While in Chicago last week Kate certainly expanded her food
repertoire. Nana made her some spaghetti which she obviously loved, whole grain waffles, cranberries, and acquired some great kid appropriate treats. It was so helpful for me in getting ideas of great and healthy foods that Kate actually enjoys. She is way over that baby food stuff.
Kate has developed a little vocabulary over the past few weeks. She says Hi,
Da-
Da (Brian), Ma-Ma (Me), Be-Be (Herself, other kids, or pictures of babies), and Te-Te (Aunt K.K.). We adore these first words.
It is amazing how much she is able to understand in a hearing vocabulary. If you ask where people are like, Where's Nana? She looks directly at the correct person. She is also nodding her head yes and no appropriately to questions like, Are you Hungry? Her ability to communicate is coming along, as is her walking. She has taken a few steps between people or furniture, but I'm not sure I would quite
categorize these as firsts steps yet. When we can get some good video we will be sure to post.
It has actually looked like Christmas for a while now at the Davies house. Yes we put up our tree the weekend before Thanksgiving. Cutting down our Christmas tree is maybe my favorite day of the year. We cut it down, decorate the entire house, eat pizza, drink wine, and watch Christmas Vacation while enjoying the night. We typically do this the weekend after Thanksgiving, but because I was going to be in Chicago as part of Operation Katie and Ben's wedding (a very successful trip by the way), and decorating a week later was totally out of the question, the obvious choice was to pick the weekend before. Plus we had Gammie and Pop Pop's help and company for my favorite day. Kate was not quite sure about the Christmas tree at first. She stayed away from it for about a week, but now tentatively examines it from time to time.
We've had our first few snows as of late and Kate has been introduced to its joys and that of having to bundle up. If the Santa post didn't remind you of the movie The Christmas Story maybe the above picture will.
It is amazing how much she is able to understand in a hearing vocabulary. If you ask where people are like, Where's Nana? She looks directly at the correct person. She is also nodding her head yes and no appropriately to questions like, Are you Hungry? Her ability to communicate is coming along, as is her walking. She has taken a few steps between people or furniture, but I'm not sure I would quite categorize these as firsts steps yet. When we can get some good video we will be sure to post.
Kate's letter reads: Dear Santa, I would like a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for Christmas. I have been a good girl and will try to be even better at night. Thank you for bringing gifts and I will be sure to leave you some cookies. Love, Kate
Everything is better with Daddy!
.jpg)
.jpg)
Kate was quite the party girl. She was dancing up a storm which you can see from the video below. I'm not really surprised that we ended up with a fun-loving kid, I think it's just the extent to which she is active and fun that was unexpected.
