Feeding Herself

Kaetana has recently found new joy in feeding herself.

She's not too bad at it, either.

Here she is eating sweet potato fries I made her:

This girl LOVES food!
p.s. I'll be back with K's 7 month update later today or tomorrow. (hopefully)

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ditching the baby bathtub & a new camera!

So last week I decided I was fed up with that stupid plastic baby bathtub we've been using for Kaetana. It was so frustrating trying to bathe her in it because if we put her in the reclining side she was constantly trying to sit up and ending up rolling side to side! And then the "sit up" part was just a piece of crap, way too small and it just wasn't working for us. I was nervous about putting her in the bathtub and contemplated going and getting one of those inflatable tubs but figured it would be a waste of money. So my paranoid butt got in and scrubbed the tub out (feet germs freak me out) and we just filled it with like 2" of water and she LOVED IT.

She spent the entire bath happily splashing around and playing with her toys. So awesome and a lot easier to wash her this way! I'm really happy we made the switch to the big bathtub.

Oh, remember when I talked about that company picnic for John's work on the 4th? Well they raffled off a few cool things (couple tabletop grills, an ipod, and a camera) and guess what? We won the camera! It's a Casio EX-S200 which is really nice.

I was so excited because I gave my point and shoot to an old friend a couple years ago and missed the convenience of being able to pull it out of my purse any time I wanted. It's a lot more suited to every day use and I'm really looking forward to using it. It's 14.1 megapixels too, which is great! I couldn't be happier.

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Wordless{ish} Wednesday

 {This was taken at the lake on the 4th of July. We went to John's company picnic and it turned out to be kind of a dud, to be honest. It was probably pretty good earlier on in the afternoon but John didn't get off work until 5:30 and we had a couple errands to run before we headed out there so I think we just caught the end of it. Oh well, it was still nice to get out and we took a walk and enjoyed the fresh air. Kaetana was pretty busy looking around at everything because it was new to her and it made me definitely want to go back there on our own soon! I think she'd like getting a little closer to the water, too. Plus it's just a beautiful place to begin with. Anyways, I loved these two photos of her and John together. I think they turned out perfectly!}

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4th of July Cake!

I'm super excited to share this cake with you. I made it for John's company picnic yesterday, and it turned out AMAZING.

Do love LOVE it?!

I got the recipe via Danielle's link post and was super excited to try it out.

Hope everyone had some delicious and patriotic treats yesterday! See you later. :)

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Happy 4th of July!

From this morning, right after she woke up

Happy 4th, everybody! Today Kaetana and I are relaxing at home and enjoying the air conditioning while John is at work. Then we're off to a company picnic/fireworks viewing at the lake! I made a special cake for the occasion and will be posting all about the picnic and cake tomorrow. Have you taken a moment to thank the men and women that have sacrificed their lives to allow us to live in such a great country? I know it's not perfect, but really who is? ;) I hope everyone is having a great celebratory day eating lots of hot dogs and hamburgers, soaking up the sun and will be enjoying fireworks later this evening! I'm excited for Kaetana to see them (if she's awake) and to finally see them myself after a few years of missing them. See you tomorrow!

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