These Are a Few of Her Favorite Things...

Katie had her 15 month appointment this week (a few weeks late) and here are her stats. She's finally reached 20 lbs! Yea!

Weight: 20 lbs. (10th percentile)

Length: 31 inches (50th percentile)

Head: 46 cm. (50th percentile)

I thought the best way to give you an update on Katie's life was to get several of her favorite activities on film. Enjoy!

Katie's favorite things these days include:

Pulling (usually clean) clothes out of the laundry basket and putting them over her head. Often it's underwear (again, usually clean!). In this case, it was Daddy's undershirt, and Daddy named her "Katie the Friendly Ghost."

Drinking juice from her sippy cup. However, the doctor told me this week we need to replace her juice intake with milk. So far she's not drinking much but she's not complaining much either, which is good.

Climbing on everything -- me, chairs, tables, and in this case, the Terps beanbag chair that her Grammy and JayPa had just sent her.

Watching "Sesame Street". It's the only show I let her watch regularly, and we watch it several mornings a week. I also bought a retro Sesame Street Singalong DVD several years ago simply for the clip of Madeline Kahn and Grover singing "Sing After Me", and Katie loves it as much as I do (probably more, since I've heard it 10 times in the last week and need a break).

Eating spaghetti. WOW. My super-skinny baby doesn't eat much, but put a plate of spaghetti in front of her, and she will literally eat till she pukes. I've never seen anything like it.

Playing piano with Mommy. Usually she's sitting on my lap and playing nicely with her hands, but I guess "Good Morning Baltimore" from Hairspray was too exciting for her to sit still. In this video you can watch her accompany my screeching:

I need to update the Talking Tally too, but will do that in a later post. She's saying so many funny things -- what a fun age, and what a delightful daughter we have! I love her dearly.

Our Day with "Hairspray"

Yesterday John and I left Katie with my mom and went up to New York City to see "Hairspray" on Broadway! Katie and her grandma had a wonderful 16 hours together, and John and I truly enjoyed a day together with "just the two of us."

Before the show, we met up with our friends Allison and Amar for a yummy sushi lunch at Ruby Foo's. Our hour and 45 minutes with them was way too short. Allison is one of my best friends from childhood, and we attended college together as well.

Then off to the show, and "Hairspray" was simply amazing. I've become rather obsessed with the movie version that came out last summer (Katie and I have seen it at least 5-6 times by now) and the stage version, while a bit different, was no less fun. The sets and choreography were so creative. And it starred several people we knew of -- George Wendt (Norm from "Cheers") played Tracy Turnblad's mom Edna, Darlene Love (Danny Glover's wife in the "Lethal Weapon" movies and a nominee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) played Motormouth Maybelle, Tevin Campbell (who had a few R&B hits in the early 90s) played Seaweed, and Ashley Spencer (a runner-up on last year's TV competition "Grease: You're the One That I Want!") played Tracy's nemesis Amber.

I haven't been this obsessed with a musical since seeing "Wicked" four times, and I'm sure I'll want to see "Hairspray" on stage again soon. But until then I'll have to keep singing the songs to Katie (changing the words, of course; my lyrics are:

Good Morning KatieLu!
Don't you know that I love you?
Don't you know you're a movie star?
I love you just the way you are!
Good morning KatieLu!
And someday when you take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
KatieLu and me!
and

Good Morning KatieLu!
Don't you know that I love you?
Don't you know you're a fantasy?
Don't you know you're God's gift to me?....
and so on).
I'll also treasure these photos!