Natalie is such a sweet little sister. She is such a copycat with "Dyle" as she says. Ask her to say Natalie and it comes out "Nonie". So we have begun to sometimes call her Nonie- it's too sweet.

When I look at her I can sometimes see myself- from pictures of me when I was little.

She is a determined little girl. Definately know what she wants. Although she has lots of words that you can understand - and she is learning more everyday, we are still working on her telling us things instead of just crying or whining for something. Another cute word is her word for Motorcycle- or bicycle- it's "tato". No idea where that came from, but it's her word. And I remember Kyle being like that- his word for popcicle was "gop-ik-ie".

I am anticipating her taking Kyle's first days of school hard. Kyle had a pre-K type thing at his school in May/June. It was 2 days a week for 1 hour. Well, the first day she was going around the house with Chris and saying "Dyle... Dyle... Dyle?..." all sad like. She truely loves her brother and loves to do what he's doing. They are great together.

Natalie Teresa was born October 15, 2000. She was born at 7:26am and was 5lbs. 4oz, 18 1/2" long. She was 1 month early. I've written out her birth story if you want to read it.