Best...Baby...Ever...

I hope the title isn't too inflammatory...I'm quickly running out of ways to describe her super-mega-crazy-awesomeness...see, told ya.

Anyway, she has put on a couple of pounds already, as you will be able to see.

Her first trip to the pub. There will be many of these yet to come, with her dad, of course.


Contrary to how it may seem, this picture is completely unrelated to her first trip to the pub..."Real purty, ain't she?"


I mentioned a while back how much she likes bath time. Well, here's a shot of me dousing her.


...and another of the squeaky-clean Katherine...


So ya, her head of dark hair doesn't seem to be going anywhere, as you can also tell.

Thanks to many of our generous friends and family, her girly/pink wardrobe is growing, this particular outfit from yet another soon-to-be-friend that she has yet to meet... Ryan and Shannon, see you in a while...

I think we're part of the problem...

This link alerted me to the fact that we may be contributing to some sort of problem...

July 9 Update

Nothing particularly interesting to report, just a few more pics of life with Katherine.

Laura is doing well and getting ready for Ian to go back to work on Monday, even if it is only until August. That month went by pretty quickly.


Katherine seems to be finding a little bit more of her smile every day and Laura thinks she's developing dimples.


Other than that, this last week at home for Ian has primarily involved ripping up the stubble that was our front yard and spreading 4 yards of topsoil and laying sod...good times.

This Week's Milestone

Katherine lost her umbilical cord stump the other day, revealing what will likely be an "inny". Exciting stuff, but kinda gross really, since the newly revealed navel isn't quite done healing, but now she can have "tummy time".

She has also found her smile, intermittently at least, so I have been stalking her with the camera trying to get a few good smiley shots. I think she may be tiring of the flash, however.

We've been out shopping, for lunch at a restaurant, and some other running around; she's a pretty good traveller. So are Laura and I (I think) since we even had to feed and change her at the mall yesterday and everything went well...we might be getting the hang of this whole "parenting" thing.

Other than that, there's not a ton of news. Life goes on...

Getting Used to Each Other

The past week or so has been fun trying to figure each other out...when one of us isn't sleeping. We have been out of the house several times and Katherine travels very well.

Sleep is still pretty much as reported earlier, Katherine is only getting up twice during the night to be fed/changed, so we've been able to keep up. She is sleeping a lot; in particular, feeding seems to absolutely knock her out...



...as does being warm...






And here's the obligatory "Family" shot...

Alright already...more pics...

So we've got Katherine home, what the hell do we do now?

Sure is tiny in there...


Clean baby makes both mom and daughter happy...



Exhibit #1 supporting that sleeping babies are awesome...



I think it was my mom who asked for a "full frontal"...



Exhibit #2 supporting that sleeping babies are awesome...

This is also my favourite pic so far...really takes after her parents that way.

Exhibit #3 supporting that sleeping babies are awesome...


We're all doing well. Laura and I are feeling pretty lucky that Katherine is already letting us get away with only waking up twice throughout the night. It's made it relatively easy to catch up the sleep we lost at the hospital, etc.

Katherine is really easy-going, doesn't cry much at all, and is changing all of the time. She likes bath time, her feet are ticklish, and I think I have to start carrying my camera in my back pocket or something...I could take hundreds of pictures of her every day, a few of which will continue to be posted here.