She likes to dance.....

Cate loves to play the alphabet song on our refrigerator....over and over.  But it's a great way to burn some energy and start learning our ABC's!

Happy Heart Day

We had pretty low key Valentine's day around here.  Cate was in a bit of a "mood" on Monday, refusing to smile for any pictures, and being kind of fussy all day.  We tried previously to color valentines for family, but Cate was only interested in coloring the table, not the hearts....

Still tried to get a picture of her in sweet Valentine's dress!

(She was so confused wearing tights....kept pointing at them, and then tried to pull them off)

My beautiful flowers from my valentine, who was post call and had a horrible night.  He still stopped to get me flowers on his way home!

Hope you all got lots of hugs and kisses!

A bit more snow

These photos are a little late....especially since we're having 70+ degree weather these days.  As the the video showed Cate loved the powdery snow we got with the second round of winter weather.  She was a little unsure the first time we went out (and she refused to wear the adorable frog boots), but we were close to nap time, so we didn't stay out long.  Later that afternoon, we tried one more time with greater success.  She loved having the boots on and it allowed her to play more in the snow since it was several inches deep.

Cate in the snow

Cate and Maggie loved playing in the snow we got on Friday (that is completely melted now).

Budding Artist?

We're on day 2 of Cate and I being stuck at home due to the icy conditions and cold temps here in Dallas right now.  We don't leave the house everyday, but we at least like having the option to!  Poor Maggie is also getting the short end of the stick here because of the ice, she can't get her daily walk and has to wait for Cate to nap/sleep before I can get out for more than a moment.

Anyway, Cate wanted paper and a writing utensil this morning while we were having rolling blackouts.  She promptly took her paper and pencil to the table and just started to draw and scribble.

One happy girl

 

Very serious work she's doing....

You can see her handy work on her paper here.

I like that she got up, and moved to other side of the table to continue her drawing.

And just checking out if pencil will mark on her face.....it does, oh and it marks on the wall and drawer fronts too.

18 Months

How can Cate be 18 months?!  Already?!  Cate has been a busy girl these days, she seems to do something new each day, and look like a little girl more and more each day.

She did great at her 18 month check up, growing like a weed, though her weight has slowed a bit (comparatively....I think she's just a lot busier than before!).

Height: 34 1/2 inches (>95%)

Weight: 28.3 pounds (91%)

Head: 19 1/4 inches (>95%)

(sorry the stats are for my records....and the baby book I will one day finish)

Cate is very independent these days, she rarely allows one of us to feed her or assist with her meal, and she insists on using one of our forks when we finish eating, but she's really pretty good at it now!

She's a little picky eating at times, vegetables have to been snuck into most meals, and cheese is by far her favorite food, she'd eat it all day every day if we'd let her.

She loves to read books at her table, and now she's started to draw at the table as well.

She talks all. the. time. We're working on our "please"/"peas" and "thank you"/thak du (that's what it sounds like to me).  

She loves to take you by the hand and lead you to where she wants something, the changing table (for the pacifier), the fridge for a snack, the pantry, her closet for old toys, the stairs (to get dad or mom).  She will do this repeatedly for hours, despite usually getting what she needs (not always what she wants).

She plays pretty well with other children, but we'll see if it's really true when she starts daycare.

Sleeps pretty regularly now, 2 hour nap mid day and 11-12 hours at night.

She's locked herself in the bathroom twice now (once on each of us) requiring us to remove the handle to get her out, she just can't figure out how to unlock it.

She still loves bath time, and loves to act like she's swimming in the tub.

She LOVES Maggie, and Maggie seems to love Cate.  When Cate cries in the morning or after nap, Maggie is waiting by her door for us to get Cate up.  Maggie just lets Cate use her as a jungle gym and crawls all over her, Maggie even shares her chair with Cate (now that Cate can get up on all the living room furniture).

She loves to play games, such as chase her around the room, imitation (make everyone do the same thing she does-she points at you until you do it....bossy, I wonder where she gets it?), peek a boo is a favorite right now-she covers her eyes and then says "peek boo".

Here are a few photos from the past month of Miss Cate

Lunch date with Easton, PB&J and Milk....only the finest.

She loves to get the alphabet books out and bring you each one to read, all 26 books.

Our "cheese" face

Maggie waiting for one of those snacks to come her way as they usually do.

A ponytail! Cate will not let me do more than a bow most days, so I was so excited to get her hair up!

I see Cate!

Peek a Boo!

Hard to believe we're closer to age 2 now....she's just growing so fast, and we love her more every day!

Winter Weather

So I'm a bit behind on the blog....this winter weather is actually a reference to earlier in January when we got a bit of snow....just a bit.  Lan got some great photos of Cate looking outside and we bundled up and went out for a few minutes to have a peek.

Checking out the white stuff coming down.

Just love this (even the remains of breakfast on her face)

Headed out with Dad and Maggie

Holding a little snowball for the first time

 

Tasting the snow for the first time....of course

She loves ice, so she loves snow!

Just having fun

This was her reaction when we said it was time to go inside....she ran away, and Maggie followed!

We have since gotten Cate a hat to wear in the colder weather, though it doesn't last long!