All About Baby Kate

Kate will turn 14 months this week. She is such a precious little girl with the sweetest little smile. She has a smile for everybody! She is very active and has a strong personality. She is really starting to explore everything. She loves taking books off of bookshelves, opening cabinets and drawers and taking everything out of them, unfolding clothes, toilets with the lid up, helping load the dishwasher, getting into the dog cage with Amos, playing with the phone, breakfast, lunch, dinner, baths, going for walks, Baby Einstein videos, The Wheels on the Bus song, and Luke's toys.

Some of her dislikes include the word NO, carrots, big brothers who won't share their toys, and being still. When she gets frustrated she spits. The face she makes when she spits is cute....the spitting not so much! She has a very high pitched scream she uses as defense when Luke is pestering her or we are trying to get something from her she is not supposed to have. It is a very effective attention getter.

Kate has become quite a talker in the past few weeks. We can't understand most of what she says, but I am sure it is all very important. Some understandable words are Mama, Dada, bye bye, uh oh, tickle tickle, and thank you. I am including thank you because she has said it about 5 times now. It is funny how vocal and loud she has become. I guess you have to be loud to be heard around here!

Kate has still not started walking. She can stand for long periods of time, but she has only taken a few accidental steps. She just needs a little confidence because the strength and balance are there. I am sure she will take off before we are ready. I am anxious for her to start walking, so she can go outside and play with Rachel and Luke. She likes to be outside with them, but she does not really like to crawl in the grass.

Kate has recently cut four molars. That makes a total of 12 teeth! With the molars came a nasty runny nose and bad diapers. Her nose has been running for at least the past two weeks. She started running a fever on Sunday. I took her to the doctor yesterday. She has an ear infection in her right ear. The doctor said the runny nose probably caused the infection. This is her first ear infection. I was a little disappointed because we made it 14 months without one. Rachel has been plagued with ear infections her whole life, so we don't want to go down that road again. Luke has never had an ear infection.

I am attaching some recent pictures of Kate doing some of her favorite things. Hope you enjoy!



Here she is unloading her favorite drawer:

She squatted down and crawled away after I snapped this one:

I have a picture of Rachel looking out the back door wearing this same outfit when she was about the same age as Kate:

It had been a long day: