Molars

The past week has been a challenge. Katherine is cutting at least 2 molars. I think I may have spotted a 3rd one this morning. They look painful. Katherine is handling them like a champ, but seems to be bothered when she eats. She had been eating chicken nuggets, meatballs, chunks of cooked veggies, and whatever she showed an interest in. For the past week she's been on basically a liquid diet. We're back to baby food and anything else she doesn't have to chew. Even the small pieces of carrot in the baby food meals appear to be painful. Poor baby!

The bright side is that she'll be able to eat even more of a variety of big-girl food once her chompers are completely in.

Mother's Day

We had a wonderful Mother's Day. I was on-call for work and stuck at the house. So Mom-mom, Pop-pop, Mom, Dad, and Scott came over for a cookout. The boys did all of the cooking and we had a lot of fun visiting with everyone.

New "do" / 11 months

Katherine has a new hairdo. The pigtails keep her hair out of her face and is a little cooler when the weather is hot. Besides that, they're adorable!

She is 11 months old and well on her way to walking. She cruises around while holding onto couches, chairs, or whatever she can reach. Occasionally Katherine will let go and stand for a few seconds before losing her balance. She does "so big" and points at everything. You can bet that "why?" and "what's that?" will be her favorite questions.

New Car

I recently bought a new car. It is a 2006 VW Jetta TDI. It has a diesel engine and has great gas mileage. On average, it gets 45-50 mpg!!! I just filled up on gas for the first time after clocking in 500 miles on one tank of gas! To make this car even sweeter is that diesel is cheaper than regular these days.















Katherine likes the new car too.