10 Months

Baby Kate turns 10 months old today. It's hard to believe she's so close to being one! Pretty soon we'll need to stop calling her "Baby" Kate. She is crawling everywhere and, as you can see from the picture below, has four teeth. She gets into a lot of stuff now, but when you tell her "no" she just looks at you with the biggest, sweetest grin and it's hard to deny her anything!

Ben is a huge fan of Baby Kate. He wants her to stay at school with him, wants her to play trains with him and doesn't like for her to be asleep while he's awake. She is a big fan of his, too, as he makes her laugh harder than anyone else. He always says "her thinks I'm funny!" The other day he looked at me and said "Mommy, Baby Kate smells like pizza."

Here are some pictures of Baby Kate @ 10 months old.

Daddy doesn't think this is a very flattering picture, but I think her snaggle teeth are quite cute!

Kate is a huge fan of this car. She squeals with joy and flails her arms about when riding in it.

Baby Kate & Mommy (sans makeup, I want to add)

Happy 10 month birthday to our little Peanut!

Summer in Spring

The thermostat reached 90 today so we broke out the water toys.

Easter

We went to the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC for an Easter brunch, Easter egg hunt and to visit the zoo animals (in that order). Ben did not appreciate getting to the zoo and then having to sit down and eat brunch. He wanted to "first go to the zoo, then dinner, then easter egg hunt." It didn't help matters that they didn't have any pancakes or milk available. I was very close to putting a combination of coffee creamer and water in his sippy cup! He then boycotted the egg hunt, which ended up working in Elise's favor since there was a 5-egg max for the kids (???) and she was able to collect Ben's portion. Thankfully his spirits improved once we went into the zoo and rode the carousel.

Baby Kate enjoyed the brunch and even posed with the Easter Bunny.

Daddy took this picture. He took about 5 of us with the Easter bunny and I am cut out of most of them. The bunny didn't fare much better.

Ben refusing to participate in the egg hunt.

Elise & Ben feeding some animals in the petting zoo.

Here are some other recent pictures: