Fritsche Family

Friday, March 26, 2010

9 Months

Kate is 9 months old, which is hard to believe! She went to the doctor today for her check-up and everything looks great. She has lived up to her nickname of "peanut" because she is small! She weighs 18 pounds (35%) and is 27 1/4" long (40%). She must be quite the thinker, though, because her head circumference is in the 80th percentile. She continues to be so good natured and easy going and is such a sweet little girl.

Ben & Kate playing "tickle tackle" and Kate also displaying her morning hair.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

March

March has been a busy month for us. We started a big landscaping project at home and then Ben, Kate and Mommy went to Murray for a week-long visit.

Before pictures of back yard:

After:

Before picture of front yard:

After:

Pictures from our visit to Murray:

Ben asleep with Kitty Baby

Doing some computing - I think he had just e-filed our taxes when this picture was taken.

Baby Kate with Great Aunt J.R.

And Great Uncle Dennis

At the Nature Center in the Land Between the Lakes

Kate is starting to think about crawling. Hasn't been perfected yet, but one of these days!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Kate @ Eight

Kate turned 8 months on February 24th. She's perfected the art of sitting up, but isn't crawling yet. She can usually get where she wants to go by way of rolling, however. She's a great eater - by that I mean she isn't very picky (much unlike her brother at this age). I am stunned that I have a child who will willingly put broccoli and other vegetables in her mouth without gagging. We'll see how long this continues!

Lately she has discovered the fun of cardboard boxes. Here are some pics of Miss Peanut/Miss Silliness/Baby Kate on her 8-month birthday.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Our little guy

It's hard to believe Ben is now three years old. Here are some pictures taken of him every year on or around his birthday.

February 1, 2007

February 1, 2008

January 31, 2009

February 2010

Friday, February 5, 2010

Disney World

Ben spent his 3rd birthday in Disney World and had a wonderful time. It was fun to watch him experience everything. I think it was a bit overwhelming at times, but he handled everything really well. The highlights of the trip seemed to be 1) the gorillas in the Animal Kingdom, 2) Goofy's roller coaster and 3) the carousel in the Magic Kingdom. He was not a fan of the shows like the Lion King & A Bug's Life and we had to make early exits from those. Kate was terrific as well and made life easy on us during those long days at the park. She even got to ride some rides. Even though I was fairly exhausted, I was sad to leave and can't wait to go back.

Outside the Nemo ride. This ride was a hit the first time, but not the second. Not sure why.

He thought this hat looked funnier on other people than on himself.

Princess Kate

Ben was really excited to see Chip & Dale, especially since he thinks they live in our back yard.

Family photo (minus Kate who was asleep in her stroller) with Mickey.

Ben's 3rd birthday breakfast

Pluto saying hello to Baby Kate.

Nothing clever to say about this one - it speaks for itself.

Cupcakes for breakfast!

Safari ride in the Animal Kingdom. Ben thought it was funny when a rhino crossed the path next to our bus and when a silly ostrich held up traffic for about 15 minutes because he wouldn't get out of the road.

Checking out the gorillas. Ben was very concerned about a baby gorilla and kept telling the mommy and daddy gorilla to go pick it up. In reality the baby gorilla was a full-grown female and the mommy and daddy were silverback males.

We had a little bit of rain while we were there. At first it was annoying, but as soon as we realized it cut the crowds in half and made the lines disappear we were o.k. with it!