Category Archives: Katie
Katie loves chalk!
This is one area Katie definitely differs from her brother—she loves drawing at a much younger age! She saw the chalk sitting out and wanted to use it…so we went out to the driveway and she Had. A. Ball.
The tongue is out!
“Here, mama!”
She was scooting all over, legs and feet going a mile a minute…
And then she’d lay her face right down on the driveway…
She was covered.
Then she stuck her hand in the exhaust pipe and was covered in black. 🙂
She did this by herself! No prompting from me!
I wish I was this cute in the morning.
Tonight they got a wine bath.
It was that kind of night. :/
If Owen puts a washcloth on his head…
Another nice day, another stop at the playground
Katie walked over to the swings and said “Mama swing peas” so I put her in. Then she’d say “Mama swing!” So I would swing next to her and she’d say “Thank you mama!” Every. Single. Time. So I’d get off my swing, go over and push her high, then she’d say “Mama swing!” And if I didn’t immediately go to my swing, she’d say “Mama swing! Mama swing!” So I’d get on the swing and she’d say “Thank you mama.” How can you resist such cuteness? And she had such great fun swinging in tandem with me…
Just chilling:
Treats for Katie = Treats for Maggie
What a nice kid..sharing with Maggie. 🙂
A walk in the woods
Well, down the street to the golf course…
…where we went off the golf cart track. 🙂
Our little zipper helper
She always tries to help zip our zippers. She can’t actually do it, but she knows the two pieces go together.
Our swinging girl
She loves loves LOVES to swing. Today she started in the baby swing but then asked to go on the other one!
Then she let go to try to touch the wood beam—and wobbled. She put her hand back to hang on in a hurry!
Look! A little lizard!
Katie almost stepped on him as she walked by. This is what happened when I pointed him out:
I was FLABBERGASTED that Owen attempted to touch it—he doesn’t like bugs or normal little boy things.
But Katie loves that stuff and she was ENTHRALLED…getting as close as she could!
Mommy and Katie bagel bonding time
Bagel Tuesday at Panera! We don’t always go inside, but when we do…
After dinner swinging
Owen had special daddy time after dinner (he got to play Lego Star Wars) so Katie and I went out to swing!
And then she was pretending to sleep!
And then she wanted to try the big kid swing!
And she was almost swinging herself! You can see her slightly moving her legs the right way!
And getting more comfortable on the bar!
Stinky!!
Like brother, like sister…just a bit apart in age. Owen’s was at 25m, Katie’s was at 20m.
Owen:
Katie:
After school outside fun times
I lowered the bar so Katie could reach it to swing.
Then it was off to dig in the new grass. I redirected her to the stone pile. 🙂
Then I looked away for a minute and she was over just laying in the grass, looking at grass or bugs or dirt or something.
Then Owen was telling me stories.
And being cute!
And this video has Owen telling a story, interrupted with me trying to get a good picture (I can take pics while I’m recording) so you can see a little of what it takes to get a good picture of both kids (in reality I think I took about 10).
This was the lucky picture:
More swinging!
Seat stealer!
Super cute boy.
Another nap interrupted
Sigh. If only she would start her nap when I first put her down instead of babbling for 15-30 minutes.
The attitude
Fishes!
ABCDLMNOP
Intrigued by a caged Charlie
Charlie had to go to the vet at 8:30 so I grabbed her at 7am (as she was still groggy from sleeping!) and crated her. When Owen saw her he was very concerned and said he was really going to miss Charlie while he was at school (he never says this).
Then as soon as Katie saw what was going on, it was “Hi Charlie! Hi Charlie! Hi Charlie! Hi Charlie!” complete with waves.
She didn’t want to get up
Me: C’mon, Katie. Time to get dressed.
Katie: Shreeping.
And then laid down and pulled the blanket up!
Katie loves coloring
One area in which she’s NOT like her brother at this age!
She colored for awhile at the table, then it was on to the water art.
And a great photobomb by Charlie!
Awww. Maggie pillow.
You’ll NEVER believe what I found in the driveway!
Owen barely took a cursory glance but Katie was ALL about it. We left it in the bug bin through dinner then Tom let it go.
I’m loving her cute new summer outfits!
I guess she had this outfit on in pics from earlier today, but this is a good shot of it anyway. 🙂
This was a piece of her old mobile that she dragged out of the garage sale bin—she was entranced by all the little hanging figures and kept kissing them and hugging them. 🙂
The fam watching Star Wars
Including Yoda, too, you notice. 🙂
My efforts since 9am.
I’m exhausted but still need to get at least one more room done. Granted it would be more awe-inspiring had I taken Before shots…but egads were they embarrassing!
We took the glider and ottoman out to sell since we never use it, cleaned out all the stuff that was tossed in before the flooring install (books and toys), took out all outgrown clothes, actually vacuumed, and wiped everything down!
We also took the screen door down so Charlie was very interested.
And Katie was as well—she kept creeping upstairs to see what I was doing…
She loves toys that she can reach now!
Owen’s room wasn’t quite as messy, but his room was full of construction dust. 🙁 I also sorted some clothes and toys for the garage sale and prettied up the books.
The letter T
The kids were watching Sesame Street and Tom came downstairs for something and I heard him say “Wow there’s kids all over the floor!” Turns out, Owen was trying to get Katie to make the letter of the day. 🙂
I love the love.
Two kids with B capes
Owen came up and asked me to tie his B around his neck. Within seconds, Katie brought me her baby B and wanted me to do the same thing. 🙂
Warmer walk today
It was 50° and sunny this morning so we tried another walk.
She loves saying hi!
Then it was off to the golf course!
And she had fun chasing…a rock. 🙂
And then the sun went away and it got quite chilly so we headed home.
A shadow of a girl
