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According to most development charts Catie is doing awesome. Most charts have three categories: Most Children Can do, Half of Children can Do, and a Few Children Can Do. I'm pleased to report that at two months of age Catie can do everything in the column that only a few children can do. She holds her head steady, bears weight on her legs and lifts her head and shoulders into a mini push-up.

I'm so proud of my girl!

Here's a bonus video, be prepared for the cutest sound you've ever heard.
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So Sorry

The dreaded day finally came, immunization day.

I know it's a controversial topic but I strongly believe in immunizations. I think they're important for babies health and I fully support them so today I headed over to the health unit with Catie in tow.

Despite my beliefs that this is a necessary step in development it sure was hard! I held my Catie tightly against me, bracing her for what was to come. My poor little girl looked up at me with such surprise on her face right before she started to cry in earnest that it brought tears to my own eyes. It doesn't seem right to hold her down and allow someone to hurt her and I wish there was another way. She's a tough girl though and she did really well only crying for 5 minutes or so before she settled. We'll see how the next day or so go.

As hard as it was, her four month shots are already scheduled though I'm not looking forward to the cries of pain and sad, sad whimpers.
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Alert

Catie loves to sit up and look around her. If she's ever fussy you just need to sit her up on your knee and 9 times out of 10 she'll be just fine so I figured it was time for the Bumbo and as usual she looks adorable.

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Family Photos

We took the opportunity yesterday to take some quick family photos, nothing fancy, just something to document the day. Catie looked so cute in her white dress.

It's about time someone got to wear this dress. When my older sister was pregant with her first baby Mom immediatly started making a cute blessing outfit for a girl or a boy. She had a boy so the dress didn't get used. Well that boy is now eight and since Catie is the first grandaughter she's the first to get to use the cute dress made by her Grandma Cathy.

Glad Grandma finally got her girl.

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Blessing Day

Years and year ago, at least 12, my Grandma O'Reilly made me the cutest little sweater and hat for a baby I would have some day in the future.

I always figured that on blessing day I would pull them out and she would wear them to the church. My Grandma passed away a long time ago so it meant a lot for me to have this cute sweater set. Yesterday being the special day I pulled out the sweater and put them on Catie and she looked like the most adorable goofy girl!

I loved having that little memory of my Grandma, take a look and see what you think.
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Entertaining

Today I got to use one of the features on our oven, the delayed start.

Catie was blessed today so family came to visit and we were providing lunch after church. We wanted it to be ready right when we got home so we put the potatoes in the oven before we left, set the timer and off we went.

I made sure we practiced multiple times because I've heard so many stories of the oven not turning on, luckily this wasn't a problem we encountered. The house smelled so yummy when we came home and we had piping hot potatoes... yay for fancy ovens!
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6 Weeks and Counting

I realize that this post is a little late but Catie went for her 6 week check up the other day and the doctor confirmed what I've suspected, that our little girl isn't actually so little.

Her height is right around average, her head size is slightly below average but her weight... she's in the 90th percentile. She was 8 pounds 2 ounces when she was born and 6 weeks later she's 11 pounds 4 ounces. I think I've discovered where she's been carrying all that weight, check out that belly!
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Importing

If you follow wiebebaby then this won't be a surprise to you but I've decided it's time to combine the two blogs. Initially I wanted to keep them separate but in doing so this site has become completely ignored so posting will resume here shortly but you can expect 95% of them to be about Catie, sorry but that's how 95% of my time is spent these days.

I'm transferring over all of the Baby Blog posts so if you use your reader you can expect an influx of old posts, bear with me.
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Discovering

It's amazing how every day there's something new with Catie, today she's discovered her hands!

We were playing together with her on her back and she constantly brought her hands in front of her eyes, then to her mouth, then she'd hit her self in the face (lightly) and then they'd go back in front of her eyes. She's so fascinated by them and amused herself for quite some time with these awesome little hands.

Here's a picture of my cute, grown up, 8 week old girl and a bonus of her super cute feet (Grandma Cathy will especially like the bonus photos)
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Hands!

It's amazing how every day there's something new with Catie, today she's discovered her hands!

We were playing together with her on her back and she constantly brought her hands in front of her eyes, then to her mouth, then she'd hit her self in the face (lightly) and then they'd go back in front of her eyes. She's so fascinated by them and amused herself for quite some time with these awesome little hands.

Here's a picture of my cute, grown up, 8 week old girl and a bonus of her super cute feet (Grandma Cathy will especially like the bonus photos)
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