This isn’t the after-effects of staying up past her bedtime…it’s apparently the new norm.
Category Archives: Katie
Katie loving on Maggie.
Maggie usually hops into bed with me after Owen lets her out of the crate. This morning Katie hopped in, too, and gave Maggie some snuggles.
School mornings are going to suck…
Look who is still sleeping at 9am?! This might be the first year that school mornings are hard…
When you close down the aquatic center.
It was hot, I was getting work done poolside, Tom was busy at home…so we stayed at the pool until it closed.
Family outing to the Volo Auto Museum
We decided to play tourists today and go to this apparently famous auto museum that is literally 20 minutes down the road. (I say apparently because I’d never even heard of it, but everyone we talk to knows about it—and they get like 125,000 visitors a year!) Both kids have been (strangely) getting into cars lately so Tom thought it would be cool. Well…let’s just say it was totally not my thing and it’s three hours of my life I can’t get back so Tom owes me one. But the kids did have fun and I did get to see a few cars from my youth (you’ll know them when you see them…they aren’t these first cars below).
Lilac-haired girl!
I put the purple hair wax in Katie’s hair when it was wet and it was easier to do… I didn’t want to put too much in the first time, so it ended up a nice shade of lilac.
UPDATE: It washed out of Owen’s hair fine. Katie’s hair had some VERY slight tint left but I didn’t scrub it. As far as my pillowcase? There was very super light transfer but I had to REALLY look. It’s more like a powder. But if I hadn’t been looking for it I wouldn’t have seen it. So I’m happy with it.
Birthday sleepover
We let Katie have a sleepover with Sophia for her birthday—I think it was the first “real” (non-family) for both. Both girls had a ball. We only had to tell them to quiet down once and I think there were both out by 10:30.
Katie picked bundtinis for her cake:
And walking her home in the morning!
This is how they opted to do their daily schoolwork.
Purple hair trio!
I saw this super cool colored hair wax advertised online and went directly to Amazon to buy it. My hair has been fading and Katie has wanted more color than the pink shampoo I have been using on her. And this was very temporary—as in comes out in one wash. So we tried it! I did it Live on Facebook…which the kids thought was great fun (they are always intrigued when I do my Live LipSense demos so they liked being part of a video).
Here are our results… The kids loved it! Owen’s was much easier as it’s shorter, thicker, and much heartier. Katie’s was a mess because it is so fine and snarls easily (I’ll have to try hers later when it’s wet). But as something fun to do? I highly recommend it.
Birthday cake pop!
We met friends at the park for a few hours and they surprised Katie with a birthday cake pop!
Katie is 6 years old today!
We had a busy day…pictures at home, the park with friends, a Lego build, the Incredibles 2, and then dinner and ice cream at Culvers…
Waking up 6.
She’s 6, y’all. Six. Where has the time gone?!
Dinner at the pool!
Another lost post. Pretend I posted this on July 2. 🙂
I promised the kids that we would have dinner at the pool one time this summer. It ended up being today since Tom was working late.
Katie met Carrots today.
Our neighbors have a pet rabbit. Katie finally got to meet her today. She is sooooo soft. (I don’t remember rabbits being THAT soft.)
I didn’t need red lips for this.
When you are going out biking with the family again and are planning a subtle, understated lip color and your daughter comes in and wants to pick it… Awww man. The things we do for our kids.
And we have a new biker!
We’ve known for a while that Katie was very close to being able to ride without her training wheels so we decided that today was the day. She whined a lot at first but she did it! (There was actually a hell of a lot of whining and drama involved. Tom has much more patience with her than I did. #teamwork)
Big brother helping teach her how to get started on her own without a push from daddy.
She wanted to be the line leader.
We went around the same lake path three times. At one point, there is a fairly decent downhill section which she did not want to ride down because she was scared—and there was LOTS of drama—so, she walked it down the first time. We told her that if she managed to ride down the whole thing she would get a new bike and that would be her birthday present. On the second time around she walked down part of the way and then rode the rest of the way. And the third time around, I was riding next to her and she was doing really well and as soon as she reached the bottom she said matter-of-factly “I get my bike now” and off she went.
Happiness is an open moonroof.
How they roll at the playground.
Katie really loves her new scooter and we went in half on one for Owen after he tried his friend’s scooter and liked it.
Why not wear a mask?
Sparklers and smoke bombs.
Since we went out last night to watch real fireworks, we were just going to do some little fireworks at home. I went to the store to buy some and guess what? Turns out fireworks are illegal in Illinois so it was a pretty boring evening. We just had a campfire and neighbors came over so the kids still had fun with the sparklers and smoke bombs but we can’t wait to go to Michigan and do some real fireworks. (Get ready Gramma Jean and Grandpa David!)
When the Six Flags fireworks started we thought we might be able to see them from our front yard or the street but we walked all the way to the church and we could just see them through the trees.
The Nibbler
Or why kids are weird #451.
This is how Katie now eats strawberries. She nibbles parts of each one. Why? How do you just not eat a damn strawberry?
Fireworks!
Six Flags has fireworks for four or five nights so tonight we went to a local parking lot to watch. (We could have watched from the Six Flags parking lot as we have free parking but we honestly didn’t want to deal with any traffic.)
It was a short and sweet 15 minutes. We missed some because they were below the tree line but the kids were happy so all was well. And we were out of the parking lot and home in 10 minutes.
Camp Cadillac
We spent the day in Cadillac with Tom’s extended family at a local campground where the kids enjoyed meeting new friends and playing in the pool.
Katie liked the animals. (Yes there were animals there. She especially liked the goats.)
Maggie didn’t bark once all day…until she got in front of the goats. At which point she thought she was ferocious.
After some visiting I just amused myself. There might have been margaritas involved.
The coloring crew.
She spelled it all!
Today was library day (Owen has a two-hour class so we hang out and wait). She wasn’t sure how to spell Jean but guessed right!
The 5 and 6 is for how old she is now and how old she will be on her birthday.
Surprise cupcakes!
We were at a local park with friends and there was a birthday party there. When it was over they came over and offered us their leftover cupcakes! It worked out perfectly as there were six kids and two adults and we got eight cupcakes! They also gave us Jello cups, spoons, plates, napkins, and wipes!
A find from the Salvation Army!
Battleship. Still in the shrink-wrap (circa 1996). They’re loving it.
Introducing the kids to Pinocchio.
Amazingly, they were entranced. It’s always a crap shoot with older movies.
Morning cuddles!
The princess roasts her own marshmallow.
She is good at cartwheels!
