Kate is 9 months old!

Here is what happens when your fourth baby turns nine months old and you are trying not to let the month-by-month-birthday-cake-tradition die.  You find that after a busy day of work(mom and dad), school(for the girls), Auntie Nicki's (Thomas and Kate), and dance class (the girls again) that you are frantically stopping at Copp's on the way home to buy some birthday fun.  One blueberry pie and long drive home later, you find that your nine month old is fast asleep.  You ignore the baffled father that worked so hard to get her to sleep and you wake the baby up.  You sing to the half awake baby and then, since she is your fourth baby and most if not all rules have gone out the window, you feed the once sleeping baby pie and ice cream.  You then take lots of pictures to document the event so someday everyone's baby book with be even (the fact that the baby books pretty much tell only of the day of their births so far is another story all together).  Of course Kate loves it, and because baby #4 has learned to go with the flow, she goes right back to sleep.   Whew!  Only a few more months to go....