Playing Catch Up

I have finally loaded some newer pictures, so here is some more day in the life of us Corams!

Sarah Katherine and I went out for a birthday lunch for my friend Crystal after Christmas. Here is the birthday girl with the little girl trying to get ahold of someone's food. :)

Here we are coming home from church. I totally dressed her in an outfit with a bonnet before David could notice or have time to change her. (He is anti-bonnet - boo!)

He loved on her, but only after the hat had come off.

My good friend Maria, who is off at PA school, came home for the holidays and got to meet the little one. I was so good to see her, and the next time we meet she'll be all graduated and living it up!

4 Months Already

We went to the doc yesterday for Sarah Katherine's 4 month check up. She was so super smiley and sweet, I hated to know what she had waiting for her! Her height and weight are looking good - 25.5" tall (90%) and 13lbs 1 oz (50%). I'm super excited because we can start her on some baby foods, cereal, and juice!!! Yeah - the beginning of phasing out formula. :) Well, after all the fun stuff came the mean shots. She did well with them though - no fever or meanness even. She's a trooper!

Another big milestone this week - this was our first full week of "daycare". Really it's a friend of ours keeping SK at her home with her kids - which is WONDERFUL! So far so good, and we are really looking forward to all the fun times we are going to hear about her having. Can you believe she's already signed up to take classes at the zoo?! I'll be sure and post pic's of her little adventures.

Happy New Year (and more Christmas!)

Well, I am proud to say we totally stayed up and rang in the New Year like champs! We did let Sarah Katherine crash out for this one, but we persevered. What a crazy difference a year makes. This time last year we had been trying to have a baby for over a year and a half. Little did we know that as we cut a rug on a dinner and dancing train in North Carolina that nine months later our prayers would be answered. I can't wait to see what turns and twists this year has in store for us - I'm buckled up and ready to go!!! :)


David's parents and sister came down to visit us on New Year's Day. We got to do our Christmas present swapping with them also while they were here. My mother in law got a fancy camera for Christmas, so we got several fun pictures to commemorate!

The ball moves on it's own, and man is she working hard to get to that crazy thing! :)

Below are the only two pictures I got of David and I with Sarah Katherine during Christmas. I gotta get better at my documenting the occasions.

A VERY Merry Christmas

Well, our first Christmas as parents was an amazing experience! I LOVE this side of things!!! Sarah Katherine had not really "played" with her toys before Christmas, but she chose Christmas Eve to start having some fun (perfect timing). We first went to Christmas Eve service at church where David sang and we got to go up front as a family and take the Lord's Supper. It was a beautiful service and really helped get our focus in the right place before any presents began. We came home and had dinner, then David read the Christmas story from our family Bible. Now that he is the "dad" of the family he got to read the story, which was really neat. Then present time began and we passed out the gifts we gave each other. Not too long after that it was Sarah Katherine's bed time - and time for some karaoke excitement (I got David a karaoke game for Wii - SUPER fun!). In the morning David had to go into work for a little while, so Sarah Katherine didn't get to break out her Santa presents until that afternoon.

The day after Christmas we left to go to south Alabama to visit my grandparents. My grandmother is really weak and wasn't able to come up to us, so we took Christmas to her. She enjoyed seeing the baby and visiting with us. I even cooked a few things (and they got eaten totally up - my cooking is improving!).

All in all, a wonderful first Christmas with the kiddo. I look forward to many great memories to come and am so unbelievably thankful to have such a great family to share it with. Our family is making traditions and becoming a little family unit of our own - this is a such an exciting time!

Here are a few pictures from the big day...

Aren't these Santa's darn cute?!

He he he, I got goodies!!!

Granddaddy - buy me a pony

Yeah Gram - sing me another song!

I totally made my grandfather hold her - he is kinda leary of the little babies. I promise she won't break! :)

Hello Santa!

After one failed attempt (Santa went on dinner break right when we showed up), Sarah Katherine got to meet Santa. She was super smilely in line, but after a 30 minute wait in line she wasn't so giddy. Don't get me wrong - no crying happened (thank goodness!), but she just wasn't overly impressed by the big guy. At least the first Christmas pic with Santa is chronicled for posterity, and maybe next year we'll get a smile. :)

Also, she has found her thumb and LOVES it. Here she is sucking away and staring at the Christmas tree - another new found love!

Merry Christmas!

We went to get our Christmas pictures made, and here they are! I think she looks mighty cute, but then I am pretty biased. :) I promise I am going to work on getting Christmas cards out (especially since the whole birth announcement thing did not happen - sorry!). By next year I'll have this mommy thing down cold and I'll be able to get all this stuff done sooner than the week before Christmas. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and takes time to think about the amazing gift that was Jesus. Merry Christmas!

3 months old - already a drama queen!

This was my full week back at work, and I have been able to work with no worries about my kiddo because her Nanna came to stay with her. They have had a great time playing and smiling and just having fun. This morning my mom in law took some pic's of our newly 3 month old gal running the spectrum of expressions.

From Crying...

To Smiling...

To Pouting...

To Laughing - all in minutes!!!