happy thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family!  We are thankful for all of you.  It's Kate's first Thanksgiving and we can't be more thankful for her being with us.  Unfortunatley, she's also dealing with her first cold.  Listening to a 4 month old try to sleep with a stuffy nose makes you feel so bad for them. She seems to be doing a bit better today, so hopefully the worst is over.

teething sucks

my gums, my gums!  Teething is in full force.  Everything goes to the mouth now, fists, toys, anything and everything is headed there. More after the break...

4 months

UPDATE: 4 month measurements: 16.9lbs, 24in

Kate's four months old today!  She has her next well being appointment on Friday, we are excited to see what her new measurements are.  She's clearly gotten taller because she can jump herself in her jumperoo without the help of mommy, daddy, or a blanket underneath her.  She's also now very intentionally reaching out for objects and taking things right out of our hands.  We also think she's started to teeth, she's drooling like crazy and can't take her fingers (or fist when she's really bad) out of her mouth and gets pretty cranky when she doesn't have something in her mouth.  Oh yeah, she found her thumb and loves sucking on it, still won't take a binky much though.  No rolling over yet, but she loves standing is suprisingly stable.  Most nights, Kate's sleeping through the night, which is relief, but now it's even harder when she does decide to get up at 2 or 3 in the morning.  Some mornings she gets up around 5am and talks for 20-30 minutes and then goes back to sleep.  My favorite thing to do with her when she has her diaper changed, is tickling her neck, she giggles and squeels like mad.

Overall, the family's doing great and Kate's doing very well, and loves going to daycare each morning.  As always, new pitures are fairly regularly hitting the picasa web album.

Go Huskers!

Kara and I are going to the NU vs OU game tonight.  In the meantime, we took a family husker photo.  Grandma and Grandpa Altman are watching Kate tonight.  So we made sure to dress her up in her cheerleader outfit and take some pics of her in some Husker gear.  She may be related to Sooners, who us Nebraska fans respsect as an opponent more than any others, but she's still a Husker to the bone, daddy's little girl!  More after the break...

Kate's First Halloween