First Vacation

Kate went on her first vacation to Gatlinburg, Tennessee with all her cousins this holiday weekend. We packed everything up on Thursday and started on our way. This was the longest trip Kate had been on and she became aggravated with her car seat after about five hours, just in time for us to get to the main road going into Gatlinburg. After our GPS, Lori, took us up the mountain on some questionable back roads we were finally at the cabin.
We had a really good time with the whole family. Kate and Jonathan had some bonding time as well.Kate seemed very interested in him. I don't think she has ever seen another baby around her age. Although, I think she enjoyed watching the girls run around and sing to her more.

One of the days we all went and played a game of mini golf. Of course Kate slept through the whole thing. We just kept Kate in her stroller and we were both able to play.

As you can see everyone had a good time.

The next day we went hiking and drove through the national park. We were very lucky and found a trail that was handicap accessible that we could take the stroller on. We also drove up to the top of one of the mountains. It was very pretty and you could see the next storm system coming in. One of the trails at the top of the mountain was closed because of aggressive bear activity. I told Jeff that if we didn't have Kate we would get some Twinkies and go looking for bears, the Twinkies just in case we saw a bear we could throw them and start running. Unfortunately, we never saw a bear. We have been to Gatlinburg a few times now and Ive never seen a bear there except for the 22 LIVE bears and they were too fat and lazy they didn't even get up. I'm starting to think there really isn't any wild bears in Gatlinburg.

Kate has been very active this past week. She is talking all the time. She learned a new "word", Ooooo, and likes to say it all the time.

"Ooooo"

She is also smiling and laughing a lot more. Her favorite thing is kisses from her daddy. Kate has been doing a lot of laying on the floor and can almost roll over from her back to her belly. She is so funny about it. She screams like she is saying "charge" and rolls on her side but always gets stuck on her arm. When she is on her tummy she doesn't try to roll over but she does scoot around.