Family Christmas Pics

It is getting increasingly harder to get good pictures of Kate. Here is our attempt to get a good Christmas family picture...

playing with Daddy afterwards...

Santa Pics

Last year's Santa pic...

This year's Santa pic...
Not much has changed...Kate still HATES Santa.

This is the one we bought...

Santa pic with cousins Emma and Kate (Emma was sleeping, Kate was screaming)...

Finally, the photographer (with the help of Elmo) got a little smile out of Kate and then Emma started crying.

Outside Santa's cottage...Karen and Emma (2 weeks old), Kate (14 months old) and Janet

Let it SNOW!!!

Parker called this morning on his way to work to tell us it was SNOWING!!! So after Kate ate breakfast, I bundled her up and we went outside. You can tell by her expressions that she had no clue what was going on or why she was outside in the wet and cold. I was hoping she would love the snow, but she didn't. She tolerated it. We were only outside about 5 minutes...just long enough to get a few pictures of Kate's 1st snow.

I put her rain boots on b/c I thought she might like to walk around in the snow...but she just sat down.

Maybe it is a good thing we live in Texas and it only snows once a year!!!

Thanksgiving in Houston

This year we spent Thanksgiving in Houston with Parker's family. We had a great week hanging out with family and eating tons of great food (THANKS CC)! Papa Lon and CC's neighborhood has several great little playgrounds and a splash park. Since the weather was perfect, we took Kate up to the parks almost everyday.

Kate and Aunt Katie

going down the slide with Aunt Katie

then Aunt Ginny...

Bailey waiting for Ginny and Kate to slide...

"We did it!!!"

loving the playground...

I love the squat!

Gin, Bailey, Katie and Kate...

Ginny and I turned the water on just for fun...

Kate was so intrigued with the pinestraw...

playing with the water...

Katie, Ginny and Bailey...two thumbs up???

Ginny, Kate, CC and Katie...

Happy Thanksgiving from Kate!!!

Kate's hair

Kate's hair is starting to get longer and thicker...but only in the back. The front is still really short and thin. This makes for a small dilema because the hair in the back is really too long for her headbands, but the hair in the front is too thin and short to keep a bow in. We tried a new bow today...here are some pics...

Emma Grace

We are officially Aunt Janet and Uncle Parker. My sister Karen and her husband Jonathan welcomed sweet Emma Grace this morning. Karen went into labor on her own in the middle of the night and Emma was here by 10:30 AM. She is 6 lbs 11 oz, 19.5 inches and so beautiful! We had a blast celebrating with them today and meeting sweet little Emma.

The proud parents with Emma...

My awesome sis Karen and Emma...

JuJu and Papa T

Kate meeting Emma for the first time...

JuJu and Papa T with their grandbabies...

Karen and Emma, me and Kate...

K, Emma and Aunt Janet

Proud Daddy...

Papa T and Emma...

Uncle Parker...

our precious neice...

We love you Emma Grace.

Stepping

Well, Kate is officially taking steps. She had just been taking 4-5 at a time but last night she figured it out and starting taking 15-20 at a time. She is still crawling most of the time so I won't say she is walking, but she is STEPPING.

Here are some pics of our little stepper...

And here are some videos...