She's mobile!

Baby Kadri Girl rolled from back to front and then from front to back tonight. We oohed and aahed appropriately and then I said to Tim, "She's mobile now. Do you know what this means?" He does. And I'm not sure he's excited about it. He he! But our girl sure is cute.

Kadri's New Friends

My mom made some super-cute bumper pads for my sister when her first baby was born. We are currently using said super-cute bumper pads.

We have an extra panel of the bumper pads propped up behind the pad on our changing table, which Kadri likes to look at while we are changing her. When she is laying in her crib or having her diaper changed, she likes to have conversations with the patchwork Teddy Bears on the bumper pads. It's super cute! Just melts her mommy's heart! Watch! It'll melt yours too!

My stupid dog!

I took Howie outside to take care of his business for the last time at around 10:00 p.m. on Sunday. Being the sometimes good little dog that he is, he got right to work taking care of his business. And then along came a stupid cat, which let out a very unprovoked yowl upon discovering Howie's presence.

There isn't much that Howie loves more than chasing cats, so when the cat alerted Howie to his presence (oh yes, he was a boy cat), Howie tore off after him - stopped mid-business to chase the dumb animal, in fact.

Well, I've told Howie again and again that if he ever gets into a fight with a creature of the feline persuasion, he is going to lose. They are meaner than Howie and they are sharper too. Obviously, Howie didn't listen. He chased the cat and did manage to corner it. The first cat he's ever cornered that I'm aware of. They usually just jump on the wall that surrounds our townhome development and away they go. Not this time, and after cornering the cat, Howie came off the loser.

Don't worry. He didn't bleed or anything! At first I only assumed he was the loser because after he cornered the cat, Howie was the contender who ran away from the fight. So we went in the house. Then I smelled him. OH THE STENCH!! He smelled just like a litter-box! The stupid cat had sprayed him! Not even a bath helped Howie to smell better! Then Howie thought I would let him sleep in Kadri's room! Idiot! Not on his life!

Perhaps the next time he has the opportunity to chase a cat he'll stop and think twice about it and consider that I'm not kidding when I tell him he'll lose if he ends up in a fight with the cat. But I doubt it. He's just not that smart.

Kadri's Blessing

We blessed Kadri on the first Sunday in March. Most of my family made it for the blessing (other than my brother, who is on his mission in Brazil, and my brother's-in-law, probably just because they are bums! :)) and Tim's sister and her family came as well. It was super fun to see all of them, even if it was a fast, furious and short trip for most of them! We are so grateful they all came. Here are some photos of the festivities.

Here's my little brother feeding Miss Kadri.

This is my four-year-old niece changing Kadri's diaper - she can't wait until she gets a new little brother or sister!

I had to share this one! Kadri is really a smiley baby, but when I bring out the camera the smiles suddenly stop! I'm grateful some awesome photographer was able to get this picture this weekend!

This is Kadri in her blessing dress, which is the dress I was blessed in, which was purchased by my Grandma Strupp. The pretty white blanket was made for Kadri by her Aunt Shiree.

Family photo!

Kadri SANNE and her namesakes - Grandma SuSANNE and Aunt Rox'S'ANNE.

Kadri and her cousin's who made it for her blessing.

Kadri with her aunts and uncles who made it for her blessing. (I just realized we didn't get a photo of Kadri with her grandparents who made it for her blessing. Oops! Maybe Tim will photoshop something!)

And we finish off this post with a picture of lunch, which was oh so good! I think we'll be having it again at the next family gathering when Tim and I are hosting the meal - Baked Spaghetti!

My how she's grown!

Little Miss Kadri is now three months old, and I can't believe she's already doubled in size from when she was born - as far as her weight that is! She's still so little and fun, but she's so much bigger than when she was born. I can't even believe it! Here are a few photos documenting her growth.

This is a photo of Kadri when she was ten days old.

Here she is within a few days of being one month old.


And a photo from a few days after we celebrated two months old with her.

Finally within a few days of her turning three months old.

As an afterthought, I'm not sure I want to know what Tim was doing to elicit this response from Kadri!