple of months his days off will be during the week and they'll get to spend a lot more time together.

Family, Blessing, Friends

Sorry it's been so long since an update. Things have been pretty crazy at my school and with Matt's work hours I'm pretty much a single mom after I pick Kaitlynn up at the babysitter so there isn't much free time to do anything, let alone add to the blog. Hopefully things will start to slow down now and I'll be able to update a little more often.

2 weekends ago we went up to Iowa to visit my family. My aunt, uncle and cousins were here from New York. We had a great time seeing everyone.

Most of the grandkids and wives/husbands
Doing her stretching with her great-great grandad Loren.
My uncle Mark always dresses up and initiates any new boyfriend/girlfriend who comes to a family gathering. This time my cousin Taylor brought his girlfriend for the first time so of course this is how Mark welcomed her!
Here's the Hardie Clan
This past weekend we went up to Council Bluffs for Kaitlynn's baby blessing.
Macee (my parent's dog) loves Kaitlynn. She kept rolling her ball right up to her thinking that she would throw it for her! Every once in a while her arm would randomly hit it away and Macee would go chase it!
My dad gave the blessing and Matt's dad gave the sermon. It was a beautiful service and we were so glad to have so much family there to share the special moment with us.
Hanging out with Grandpa Rex after the blessing and lunch.

Unfortunately the setting on my camera got switched so all of our pictures are very blurry.
Yum Yum! I wonder if these taste like strawberry?
Here she is in her adorable lady bug outfit her "Aunt" Joanne gave her. Oh yes...it's 6-9 month size!

I went over to Dan & Dana's house the other night and Kaitlynn and Courtney got to play together. It was funny watching them because they sort of looked at each other and took whatever toy was closest. It's also interesting because they are so close in age (10 days), but yet doing many different things. Kaitlynn is rolling in all directions and ALL over the place and Courtney has decided she doesn't care to roll over anymore. Courtney showed Kaitlynn how well she can sit up by herself, although Kaitlynn isn't quite interested yet!
Courtney kept trying to play with the toy on Kaitlynn's exersaucer and you could tell by her expression that Kaitlynn wasn't too sure she wanted to share it!! Don't you just wonder what they're thinking sometimes?