Catherine's Birthday #1

My sweet girl I can not believe you are one, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Time has seriously been flying by!! You are a huge blessing to me and this family! Your smile and laughter brings so much joy and happiness into our home! Thank you Catherine for choosing to come to our family! You are my buddy and I am so excited for what the future has in store for you! I love you so so much!

  • Weight: 20 lbs. 7 oz. 57%  Length: 29.5 in. 54%  Head circ.: 17.8 in. 57%                                      I Can't believe that Caden weighed ten pounds more when he was one!! haha
  • Her schedule with eating and sleeping has not changed. Maybe giving her a bit less formula and giving her some milk during meals. But I think next month or as soon as the formula is all gone we will go completely off formula and Bottle. That will be a sad time because I love the snuggle time I get when I feed her a bottle. Anyway, she is still taking two naps unless we have places to go in the morning then it is just one nap! She does better with two naps but adjusts well. 
  • This girl is full on walking....sometimes running! haha I think her mind is faster than what her legs are sometimes! She is doing really well with walking and prefers to walk over crawl now! yay no more nasty knees!
  • She still only has four teeth! She had one poke through and then it went back down! MAN! we have to suffer through that all over again! 
  • She loves to go outside and explore around! She actually reminds me alot of myself in the way that she just has to be doing something all the time, constantly on the go! haha
  • She is a gibber gabber!! Chris sometimes will call her Chatty Kathy...I hesitate in saying that because I don't want people to call her Kathy, I want Catherine!! Anyway, it is really funny when she starts rambling off. She will be really crazy sometimes with her gibber gabber and she will even start shaking her head. Caden sometimes likes to copy her! It gets a bit out of control! haha The best though is when she starts talking in the car as if she is just talking to someone...a imaginary friend perhaps haha.  She doesn't really say much words though. She still says dad, and has been attempting done, but that is about it! I can't wait to hear her actually talk. She sounds like a little minion! 
  • She loves snuggling with her blanket and has to have it for naps and bed time. She isn't like caden where he has to take it everywhere with him but maybe that is because I don't want her to and make sure it stays in the bed! 
  • She loves to dance and play with Caden. Makes it hard when Caden doesn't want her to play with him! ha
  • For the past month I have been taking Catherine into nursery for the first hour! Partly to get her used to it, also because she is impossible to have in class with me sometimes, and also because Caden wants us there with him! 
  • Here are some things I am wanting to work more on with her: reading at least one book to her before naps and bed time. I want to start giving her food to her on a plate and giving fork or spoon.  And I want to start working with her on sitting still on my lap for the passing of the sacrament. The last one is hard! I did it with Caden and it payed off but it takes a lot out of me and requires me to miss out on the sacrament if she starts to scream! ugh I am dreading it because I know she is going to be a lot harder than Caden! 

Catherine's Birthday Party!!! 
Happy Birthday Catherine










 We did an Easter Egg hunt for her Birthday! :)


















Everyone that was able to come to celebrate Catherine's Birthday: Grandma/ Grandpa Huntington, Sharlee and her little boy Ethan, Charlotte, Kimball, and their little girl Ada, and Aunt Kaitlyn and Uncle Matthew. Thanks for Coming!!




Cake Time!







We Loved that Grandma and Grandpa Huntington could come and share this special time with us!



March 2016

What a great Month March has been! Very busy as usual but lots of fun! Here is a quick run down of everything that happened this month. Well the first week of the month we got sick, AGAIN! that wasn't so fun, but luckily it was a quick little cold. We did lots of dinners with the Whittiers because they were moving at the end of the month to Virginia! :( SO SO sad to have them leave! We will miss them and I feel bad that Caden won't get to see and play with his best friend Eli. I met up with the Whittiers to take the kids to the dinosaur museum. About every Wednesday I took Eli with me and the kids to the library and park. I tried to spend as much time as we could with the cute boy! Brit came over to hang out on a Friday. We are trying to make it a habit for her to come over at least once a month. We usually just talk, sometimes go for a walk if it is warm and do lunch! We had our normal Monthly FHE at Aunt Linda's house and this month got to celebrate Catherine's birthday. We had dinner at Dan and Sharlee's house as a last good bye to the Whittiers. I had Daniel and Jessica come hang out for a few hours and my parents came too and took us all out to lunch at Golden Coral. We celebrated St. Patties Day at the Clayton's house. Then on the 19th Chris's Parents Came to stay for a Full Week!!! We went to the Temple Dedication on the 20th...Thank you sister Olsen for watching our kids for us so that we could take Chris's parents with us. Chris and I had cavities we had to get taken out! :( That was the only sad thing that happened while his parents were here we went to the library, park, kangaroo zoo, and celebrated Catherine's birthday and Easter!! Great month...Oh and......WE ARE LOOKING FOR A HOUSE TO BUY!!!! yay!!!

Caden:
  • He is still Potty Trained and doing AWESOME!! he has graduated to the big potty! yay no more dumping out the nasty stuff from the little potty! Now is I can teach him to hold his own pee pee down(TMI)haha! 
  • Lately has been a bit rough...or I should say he has been a bit rough with Catherine. I think he is just bored and is finding that he gets attention when he picks on Catherine....Negative Attention!! ugh. I can not wait to move up closer to the claytons so Caden can play more with Sam and possibly start a joy school! I really think he needs more activities but it is hard for me to take care of Catherine, clean house, look for houses, and try and do an activity with Caden! I still LOVE my sweet boy! A lot of those bad days are partly my fault and I really am trying harder to give him more positive attention! Love you Caden! 
  • He absolutely loves to dance! Coulsen introduced us to the Dance Party! So fun! 
  • Nursery has been a struggle lately! ugh! I am excited for the day when both him and Catherine can be in nursery together. 
  • Super into asking the question "why?" I like how he is learning and asking questions but sometimes it just is kind of annoying haha...especially when you just don't know why but because I said so! haha


Just playing around on a tracker!!

This flew into our window, so Chris pretended that he shot it! 

Grandma and Grandpa Freeman came to see us along with Daniel and Jessica and their two kids. Very fun to see everyone! Grandma and Grandpa then took us all out to eat at their favorite place.....Golden Coral!!! :)
Love this picture of Caden and Grandpa!



Yay Cousins! Say "Cheese"





The kids loved eating out!