Thursday, January 27, 2011

Having Fun

I just love the expression on Catherine's face in this picture and how she is oblivious to the action going on around her.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Bath Time

Catherine loves taking baths!



Today Catherine is 11 months old. She has suddenly become very interested in eating whatever we eat and is also good at it, so she has been having so much grown up food. She is usually not interested in her 'smoosh' (aka baby food) any more, and begs for anything we happen to be having.

Last night she had sauteed spinich, home made chicken soup, toast, pears, cheese, and probably a lot more that I can't remember! This is leading to a little fussiness overnight from gas, but I think it's really exciting how good she is now at so many new foods.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

From the Archives IV

I was looking through some old pictures of Catherine and ran across this one. I love the way she looks like she's having a serious power nap. She is about 12 days old here. I think the majority of our early pictures of her are while she is sleeping!

Friday, January 21, 2011

She Walks

Catherine took her first unaided steps last night! As I suspected, it was motivated by books; I was holding the book she wanted to hear and she was close enough to step toward me. She took one step with her left foot and then fell down, then a few seconds later took two steps. She had been walking sideways along furniture without holding on, but walking forward is different! Of course we missed it on video, but I'm sure she'll be doing more walking soon. Today her nap was delayed because she wanted to stomp her feet a little.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

World's Slowest Lawnmower

You can see how mild the weather has been here lately. Catherine and I have been going out to the patio to get a little sun on us and get her hands dirty. I always put socks on her, but it's actually been warm enough that when they come off, her feet don't really get cold!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Chewing

Catherine looks very surprised in this picture, but really she's just chewing very seriously on her puzzle piece.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Cheeky Monkey

Catherine still loves sticking her tongue out at us as a form of communication!

Friday, January 7, 2011

Happy Russian Orthodox Christmas!



I intended to keep the Christmas pictures going until today since it is a special day for our family. Tomorrow we will return to our regular program of unthemed Catherine.





Santa performs quality control on the toys



You may wonder why there are not more pictures of Catherine in her cute Santa suit? Whenever we put her in the whole outfit, she would go from quietly serious:



To utterly perturbed:


Poor Santa!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Little Helper

This year Vlad put up all sorts of Christmas decorations and Catherine decided to help!



Sunday, January 2, 2011

Photo Op

I love how Catherine is in the middle of a picturesque Christmas scene and is totally unaware of it!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Happy New Year!

From all of us to all of you. We hope your 2011 is as great as our 2010 has been!