Katie 2015 v 2021
Category Archives: Katie
War with Gramma Jean
I thought the kids would have fun with these cards. I was right. They had a blast playing War with Gramma!
At least her dirty feet aren’t in the bed.
Cat ears and messy hair.
National Ukrainian Museum
Gramma wanted to go see this so we made it a family affair.
It was definitely interesting, but I wanted more eggs! Also? Mom talked to the curator and will be donating some of her eggs!
Look at who I see playing Among Us?
The PTA held another Among Us game night so off course the kids were totally excited! This picture was posted on the Facebook page!
And in case you can’t easily see them:
Chocoholics Delight
I love a good puzzle—pretty easy to put together but still challenging. Gramma Jean and Katie and I worked on this for two days.
Why is she sleeping there?
Kids are weird. I have no idea why she wants to sleep under her drawing table.
Oh just some movie snuggles with my baby.
This is why Katie exhausts us.
So I told the kids they could watch a movie. They always have drama when picking one. So I told Katie to pick a bunch she wanted to see and then Owen would pick the one. Fine. Easy. Right?
Hahahaha. HAHAHAHA.
She reads her choices and Owen picks one. And Katie immediately says she doesn’t really want to watch that one.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? So then Owen is annoyed at her and she’s annoyed because she has to watch a movie she said she wanted but then changed her mind about 60 seconds later??
So they’re both saying “FINE WHATEVER” to each other and I told Katie all this was unnecessary drama because she picked the movies and now she wanted to change things.
I just don’t have the energy for this.
A Charlie pillow
I got the kids a Charlie pillow and Katie loves it and carries it everywhere and even took it to “school” today. (Yes, that’s Charlie’s bed, too. Katie still carries that around.)
Mother’s helper practice
Kim and I took Katie on our walk today and gave her some practice being a mother’s helper.
Easter eggs!
I don’t take quite as many photos of the egg hunt anymore but they still love it.
KITTENS!!!
I took the kids to visit Brianna’s kittens as they’ve never seen kittens (I know, right?! But ours were already cats when the kids were born!) and oh man did they love it! Laughs and giggles and soooo much happiness. It was wonderful after the recent loss of Charlie.
Katie’s 3-D hand!
BOTH KIDS ARE AT SCHOOL! WOOOHOOO!!
Papa wanted some new pics of them with the kids!
She had a great first day back!
Katie’s first day back in school!
This was WAAAAAAY too early—her bus comes at 7:09 (!!) but she was super excited (as were we)!!
Puzzle Girls
Grannie and Katie started a puzzle while we were out—they had over half done when we got home and I can’t just let a puzzle sit so it immediately sucked me in! We were almost late to Anna and David’s because we lost track of time! So we took a break then finished it in about five minutes once we got home.
Grannie’s first VR!
The kids showed Grannie Beat Saber and then I showed her that an old fogie (me) could even do it so she tried. She didn’t do too badly.
It’s also time for gymnastics again!
Katie has been begging to go back to gymnastics class so when they finally opened, we had to go in to get her evaluated (since it’s been two years since she finished her class). She picked up most of it pretty quickly.
The kids are swimming again!
The kids were super excited to get back to the pool! They haven’t been in lessons in over a year, but they both got right back into it like pros.
Maggie’s new sleep spot.
Maggie has been sleeping with Katie more often and this is how Tom found them this morning.
A Jackbox burn!
These were two awesome answers. Can you guess which won the majority vote?
Zoom!
Mom, so when I get older I’m gonna lose my eyesight?
Crazy Hair Day
14 days of love notes for the kids
I’ve wanted to do this before but finally got my crap together this year. Every night we’d put a love note on the kids’ doors.
This is how we get some decorations down!
Don’t worry! These were just wrapped empty boxes! Katie was a little worried about standing on the ledge but she did okay!
Awwwww. Birthday hugs.
