Catching Up Part 1 - Month 4

I have been feeling very guilty for not blogging recently so I am determined to catch our blog post up to current day.  So here goes the first part of my attempt to get caught up with current day.  I'll post pictures from the past month in the next posting.  Hope you enjoy!

Before I skipped ahead to post videos of Kate rolling over, we were back in January enjoying our first hike as a family.  Kate had a big day when friends Austin and Graham came to town with their mom Angela and we all got together over at Elliott's house for a big play date.  Kate had fun watching the boys run amuck.  Thanks Stephanie for having us all over!

Here Kate puts up with Mom snapping some photos before the big date. Just wait until it's prom time!

Below is our attempt at getting all the kiddos lined up for a photo.  Austin is being 'gentle' with Kate while Elliott laughs at Graham who is never still.  I'm not sure even the sport photo setting on our camera could catch that energetic little guy!

Kate's not quite sure what to think of all these boys.

Austin was very sweet with Kate and it seems she is quite taken with him :-)

 

Kate got to see an old friend when Kris came to stay with us while in town for work from San Francisco.  Not sure what kind of tales Kris is telling Kate.  But it looks like those two are up to no good!

 

It became evident that Kate was rapidly outgrowing her Moses basket as well as the straight-jacket swaddle.  Our little Houdini was busting out of the swaddle during most naps and finally we gave in.  I took this picture while she was still asleep and had broken free of my attempt to keep her arms pinned down.

I love this picture of one of her first naps unswaddled. She seems to have a look of victory on her face.

It had also become pretty apparent that the days in the Moses basket were coming to an end. Not only was she about as big as the basket, she had also found the handles and decided they made a fun play toy.

With my discount at Pottery Barn Kids about to run out we finally broke down and bought her a crib.  After assembling the whole thing twice (guess I didn't measure as well as I thought and we couldn't get the crib into her room after assembling it while she was napping!) she was all set for her first night in her crib.  We didn't want to rush things too much so you'll see the familiar green flowers in her crib which is the bedding from her basket. 

Other things she is growing out of include her Puj tub in the bathroom sink.  We have moved on to the big tub and I'll have to get some pictures once I have a photographer home for bath time.  She  loves having the freedom to kick her legs in the big tub. 

 

I'll wrap up Part 1 of my catch-up blog post with pics from Kate's 4 month photo shoot including a video that while it's not Oscar-worthy it should at least entertain the grandparents! 

At four months her hair was still sort of standing up.  I am sad to say that by five months she has outgrown the faux-hawk and now sports a lovely comb-over!

Guess I said something funny!