1 year difference

2009

to 2010My baby boy is getting so big!

Time Line

So - the whole plan was to do the same thing with Gracie that we did with Mr B about moving from the bassinet to the crib. The thing is, we had to get Mr B out of the crib and into his big boy room at least a month before I wanted to switch Gracie - I didn't want him thinking that she was stealing his bed away, and I wanted to make sure he was comfortable in there before she took over his baby room :) BUT - my schedule got all messed up. We moved Bradley from our room to the baby room when he was 7 months old. This is Gracie about 7 months and quickly growing out of her bassinet as you can see!Problem is, at this time Mr B was still in his crib. We had been putting together his big boy room slowly but surely and it was just about all ready for him, but then circumstances out of our control happened and we figured out we had to move. I don't really want to get into it too much, I'm upset about how much and how many people already know because I think it's a pretty personal thing, but it's kind of hard to explain to people that we're moving when everyone knew we weren't planning on it and didn't want to. In a nutshell - we dealt with the wrong bank when getting a mortgage, got stuck in a terrible loan that no one in their right mind would be able to keep up with, and bank wouldn't work with us. SO - anyway - this threw me all off. In August I knew that we would have to move soon and didn't want to get the kids all moved and settled in just to move them again to a whole new room in a whole new house. So we kind of had to be in limbo for a while as we got things figured out. So Gracie had to move to the pack in play in our room since she was odviously too big for the bassinet. And the newly decorated, painted, and all ready to go big boy room for Bradley sat there empty. Urgh... I'm still depressed as I write this and frustration is coming back. Anyways - on to more happy things :)

Starting Solids

So Gracie started solids same time that Bradley did - 6 months old to the day. She took to it MUCH better than Bradley did. She liked it right away, you could tell she was definitely playing around with it in her mouth, trying to figure out what was going on in there, but she went for it. It took Mr B about a month before he would finally really take to it. The only problem with Gracie was (this might be too much info, but oh well :) ) it blocked her up like crazy, poor little thing. So we had to do away with the rice for a little while and just do oatmeal, and I still barely ever do rice. We've come to notice this happened a lot whenever we'd introduce new foods to her. Starting on finger foods and fruits and veggies were the same way. I guess she has kind of a touchy stomach - just like her mama :)

Summer fun

Rootin' for the Rockies!

Enjoying good 'ol Dairy QueenDrew Baloo's birthday party in the mountains - to this day when Mr B sees the mountain's he talks about "go see Katie and Drew up in the mountains last night" (everything in the past is 'last night') :)

The most wonderful time of the year...

At least it is in the Kerr house! July 4th is what we look forward to all year long. Kevin starts counting down the days starting on July 5th. Bradley seems to have fallen in his footsteps. Right now it is March and he's been asking and asking when he can go see the fireworks. We try to see as many shows as possible. Last year we wanted to make the Rockies show but it was just too expensive and we tried too late so we couldn't find anything available in our budget. We did get to go up to Red Feather to spend time with my Dad and Jan, had a great day up there, but we were just too wiped out to go back for the show that night - so unfortunately we missed that one as well. But becuase of the rainy weather (which I'm still hearing Kevin fuss about) Loveland's were rained out so we got to see those the next day, so we still got 2 shows in. The rain did kind of put a damper on things. This happened in '09 too, but it was rainy rainy rainy all the way up until we were getting ready to walk to the park, then the skies cleared and we had a beautiful rainbow and a beautiful walk and night at the park. Last year we were not so lucky - it would NOT STOP RAINING!!! It was a little ridiculous and I thought ours would be cancelled (which I NEVER remembering happening in all my 29 years) We ended up driving there at the last minute trying to find a place to park and watch from the truck. We got close enough and realized that maybe we could try to walk a little further to get a better view. So all bundled up in ponchos and umbrellas, we walked and made it to the lake just in time. It was still rainy and a little cold and we were actually closer than I was comfortable with with Gracie and her little baby ears, but she slept through the whole thing and - like always - it was a great show! Loveland's was nice the next night too, but I'm sure partial to City Park :) Now - only about 3 more months to go :)

Daddy

Making a Father's Day gift - a Bradley Kerr original (this is how some of the recovered pictures turned out - with part of the bottom cut off, some are worse than others)Then we all painted a wooden box and added our hand and foot prints. I was really worried about Gracie keeping her hand open long enough for the print, but I was very happy how it turned out!Daddy and Bradley workin' in the yard with Bradley's new tools.

Beginning of June

Well I can post what pictures I have left. At the beginning of June Kevin was doing some work for a guy that wanted him to take some pictures in low resolution format, Kevin was trying to figure out how to do that on our camera and he said "Here, I'll try" and he FORMATTED my camera with my completely full 2GB sim card in there - didn't even realize what he did and said "Sorry, I don't know how". Then the next day I wanted to work with some pictures, I took the camera upstairs to download the card and there was nothing on it. "Oh, I must have already downloaded those pictures" I think as I start searching my computer, and when I can't find any of the pictures I start to realize what happened because I knew they were messing with the camera the previous day. So I yelled down to Kevin asking him if he 'formatted' the camera - he said no way, he knows not to do that (The New Years Eve after Bradley was born Tammy was playing around with her camera while we were playing games and she accidently formatted her camera - erasing ALL of her pictures from the past 6 months, including vacation photos, a lot of newborn baby Bradley photos, and everything else - because of this VERY sad event, we all know now to NEVER format a camera!) Anyway - then we realized what happened and I broke down! It was about 2 months of photos and videos that I would never get back, and I kept thinking about each and every one that I remembered and how it was gone. I was furious, I started crying and - truthfully - said the "f" word for the third time in my whole life. I frantically called around and found a photoshop that said they could try to get them back but they weren't very hopeful. 2 days later they called and said they had recovered about half of the pictures, no videos. So - here are some of those photos that I got back, who knows what else I lost - but I know it could have been worse so I'm happy with what I have. And I will be very careful from now on who I trust my camera to!! :)