Loving Summer

The summer seems to be flying by, especially since it doesn't stop raining until 4th of July, and that lasts only until about October...so we've been out and about as much as possible to make the most of it!  We are gearing up for a 5-day trip to Texas for my youngest brother's wedding in August, immediately followed by a baby-free trip to Las Vegas for my 30th birthday...eek!

I think about this blog daily and about how I've really dropped the ball with keeping it up-to-date. I'm sure that once the weather becomes gloomy and rainy again, I'll be stuck inside and writing lots more!

Katelyn is now 7 1/2 months old, 17 pounds and I don't know how many inches! She LOVES sitting like a big girl, face-forward in her stroller. She's sitting very well, pulling up to kneeling at her learn 'n groove table:

She likes to scoot on her butt and push up on her knees when on her belly, but she is nowhere near crawling at this point. I wonder if she'll skip that all together, because she loves to try to stand up when she gets the chance!

My 3 Musketeers:

She loves nighttime bottle with daddy (and falling asleep in the middle of it almost every time):

Thanks to daddy and Auntie Amanda, she's already an Oregon State Beavers fan!

She adores woof-woof doggy Tech and anything involving water:

She doesn't have any teeth yet, but still chewing on anything she can get her mouth on!

On July 11th, Katelyn got to go to her first Mariners game ! (even though they really suck, daddy still likes them)  It was daddy's Father's day gift.

The same day, Katelyn spotted her first celebrity! How fitting is it that it was Jason Biggs, one of the stars of daddy's favorite movies...the American Pie series.

What a month!

Catching up on the 6th month

I hope everyone had a happy 4th! As I was uploading pictures, I realized the only ones I took of Katelyn yesterday were on my iphone, and those were few at best. This little girl is suddenly deciding she wants to sleep a lot, except for nighttime! Things are turning around in that department slowly, so I'm sure she'll STTN on a regular basis soon.
With the arrival of summer (if that's what you want to call it...cloudy and in the 60s is not my idea of summer), we have been busy on the weekends. We've made treks up to Washington state the last 3 weekends (except the past one), and we'll be headed back up to Seattle on the 11th for Katelyn's first Mariners game!
Last weekend, Jenny and Kevin so graciously invited us to an open house (they're not selling, just super welcoming), and we got to meet little miss 5-month-old Fiona and a few of their friends and family. Ironically, that was a nice, sunny day. Jenny even went the extra mile and rented a bouncy house for all the kiddos...(good call, Jenny!)

Meanwhile, Katelyn is growing like a weed, changing every single day. She will be 7 months old on Wednesday...where did the time go?  I'll write a separate post that day to list her milestones, more for my sake than yours, because I bet you really don't care one way or another!  :)

Here are a few pics from the past month:

(Future centerfold?? Lordy, I hope not!!!!)

Father's Day

First time in the pool, and we didn't even bother with her bathing suit!

Getting the hang of these things is hard! (Daddy thinks I look like a snaggle-tooth here!)