My Little Musicians on the Piano

These two little buddies love to play the piano. I use "play" very loosely. Lets be honest...they are 'pounding' on the piano. But they are so darn cute. Whats a mother to do? Well, take pictures of course!
Not staged at all, this is totally them in real life.
A while after I got the camera out, they both wanted to 'pose' for the camera. (see the bottom 2 pictures) They both make sure cute 'camera faces'.
Love these two buggers more than anything!

Katelyn & The Cake

Katelyn LOVED her 1 year birthday presents (Violet puppy and a purse), but she was terrified of her cake!!! - More specifically, it was the CANDLE that was scary to her.

Luckily, she enjoyed eating the cake AFTER we took out the candle.

 

 Owen is a photographer too!

He loves taking pictures with the big camera, and the phone camera.

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Brother playing with Sister - At the new house!

These two are so fun. Here are their first pictures of them playing together in the living room of our new house in Rigby, ID.

Katelyn - 11 Months

Katelyn's got lots going on at 11 months.
I thank Heavenly Father every single day for letting me be her mother.

Clothing size: 9-12 Month
Diaper size: 4
Teeth: 6 (4 top, 2 bottom)
Sleep: 10-13 hours (90% of the time, she sleeps through the night)
Walking: no, thankfully!
Talking: Maybe?  "No" and "Tickle"Food: Lots of table foods, mommy's milk

Kate is on the verge of walking, especially with all the new walker todys. She is days or weeks away from walking on her own. She loves crawling and moving around furniture, and holding onto my hands to walk. She LOVES mobility! She is a great copy cat.

She pointed her finger and said "No", then smiled and laughed. Everyone at the Johnson house spent the next 2 weeks trying to get her to do it again. She copies grandma nancy when she fake-laughs "ha aha ha".

She says what sounds like "tickle", her version is "ticka ticka"

She lets anyone hold her. She is very social and accepting.

I love this little smirk / half smile.

These pics were taken when she was 11 months and 2.5 weeks. (So...closer to her 12 month mark, but oh well.) Such is life. I'm backdating this blogpost to June 25th. Because I can. So there!

Take your medicine Baby!

The first time I gave Kateelyn some Tylonol, it was an absolute NIGHTMARE! I swore to TEACH her how to take her medicine so future dosings would go smoothly, and so I wouldn't ruin another outfit with the red or purple syrup she spit out.

I decided to teach her to drink from a plastic syringe, so the future dosings would be more manageable. THIS WORKED PERFECTLY!

I started (occasionally) feeding her thin baby cereal through these little plastic syringes. I only did it often enough so she would remember how to do it. A few times a day, and then only once a month after she got the hang of it.

This was SO EASY and she thinks its fun too- BONUS! Now, when she is sick or needs medicine, I know she will easily down that dose of faux-grape flavored syrup.

Here she is - loving the milked-down rice cereal. Mmmmmm Mmmm good!

Miss Kate is 6 Months!

My little baby girl is already 6 months old. Where did the time go? It feels like we just brought her home from the hospital, and suddenly she is a BABY - no longer a newborn. How did this happen?

Katelyn's 6 month stats:
Weight: 17 lbs 9 oz - 80%
Height: 25 1/8" -  25%
Head size: 43 1/2 cm  - 75%
So....she is short and chubby. Just as we predicted. Haha. We love our litle tubby tubs Kate. Owen ESPECIALLY adores her. He is constantly kissing, hugging, and 'helping' her with diaper changes, buckling her carseat, and other 'helper' type things.

Kate is talented. Here's what she can do!
-Sit up, she is really sturdy and doesn't fall over easily
-Roll from tummy to back (and ALMOST from back to tummy)
-Grabs all kinds of objects and sucks on them
-Laughs at: peek-a-boo, loud noises, tickles, wiggles & jiggles
-She can 'head-butt' on command (which is knocking her forehead against mine). Then she laughs.
-Sleeps about 11 hours at night without waking up. 11pm - 10am
-Grabs her feet and sometimes sucks on her toes
-Sucks her thumb in the corner of her mouth

 

After posting these pictures I noticed that Blogger (Blogspot) uploads are NOT high quality. All of my pictures are slightly grey. They are not at all grey tinted just viewing them on my computer, only the uploaded version. So sad! But the pictures are still just as darling as ever - cause my kids are the CUTTEST KIDS EVER CREATED! :-)