We were dropping off homemade soup to friends so stopped at the playground in their complex. She was a happy girl!
Year: 2015
Typical night with Katie
PJs, pirate hat, tutu, and superhero cape.
Game 2: Raptors vs. Timber Rattlers
The weather just isn’t cooperating with us this season. Owen’s had two or three practices canceled due to rain/wet fields/cold thus far, and tonight’s game was rained out as well. 🙁 They’re hoping to make it up, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
I feel bad for Owen—he should have had like five practices and two games by this point, and he’s had one practice and one game.
More puddle fun!
No puddles on the uphill road but he gave a jump anyway.
Snails at feeding time
Tom wasn’t specifically feeding the snails but they were going crazy with the food he was feeding the corals. They’re fun to watch!
Cuddly girls
And Katie being like Owen with the crazy face.
Gifts from a little boy.
He usually brings me some new creation every morning. 🙂
I never get tired of this.
Kidisms 8
Tom: Katie, you look like a buttercup.
Katie: No, I’m adorable.
Owen: Mom, the green sign is wrong. It needs an and. Play fair, take turns, and share.
Me: Owen, look what we found!
Owen: A ninja turtle!
Katie: No, I’m a Katie bug! A ninja turtle Katie bug!
Me: I love it when the house is all picked up.
Owen: Me, too! I wish it could stay like this every day.
Me: Okay, it’s time to pick up toys.
Owen: WHY?!?!
We were shopping at Costco and Katie saw Oreos.
Katie: OREOS!
Me: Do we need those?
Katie: No, Papa does!
We were at the pet store looking at fish.
Owen: These are cool.
Me: We can’t get those. They’re not saltwater.
Owen: No, they’re clean water!
Me: I love it when the house is all picked up.
Owen: Me, too! I wish it could stay like this every day.
Me: Okay, it’s time to pick up toys.
Owen: WHY?!?!
Katie: Where’s daddy?
Me: He went to get a haircut.
Katie: Why? He doesn’t have hair.
Saturday Night Spaghetti #2
Our second dinner went just as well as the first—even with a last-minute guest switch up! One family couldn’t come because of a sick kid, so we invited Owen’s coach and his family and they were excited to come! (They’ve recently moved here as well and understand how hard it is to make friends!)
Katie had a friend she knew and Owen made a new friend (only four years old but they got along great).
Here, Tom was rescuing Lambie from the kids’ table so she didn’t get dunked in spaghetti sauce. 🙂
Game 1: Raptors vs. Storm
I apologize ahead of time for the volume of photos…but this was his first real game so I wanted to show it all. I promise there won’t be nearly as many from upcoming games. 🙂
Practicing with daddy beforehand.
Typical Owen. He had grass-stained knees before the game even started!
Tongue out!
Not a kid from Owen’s team, but so cute I had to take a picture. 🙂
He had SO much fun and was SO excited about everything—it was awesome to see. And Tom had a great time, too, as he’s envisioned this for SO many years. 🙂
Crazy Boy
T-Ball Opening Ceremonies
Tom helped Owen get dressed for the opening ceremonies! I’m not sure who was more excited.
Owen was hamming it up in the mirror. Please excuse the disaster of a room. (We’ve been getting the downstairs ready for a dinner party so lots of stuff is being dumped in our room!)
Doing a little fielding practice with his coach.
We have to bring a ball for Katie to play with—she loves to play catch and she’s actually pretty good!
Running the bases just for the fun of it.
He had his tongue out in lots of the pictures!
The T-ball teams were the last to walk in.
All the teams lined up (all teams from all age groups):
And then it was back home to clean for our dinner party…and to get ready to go back to the fields for Owen’s game at 1:30!
Reading interrupted
Winter Humor
Katie is 2 years 9 months old today!
And two outtakes:
Puddle Jumper!
I promised Katie she could jump in the puddles when we came out of the store. She was having sooooo much fun I just let her keep jumping and jumping and jumping. My quick run to the dollar store morphed into over an hour once the jumping was done (she was jumping for almost half an hour!)!
I couldn’t decide on the best in-flight pics—it’s amazing how high she actually jumps (which you can’t tell just watching in real time)—so I included all of them. 🙂
If you just want the slow motion jumps in one video:
And if you want them as individual gifs you can copy and paste elsewhere:
Light saber battle!
Katie is a force to be reckoned with.
Oh yeah—we have our fence!
So while we were in Florida, I got a call from our landlord. He was going to be dropping off the fence materials and told us it would be started ASAP! Of course he didn’t know we were on vacation but that was fine—we’d enjoy not being there while they were working on it. Of course, we honestly didn’t expect it to be done by the time we got home—everything else has taken so long we just predicted it would take another month to actually get it done.
So imagine our surprise when we came home…and our landlord was actually in the back yard working on the fence! It was all up except for the gate and some finishing touches! He told us he was there working on it because the guys he hired did most of it then left for another job! (WHAT?!)
Long story short, it took another week or so for him to come back and finish it up, and it’s not bad. The good part? It’s a fence that will keep Maggie and the kids contained. The bad? It’s not the best quality (it’s all put together with nails instead of screws) and is definitely not a fence for the ages.
This is a panoramic so it looks a little skewed but you get the gist.
Unfortunately, Owen is not a fan. He told me he doesn’t like it because he can’t run all over. So, that’s more mommy guilt to add to my pile. 🙁
The only other sucky thing is that they didn’t clean up the yard—they left pieces of wood and piles of dirt and stones all over. What kind of workers leave that kind of mess behind? The wood was easy enough to pick up, but the rest was horrible.
But we have a fence!
Twirling and drama with Katie
This is a typical 15-minute time period of any given day.
Owen’s homework helper
A successful Lego mini build!
Tom was able to come home from work in time to go with us for the monthly Lego build.
Once again, it was a complete cluster…though completely different than the last time. This time, we were prepared with our blue Lego Passport, but as we got in line, the lady in front of me told me we needed to have a white card. What?! I briefly explained our last attempt and them telling us we needed the passport but the line to get the passport was 100 people long. She said she had no idea about the passport but this time we needed to wait in a different line to pick up the card which would then allow you to get the Lego set. What?! Ugh. Thankfully Tom was with us so he and Katie went and waited in the ticket/card line and Owen and I waited in the actual Lego line.
Two different visits, two completely different routines. I don’t know why they seem to have no clue what’s going on. At least the lines for both weren’t long at all.
So we got the Lego pack and decided he wanted to build it right then. They have tables set up with numbers on them (which I had no idea why) but I asked if we could build it and we were told that we didn’t have an appointment. What?! Yeah, turns out when you pick up the card from the other line you had to tell them whether you were just picking up the Lego or if you wanted to build it at the store. Tom thought we were leaving (as did I) plus the next open time slot was an hour away. I told the worker that my husband picked up the card so I had no idea that there was an appointment time and I must have shown my exasperation as he took pity on me and said there were some openings because they were ahead of schedule so we could go ahead and build.
It took Owen all of three minutes to build the flying saucer. I took my first picture at 5:15, the completion picture at 5:18, and the post-build picture after we left to meet daddy and Katie at 5:20. 🙂
Meanwhile, Katie had been playing down the hall at the play area. 🙂
Cute little napper
My little newspaper reader
My zombie guard.
And Katie pouting.
Sidewalk chalk paint, Day 2
They weren’t nearly as excited as they were the first day, and I’m not sure why. (They were eager enough to WANT to do it, but once we were outside and painted for 10 minutes, they were about done.) And of course, since they stayed perfectly clean the first day, I didn’t make them change into different clothes…and it’s the day Katie got paint all over her.
So I pretty much did all the painting just so it wouldn’t be wasted.
Owen’s big Easter present…complete.
He loved Lord Business’ Evil Lair—and he would have had it done in one day, but he spent a lot of time playing video games with daddy instead.
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She loves being carried by her daddy.
Pink Princess Chair
We were at a local thrift store when we turned around and found this. 🙂 (No, we didn’t buy it.)
Happy Easter!
We told Owen he had to wait for us to come get him in the morning, otherwise he likely would have found all the eggs before Katie even got out of bed! (We also said it in case we didn’t get around to hiding the eggs before bed and Tom had to do it in the morning.)
Every time Katie opened an M&M, it went straight into her mouth. 🙂
A “fused” photo so I had one without Owen’s tongue sticking out. 🙂
Some fancy twirling in her new tutu. And we have NO idea where Owen got the “I’m going to text my friends” bit. NO IDEA.
Katie has started taking after Owen with the crazy faces when I’m trying to take a picture.
The ears didn’t fit Owen at all so it was only a matter of time before this happened!
Since it’s Easter, I thought I’d pull out a pretty hand-me-down dress from the Beson girls—and of course Katie LOVES it! She kept saying “It’s so BEAUTIFUL! Look at my beautiful dress!” 🙂
And the best two:
And since she was dressed up, and we were actually all getting dressed to go out on errands, we took a family picture!
