Kate Update: 2 months old

This sums up how we feel about Kate!  Emma drew this- she's holding Kate, as she loves to do.

I can't believe our little lady is already 2 months old!  Kate is growing so fast.  As of April 3, Kate weighs already 12 pounds 4.2 ounces!  That puts her in the 90th percentile for her weight.  Her height was 23.6 inches.  I think that was somewhere in the 80%.  She is a big lady!  She is becoming so social and loves to smile at all of us.  She loves to be held by Emma and is very calm with her.  She seems to especially love smiling at Arianna.  As of today, Kate started to play with the animal hanging on her swing!

Kate playing!

  She is nursing during the day about every 2 1/2- 3 1/2 hours.  She takes great naps in her bassinet.  She is a very content baby.  As long as she gets milk when she wants it and gets her sleep, she is very happy.  In fact, the other day when Grant was interacting with her and she smiled at him he said, "Mom, she smiled at me!!!  We should call her Smiley!"  She really is such a delight.  The longest stretch she has slept at night was 8 hours!  Too bad it was from 8 to 4.  She gets up once each night to eat and goes right back to sleep.  I certainly cannot complain.  She is a great baby, for which I am VERY grateful.  It's kind of laughable, but our infant daughter has our master bedroom to herself at this point.  Little did we know that our fourth child would kick us out of our room!  Kenneth and I are sharing a room with Grant right now (there is an extra Queen sized bed in his room).  Kenneth moved out a few weeks ago when Kate was up several times in the night and he really needed his sleep.  I stayed in our room for a week or so after that, but knew that I would sleep better if I were not hearing all her little noises.  So, once she was pretty consistently getting up just once a night to eat, I moved out, too.  This home only has 3 bedrooms.  I keep thinking I should just put her in with the girls or Grant, but when it comes right down to it I can't seem to get myself to do it.  I am so afraid she will bother them or vice-versa.  So, for right now, I guess we'll keep it this way for a while, as crazy as it is!
And, as is the tradition with my babies, I take a picture of them at 2 months old in the same blanket.  So, see if you can guess who is who (scroll down to see if you were right):

Clockwise starting in the top left corner: Arianna, Grant, Kate, Emma

Oh!  I have so many other things to blog about, but my days go by way too quickly and there are never enough hours during the day.  We had an incredible ice storm, we more than doubled our chick population (and almost had a fatality!) and there are always fun times to share.  Hopefully, I can share more in the next few days.  For now, I'll just give you a couple more pictures of Kate:

What are you doing, Mom?

Mom- I think I swallowed a football.

She went thatta way!