House Hunting

Katelyn got all decked out to go house hunting. Brent got all decked out too, only not in a smashing new outfit. If anyone saw us riding down the road Sunday, yes we had a handheld GPS fixed to the roof of the Yukon. Why, you ask, would we have a handheld GPS attached to the top of our vehicle? Well, we were house hunting. And when you're house hunting with Brent Gunn you don't just drive around aimlessly looking for FOR SALE signs. No sir! You have a plan!
So as I was getting Katelyn dressed in her house hunting outfit, Brent was amassing all of the data and technology that would be needed for the trip. So we left that Sunday to househunt with a piece of paper printed from the Excel Spreadsheet that contains all the possibilities for future Gunn homes. Now this is no ordinary spreadhseet. This spreadsheet links to each house's website and calculates the acreage and square footage of each house. While doing all of this, it also rates and ranks each house according to certain criteria. Along with the spreadsheet printout, we have a laptop that is connected to the GPS by a cable that runs through the sunroof. The laptop is armed with a map program, so that when connected to the GPS we can actually see ourselves driving down the little lines on the computer screen that represent roads. Not only can we see ourselves driving, but if we come across a house that is not on our spreadsheet, and therefore has not been researched, we can hop right on the internet and check it out thanks to the Cingular Wireless card that has been inserted into the computer! The only thing that would have made this trip better is if there had been a tiny black Yukon driving around the computer screen with a tiny blue speck on its roof.
In case anyone was wondering, this is why I married my husband. He somehow manages to make me laugh and impress me at the same time!

Fun at the lake

We went to the lake Father's Day weekend. Katelyn loved playing with her cousins Issa and Mae. Issa was so sweet to Katelyn and loved giving her big kisses. They are all going to be such good friends when they get older!

Katelyn had such fun with her Pop! She doesn't get to see him as much as she'd like to, but they do have fun together!

Even at the lake, we must have tummy time!

Issa, Mae and Katelyn-three sweet girls!

Katelyn and Mae

Okay, nobody's looking...

Pow! Wake up Mae!

Uh ooooohhhh.

Nobody's getting my passy!

We went to the doctor last Thursday for her 8 week checkup. She weighed 13 lbs 11.5 oz and was 24.5 inches long. She's a big girl! Everything went well and she is perfectly healthy. She got four shots and only cried for a few seconds. She really does hold her passy in sometimes. It's pretty funny!

Sweet Cousins

Katelyn's Alabama cousins, Emma Kate and Lonna Grace, love to help take care of her. Emma Kate loves to kiss her and give her passies (pappies) and help burp her. Lonna Grace loves to kiss her and cover her up with a blanket. They both take such good care of her.

Hangin' out

Katelyn likes to sit and watch the ceiling fan. It might be her favorite thing to do. Sometimes, just to mix it up, I turn it one for a few seconds to make it move. She really likes that! The little grin on her face in this picture, however, is not from the ceiling fan excitement. I am convinced that it is because she knows that this cute little outfit is about to be history! Yes, we had to change her clothes AND take a bath! The joys of parenthood...

Folding Clothes

Katelyn is such a big girl! She is sleeping through the night. She ate at 9pm last night and we got her down about 10. She slept until 7:15 this morning! She has been sleeping through the night since June 1st and we are so thankful! She was going back to sleep immediately after her first am feeding, but that was when is was at 5:30 or 6. Now she is sleeping a little later, she is staying up after that first feeding. She either stays in her crib and watches her mobile -big fun! Or she helps me out. This morning she helped me with the laundry. She really enjoyed it. She mainly watched the ceiling fan while I folded. She LOVES the ceiling fan. Many times when I am holding her on my shoulder I have to hold her head in my hand because she leans back to look at the ceiling fan.

Play Time

Story Time

This was during her fussy time. For some reason she loves to lie on her changing pad, so I put it on the floor. We read four books and she loved it! Of course, she has to love to read with me for her mom.

Meeting the Allbrittons

This is Katelyn with Aunt Mandy. We drove to Atlanta on May 22nd for the birth of Mae, Katelyn's cousin. We left that evening and things started out fine. Katelyn had just been fed and slept for about an hour or so until her next feeding (this was when she was eating every two hours). We stopped and fed her and ourselves and got back on the road. About 30 minutes later, she started crying. So we stopped and fed her again (she obviously had not eaten enough) and got back on the road. Thirty minutes later, WAAAAAAAAAA! So we pull over again and (to get Brent's version you'll have to ask him) we get her out of the car and she burps. So we figure this was the problem. We strap her back in and get going again. Immediately she starts to cry again. Brent has decided (and I had to reluctantly agree) that there was nothing more we could do for her,so she had to cry it out. So for the next five minutes, I am in the back seat holding her hand and crying with her. That possibly has been the worst five minutes of my life so far.
She had trouble sleeping that night, but she was fine the next day. We got to meet Mae and hang out with Issa, then we headed back. We made it though and the trip home was great. She slept the whole way.

Daddy's Little Girl

Bathtime!

We usually give her a bath in the evenings during her fussy time. You can see why. She loves it! It's hard to imagine, but 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after this picture-nothing but crying! It's amazing how quickly adults can be trained to respond and react. The other night, she had us both dancing to some country song. It wasn't pretty, but hey, she wasn't crying!

Katelyn

Katelyn was born on April 23, 2007. She weighed 10 lbs 1 oz and was 21 1/2 inches long. She has been a great baby. I don't really have anything to compare it to, but I have heard stories and from what I've heard, we are LUCKY!

She has been sleeping through the night since June 1st. I know - it's not very long, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will last. This began when I moved her to a 3 hour schedule. She had been eating every two hours and began trying to eat every hour at night. My sister-in-law suggested I move her to a 3 hour schedule. I did and it's been great! Not only has she been sleeping through the night, the difference between two hours and three hours is amazing! I get so much done!

She has a fussy time that begins around 6 or so in the evening and lasts until her next feeding at about 8:30 pm. Once I feed her at 8:30, she is awake for a while and we have to walk her to get her to sleep, then put her in the swing for about 30 minutes, then Brent transfers her to her crib. During the day she is just as happy as can be. She only fusses when she has a problem. We have a routine going and it's pretty regular for the most part. So, between 6 and 8:30, I think about how good I have it and how bad it could be.

Everyone asks how much she weighs now, but we haven't been back to the doctor yet. She lost down to 9lbs 12oz the first week. When we went to the doctor for her two week appt. and she weighed 11lbs 1oz. She was otherwise perfectly healthy.