Baby #2 Officially Under Construction

For those of you who don't yet know, our second baby is officially under construction! The estimated arrival date is November 9, 2008. Here are his/her first photos taken this morning.





Catherine seems to be excited about the idea of Mommy having a baby in her belly, but who knows how much she actually understands. This evening she spent about five minutes waving and saying "hi baby" to my belly.

Getting too Smart

Catherine is getting too smart to be fooled by us these days. Sunday morning she wanted to go out to the sunroom, but Bill and I wanted to stay inside to finish our coffee. It was fairly cold out, about 37 degrees, so we told her it was too cold to go outside. She started saying some word over and over, that we couldn't understand, and was getting very frustrated. Finally we said, "sorry we can't understand. Do you know a sign, or can you show us?" She immediately started saying, "up, up," and took Bills hand. She lead him to the front hall closet, and said, "Jacket, daddy. Jacket." She had been saying "jacket"over and over, but we just couldn't understand the word on it's own. Maybe we just weren't expecting her to reply to us so rationally when we told her it was too cold to go outside!

Check Up Stats

Catherine is measuring in at 33 inches and 24 lbs. 10 oz. This still qualifies her as tall and slim. She finished up all of her immunizations, so there will be no shots at her 2 year appointment! While we were in the office, Catherine told the doctor all about her sticker book. It actually sounded a lot like blah, blah, blah, blah, ticker book, however the doctor was impressed with how well she was speaking. To show off even more for him, (have I mentioned I think she has a crush on her pediatrician?) as he was leaving he said, "Bye-bye, Catherine" and waved. She responded by waving and saying quite clearly, "Bye-bye, Pick-en." The doctor's name is Dr. Pickens. My daughter likes to talk...imagine that!

Drinking from a Big Girl Cup

This has been our big accomplishment for the month. Drinking from a big-girl cup. She seems to have mastered it, and we've even given it a test drive out of the highchair. Tomorrow we'll be going in for her 18 month check-up, so I'll post her stats.

In other news, there was some very silly wearing of Mommy's jacket the other day, and some photos of the event have been posted to our Flickr page.