First Homemade Baby Food Failure

I was so proud of myself today, I decided to make carrot baby food. I got them all steamed, and tossed them into my blender to start pureeing. Well, the blender was doing its stupid blender thing and pushing all the carrots up with the blade spinning below it, not doing any pureeing. So I carefully stuck a wooden spoon in to help push the carrots down. It worked great! I was getting close to being done when

WHACK

The spoon hit the blade, splintering into 50 pieces in my carrot puree.

There goes that batch.

Note to self: Next time, even though it's annoying, turn blender OFF, stir, and turn back on again.

Over the weekend, I bought Kate a Jumperoo on Craigslist. She LOVES it!

Let Kate's Fashion Woes Begin...

It happens to the best of us. You show up to prom and there's another girl wearing the same dress as you. You show up to work and you have a twin for the day. Well, it happened to Kate today at daycare.

I dropped her off this morning so I could take Blaze to the vet for shots, and wouldn't you know, the other baby girl at daycare that is about Kate's age was wearing the EXACT same outfit! Too funny!

A Tribute to Blaze

Some of you may or may not know, I'm trying to sell Blaze, my horse. I have owned her for 12 years, I can't believe it's been that long. Especially since Kate was born, I just don't have the time to devote to her that she deserves. She should be with someone who can get her back in the show ring winning more trophies and ribbons!

I have someone coming out tomorrow to pick her up. She doesn't want to buy Blaze herself, but she wants to put some work back into Blaze, and then try to sell her. I'm not sure how long she'll keep her, but if she can't end up selling her, then Blaze will come back to me. Which is fine with me. She told me that if I have a show record for Blaze that would help, well, I don't. The closest thing I could get was digging up all of her trophies and ribbons to take a picture of her winnings. The thing is... I KNOW I have one more box of ribbons - all of my best ribbons were/are in this box. And I could swear I have another box of trophies too. Oh well, I found all I could. This is what I could find:




There are lots of good memories represented in this image. Lots of fun over the years. I really do miss showing. I think if I still lived in Minnesota we'd probably still be showing, but here in Texas I just don't know any horse people and it's not fun to go do that stuff alone. Oh well. That phase of my life is over. At least for now... Don't tell Jeff but I think it would be fun to get Kate into showing someday. :)

Five Months

My baby girl is 5 months old today!! Where does the time go? She is so amazing, and brings a smile to my face every day. She is getting more and more vocal, and still loves her ba-ba's and ma-ma-ma's. She says mama a lot, but she doesn't know she's saying it, so I'm not counting it yet. Though it's fun to hear her say!

Photo Shoot

I had a little extra time this afternoon so I did a little photo shoot with Kate! She looks like SUCH a redhead in these pictures! Her hair is so weird, in some lights it definitely has red tinges, in others it's a complete mousy brown!

















And one last one - when did she grow up???

Minnesota Pictures

So I never got around to posting my pictures from Minnesota! Oops! We had so much fun! It was great to introduce her to friends and family.

Kate & Gabe



Emily & Gabe, Mandy, Kate & Me



Em, Me, Mandy, and Sarah



Jen, Kate & Me, Becky, Emily & Ana, and Krisanne



We both woke up the third morning not feeling so well. Kate wanted my orange juice!



I got to meet up with my Aunt Ginny, and cousins Carolyn and Sara, with Bella and baby Ilyas along too!

Kate's Bow

You had better get used to seeing Kate with these bows on! I didn't realize they had bows out there for baby girls other than the headband style. I saw these at Target today, and they are just TOO cute! I bought two packs of them. They make Kate look so adorable!