A night without baby!

Ok, so this post is LATE. Forgive me.

That's right Brian and I experienced our first night without Katie. My mom came up with my sister to watch Katie and Charley on Brian's birthday, June 12.

How did I feel leaving her for the night you ask? I was nervous that she would cry all night or that my mom would somehow waste all my frozen breast milk. None of that happened. I missed Katie TONS.

Brian and I had a blast. It was nice to be alone with Brian. We did talk about Katie A LOT, but not the entire time. We were in Boston for an event at Fenway. Plus a hotel stay! Perhaps being only 40 minutes from home helped me feel so at ease.

Here are some pictures!

Unexpected, yet expected

Let me start with a quote from my devotional today, 'We may not know what the future holds, but we can trust the One who holds the future.'

I thought my weekend would contain CCA's graduation and a graduation party. God had other plans. Brian's grandma passed on Wednesday morning at 3am. This weekend will be spent with family remembering this loving woman and celebrating her life.

Here are some of Brian's reflections...
She/we are very thankful that all of her surviving family had been able to visit with her in the past few weeks. She also got to meet both of her GREAT grandchildren! When we (Brian, Becca & Katie) saw her it was such a blessing and sweet moment to see the big smiles on both her's and Katie's faces! We will cherish those memories.

Though we are sad that Grandma is no longer with us, we have the hope of seeing her again one day in heaven. Since Grandma was really sick towards the end (these last two weeks) we're glad she's not in pain anymore.

Please remember Brian, his siblings, mom, aunt & cousins in your prayers during this time. Thanks.

Here's a picture of a little bitty Brian and his brother with their grandma.

Growing so fast!

I'm talking about Katie. She has rolled over! First roll was on May 7th. She has been perfecting it ever since. Now she's rolling every chance she gets! I watched her roll one morning on the video monitor, then found her like this another morning.

June 1, Katie started rice cereal. The first try was a very watery version of rice cereal.  Much more breast milk than cereal.  The texture was new, but she did eat some of it and didn't totally reject it.  After only a few tries she's getting used to it. She is getting the hang of eating and her little stomach and intestines seem to be handling it well.  I don't know if you can see the rice on her chin or not, but its there!

I cannot believe how fast things are changing. About 19 weeks ago Katie was born and couldn't even old her head up. Now she's got great head/neck control.  She grasps at things & her fine motor skills are getting better every day.

Everyone says cherish these times. I could not truly know what they meant until I went through it myself!  Just look at this precious girl.  How could I not cherish the time I spend with her?! (just don't ask me about that when she's been crying for 40 minutes straight)