The instructors are amazed that she’s only three. 🙂
Category Archives: Katie
I love the bubbles in my face!
Tonight’s pizza!
I’ve been experimenting with pizza dough in the stand mixer so we’ve been having lots of pizza and breadsticks. For pizzas, we often just use whatever leftovers we have…and the kids get cheese or pepperoni. However, tonight we both got leftovers: mac and cheese for the kids (hope they like it) and chimichurri, steak, and pickled onions for us. Of course topped with cheese.
The verdict? Owen loved it, Katie tolerated it. Ours sounded better than it tasted but it wasn’t bad. But unfortunately the crust was overdone (not sure why—I did everything the same as previous times when it turned out).
Friends
Off to see friends.
Katie is 3 years 8 months old today!
And the outtakes:
“We’re buddies!”
Our Little Slugger
Owen’s baseball practices officially start this Friday so we wanted to take him out and practice a little first. Of course, Katie wanted to play, too. She’s not great at catching with a mitt but she’s not too bad at hitting! And she looks so cute doing it!
Katie lost bath privileges for awhile.
After her gardening experience, she was a mess…so she had to get a bath. I had stuff to do upstairs so let her play for a loooong time. The only bath rule is keep the water in the tub. So, needless to say when I walked in and saw this…
…I was NOT happy.
There was water everywhere. All around the outside ledge of the tub, in puddles on the floor, splashed on the wall… So I gave her a towel and she had to dry it all off. Plus she lost bath time for at least a week—she’ll get 5-minute showers only.
Cleaning up her gardening mess.
After playing catch and coloring with her, I left her playing alone while I went in for about 15 minutes to edit a paper for Tom. Yeah. The entire corner of the deck was covered in dirt from her “planting” the fake flowers [left out from the snowman]. So she got to clean it up.
It was 70° when we got home from errands!
Snacking after a long four minutes of doing chalk. 🙂
You never know what you’ll find at the dollar store!
Of course we had to get it. 🙂
Gymnastics Today
Today’s outfit:
Waiting with her classmate:
Warming up:
Sick daddy cuddles
Happy chocolate pudding face
Dancing to Peanuts
I think they might be best friends now.
Or Charlie is just getting more patient in her old age. She didn’t squawk when Katie picked her up and put her in the chair…and then she stayed there while Katie got comfy.
Katie leveled up!
Her instructor told us she was getting close…but then we had three weeks of nothing happening. So today, mid-lesson, she leveled up! Of course I missed her super excited face but here she is with her new cap! It took just under six months.
Play time!
I’ve officially lost both my children!
In weight, that is! 😀
After a few mediocre weeks, I had an AMAZING week, losing 8.4# for a total loss thus far of 117.6!! Together, the kids weigh about 114!!
Tom told me I was getting too skinny and I needed to eat something. :p I still have a minimum of 10 to go and best case about 20-30.
DC dinner with friends!
Friends from South Carolina came to DC for the weekend and we grabbed dinner with a bunch of other friends at a pizza place.
Of course, the kids were watching TV. (Guess how old the boy is. Just guess. Nope—he’s 6.5 and in first grade! I know, right? I told you we grow them big. 🙂 )
Owen’s cool crayon sculpture!
As a sidenote. We had a perfect example of why I say I hate people. Parking in downtown DC is always a nightmare, but we were thrilled to realize there was a parking garage right next door to the restaurant. Except some asshat parked next to us in a NON-PARKING spot which necessitated a 23-point turn to exit our space. (Parking is tight in the best of cases, so with him there it was ridiculous.)
Bingo Night
Katie was frustrated that I wouldn’t let her play and stamp the bingo sheets…so I gave her the pizza box. Which kept her busy for a whole 10 minutes.
Pics the principal took (the lights were off so we could see the overhead projector…which made for not-great pics):
We thought Owen won the last game but one of his stamp marks was a little overzealous so he was one short. 🙁
Charlie cuddles
She’s up before she should be.
Her nightlight turns green at 6:30 and she’s supposed to stay in her room until then. But this is what I saw this morning.
Katie doesn’t want to nap.
In the second video she says I’m painful because I was not letting her stay downstairs. Meaning I was making her take a nap.
She slept for three hours.
She loves hats!
We weren’t going anywhere, she just wanted to wear her hats!
Two hats even!
Katie dancing with Elmo
Free falling!
Gymnastics Day!
Pigtails again!
Peek!
We arrived early enough so she could take a quick run on the balance beam.
Katie’s eventful walk in the woods.
We all went out for a walk since it was such a nice day. It was also a test for Katie—she always wants to go with me/Owen but it’s two miles and I know she’d want me to carry her…and that ain’t happening. (Daddy usually ends up carrying her so she’s spoiled…but I can’t do it.) So…off we went. Some days she likes to be the Line Leader. Today she wanted to be pokey and hold daddy’s hand.
And before we even completed the first mile, her legs were tired and she wanted to be carried. See?! I knew it! So Tom carried her off and on. And then…she had to go potty. So off they went for her first potty in the woods! Which didn’t go very well and she peed on her pants (but we were almost finished by that point so no biggie).
Okay, NOW he looks seven.
#haircutwithdaddy
And Katie had to get her picture taken, too.
Excited about pizza!
I love her face!
