When Kate met Nana

Here are some photos from when my mom was here end of March/early April. She was here for 10 days and it was so much fun; I wish she could have stayed longer!


This was on my birthday (a few days before my mom came); she was mad about having her picture taken, apparently :)


With Aunt Nancy




Meeting Nana for the first time








With the lion rattle Nana bought






Saying good-bye to Grandma Gail before she went back to Seattle :(

More pictures...

On Sunday we went over to Greg's house to celebrate Dan Hines' birthday. It was a beautiful spring day, and we had a lot of fun hanging out and talking with everyone.





Greg and Kate




Rori holding Kate for the first time


Here's Kate by the bear that we take a picture of her by every month to document how she's grown. Here she is at a month and a half; look how she's grown compared to her two-week old picture below!!

Some Easter photos

Kate's first Easter was fun, and of course she looked adorable in her dress. We went to the Jovian Taphaus for Sunday brunch with Tracy, Dan H., Kiki, Rori, and my grandparents. Then we went to Tracy's house to look for Easter baskets and eggs. It was a lot of fun, but I just didn't feel the best because the antibiotics I'm taking for my breast infection made me feel kind of nauseated at times. Oh well.


By one of the presents Nana gave her for Easter


The day before Easter, Nana left to go back to Utah; Kate and I both wish she were still here!


Daddy put her dress on backwards, so I had to get a picture of it. She is not very happy!


Kate doesn't seem too excited by her Easter basket.


And we have anger...


that quickly subsides.


With Grand-Aunt Tracy


With Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa


Looking pensive with Daddy


Kate wasn't really an active participant in the Easter egg hunt; she slept through the whole thing. Luckily she only had a few eggs to find, so Dan and I didn't have to do too much of her work for her ;)






Why are both she and Dan wearing different clothes, you may wonder? Well, because her diaper decided to malfunction when she was wearing her Easter dress--go figure! Some got on Dan, too, since he was holding her, so Dan H. let him borrow some clothes.




What a smiler!

She loves to smile now....

I caught the tail-end of a smile...


But here's the real one :)

Meeting Grandma Gail...

Last night we drove down to Milwaukee to pick up Gail, who had flown into the airport down there. It was kind of funny; Kate was really hungry, so I found (what I thought was) a secluded spot to nurse her, while Dan went down to the baggage claim to find Gail. But as I was feeding Kate, five or six people decided that they wanted to peer out of the window that was right in front of me. And they would not leave, even though Kate kept latching off and I was trying to get her to latch on again since I could tell she was hungry; not exactly the easiest thing to do! And when several people are right in front of you, it makes it that much more difficult. Why, when there are plenty of other windows to peer out of, do people think it's necessary to peer out the one window that is right in front of me? ;)


On the way to meet Grandma Gail





Today for my birthday, Dan took me to the Blue Marlin, which is this really good restaurant downtown. I ordered the lobster, but I misread the menu; I thought it was lobster tail. Ummm, nope. They brought out a whole lobster, much to my dismay. I even told Dan, "It has eyes!" I was so disturbed, so I told Dan to get the meat out of it so I could eat it. Unfortunately, aesthetics aside, it tasted horrible. It was spongy, rubbery and completely overcooked. Luckily the waitress was good about taking it back, and I got the crab legs instead, which were very good (I had those on my birthday last year too). Dan had cashew-crusted Norwegian salmon, which was excellent, so overall it was a really good meal. Gail stayed home with Kate while we were gone, and she said she was so well-behaved; I'm so glad! Gail also made me a delicious orange chiffon cake for my birthday; I'm lucky to have such a great mother-in-law!


The beautiful flowers that my mom sent me; I absolutely love them! (Notice in the background our Valentine's house that Dan and I made on Valentine's Day; we had a gingerbread house kit, but we never got around to making a gingerbread house around Christmas, so we decided to make a Valentine's house instead.)






My first birthday as a mom! Our little family...


After Dan and I got home from the Blue Marlin, we watched our Netflix movie, Up in the Air. Little Kate fell asleep on Grandma as we were watching. :)

One month old today!

I can't believe it's been one month since Kate was born! It's 3:30 right now as I write this post, and exactly one month ago at this time, I was just finishing up some work so we could go to our 5:00 appointment at the birth center. Who knew that just 8 1/2 hours later I'd have a beautiful baby girl?





She still seems so little to me (and she is!) but look how she's grown and changed compared to this newborn picture taken in the birth center!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We had a nice St. Patty's Day--Kate's first! It was very low-key; we just made some corned beef at home and hung out with Kate. It was fun!


Decked out in our green outfits, although Kate's hand is covering her face! She was sleeping and stretching (which she does a LOT; she stretches so much when she sleeps and grunts as she's doing it; she's a very loud sleeper!)




We had to go to Target to get diapers, and when we got home she was sleeping so peacefully in her infant carrier that we didn't want to get her out. So we let her sleep for another half hour or so in there.


During the day, if I have work to do on my laptop, she often just lies by me on the couch; she looks so peaceful. :)


Isn't she cute? I may be biased, but I think she is just adorable!