Birthday, cabin and having fun

Since I haven't posted any pictures of Katelyn's first birthday, I figured it was about time. Here she is getting excited about a new outfit. Who knew she would get excited about clothes. Maybe she'll be the family fashion consultant.Her cousins gave her a cute Carebear and she absolutely loved it. You can see that she's excited, or at least concentrating in getting it out of the bag. It's soft. That says enough. She has a soft blanket that she can't get enough of and screams and snuggles into it every time she sees it.
Here is Katelyn's cute flower birthday cake that Dave's mom helped me with. Isn't it beautiful? I thought she would dive right in, but she was hesitant and wondered what all the pink stuff was that got on her fingers when we "helped" her.
When we ask Katelyn, "Where's your nose?" this is the face that we get. It's usually accompanied with little sniffing noises and we just laugh and love it every time.

We're training her to love roller coaster rides. Look, it's working!
Dave's family has a cabin in the mountains that we love to visit. We were there a couple weeks ago and saw some of the leaves changing colors. It was just beautiful!

I don't remember how this started, but Katelyn loves to pose. If we put our hands together next to our faces and ask her to pose, this is what we get. Isn't she adorable?
Another picture mom?
Here's Katelyn's little stink bug position that she sleeps in every night and of course, she's snuggled up to her blanket.

Katelyn's new shirt says...

Dave and I decided to be domestic the other day and make a new shirt for Katelyn. Yep. We went to the store, bought some iron-on letters, a new onesie and went home to create our master project. Within minutes, we had a beautiful new shirt that she looks adorable in. Check it out.


That's right, our little Katelyn is going to be a big sister!! She's awfully excited as you can see and already getting some good practice in holding her new baby brother or sister. I'm due around the first week of April, which will be great because my birthday is in April too, so obviously I think it's a great month. How about that? Katelyn has found the joy in rocking little babies in car seat carriers, so hopefully our baby doesn't get carsick because he/she will be constantly rocked by a loving big sister.

Just strollin'

Grandma and Grandpa Hoth gave Katelyn this new stroller and Uncle Shawn gave her the doll that fits inside. It's so cute and she just loves to walk around the room as you can see from this video. I had to laugh as I took it because she was just smiling at me as she walked past. She's still working on the idea of backing up after she runs into the wall so she can keep going, but all in good time. It's so cute to watch her wonder what to do. We keep catching her letting go of furniture and taking a few more steps every day. Our baby's growing up!




And just hours after this video, she started walking across the room. We thought she would walk before she turned one, but evidently she had other plans. She wanted the milestone to be just after her birthday. Funny girl. :)