From baby to toddler...

Age of Lady Kaitlyn:  11 months and 12 days

Family,

Our little girl - standing and cruising all
the time now - next step.  Walking!

And a good Sunday morning to you from the Queen City, where the Munch is PASSED OUT after an early wake up this morning.  I'm hoping she'll have a good sleep, as we're going over to a friend's house for lunch today and don't want a fussy cutie bootie!  But one hour in she hasn't moved, and so I like our chances for a good sleep.

This week's post will be a quicker one, as it was a bit quieter on the home front.  From a sneetch perspective, Jenny and I both fear that she's getting sick again, as she's pulling her left ear and is horribly congested when feeding (she's back to the point where she can't eat without taking a break for air because her nose is so stopped up).  That being said, she's not running a fever and still seems happy & active, so fingers crossed we can make it until her 1 year check-up before returning to the doctor (2 weeks from Tuesday).

Not sure how many of these we've got
left, so we're gonna make every one count.

As for the week itself, whilst a short one it was still very good.  Poor JT had TONS of work to do, so the week was filled with lots of early mornings and late nights.  Tuesday night I actually had the sneetch all to myself whilst JT worked, and so we had a good chance to play (in every room in the house).  That evening bred a very emotional moment for me (shocking, I know).

You see, typically when I'm playing with Kaitlyn, I have music playing on my i-Pad.  It's quite cute, as the Munchkin crawls all over me searching for the source of the sound but unable to discern that it's in my pocket (this also works well when it's playing and I slide the phone across the floor, as she'll then chase it).  Well, on Tuesday she's crawling away from me and "Swept Away" by the Avett Brothers comes on.  Now this song WRECKED me at Kim and Matt's wedding, as I could already picture K going from "twirling on the floor" of the playmat to walking down the aisle and having her first dance with her husband.  Well, it had the exact same affect on me that night, coming on so suddenly as the sneetch crawled away from me before turning back (leg in the air, of course) to look at me with a huge smile on her face.

Ready to me, mommy!

I was reminded how I always am that it all goes by SO FAST - truly this year has gone by in the blink of any eye.  Case in point - Jenny and I are AMAZED at how big the sneetch is in her crib now!  I remember the little girl swaddled so tightly she couldn't move and wearing a little blue beanie in the bassinet.  Now she doesn't fit sideways in the crib and seems to stretch have the length of it - how is that even possible?  Jenny and I walk in every night to look at our little miracle, and we are amazed at how quickly she's passing from baby to toddler.  The milestones are one thing, but her features are what strike us most - she no longer looks like an infant.  Truly - she now looks like a little girl (and a very pretty one at that).

K's new favorite pastime - opening and
closing doors...repeatedly...

The only other news this week was a surprised visit by my sister down to Charlotte.  As you may know, Pattie's a freshman at Radford and a member of the softball team.  Well, they had a "same day" add to their schedule, changing out UNC-Greensboro for UNC-Charlotte.  That means that I got a text at 12:35 saying that Pattie had a 6:30 game FIVE MINUTES from the house - so cool!  She was actually the first person I saw when I walked to the stadium, and we got to chat before and after the game.  It was really awesome to see my sister's school in action (they won 6-5), and I am proud to say that I've now seen both siblings in action in college - that is just nuts!

Not a whole lot else to report from the CLT - Team Taylor has a day of visiting friends and doing taxes (both US and Singapore), so we won't get too wild and crazy.  This next week should hopefully be a quiet one as well, which is a good thing since our lives flip into overdrive that following week.  Those details, however, will follow in subsequent blogs...so stay tuned. :-)

Chat soon!

Love,

Sam and Jenny