May 27- Steve, Debbie and Matt came over to help me clean up Kaitlyne's room. Kaitlyne was very good all day long, and she keeps saying mamamamamama all the time until I pick her up :) That's the best feeling in the world. I was cleaning up in the kitchen, and she kept saying it until I picked her up. We came in the living room and sat down on the couch and she went right to sleep. Later on, Emily and Logan came over to meet us and Kaitlyne was a little weary of Logan because he's crawling around really fast and he pulls up to things as well. he fell over and bumped her a little bit and she started crying really hard-she was just really tired and I think that he startled her a little bit. After they left and Michael came home, Kaitlyne fell asleep while I was holding her on the couch, and I was tired too, so we just laid together on the couch and relaxed and took a little nap.

May 26- Kaitlyne chased the cats today. It seems like she just goes after Hershey and sometimes Twix. She'll crawl after them and pull their hair and tails...it's hilarious. Hershey just walks away from her, it's really funny. She was crawling after Hershey, and she said HEY-DEH....it sounded just like "Hey there!" She's so cute! :)

May 23- we took kaitlyne to the doctor today for her 9 month checkup. She weighs 20 1/4 lbs. and is 27 1/2 inches long. The doctor said that she looked great and said that we have done a great job as parents :) Of course that made Michael and I feel really good! The Dr. said that Kaitlyne could start eating table foods even though she doesn't have any teeth yet. So, for lunch we cut up some mac and cheese and she had a couple bites...mostly for practice :) She is sooo cute! Tonight we let her crawl around on the kitchen floor and we gave her a plastic bowl to play with...she proceeded to pick it up with her feet and transfer it to her hands!!!

May 22- kaitlyne played on the floor a lot today and wanted me to hold her a lot. I held her while she took a really long nap until daddy came home :)

May 21- Michael and I went to Barnes and Noble tonight to look at some photography books. We put Kaitlyne in the stroller and she started running her mouth back and forth on the cup holder part...can you say "teething!" It was so cute though! She was making noises and just shaking her little head back and forth.

updates

May 5-May 18: in Illinois visiting family. Grandma Cindy can really make me laugh! She says funny things and drops my toys and I think it's hilarious. On May 16, she taught me how to shake my head no...every time she would shake her head no, I would too. May 17 I learned how to do the "Indian." My Great Grandma Sharon had been trying to teach me, and finally on my 9 month old birthday I let my great great aunt Melbourine pat my mouth while I made noise! Now, anytime anyone pats my mouth I like to do the Indian! May 18, mommy and I flew back to Raleigh on an airplane. I slept through both flights and was a very good baby :)