Now that she can get up there by herself, she’s up there all the time. And she LOVES it.
Category Archives: Katie
Fun in the dead pool
The top inflated pool ring gave out a few days ago—I was upstairs in the office when I heard GUSHING water so I ran to the window to see that the side of the pool collapsed. I ran downstairs and stopped it, and we decided that it was probably just overfilled (we had been trying to regulate the salt levels) and the pool ring probably had another hole in it or was just not strong enough and gave way—so in the end we opted to just get a new pool (actually the cheapest part of the whole deal). It came today, so we had to get rid of the old one. The fastest and easiest way? Slit the side. It emptied so FAST that Owen barely got in in time to enjoy the last foot of water. When it got down to a few inches, I let Katie splash around as well and they both had a ball.
Then it was nekkid baby time as it was still plenty warm enough and Tom was getting the new pool set up.
And do you see what’s in that second to last pic? Tooth number five!
And last but not least…she loves spending time with her daddy!
Those cheeks!
What the–?? You sneaky little girl!
I was just sitting there minding my own business just half watching Katie because she was on the floor playing. Until I looked up and saw this:
HOLY CRAP.
Why go around when you can go through and over?
Another try with v1.0 and v2.0
Something you rarely see!
Katie actually getting some real sun rats!
And then trying to keep her occupied (aka not screeching)…
Happy baby!
They need more toys.
Owen loves to dump out all the boxes on Katie…then leave. I think they need more toys, don’t you?
These are definitely our kids.
Both enjoying the iPad together…
Baby Blues
Trying to be a pirate
Even though I have my camera on me, I still miss shots. Katie was playing with Owen’s pirate hat and actually getting it on her head! Of course by the time I got ready to shoot, this is the best I got:
And then it looked like she might get it on again…except it was upside down. But her hop at the end is adorable. 🙂
And then just being cute:
Let me go!
If Katie isn’t in her enclosure, I’m holding her…but that certainly doesn’t stop her from wanting to GO GO GO. She pulled herself up onto the table and would have been off like a shot if I didn’t have hold of her ankle.
Comfy Katie
Owen stacked up all the stuffed animals from his room and all the pillows and blankets from downstairs…
Can you see what I see?
Here, let me crop it for you. 🙂
Then Owen joined her.
And he loves playing with and tickling her…
Giggly Girl p2
Being tickled after dinner…
Caught!
I happened to look out and see this. Except I actually missed the cuter picture…with her head completely inside the box. 🙂
Giggly Girl
She loves just laying on the floor and kicking her legs and rolling around…so today I just started nudging her with my foot. I love that you just never know what’s going to make her laugh.
Our little eating machine.
Tonight, we learned that Katie likes steamed broccoli, croissants, strawberry shortcake, and limes.
Plus she ate chicken from my pot pie, some of Owen’s French fries, and her brought-from-home peas, green beans, dried fruit, and puffs. She was an eating machine…literally shoving her mouth full as fast as I cut up pieces.
And we have a playset!
We weren’t really planning on getting a big playset, but once I saw Owen playing on his little Step 2 playset and saw that he had really outgrown it…I looked on the local Yard Sales board and found exactly what we wanted, emailed the lady, and made plans to go look at it (it was 45 minutes away). I was excited because most of these types of sets are SUPER expensive and have too many things that Owen wouldn’t really use, but this one was actually quite reasonable and had things Owen would like (towers, ladders, a rock wall, and a tunnel!). We looked at it, Owen played on it and loved it, so we left a deposit last weekend and made plans to get it this weekend (Tom was in the field all last week).
I thought the process would take ALL day, possibly requiring two trips (and since it was 45m one way, two trips would have been dreadful)—even with our friend’s big trailer—because Tom had no one able to help him. But thankfully at the last minute I managed to get a friend’s husband to help (the ones buying our old playset!) and then one of our best friends was also able to help…and he also offered his big truck (which ended up being critical) and the whole thing was done in like two hours, not counting drive time! They had it apart and loaded on the trailer and truck in under an hour (the lady texted me to tell me and we were both amazed) and I think it took about the same to unload and put it together. YAY!
“Mom! The number one!”
“Mom! Look! It’s the letter A!”
Testing out the bench.
He had to run and get some cars…
Are you done screwing the slide in so I can use it?
Wheeee!
Tunnel!!
Uncle Tom! (A great picture that I’m ticked ended up blurry! I had an in-focus one but you couldn’t see Owen’s face.)
The workers!
Katie’s first swing!
Also, as a bonus, we didn’t have to use any money from the savings account for the cost of the thing (which was not inconsequential). We had our stash of Craigslist/LejeuneYardSales cash from a few recent sales for the deposit last weekend, then I sold a bunch of stuff this week to finish out the rest of the payment. YAY!
Spoiled, crying Katie
So, since I’m a single parent this week, bath time was challenging (obviously one of us stays with Katie while Owen gets his bath but that wasn’t possible). I do leave her alone for a few minutes, but didn’t want to leave her alone for his entire bath…so the only safe place for her to go was in her crib. Which we never do unless it’s sleepy time. She’s never even been stuck in a pack-n-play except to sleep… In other words…SPOILED.
Needless to say she WAS. NOT. HAPPY. This is a compilation of about two minutes of the entire 15 minutes worth of screaming. I thought she might not mind as much if I was in with her, so kept running back and forth between checking on Owen and cleaning/organizing her room. Nope. She screamed whether I was in there or not.
But at least she doesn’t hold a grudge. This is minutes afterwards. It’s enough to balance out the earlier screaming…right?
Me and the kidlets
Peek!
We didn’t see Katie then all of a sudden she pops up!
First time up our stairs!
We leave the gate open now and again because Katie hasn’t actually showed much interest above the first step. But today when Owen opened the gate and…
Colorful old outfit!
Yet another Jenny outfit from the days of yore… Could she BE any cuter?
C’mon Gramma Jean…I’m holding up my end of the bargain by dressing her in these and taking pictures…where are the pictures of ME to prove I actually wore this stuff? 🙂
Fork!
She desperately wanted to grab MY fork while I was feeding her, so I gave her one of her own.
Little Masseuse
The pool is officially open!
Owen has been bugging me to go in the pool ever since the first day’s brief splashing, but I haven’t been able to let him since the salt levels were too high. Today I finally over-filled the pool by about 2″ hoping it would be enough…and it was! I warned him it was going to be cold but he didn’t care…until he got in.
“EEK! IT’S COLD!”
Happy, happy boy!
Then I had him empty some of the water. It’s easier (and more fun) for him to do it!
Then he wanted balls. And water guns. And his AquaZooka. And then…
Owen: Mama, I want the fish.
Me: What fish?
Owen: The floaty fish!
Me: We don’t have a floaty fish.
Owen: Yes! In the shed!
I go to the shed and look around. I don’t see a fish.
Me: Owen, I don’t see a fish. Where is it?
Owen: Behind the wagon.
And damn if it wasn’t there, buried UNDERNEATH a hose. He must have seen it last weekend when Tom had everything out.
Then I noticed the sky looked like this:
So I kept an eye on the weather, but the clouds just moved right over us. Katie was enjoying watching her brother.
Then, strangely enough, AFTER the clouds passed, THEN it started to sprinkle, so I got Owen out of the pool:
And he decided to give Katie some love:
And then post-pool Lego play—of course in the kitchen where things easily get bumped or knocked off. But, to his credit, he said “But it’s out of reach [for Katie]!” which is exactly what I told him he had to do.
Unfortunately, when I went out later to fix the skimmer (that Owen had knocked apart), the pump started beeping at me that the salt was too high again. I have NO idea how that could happen, so I get to try again tomorrow…
Straw sippy cups!
This morning at breakfast I gave Katie a straw sippy cup to play/practice with. I marked where I filled it so I could tell if she actually drank anything or was just playing. And damned if she didn’t actually drink some! Then I let her have it during play time and she drank more! So…it looks like we’re going to bypass the hard spout cups. WOOHOO! (Owen didn’t drink out of straw cups until probably 1.5-2—but I don’t think we even gave him the chance because typically regular sippy cups come first so that’s what we did.)
At her second dinner (when Owen was finally eating at 8:00) I gave her the cup again and she was drinking and drinking. She’s still obviously getting used to the flow because she’d often choke a little bit on a big gulp of water. She’s also learning to hold it and pick it up…something she’s refused to do with her bottles thus far.
But look at how VERY proud of herself she is!
ALMOST BUT NOT QUITE!
THERE YOU GO!
TA DA!
I’m really wondering if she’s going to be done with bottles sooner rather than later. She still drinks SOME but it’s really few and far between (I can’t tell you the last time she drank a full bottle in one sitting)—she’d much rather eat real food.
I see cords!
With the drawer pulled out, she can see the cords running behind the cabinet…so she’s often found like this:
Who, me?
Sisterly Love
She loves Owen so much! She’s always by him or crawling on him or messing with him. And I think he loves it more than she does!!
A Katie Break
