Scripture Stories

Suzanne sent me a this photo of JR and JP reading scriptures.

I remember taking this one of Mark and Kathryn reading their scriptures.

It's good to get them started young on reading scriptures. Kathryn loves her Scripture Readers. We are currently reading the Old Testament and she is so good with finding stories. She can find the creation of the animals, Adam and Eve, Adam and Eve's family, Enoch, Noah, Jesus blessing Jacob/Israel, Baby Moses, Moses and the burning bush, 'Old' Moses (when he sees the Promised land before he dies), and Samuel. I love that she loves and knows the scriptures so well and she is only 18 months old!

Another Haircut

Okay, so this one was really a haircut as we chopped a lot off!!! Here is Kathryn's before shot:


And Her after shot:

At least she looks happy. This means that all of the beautiful dark hair she was born with is now gone. But I don't have to worry about her hair getting in her face anymore. And in this picture you can see her two teeth!!!

Weaning

Kathryn is now 5 months old and is very interested in watching everything that goes into her mummy's mouth. She has also started reaching for cups/glasses that have any liquid in them. So, she now has her own sippy cup and we have started weaning her. Here's a picture of her eating for the first time.

The first day she was very interested in feeding herself. We had an extra spoon for her to hold on to and play with, but she's no dummy, she knew which spoon had food on it!!!

The Dancing Critic

So as we were watching Strictly Come Dancing (England's version of Dancing with the Stars), Kathryn just kept talking when the couples would come on and dance. We have a feeling that she is going to be a dancing critic...



...But who can blame her? Check out these dance moves!




And Here's where she says why she's better:

No Computer, No fun

Okay, so we haven't posted in a while as we haven't had our own computer...it is out of action still!!! That's two months now! Hopefully it will be fixed shortly. Two months in the life of a baby is quite a long time...

Just before thanksgiving we noticed two white things on Kathryn's bottom gums...and she started crying a lot and drooling a lot, and started putting everything she can into her mouth. Luckily they still haven't pocked their way through yet, but they are getting close.
She has also had her first Thanksgiving! Unfortunately I was so busy preparing everything, that I didn't realise I hadn't taken a picture of it until it was almost cleaned up...good thing for leftovers!!!
And we have found out she loves watching sports like her daddy...football is her favourite. She will quite happily sit beside daddy and watch it with him.
We've also started putting her in the bathtub as she was not enjoying bathing at the sink. She loves splashing around!!!On her daddy's birthday Kathryn got to open a present as well. She is so eager to stand on her own that she had to have this toy...and she couldn't wait until Christmas! The first time she was in it she moved herself from the piano to the microphone and started singing...she's not even 4 months old yet! How clever is she?!

And last but not least, the day of Daddy's birthday she saw her first snowfall...and she was so fascinated by it.

Another New Outfit

Kathryn is going to be the best dressed girl ever! We recently recieved a package from Uncle Tim and Auntie Tara with this cute outfit in:

As you can see she loves it!!! I just want to mention that it is an outfit for 3-6 month olds and she was only a day shy of being 2 months old in the picture!!!

Great Grandma Baynes

Great-Grandma Baynes (Granny) came down for a visit to see us. Well, it was really to meet Kathryn. And as you can see they were both over the moon to meet each other.


Unfortunately it wasn't Kathryn's best week as we found out she has Colic! No fair. She tries so hard to be a happy girl, but just can't handle the pain she is in. She does try though - between bouts of pain she smiles away. She is such a beautiful girl!

Here is one of her and Uncle Joel watching TV.

She recently was in the room when Kung-fu Panda was on...well, I was changing her nappy and during the fighting scenes she was kicking her legs like crazy! Maybe she wants to learn Kung-fu (or maybe she enjoyed not having a nappy on!).

The Gospel Truth!

Kathryn has found her voice, and boy does she love to use it. Too bad we can't understand her!!! I wonder what she would tell us if we could. I never realised how much babies watch your mouth to learn how to form the words. We will be sitting talking to her and I realise that she is looking at my mouth and not my eyes! Plus she is learning to copy the pitch of our voices as well. A few times when Mark has had to run off to meetings (or out of the room), he looks at Kathryn and says, "love you", and she will copy the pitch with her ga-gas and/or a-gous!
Here is one of her talking to me...until she realises that there is a camera on her (she has always been shy with pictures).

Here's one of her talking to her Daddy:

Our Li'l Smiler

The smile that has everyone hypnotised.

Kathryn with Daddy under her spell.



Kathryn just after a bath with curly hair!

Kathryn is now 6 weeks old! My how the time flies by. She started smiling at just under 4 weeks (the real smiles, not the windy ones) and has everyone under her spell. We went to her 6 week doctor's appointment and were told that she is doing very well and is a strong, healthy baby. The next day we went and had her weighed and measured. She is now 12 pounds 7 ounces and already growing out of the 0-3month sized clothes.