Happy New Year!

Its been a little while since my last blog and so much has been going on. I will start with this first picture. This happened in the beginning of December at daycare. We got a call on a Friday afternoon that Kate had fallen out of a chair and as you can see landed on her head. She was okay, but when I saw her when I picked her up, I would have rushed her to the ER wondering if she had brain damage because she looked so awful...but I had to contain my emotions and believe the doctor when he said she was probably fine. Kids have hard heads we were told...if they only knew how very true this is when it comes to dear Kate's personality! We all survived our first major goose egg!

We had fun getting ready for Christmas this year. Kate has loved the tree and every day when we came home from work, she would sit on the floor and point at it and say 'uh-oh' until I turned on the lights. She also liked pulling off the ornaments, so our tree's ornaments start about 2 feet from the bottom on the tree :). There is a picture here of Kate showing off her moves on her Pooh toy..this girls loves to dance!

We returned yesterday from our trip home to Texas for Christmas. We were very lucky to get out of Richmond though. On the day we flew out, we had gotten almost a foot of snow and as you can see by the departures at Richmond International Airport, we were the ONLY flight that left. A Christmas miracle :). We had a great trip home staying in Brenham with Mimi a few days and then staying with Linny & Grandpa for a few days. Papa came to stay for Christmas and Kate got to see her Uncle Stephen a lot and her Aunt Allison & Uncle Jay too. It was a very busy visit filled with lots of activities and new people for Kate. We are all tired and glad to be home, but were sad to leave as well. A few more days of rest before school starts again and back to the grind we go...Happy New Year to all and many blessings!!!

Poor Poor Kate (2 days later, and does no justice as to how far it protruded from her head!)

Dancing Queen

Snuggling

Kate loves Tucker's bed

WOW!

Richmond, the day we left

Paige & Kate on Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas

Santa's present..BLOCKS!!

KittyCat..a new fav!

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians...

Our little one spent all of Thanksgiving dressed as an Indian. She literally wore her hat till it fell apart and Tucker ripped off the feather. It was so funny to witness her crawling around in leggings, no shirt and her Indian headband that they made at daycare. When she wasn't wearing this hat, she was wearing her other hat again with no shirt and leggings. I promise we dress her! I think since she likes her hats so much, she needs some antlers for Christmas ;). Thanksgiving was great and my family came to spend it with us. We had a great time together and they enjoyed every minute spent with Kate. She is quite a character. No walking for us, but we crawl like a champ and continue to love to walk around everything. We hope everyone's Thanksgiving was blessed!

GO FROGS and Pebbles!!!

First of all, I have to give a shout out to our Frogs!! College Game-day on Saturday, are you kidding?!! It was awesome to see TCU's campus on tv and all the awesome fans that came out to represent us. We wish we could have been there, but we were all purpled out to support them in spirit!!

Our little Kate let me put something in her hair and she turned into Pebbles before my very eyes! She looked sooo cute and didn't even realize that I had pulled her hair up, at least for a little while. She is really something else! These pictures show it!

Last weekend we went to Dallas for my very good friend, Jay Miller's wedding. He married a wonderful girl, Emily, and we were so happy to be there. All the grandparents got to see Kate too and I know they loved every minute. We also loved our time alone and as we drove away and left her in Fort Worth, I looked at Mike and said, "Aren't grandparents wonderful?!"...wish we could do that more often, I am envious of everyone who lives close to their families. It was a great weekend though!

Love this face!
At the wedding with Julie & Danny
A horned frog groom's cake..how cool is this?! Can you tell Jay and Emily are TCU alums? :)

The happy couple

happy parents out by themselves

A happy Kate with Grandpa at Joe T.'s for her first visit there. I love this picture!

Mike's 1st visit to Cowboys' stadium, I think they got there at daybreak for a 1:00 game...SUPER intense Cowboys' fans are these Cothran boys!

Raining in Richmond

Our little one is growing up! She is laughing behind me right now at Tucker while she is trying to fling a toy in his face while he is laying on the couch. He never fails to entertain her. She even laughs at him while he's running away from her. Its so cute! It has been a rainy weekend here and Mike is enjoying a weekend in TX going to a Cowboys game with his dad and brother. I promised him he could go because he's been talking about going since he heard the new stadium was being built. I'm keeping tallies on him though and planning my trip away... :) Halloween was celebrated a little with a cute outfit and friends who visited us. We didn't dress up, but did enjoy our day together. Maybe if daddy had been here, we would have trick-or-treated. But mom was content not going! There will be plenty of years for that! :)

Kate is growing up before our very eyes. She will be 14 months on the 17th. She isn't walking yet, but likes to walk around with us and her new favorite and walking and pushing the chairs around the house..who needs push toys when you can use furniture?! She is a fire cracker in more ways than one! She got moved to the toddler room at daycare and is now playing with the older kids and sleeping on a cot! She was bored in the infant room and was making things a little difficult for the women in there...we thought we might have a daycare-dropout on our hands! Thankfully, things worked out and she is a different child on the other side. Here are some new pics of our crazy girl!

Trick-or-Treat! No, that's not chocolate on my face, but black beans, wish it was chocolate though...
My new push toy

Happy Halloween!

Two words: GO FROGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

She loves to wave at passing cars on the street

Ooops..one of my very favorite things, pulling all the food out of the cabinet!

I have gotten in 4 more teeth in 3 weeks..making Mommy and Daddy's nights WONDERFUL!

Playing with mommy's bushel of apples that her students gave her..I think I'm actually offering this one to Tucker, who then proceeded to take it after this picture

Do not be deceived by all the bows in my hair in these pictures...this is how my hair normally looks and my mommy hates it. I hate those bows though!

Pumpkins!

We might think about renaming our blog to the Cothran Crazies because that is what we have been lately...crazy! Poor Kate has been grumpy for 2 weeks. She had a double ear infection a week ago and we were called from daycare because Kate was screaming and banging her hands on her head. She then proceeded to get a cold and now is cutting at least 4 teeth at one time. She seems happy and then will start screaming for no reason. She also has started leaning forward and hitting her forehead against the ground when she is mad about something or doesn't want to do something. We have created a very stubborn, strong-willed child :). She was happy one afternoon this week and we relished in those hours we spent with her where she felt good and was laughing. Last weekend PawPaw came to visit and they had a great time together. We went to the pumpkin patch. Kate wasn't quite sure what to think of most of it...