Early Thanksgiving with friends

Saturday we went to over to Micah and Amy's for a friends Thanksgiving dinner. Evan & Petra and Micah & Beth also joined us. These guys grew up with Todd in Leavenworth. Everyone brought food to share and the food was delicious! Amy even cooked the turkey by herself for the first time and it turned out great!

Enjoy the pictures! Can you tell who the star of the party was? :)
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And here's a cute one from today:

More Pics

I know this is really what you want to see!

Enjoy!

These are some rad pants that my aunt Jane & uncle Jim sent from Australia. The pictures don't do them justice, but the pockets aren't real--they're sort of painted on. Super cute!


Front side of her hot pants



Hanging out


Kate and Sam (Lisa's new son--4 weeks old) at our new mom's group. Actually you can get a better look at her hot pants here!


My current favorite--Life is good!

7 Hour Stretch

I'm happy to report that Miss Kate slept SEVEN consecutive hours last night! Woohoo! She's been fairly consistently sleeping 4-6 hours since she was about 4 weeks old, but it was often like a 9 to 3a stretch, or 10-2a. That in itself is great--I know lots of 8 week old babes still wake more often than that.

So last night, she'd been taking an evening nap, and woke up around 10p for another feed. She ate really well, and then I decided to try a new swaddle technique that I learned at this great new parent group that I go to here. We used to swaddle her, but she kept breaking free from it...so then this last week we had just been putting her in this, but she'd squirm and squirm and wake herself up.
This is the special swaddle technique: It's a 2 blanket swaddle...the first you use to wrap their arms, and then bring the blanket up between her legs and around the chest (kind of hard to describe). Then the 2nd blanket you just do a typical swaddle. She nursed a bit more and I put her down in her crib asleep around 11pm. She woke up ready to eat at 6am! How brilliant is that?! Needless to say, I'll be using that swaddle again!

First Babysitter

Today marks the first day that we left Kate without me or Todd being there! I had a dentist appointment today and had planned on taking miss Kate with me. The office said it was fine to bring her along and leave her in the car seat at the front desk. Unfortunately this morning she was a bit on the fussy side and I was worried that she'd scream the whole time that I was there! She'll tolerate her car seat when it's in the car and moving, but she does NOT like to be in it without movement! So I spontaneously called my friend Stephanie (who's also a pediatric nurse!) to see if she'd be able to watch Kate, and she said she'd love to!

When I left the house, Kate was screaming and Steff was already on the bouncy ball trying to settle her. Yikes! But despite the screaming, I knew she was in good hands! My appointment went well, and 2 hours later I was home. When I walked in the door, I was afraid that Kate would still be fussing, but instead I opened the door to Kate sleeping in Steff's arms while she was knitting! :) What a relief to see 2 contented faces!

It feels good to know that I can leave her and that her world (or mine!) won't fall apart!

Bring on date night!

Julie

Dancing pre-birth

Thought it would be fun to post an older video showing Julie trying to get the baby to come out a couple weeks before her due date. Dancing to Lady Sovereign's "those were the days" watch as Julie get's down.