Let it Snow; Let it Snow!

Bruce's birthday is Feburary 3rd which we celebrated with his parents having dinner.  He also got to celebrate with Jim and Jeff in South Texas hunting hogs along with Cody Cloud and several other guys.

Kaitlyn is getting more and more mobile.  She has a giraffe Crystal brought her and she loves it.  Her feet ALMOST touch the ground when she's in her bouncers.   We put together her high chair and she thinks she's queen of the world in there -- which she is!  She's eating all kinds of food now.  Sweet potatoes are her favorite!  She'll eat a whole container of that.  She aslo eats peas, carrots, squash, green beans, mixed vegetables with spinach and potatoes She loves bananas which is sometimes mixed with any combonation of blueberry, strawberry, cherry, and oranges.  She's also eaten some avocado.  We give her little cereal puffs that dissolve and biter biscuits which are real messy but she loves them.

We've had record amounts of snowfall this year.  One day this month we had over 10" fall.  We had a great time and certainly enjoyed our snow day!  We even made ice cream out of the snow which didn't taste half bad.  It took all four of us, but we made a pretty big snow man.  I think that's what hurt Bruce's back and my wrist just a little.  Dang snowman.

Kaitlyn got her first head cold this month.  She was running 103.9 temp at one time.  She had a runny nose and a pretty ugly cough lasting about a week.  We took her back into the dr. and she'd gained 10oz.  They gave her some antibiotics and we also gave her some Claritin which seemed to really help. 

I took her a week later back to the dr for a weight check in and she is up to 13lbs now!  Dr. was pleased with that, however still wants us to follow up with the genetics dr. still.  I'm really not worried about that and think it's a little silly -- but on the off chance there is something, I'd rather be safe than sorry.

She's such a good natured baby and is all smiles most of the time.  She doesn't take very long naps and sometimes she'll cry out in her sleep throughout the night.  Most of the time though, it's about 3:30/4:00 in the morning when she's crying out and I go ahead and give her a bottle then and she'll sleep on until anywhere from 9:30 - 10:30.   Her top two teeth have fully come in now too and I wonder if that doesn't have something to do with her sleep at night.

Basketball season ended and Taylor had an award night at Mamma's Pizza where she received a bobble head trophy!  She got commended by her coach as an agressive player and most improved defense.  She's still doing jump rope team at school and they had their first performance this month too.