Katelyn Turns One - February 16th

I have been the WORST mom at keeping up with Katelyn's updates!  So, we will put it all together in one post..ha!  First of all I can't believe Katelyn is one.  Seriously where does the time go, it goes by so fast, but seems to go by even quicker when you have two.  I don't know what happens when you have three!!

Katelyn is an absolute joy to our family.  The first few months were not so great, but once we figured out her egg allergy it was like we had a different child.  Can I just say....I LOVE having a girl for so many reasons, but her clothes are so much fun right now.  I am just so thankful that God gave us this little girl to raise and he picked our family for her to join.  She has truly been such a blessing.  Davis loves her and is so gentle and patient with her.  He constantly loves on her and checks on her.  Besides the occasional push or "hard" love taps he is great to her.  Now, Katelyn on the other hand is another story.  She has now started biting Davis out of anger.....who does this at one???  She has also started throwing bad tantrums when she does not get her way.  She has started to show her strong willed side, but as I really think about this......she has shown this early on.  At nine months old I started to wean her off of nursing, mainly because my milk was starting to go down because Katelyn started to only nurse from one side.  I tried everything to get her to drink on both sides, but no nothing worked.  So the doctor and I talked and we decided it was probably just time to stop nursing.  Well, that did not go over well.  She refused to take any bottle or sippy cup.  Lance and I tried every bottle out there.  I tried to leave the house.....you name it we tried it.  NO LUCK!  Well till this day she will not take a bottle.  The only thing she would semi drink was a straw cup with water.....no milk!  Because of this I have had to mix her food with milk as much as I could to get some in her.  At most she gets 12 ounces of milk a day.  I have had to give her yogurt and other forms of dairy to make sure she gets what she needs, but I still get stressed that she is not getting everything she needs.

Well.....at ONE Katelyn:
-Is crawling (started at 9 months)
-She is a really fast crawler and she now does the army crawl.
-Standing up on her own, walking around things, but still not walking on her own.  She can take a few steps.
-Can point to her head and belly.
-Is very interactive socially.  She looks you in the eye and babbles back and forth. 
- Laughs out loud all the time...she is so happy!
- Has four teeth on the top and bottom and her top and bottom molars are beginning to come in.
-Has had lots of stuffy noses which have turned into ear infections.....we may be getting tubes for her.
-Is not talking very much, but she says ugh oh and dada all the time and in context.  She will NOT say mama.  You will ask her to repeat it and she looks at you and laughs and then says dada.  I know she loves him but seriously I am not liking this...ha!
-She seems to understand what we say to her.
-She does not like to sit still to be read to, she would rather hold the book and look at it herself.
-She will sit and play with her toys all day long.  Davis NEVER did this, so this is so nice. 
-She entertains herself pretty well. 
-She likes to place little objects or small toys in containers and then dump them out.
-She has figured out how to get in cabinets and she loves to take everything out and make a mess.
-She is eating mostly table food now, but she is pretty picky.  She loves bananas, strawberries, chicken, peas, carrots, and corn, rice cereal, bread, gold fish, crackers.  She eats a pretty big amount of food for how tiny she is.
-She is still wearing 9 - 12 month clothes, size 2 shoes, and size 3 diapers........she is a tiny little sweet pea.
-She loves watching Davis and now is staring to copy him (this can be a good and bad thing...ha!)
-She is still allergic to eggs.
-Gives hugs and kisses and seems to be pretty lovable.
-Takes two naps each lasting about an hour an a half to two and a half hours.
-She is a mamma's girl, but she is starting to be a daddy's girl as well, I think he is pretty whooped with her and I don't blame him.
-Sleeps all night and has been for a long time.  She is a great sleeper.  You just lay her down and she goes to sleep on her own, no rocking her like Davis and it is so nice.  She goes to bed between 7 and 8 and gets up around 7 or when Davis goes in to get her up.  As soon as he hears her he runs in and gets in her crib.  They play in there and have the best time.
-She has so much hair and looks like a mad scientist if you don't put it up, but the problem is she tries to take out every bow you put in her hair....it is a daily battle.
-Lance and I joke that God has big plans for her SERIOUSLY!  She fell out of her stroller onto concrete at the zoo when she was just a few weeks old and then she fell down a whole flight of stairs and both times we were SCARED to death and both times she has been 100% fine.  I hate to even admit both of these things happened, but it needs to be here for the record...right.  Children's Healthcare probably has us on a "watch" list.  :)
-She is so easy going and just goes along with the flow.  If she has to miss a nap she just adjusts accordingly.....I have to say this is so nice since we are on the go with Davis.  On Sundays she totally misses her morning nap because we have church and Lance and I teach a small group of 2nd graders from 9 - 10 and then we go to church from 11-12, so it is a long day but she has adjusted fine and we are so thankful for that.
-She likes to play with whatever Davis is playing with and if that is building something she LOVES to knock it over.  He is ok with this most of the time.


And her Stats.....she is on the tiny side and we have had a battle trying to get her moving up the chart, but I think she is just going to be petite and that is just fine with me.  I was tiny as a child and it looks like she will be as well.  We have had to go in for weight checks along the way, but now they are a little concerned with her height so we are going to check on that at 14 months just to make sure she is growing.

Weight:  18.38 Pounds 24%
Length:  27.5 Inches 3% (LOL, she is on the short side for right now)
Head Circumference:  17.9 Inches 62%

We are all loving this little girl and we could not have asked for a better addition to our family.  We are so thankful that God picked our family for her to join.  She is perfect for all of us.  We pray daily that we can raise her to be the daughter of God that He created her to be.  She already has such a sweet spirit, and we can't wait to see what God has in store for her life.

Her Party Update is coming next.