Standing!

Katie shows off her newest trick -- standing! She can pull herself up with the help of a rail or table. She always looks so proud of herself whenever she does it. She hasn't started walking yet but it looks like that'll be happening soon.

She went to the doctor today and got a flu shot and cried. She weighs just under 20 pounds and has dropped to the 75th percentile in weight (she was in the 90th percentile). She's in the 80th percentile for height.

In other news, her dad helped write Celebritology today.

Thanksgiving in Naugy

We had a nice Thanksgiving at Nancy's mom's house in Naugatuck, CT. Katie spent it with her parents, her godparents, her grandmother, and her three favorite dogs. We enjoyed yummy food prepared by John and Katie experienced her first black Friday (her dad took her to two stores looking for a new camera). We watched Naugatuck High lose to their rival, Ansonia, 44-0 and then watched UConn lose to West Virginia 66-21 and then watched Georgia Tech lose to the dreaded Bulldogs, 31-17. Oy. At least the UConn women's basketball team won. Despite all the losing, we had fun in Naugy. Click here for all the photos.


Katie watches Naugatuck High lose to their rival Ansonia (and defending state champs), 44-0. On the bright side, a guy on the other team broke the career rushing record in Connecticut.


Daddy's little girl learns to stick her tongue out at people while Nancy wonders what went wrong.


Katie does her situps before bedtime.


Aunt Sue helps feed Katie.


Introducing the first female Cy Young award winner in baseball history.


Frank gets Katie to fall asleep and thereby gets assigned to bedtime duty for the rest of the year.

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C&O Canal

It was a beautiful fall day today and we went for a long walk along the C&O Canal in D.C. Rusty had a great time and got to see some ducks (including some that were sleeping), a great blue heron, and some other dogs. He also got to smell all sorts of new scents including probably some deer.

Katie was a little more subdued but seemed to enjoy it. She kept trying to kick off her blanket and take off her socks despite her parents' instructions not to.

We ended up walking for about 4 miles. We're fully expecting to be sore tomorrow. It was nice to return to the spot where we spent so much of our time going for long runs in the middle of summers long past. It has been at least 2 years since we last went running there together. It almost makes us wish we were training for another marathon. Almost.

During the walk, an airplane flew overhead that had just taken off from National Airport. Suddenly we heard a loud boom and rumbling sound from the plane. It seemed to be ok but we kept looking up to make sure an engine or something wasn't about to land on us. Luckily, nothing did.

This Week in Photos

Katie calls her friends to go to the baby disco.


Reads the Washington Post Magazine (actually just the Dilbert cartoon) in bed with her Dad.


Ready to attend her friend Sophie's baptism.


Meeting Audrey for the first time.


Baby wrestling, the next big sport.


Photo by Kathy Zecca (Audrey's mom)



Audrey and Katie, B.F.F.


Katie parties with the girls.

Katie Crawls!

Katie crawled! Her first time was Thursday at baby yoga. She did it again today and we captured it on video. Our living room just got a lot smaller.