4 month stats

I know it's a bit late, but:
weight: 12 lbs 4 1/2 oz (25%)
height: 23 in (50%)
head - 98% yep, she has a big head, hurray for c-sections.
Everything is normal and Kaitlyn is developing well. She has found her voice and loves to talk to people. She also likes to play with her toes, her seahorse, and chew on things. Unfortunately, she is teething but she's being a little trooper about it. Kaitlyn keeps us on our toes and is always willing to cheer us up with a smile. She has rolled over, tummy to back, once - and was very surprised that she'd done it. She has grown out of her 0-3 month clothes but is still a bit too small for her 3-6 month clothes, so her clothes look like they're going to fall off (especially her pants since she doesn't have the chub to keep them up).

And We're Back

Here's the ginormously long update. For Halloween Kaitlyn was a pumpkin. We went to my parent's house and my dad and I took Kaitlyn trick or treating. She loved being outside and visiting other people. We went to three houses :) Thanksgiving brought us to Boise with the Browns. We enjoyed lots of games, yummy food, and fun family. We put up the Christmas tree and had fun with cousin Thomas. Kaitlyn is excited for her new cousins to get here this year - one in January and one in June. For Christmas we went to Grandma Z's on Christmas Eve. It was so much fun to see everyone. Christmas morning we got to spend together as our own little family - and loved every minute of it! Kaitlyn got a seahorse named Shelby that plays music. She loves it! She likes to talk to it, hug it, and eat it of course! Later that afternoon we went up to my parents for dinner with my grandparents and all of my sister's in-laws. It was fun to play games and get to know the Petersons better. We are excited to begin a new year with our little family and look forward to everything it will bring.

No internet

Kaitlyn is doing much better. We got her on some medication. Now our amazingly convenient management company has decided to replace our carpet. It's snowing outside. We are not allowed to simply move upstairs because the owners are paranoid and won't let us take our washer & dryer upstairs with us. So, all of our front room got moved to the bedrooms on Thursday and we got new carpet on Friday. Then, Saturday morning, everything we own got stuffed into the front room. Both bedrooms are empty and we get the new carpet there tomorrow, which is my birthday. The carpet layer is really slow...hopefully we'll be able to do something fun for my birthday anyway. Our computer is in five pieces all in random boxes and places so I'm posting this from my sister's house and massive catch-up to follow.

Thoughts

First Snowfall of the season...I get to listen to Christmas music!

I have a cold sore...do you know how hard it is not to kiss Kaitlyn?

My family is awesome!

I miss Mandy.

One week until Thanksgiving...excited to see family.

Babies make lots of laundry.

Cupcakes are yummy.

Jackie looks weird with her tail broken.

You know you need to watch less TV when your dreams have Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, the cast of SNL - which I don't even watch - a monkey, Shaun White, and Al Gore. All in the same dream, all waiting outside a dentist's office. Weird.

Jared is the most wonderful husband ever!

A Gargantuanly Long Weekend

Well, Kaitlyn has been throwing up a lot of her food lately. We thought maybe it was something I ate, but couldn't figure out what and it kept going, even after we started itemizing my food. We then thought maybe she was eating too much - she does love her food, after all. So we started giving her a pacifier - but first we had to find the brand that she liked! By the way, if anyone wants some free, slightly used pacifiers, let me know. By slightly used, I mean she sucked on them once and spat it back out - you could totally sanitize it and it'd be fine. Anyway, that helped some, but not all. Right now we're thinking that she may have reflux...wouldn't know a doctor's opinion, though, since no one from the BYU Health Center will return my calls, even a week later! Anyway, Saturday my cousin Andy and his family were moving, so we went up to help them out with that. Kaitlyn and I took Andy's girls shopping, mainly to get them out of the way. There's only so much help that a 7, 9 and 11 year old can do before they start to get bored, tired, whiny, and in the way. Jared, however, stayed and helped move big furniture. Then we came home and had a long night with Kaitlyn, more of the throwing up. It was a late night. Sunday I ended up sleeping late, which turned out to be a good thing although I missed church. My cousin Andy is also in a math class and needed some help from Jared. Andy was going to drive down Sunday night but my grandfather, who has been sick lately, went out to my Aunt and Uncle's for dinner. So, we went up to West Valley to see my grandparents and help Andy with his homework. We got home at around 10:30 and got a phone call from Jared's brother, Chris. He wanted to know what we had for burns. I asked what he'd burned himself on and he said water. When my sister was little she got a 3rd degree burn on her leg after tripping into one of those hot/cold water coolers so I was a little nervous of Chris' comment and went over to take a look. He told me he'd put aloe on his hand but it was still burning - five hours later! I took him to Walmart and got some Solarcaine and BurnJel. The Solarcaine only worked for about 5 minutes, but the BurnJel, which has 2.5% ladocane in it worked great! On the way home from Walmart I found out that this wasn't a cooking accident, but an argument between him and his roommate over the thermostat which ended when his roommate poured boiling water on Chris' hand! I brought Chris to my apartment and Jared and Dad helped Chris decide to call the police to file a report. The cops came over at about 1 am, and I decided to go to bed. Jared took Chris back to his apartment so he could get some clothes and any valuables and then they returned and Chris spent the night on our foldout. Monday Jared, Chris, and I went to the housing office to get Chris transferred to a new apartment, and then we spent the morning moving Chris from one apartment to a different one - down 1/2 flight of stairs and then up 2 1/2 flights. We were very very tired by Monday night - and then Tuesday Kaitlyn's stomach problems started again. She's been on and off again all week, but tonight has been pretty bad. I will be calling the Health Center on Monday and clogging their lines until I get to talk to a nurse - no messages! On the plus side I got this amazing photo of Kaitlyn and her Great Grandparents Zaelit:

The Legend of Zelda...

Holy cow! My sister told me about this today and I just had to put it up here for y'all to see - it's amazing! My friend Jen made this costume (actually, both of her sons wanted to be Link, so she made two!) for her son Dax. It's awesome and Dax totally has the look down pat for the Hero of Time. Apparently, however, several people in their ward didn't know who Link was...what rock have they been hiding under for the past 23 years?

My Sister's Keeper

I promise Halloween pictures, but they're on my dad's camera so I don't have them right now. In the meantime: I recently read My Sister's Keeper. It's been on my list for a while now, even before the movie came out. It's just that I have time to read now - mainly while Kaitlyn's eating. Anyway, I really liked the way this book was written from the different viewpoints of all the characters. It was kind of fun learning the backstory at the same time that you were reading the main story. There is some swearing in this book, and it is sad - but then it deals with a very political and fiery subject. Either way, it is well written and I would recommend it to anyone who likes stories about families in tough situations. We'll have to see how the movie is...I've heard it's different from the book.