My Girlie Girl..

Katelynn has become my little girlie girl and I love it. She is starting to like bows in her hair, but only when she wants them in there and they come out when she decides it has been long enough. She will wear hats now. She even lets me put her hair into pigtails and ponytails. Best of all, she loves her shoes!! She will change shoes two or three times a day. She has started to wear my shoes around the house. At first, she would get them from the closet and have me put them on. Now she will walk around in them. We went to a birthday party on the day of the Kentucky Derby so it was Derby Themed. We made K a hat to wear. She wore it a bit, but not much. Now I will come home from lunch to find her wearing the hat and pushing her stroller around. I guess you have to have the right accessories to push around the stroller. She is such a funny little girl. Here are a few pics of her in her derby hat and momma's shoes. Enjoy!

A Few Pics to Keep You Updated...

on all that been happening around the Bateman house. Actually, a lot has been happening, but none of it is really BIG news. The weather has been pretty crazy and keeping us on our toes, but luckily we haven't had any damage. It has been keeping us in the house more than little Miss K would like, but we have pulled our chairs out onto the front porch a couple of times and watched it rain. (She doesn't understand why we can't walk up and down the sidewalk while it is raining so that leads to a bit of a tantrum, but we can usually divert her attention before it gets out of control.)

We have been having picnics inside with her new table and we

even had a picnic in the livingroom with the whole family on Friday night. That turned into K crawling up on the table and under the "picnic blanket" pretending she was the baby going night night, so daddy had to join in on that fun.

Katelynn also decided to try and style her own hair one afternoon. I watched her in her room rubbing her head, but I thought she was just pretending (she always does this). That was until I saw her pick up the jar of Vaseline. YUCK!! It took five (5) shampoos and a vigorous head rubbing with a towel by daddy to get it all out.

And like I mentioned before, there was a lot of looking out the windows and watching the storms. (Sorry Gary England, I know you said to stay away from the windows, but that is just too darn hard!)

Well, that's really been our week in a nutshell. No names for the new baby, we haven't started on K's big girl room or the "renovations" to the nursery, so no big news on that front. I am going to leave you with a picture of my two most favorite people in the world and hope everyone has a great week. How can you NOT have a great week after seeing these two smiles?!

Busy Weekend......

We had a very busy weekend . We were non-stop until this afternoon. Brian had been buying flowers all week long and Saturday was his day to get them planted. He pulled some sick holly bushes out of the front flowerbed and replaced then with bagonias and a couple of new shrubs. He also planted the ornamental sweet potato in the front bed and did most of his flower pots. He has a couple more left to do but what he did looks wonderful!! While he was working in the yard, K and I hit the mall. I needed to get her a pair of shoes to wear with her dresses and summer outfits so we headed to Stride Rite. I had just bought her her tennis shoes a few months ago so when the asked if she needed to be measured I said "Sure. She's a 3 1/2 but if she is closer to a 4, maybe we should look at 4 1/2 cause I don't want her growing out of them before the end of the summer." Glad they measured her. She's a 5!!!! I have been stuffing my baby girl's size 5 into a 3 1/2 for months! I feel terrible. The lady said it happens all the time and the leather actually stretches out so it wasn't painful for her. I still felt bad, so I bought her 2 pairs! She loves her pink tennies but isn't too found of her white sandals. She carried her pink shoes with her for the rest of the day on Saturday. After church today when I took off her sandals, she pitched them off the changing table onto the floor and then grabbed her pink shoes. Oh well. While we were at the mall we hit a huge sale at Penny's and then went and bought me a few shirts. Then we went grocery shopping at Target. K slept through the Target trip, so I carrried while I shopped and she drooled down my shoulder, so sweet.

We finally made it home and fixed lunch, then it was time to hit our first party. My boss' dad turned 80 on Saturday so they had a Kentucky Derby themed party. It was really neat. All the ladies wore big hats and dresses and the guys were derbys. Mint juleps were served and so was what smelled like a deee-licious meal. I made K a big ol' pink hat with feathers. She wore it for a lot longer than I thought she would. We had to leave early to make it to our second birthday party. Our friends were having a cookout for Jessica's b-day. Our Sunday School class was invited and a ton of people showed up. They kids all played outside and we stood around and put band-aids on skinned knees, wiped mud off shoes, etc. etc. It was a really fun time. We stayed a little too late, well way past my and K's bedtime. So we woke up early this morning and headed to church and then came straight home, had lunch and tried to take a nap. K was fighting it, but after a while she relented and we caught a couple of zzz's.

This weekend was fun, busy, but fun. K is growing so fast and pretty soon it won't be just the three of us, so I am enjoying all the time I have with my two favorite people.

B is getting K to sleep right now and I am about to crawl into bed to read a book. Ahhh, Sunday nights. I am going to leave you with a picture of my little girl in her pj's Grandma Owana bought for her. Isn't she just the cutest!!?

Big Girl Room.....

I have been spending a lot of time thinking about what I am/we are going to do for Katelynn's Big Girl Room. We don't have any more exciting appointments to look forward to or any more crazy announcements to make so now it is time to get to work. I have already purchased the bedding for Tis' room and have quite a few ideas for decorating the nursery but it is K's room that I am getting stuck on. I want her to have a cool big girl room. One that doesn't scream baby but doesn't also say "too grownup" either. I have to find a happy medium that the three of us, um FOUR of us, are happy with. B doesn't really seem to care he just wants to make sure her room is "cute." So I have been looking at bedding trying to get some inspiration and it hasn't been going all that well. But I have found some ideas and thought I would post the pictures and I know some of my friends will be more than happy to give me some honest feedback.

1. The Nantucket: I love the blues and pinks and I LOVE the canopy. (Brian, not so much) Of course, no life preserver on the wall or bucket of sand by the bed, but other than that, I think I could find some cute decor for it.

2. The Penelope: Now this comes in the toddler bed stuff but they didn't have a picture of that. I love the pinks and greens and the birds but not sure if it is too much pink.

3. The Daisy: I love the greens and blues and I like the idea of yellow bedroom walls, something about it just seems so bright! This is probably my favorite, so far..... until the next one. =)

4. OK, now are you ready for my absolute FAVORITE!!??!! Of course, I know we cannot do this one, but how stinkin' cute is it?! I love love love the colors together. They also have orange and blue and that looks amazing. Brian said we can do this one if we want. (I love that he can humor me.) Maybe I can shelve this for an "older" room, hmmmmm?

Let's Compare

This year and last......

Katelynn in her Easter Dress before Church 2009

This year. The only picture we could get before she ran off.

Katelynn at the Easter Egg Hunt last year;

And this year......... (See her at the starting line getting ready to take off!!)

I cannot believe how big she is getting!!

Sleep well, Little One. You deserve it. =)

Easter Weekend 2010

This was a very busy weekend for Miss Katelynn. It all started Friday when we got together with Brian's family and celebrated Aunt Julie's Birthday and Easter. We had tons of GREAT food and got to spend time with everyone in B's family.

Saturday we went to Katelynn's very first wedding and she had a great time. She loved all the music and dancing (OK, chasing the lights on the ground). We spent Saturday evening with my whole family. She had so much fun with all the other little kids that were there.

Sunday was Easter so we got all dressed up in our pretty clothes and went to church. Katelynn had fun in the nursery, as usual and then we went to Lolli and Pop's for Easter sandwiches. Next it was home for a quick nap and then off to Okarche to Aunt Sharon's for the Egg Hunt!!! Katelynn has a blast, especially on the trampoline.

Daddy bounced her all around on it when everyone else went in to eat. She came home with a basket full of eggs and a couple of extra Easter gifts. What a difference a year makes. Last year we propped her up on the couch for pictures, this year she was moving so fast we couldn't even take some pictures. Next year will be even crazier. We'll have a 2 year Old Katie Bug and a Lil' Miss Lulu Laverne to prop up on couches. (OK, that is not really her name.) I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and took at least a moment to remember what we are truly celebrating. Have a great week. This is a picture of Katelynn trying to pick out which basket she wanted to use. She was getting pretty good at carrying all three!!

Ultrasound Says.....

Brian and Charlie will remain the only men in the house for now! I was actually surprised when they said girl. I really thought this time around was so different that is had to be a boy. But I always kept going back to a girl. We are both so excited and happy. Two precious little girls that will grow up to be best friends. I could not wish for anything more for my children. Dr. said the ultrasound was "perfect". (His word!!) Everything looks great, nothing suspicious. So he did not put us down for any more ultrasounds or tests. That was such a relief. I couldn't relax until I heard that. Now it is time to get K's new big girl room started. I am so happy K is getting the "new" room. She deserves it!

Here are the pictures from today. The first is "Tis" looking straight at you and the second is the "money shot." The third picture is her foot and the fourth is her profile. Brian and I both made the comment that she looks so much like Katelynn did at that age. Ah, sisters. =)