8 Months & Happy New Year!

2010, who would have thought we would ever get here. As my mom said on her facebook, "It sounds so futuristic".

To end out the decade, we took Katelyn to her very first bowling alley. We went with friends and siblings while we were still in Billings for Christmas on the 27th. Thank goodness, Montana has a smoking ban so we could take K with us. Usually bowling alleys are so smokey, but this one wasn't. She was having fun being passed to person to person. She had learned the trick of putting her arms out and people would hold her. So that is her new signal for "come and get me".

Katelyn also ended the year with her 8 month "birthday". Her grandma Pellegrino found this hat at Tractor Supply. It says "Country girl" which one day we hope she'll be.


New Year's Eve was pretty quiet. We had Jon and Sheila and Micah Henson over for deer steaks and then we watched tv, hunting shows and the ball dropping. We should have gotten the games out, but we didn't unfortunately. The kids both went to bed early, which made for a quiet entrance into the new decade.

We were blessed to get a video camera for Christmas. So New Year's day, we were alone at home and pulled up some music of a friends, on facebook. It's Christian Rap and I got Katelyn into the music. Jason saw it and had to "capture the moment". He sent it to our friend, Marco, with the caption of, "I think you could use a chick in your video."



We may be raising a little chatty cathy. For the past 3 days, she has been talking away and ma ma ma ma is her favorite thing to say. Of course, it probably doesn't help that I make a big deal to her about saying ma ma. She is so hilarious! She also learned today, that she can grab food off of her tray and put it in her mouth. Not a lot ends up in her mouth, more is played with on her tray, but she did accomplish a few pieces on her own.

Today, as I was mixing up bun dough for our monthly church potluck, I looked behind me and found my precious girl sleeping in her highchair. She didn't have a very long nap today and only had one, so she was pretty tired. This is a very rare occurance that she would just fall asleep on her own. She only lasted long enough for me to get my camera.