Back to Work!

Well, my 12 weeks of leave are officially over and I'm back to work this morning. Just thought I would do a quick post while my e-mails download. I haven't had access to my work e-mail so all the messages that were sent to me while I was out are now downloading.... so far, there are over 500! Yikes!

I decided to return to work on a reduced schedule. I will be working 10 hour days Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. I was thinking about going down to 20 hours a week but at 30 hours I can keep my benefits so it made sense to go the extra hours.

Happy Monday!

Chris and Katelin

Here is the comparison for Chris and Katelin.



Both are 10 weeks, 5 days in this picture.
Chris was 13lbs, 11oz. At 9 weeks, 2 days, Katelin was only 11 pounds, 6oz.

I'll post more later... for now it is time for bed!

Trish & Katelin

Who says Katelin doesn't look like her Mommy???

Happy 4th of July!

As usual, we went out on Lake Lewisville for the 4th of July celebration. Brian, Robyn and Landry met us and we took out their pontoon boat. We had dinner at Charlie's and then went out on the lake to watch the fireworks.
It was Katelin's first boat ride and she seemed to enjoy it.


(click on the photo to see a larger image)

Landry is now 6 months old.


My camera has a fireworks setting so I thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately, you need to hold the camera steady and the boat was swaying quite a bit so the pictures didn't turn out very well. I thought this one was cool though...


Hope everyone had a good 4th!

2 Month Checkup

Katelin had her 2 month checkup this morning. She's getting sooooo big! She was 11 pounds, 6 ounces (50th percentile), 23 inches long (75th percentile), and her head circumfrence was 39cm (50th percentile).


We had a very busy time while we were out of town. Last weekend, my parents, my sister and I drove up to Detroit so I could bowl in the Women's National tournament. I didn't bowl very well but we had fun. Friday night, we went to the Detroit Tigers game.


Katelin went swimming for the first time on Saturday. The pool was a little too chilly for her but the "hottub" was not so hot... only 95 degrees. Since her baths are usually between 94-97 degrees, we tried swimming in there. She loved it!


I made Katelin a cute little onsie with a bowling graphic on the back and "My Mommy Bowls Better Than Your Mommy" on the front. Everyone loved her and her outfit at the bowling tournament (even if her mommy bowled horrible). How can you not love her though???


Coming home to Dallas with Katelin by myself was a little interesting. Getting through security took me a little extra time (getting her in and out of her car seat and getting everything on & off the belt) but she did really well on the flight again. She was fussy before take-off but once we got moving, she fell asleep and stayed asleep most of the time. I even got to eat my lunch while holding her. The only problem was that I gate checked her stroller and car seat and for some reason, the people at O'Hare didn't put them on our flight. We waited at Dallas for the next Chicago flight to get in hoping that they made it onto that flight but no such luck. The baggage service gave us a loaner car seat so we could leave the airport and then our stuff was delivered sometime between 1:30 and 3:30 this morning. Luckily they just left it outside and didn't ring the bell because I was actually sleeping. When I brought them in around 3:30 this morning, the sprinklers were going off so I'm glad we had the car seat in a water resistant bag!

Hope everyone has a great 4th of July. We're probably going on out the lake to watch the fireworks. It'll be Katelin's first boat ride.