Kate: 6 Months (and a little of the rest of us too)

Our Sweet Katerbug (as she is affectionately called in our home) at 6 months:

Height: 25.5 inches (around 30th percentile)
Weight: 14.4 lbs. (15th percentile)
Cuteness: 100th percentile :)

We absolutely adore this little girl. She is such a happy, sweet baby. James loves to play with her. He is getting somewhat weary of her intrusion into "his" stuff now that she's mobile. He used to happily give her anything to play with, but now he is often found confiscating items that rightfully belong to him even if he hadn't been playing with them himself. He does enjoy giving Kate "her" toys and books. His stuff is just...well...his stuff. So we've been talking a lot about sharing. They're a lot of fun. They love and adore each other. I love it!

The following pictures are more like 6 1/2 months...
Here she is in action. Sitting up, playing, getting into everything.
She started *officially* crawling the first week of October. She's getting fast.

And here is James...on his "cow."
He's a cowboy of course.
And cowboys obviously ride cows.
Really, try to convince him otherwise.

We took a family trip to Blanco Canyon just 45 minutes from here 2 weeks ago. It was a beautiful day to be outdoors. James loved running around outside. Kate enjoyed crawling around on grass. It was her first experience with grass. And this grass was really nice. It's hard to find nice grass here (it's usually scratchy and patchy). This grass was so nice it didn't even have fire ants (this is quite rare). We were all very pleased. :)

We stopped at an apple orchard in Idalou on our way back to Lubbock. It was great. It cost nothing to enter. While inside you can pick and eat as many apples as you like. There were many different varieties. James really enjoyed picking his own apples, eating what he could, and then tossing them away only to get another one. You can also pick apples to take home at a fair price. It was a fun stop. James was exhausted after our adventurous day. He actually fell asleep in the car while I was having a conversation with him. It was rather impressive.

I'm not sure why James looks so very concerned in this picture.

A couple weeks before that we took a short trip just out of town to visit Ransom Canyon. This is the place that gives me a little feel of the beauties of Utah while we're here in Lubbock. There's a little community nestled around a little lake in a canyon with lots and lots of trees. I love it!

The sun was not cooperating with us.
I suppose we could have turned the kids around, but then you couldn't see the beautiful community and landscape in the background...oh wait...the camera is pointed at the ground...whoops!

There's a little of the lake.
This is a rather sad attempt at a family picture.
I promise James and Kate are in there somewhere...

There's a bit of Ransom Canyon for you.
It's much better in person. It's my little haven away from Utah.