Crazy Christmas

Christmas 2009 has been rather CRAZY! We've had multiple celebrations, some health issues, and one more celebration remaining. I apologize for not posting sooner, but my dad has spent the past several days in the hospital recovering from a small stroke. Needless to say...his health has taken priority - even over Katie updates.

Our Christmas began Christmas Eve night when Bob, Coral, and Jake joined us for dinner at 1903 Colgate. We had a nice meal together and said our goodbyes until the next morning. Below are a couple pictures from the night. Christmas morning was very special to Matt and I...Katie's first! We decided to take a picture of our favorite present...for future memories! :-)

After opening presents at our house we headed over to Bob and Coral's for Christmas breakfast and celebration #2 of the day. Katie spent most of the time in her bouncer, trying to chew on most of her gifts.

On our way home from celebration #2....we decided to crash another family's Christmas morning. Matt's friend Trevor was only in town for a couple of days and only available on December 25th. So, we stopped by his house Christmas morning so Trevor and his wife Natalie could meet Katie. I just had to post a picture of Trevor and Miss Katie together! :-) Thanks Trevor and Natalie for letting us crash...
On December 26th we packed up and headed to the farm to see Ganny, Rob, Kat, Claire, The Eisenburgs, and the Rozakis family. It was quite the crowd at the farm and I was so excited that Katie got to see everyone!

Finally, on the evening of December 26th we arrived at my parents house. Unfortunately I don't have many pictures of the evening because our celebration was cut a little short. I hope to have some good pics in the new year with Grandma and Grandpa Brammer!

Winter Wonderland

Winter is officially here! Katie's first snow turned out to be one of the largest storms Richmond has seen in the month of December. I don't know what the "official" totals were, but we had about a foot at our house. Here are some pictures of the weekend.

Katie and I didn't venture outside on Saturday although Matt did. Instead, she and I stayed and played indoors. Couldn't resist posting this one....she looked so sweet holding her rattle and looking up at me with with those baby blues.

Me and Katie in front of the house. Her poor little nose is so red here....she went inside immediately after this one was taken!
Popa and Uncle Jake came over to help us build a snowman. Since I was about 12 the last time I built one, I was quite out of practice. It took us about an hour to build the body...then I realized we didn't have all the items to complete Frosty's face and arms. We improvised and used lids from a Coke Zero bottle for eyes, a pine cone for a nose, a lid to an ice cream container for the mouth, and some twigs from our trees as arms....haha!!! Frosty is wearing a UVA Dr. Seuss hat and orange scarf for these WAHOO men...and 1/2 Wahoo girl.
Family photo with Frosty! :-)
Katie in her snowsuit in the snow. Matt kept saying "she looks like a tic about to pop!" HAHA!

The one negative to the snow storm is that this weekend was supposed to be our annual Southard Family Christmas gathering at Caitlin and Jeremy's new home. Unfortunately, we had to postpone due to the storm. We are really looking to seeing everyone at a later date! Merry Christmas and love to everyone!!!

4 Months Old!!

Oh my, how time flies! Our little girl is now 4 months old!!! On Friday Katie had her 4 month well baby check-up. She weighed in at 13 lbs. 1 oz. and 24 inches long......approximately the 50th percentile. Not bad for a baby who was in the 8th percentile when born!

Katie has changed tremendously over the last month. One of the best developments is that she is now laughing out load. We've tried several times to get her laughing on camera and finally succeeded last week. As soon as I figure out how to get the videos off the Video Camera...I'll try and post it! :-)

Katie has also learned to roll over from her tummy to her back. Her motivation for crossing this development milestone is directly attributed to her sincere hatred for tummy time! Seriously -she may never crawl now that she is learning to roll off her stomach.

Stay tuned everyone....lots of Christmas updates are coming next! :-)