Tom is getting rid of an old desktop and just had it sitting temporarily in the living room. The kids were completely enthralled with it. I was at my computer and I heard Owen behind me clicking away on the keyboard, saying he was texting dad and playing music. He also kept plugging and replugging the mouse and keyboard cords.
Then, of course, Katie got involved. When she wasn’t clicking away she was “on the phone” (the mouse). 🙂
She licks all the frosting of and then eats the cupcake.
Of course they both say they’re going to help make cupcakes, but this is about all they do. 🙂
Tom wasn’t home in time to take Owen to baseball practice so I had to take Katie. She didn’t want to use the iPad…but wanted to dance! We really need to get her in a dance class soon!!
After our initial potty-training experience went well, we’d been having a rough few weeks with Katie having wet underwear A LOT. So we decided a bribe was in order.
She found a Barbie she wanted at Walmart and she had to be dry for seven days to get it. We put up a chart and she put her daily stickers on…and damned if she didn’t do it the first try!
We have a new video-monitoring system in the house that has motion-detecting cameras. Since I’ve been wanting to keep track of Katie after I put her to bed (she’s been getting out of bed this week), I moved one of the cameras to the upstairs hallway.
These are the videos it recorded this morning. They didn’t know it was recording them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34GQkpbOYyE
She can’t quite play for real yet so this is what she does while Owen and I play.
Yep, I forgot yesterday. 🙂
BEFORE & AFTER SILLINESS
She actually did very well…probably better than Owen, actually. 🙂
I had stuff to do in her room so I allowed it. 🙂
She had to tuck in her barbie.
Perfect song for it, but not quite headbanging. But still cute. 🙂
I was packing up clothes to go back to the Beson cousins and realized she hadn’t worn this dress! So, we changed outfits so I could snap a few pictures. Of course, she had no issues putting on a dress!
Uncle Rob was behind me, hence the funny face.
Catching dust!
Owen was working on Legos at the table. I heard a piece hit the floor.
Me: Something just hit the floor.
Owen: Not something. Someone. [Smartass grin]
Tom was tickling Owen before bedtime.
Owen: Stop, you’re making me wild!
Uncle Rob: Owen, watch your Legos.
Owen: Why, are they going to run away?
Katie and Owen were playing catch with her new baseball mitt.
Katie: Owen caught my ball into my mitten!
Tom and Rob were speaking with an English accent.
Owen: Stop speaking Harry Potter!
She wears it randomly all day long—along with the Anna hat, too.
We went to our friends’ house for dinner and a football game. The kids watched an early NYE countdown and had some sparkling grape juice (which none of them liked).
She’s in Owen’s old jersey/pants outfit since her cheerleading outfit is getting very short.
This is what it’s always like trying to get both of them to pose:
I got Owen in one shot:
Everyone in Sparty green, even though you can’t see mine.
I completely spaced on it being school break time (duh, that’s why Owen was able to go!) and the aquarium was a nightmare. I have never seen that many people there…and we skipped about 70% of the stuff because we didn’t want to wait or push through the hordes to get to the displays. Ugh. We’ve been super spoiled the past few times we’ve gone and it was (for all purposes) empty.
On the escalator to another level.
Another escalator!
The frog displays were very busy. I didn’t get many pics.
Trying for a desktop wallpaper.
And one my favorites…jellyfish!
More attempts at computer wallpaper!
We had planned on having lunch beforehand at our favorite, Capital Grille, except we were there too early and they weren’t open…so we planned to do it after. But…as we were walking through the last part of the aquarium, we looked out across the water and saw Family Meal, a Bryan Voltaggio (Top Chef contestant) restaurant. I actually remembered I had a coupon for there, so we decided to try it.
We started with chicken pot pie fritters (delish!), Tom ordered biscuits and gravy (I might have been tempted except it came with over easy eggs on it which didn’t sound good to me), Rob got meatloaf, and I ordered fried chicken and this is the dish it came in. 🙂 It was yummy but a little expensive for what it was…but I’m glad we went.
And then this happened on the way home.
We all went to the Pentagon for a quick tour. We couldn’t take pictures inside so took this as we were leaving.
With Uncle Rob
May 13, 2011:
