Ode to the bathtub

We have put up Kate's bassinet, her swing, and her bouncer. She barely plays in her exersaucer anymore and we only use the jumperoo when we are eating so she can sit in it and eat mum mums. We have even loaned out the Bumbo because she didn't use it. I was clinging to one piece of baby stuff but alas, it is time to let it goThat's right- the baby bathtub. This week, Kate has started taking big girl baths. And it makes me sad. I want my little baby back that would lay in the sling and just look up at me and smile. But now, she plays with toys and kicks around. And she is obsessed with the monkey on this thing so we took it off and let her keep it in the big tub. But now we need a bath toy holder. Any suggestions?

Pool Baby

We decided to inflate Kate's pool and let her try it out!! She LOVES it!! She crawled around and chased her toys. Here are some photos

The Attack of the Sweet Potatoes

I love my girl!!!

Let the process begin

Today we started the process of finding a new church. This process makes me very uncomfortable just because I have a hard time walking into a room full of people I don't know. Today we visited one of the two main Baptist churchs in town. From what we have heard, it is the more contemporary of the two. It was ok. I was not impressed with the nursery- when we brought Kate in, no one asked us anything about her or what we had brought for her. I actually almost cried when we left her. The service was good. They are calling a new pastor so a lot of the service was about presenting info about him and his family. The sermon was good and the worship was pretty contemporary. Only one person in the church introduced themself to us. That was also disappointing. But we have decided to give it one more chance after the new pastor is in place. We will not be in town for the next 3 Sundays anyway so we won't get to do any visiting for a while.

Packing

Packing, packing, packing- all my life has consisted of the last 12 hours is packing. We have so much crap around here. Matt literally packed my car full of stuff to take to Goodwill in the morning. It sort of makes me sad. How much money have we wasted on all of that? How much space have we wasted? Since Kate has been here, I have truly learned that stuff doesn't mean much. She is way more happy sitting in the grass or holding onto our fingers and walking than playing with her toys. And that is exactly the way I want it to be.

Clearing out the list

I have Facebook and I check it a lot. To be honest, it is just an easy way to keep up with people. My list of "friends" was about 300 people. Alot of people that I graduated high school with or went to college with. But I was looking at it yesterday and realized that I had a lot of those people on my friends list because I am nosey, not because I really care about what is going on in their life. I just want to know everyone's business. That bothers me because that should not be my motivation. So I went through my list and cut it in half. I can truly say that everyone on it now is someone I care about and what to know what is going on in their life.

Tomorrow Starts it ALL......

Tomorrow is May 1st. May is going to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, month for us this year. Matt is graduating med school, I celebrate my first Mother's Day with Kate, we close on our first home, move into our new home, we celebrate our 4 year wedding anniversary and Matt turns 26. That is one full month if you ask me! I have learned that I don't think I deal with stress as well as I thought I did. So my goal is to hold my head up, take some deep breaths, make sure Matt and Kate feel loved at all times and pray a lot!!!

Kate pulled herself up from sitting to standing a couple of days ago. Where did my little baby go?