Category Archives: Katie
Swimming with the grandparents
Finally jumping into a pool that has a deep end! All the pools we frequent are a max of 5′ deep so he always hits bottom! This was a new experience for him and he loved it!
Showing Grannie Lin that he can really float now!
And this little stinker! Here she is jumping into the shallow end…BUT!…Earlier, she walked down to the deep end where Papa and Owen were, walked right to the edge, and jumped right in! Went completely under and everything—and came up smiling! SHE HAS NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE, even with prompting! It was so unexpected that I didn’t even have time to get a pic of it! She swam over to the ladder, got out, and DID IT AGAIN! I missed it again, too, because I had a brain fart on how to take a video with my real camera. ARGH! Of course, she refused to do it a third time!
She loves her brother!
Strangely enough, her in the pool doesn’t bother me…but her climbing up this ladder scares the crap out of me.
This is a horrible picture but I need to use it as an illustration. You can see I was a bit away from her and she had climbed up there. No biggie. Then she reached up and grabbed the first bar. Still no biggie. Then she leaned out and grabbed the second bar (as seen here) and right as I snapped the picture, she swung her legs off the bar so she was hanging there. I practically dropped the camera and rushed over there—knowing she couldn’t hang there very long on her own and not wanting her to come crashing down. EGADS. I grabbed her and she proceeded to work her way across the bars like no big deal. NO FEAR!
Kid(s) in the window
And Owen in the same spot back in May 2011. 🙂 (As a sidenote, I didn’t think so at the time, but looking back…HOLY WAH does Owen look like Tom at that age.)
An awesome new playground!
Gramma Jean said there was a new playground by the house so on the way home from Kid Fest we stopped to check it out.
HOLY CRAP.
It’s bigger and nicer than the playground at Owen’s school!
Hopefully we’ll make it back at least once before we leave!
Kid Fest!
It’s Milltown week so we took the kids downtown to Kid Fest! They had a blast!
She LOVED the popcorn. The SnoCones…not so much.
Making bracelets and necklaces with Gramma.
Then Owen got to ride in a racing canoe!! Some of the racers were the back seat paddlers and took the kids up and down the river. It was his very first time in a canoe and he loved it!
If you notice, he’s watching what the pro does and copies him to steer the boat!
He said he was a little scared at first but then he was okay! We were SO proud of him!
Owen loved sitting in the big fire truck—and even got to turn on the lights and the siren! Katie wanted NOTHING to do with any of it. 🙂
Getting a ninja turtle mask!
And lastly, our crazy photo booth pictures!
Sleep happens on road trips!
The kids had a long, busy, fun-filled weekend with our friend’s kids and the babysitter (while we were at our TiVo events) and didn’t get their normal amounts of sleep…so this happened pretty early into our trip.
Sunday morning swim lessons!
She wanted to play before class! (I’m guessing because it felt like 100° in there.)
And of course she immediately swam down to where Owen was playing (his class is after hers so he gets to play for a half hour).
She’s slowly getting less panicky when floating. The instructor can almost get through the ABCs before Katie sits up.
Katie’s funny. She doesn’t mind being in the water with the instructor but after each turn in the water she comes over to me and asks if she’s done. I tell her no, she whines a little, them she goes and sits back at the edge of the pool and waits her turn while playing with water toys. Every. Single. Time. 🙂
She also normally doesn’t want to play much afterwards because she gets cold but today she was all about it! She swam down to Owen again and he taught her how to swim over the lane dividers! So, she had great fun showing me her new skill!
While she was playing, I took a moment to go watch what Owen was doing.
Owen is getting really good at the backstroke!
Headed home!
Adoration all around.
Katie ADORES Maddie and Owen and Mason are best buds (and Mason has introduced Owen to Minecraft…).
Cheer vs. Chair
Mark asked Katie for a cheer (since she was wearing her MSU cheerleader skirt)…and she brought him a chair! 🙂
Katie is unpacking almost as fast as I’m packing.
This was upstairs in the clothes box to go back to the Besons. Then it came down. 🙂
“Mama! I want to wear this!”
I’m not saving that Lego.
Subtitled: Well that’s a first.
Subtitled: That’s not how you play with Legos.
Subtitled: Owen put one up his nose, Katie ate one.
Subtitled: There will be NO pictures of this.
Subtitled: SERIOUSLY?!
Submitted: Katie ate a Lego head today.
Tom and I were in the office and Katie was watching TV. She came into the office and said she put Elsa’s head in her mouth. She knows she’s not supposed to put toys in her mouth and she usually tries to hide it, so we were interested. Tom asked where Elsa’s head was and Katie pointed to her throat.
What?!
We asked if it was in her mouth. No.
We asked her to go find Elsa. She was indeed headless.
We asked again where Elsa’s head was and she pointed to her throat.
Kids. 😐
Someone was excited!
We surprised the kids with a bouncy house and this was Katie’s reaction to seeing it for the first time. How can that not make you smile?! 🙂
A three minute nap.
Katie fell asleep on the way to pick up Owen…about three minutes before we got there. 🙁
It started innocent enough.
Bubble Shrieking
Sibling Lego project!
Katie got a Frozen Lego set for her birthday, so of course Owen helped her put it together! (It was WAAAAY to old for her so I knew he’d have to help her!) We ended up having Katie pick out the pieces as we needed them and then Owen would build it. It worked pretty well.
It took two days (which drove Owen insane) and he eventually did the last part by himself…
She still naps sometimes
May and June photos are finally online!
I’m WAY behind in getting this done. Time just FLIES.
>>> May and June pictures are both now online at Shutterfly!
Daddy’s Littlest Swimmer
She isn’t loving the lessons as much as Owen but she’s doing them so we’re happy.
Little girl stuck.
During Katie’s party, one little girl came upstairs to tell us “there’s an emergency” and all the parents looked at her like “Oh, really?” because we didn’t hear any screaming or crying. Tom went down there and discovered two little girls stuck in the corner behind the couch. Yep, I guess that qualified as an emergency for a 3yo!
So fast forward to this afternoon post-party and I hadn’t seen Katie for awhile and then I heard crying. And I went downstairs and discovered this. 😐
I blame her friends who obviously showed her this neat trick, because that couch has been in that exact spot since we moved in a year ago and she’s never gotten stuck before! 🙂
Birthday party presents!
We waited until after the party to open presents. Everyone stuck to the Frozen theme and Katie loved everything!
The last gift from us:
Katie’s 3rd Birthday Party!
Daddy and Owen went to pick up the cupcake cake and the pizza before the party!
We surprised the kids with a bounce house borrowed from friends!
Owen testing out the Frozen stick-on earrings!
Everyone had a good time and the bounce house was a success!! I’m losing my mind, though—I didn’t take a picture of the decorated table OR the food table! 🙂
The Birthday Girl all decked out!
Since she had gotten her birthday shirt dirty yesterday, it was still in the laundry this morning. 🙂
Trying to get a selfie, we ended up with this really cool picture of her waving her wand in front of us!
I didn’t get THE perfect picture, but there are some cute ones. I’ve had this Birthday Girl set waiting for her ever since she was a baby!
Katie’s birthday presents, take 2.
Present #2 she picked, which was opened after dinner! Are you sensing a theme here? 🙂
And the shot that makes it all worth it! 🙂
(If you can’t tell, it’s a reversible Anna/Elsa doll. You flip the skirt over and the other doll is underneath. Her friend had one at T-ball and Katie co-opted it and carried it around forever. So I got her one off ebay probably two months ago and it’s just been waiting!)
Kids in the pool!
Friends of ours came to spend the night on their way to their OBX vacation…so we took the kids to the pool. I only snapped a few pics because we were busy visiting!
Katie’s birthday presents, take 1.
We wanted to spread out her four presents from us, so we let her open one when we got home! Of course, as soon as she saw it was a dress (well, PJs), she had to put it on immediately!
Fairy Camp, Day 5: The Recital
On her last day of Fairy Camp: Mama, there’s a lot of tutu in here!
Waiting for class to start.
Recital time! Tom was able to get off work to come, and it was going to be a surprise for Katie! It was funny because she just kept staring out at me and then Tom and then me and then Tom. I was just happy she didn’t freeze up or cry like Owen has done!
The studio records every ceremony so this is from their YouTube channel:
I took a few still shots…
Getting her fairy wings:
Beautiful dancing:
Her fairy group:
Family selfie!
The post-recital lunch…which Katie walked in and thought it was all for her birthday! 🙂
She LOVED the experience. I would really like her to do another week (they have a Sophia the First camp in August), but full price is $175!! Even with their $25 discount for taking the Fairy class…$150 is too much. (We got this camp via a deal site and I only paid $89! so I’m a bit spoiled!)
Happy 3rd Birthday Katie Bug!
And then a tantrum shot for good measure (she couldn’t get her backpack zipped):
Two peas in a pod.
The kids were watching TV while I showered and got dressed. I looked over to see this.
This is what I walked out to see.
They has been playing loud and hard while I was cooking in the kitchen and when I finally walked out to check on them, this is what I saw.
She wasn’t really tied up, but probably only because he doesn’t know how to tie yet. 🙂 They were having a GRAND time.
