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Waiting with her classmate:
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Category Archives: Videos
Dancing to Peanuts
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.
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.
Surprise! A new Cinderella dress!
Friends gave us a Cinderella dress because it was too big for their kids. This is me surprising Katie with it.
Happy girl!
Good morning! Oh wait, a tantrum about donuts. Yay.
For some unknown reason, she had it in her mind that daddy was getting her donuts for breakfast…and this is what happened when I told her that wasn’t happening. (I asked Tom later if he mentioned anything about donuts at any time and he said he didn’t even say the word.)
They crack me up.
They usually play like this when Owen gets home from school.
Katie singing Happy Birthday
I asked Katie if she wanted to sing Happy Birthday to a friend so I could record it and she said yes. Here’s what happened. 🙂
Katie’s second time at gymnastics
And she loves it. LOVES IT. LOVES LOVES LOVES IT!!
Socks are hard.
Things were going well until she got to the socks. Some days she has no problems. Today was not one of those days.
Bouncing birthday!
Katie’s friend Cayenne had her birthday at the trampoline place.
Katie’s taking gymnastics!
I got a deal on a 12-week (12 session) class and knew she’d love it. Thankfully it’s pretty close to home.
Warming up and stretching.
A few stills from the videos.
As predicted, she LOVED it and can’t wait to go back. She keeps asking about her “shimnashtics” class and would probably go daily. Yay!
Another successful birthday sleepover!
Owen wanted another summer birthday pool party, so like last year, we had a sleepover with two friends for his birthday. I’m not sure who was more excited—Owen or Katie. She did pretty good overall but didn’t understand why the boys didn’t want to go play with her instead of playing with Owen. (That said, she did get to play with them most of the time.)
We had pizza for dinner, then they all played downstairs (including Katie), and then it was time for Pie face!
Ice cream! Poor Colton (in black) doesn’t like chocolate so didn’t want the ice cream or brownie…so had an ice pop.
Attempting to play a new video game. It wasn’t quite working, so…
We watched a movie. Awwwww.
Of course, Katie was right in there, too.
Owen: “My bros!”
iPad time
Spying on them.
We put them to bed at 9:30 and they wanted to read a book so we told them lights out at 10. I happened to be watching on the monitor when they turned the lights out at 9:45. We thought it was too easy…and we were right. They were gabbing LOUDLY for the next hour. The last 20 minutes or so, Tom and I took turns going in to tell them to quiet down and go to bed. The last time Tom went in he warned them that they would not get donuts in the morning if he had to come in again. Then they were finally quiet. 🙂
Tom said they were all up at Owen’s usual time (6:30!) so they were back at Xbox and Tom went to get donuts.
The kids left by 10:30. Owen had a great time and we were glad to have our relatively quiet house back.
Dancing to Sesame Street
Katie showed me!
I was actually considering stopping Katie’s swim lessons because I wasn’t sure she was still progressing and $75/mo is a decent chunk of money for her to just be splashing around for a few hours. So of course she completely amazed me today! I asked the instructor to have her practice her floating (since she hasn’t done that in months) and she did great at that—along with actually swimming!! Holy cow! So…lessons continue!
Playing together after their lessons were over.
Pie Face!
We got the kids this game for Christmas and we finally played tonight! It was hilarious and well worth the $10. Poor Tom. Lucky Jen. Smart Katie.
And a few pics from the videos:
Snow Day 6: Flight
I had to get them out of the house to burn some energy. Thankfully it wasn’t crazy busy when they first opened.
She really catches some air when she jumps. It’s VERY impressive!
Owen catches some decent air, too!
Katie really wanted to play basketball with the kids, but they were older and weren’t interested in giving her a chance. The few times Owen gave her the ball, she immediately handed it off to someone else. 🙂
Katie’s fall really looks much worse in slo-motion.
Jonas, Day 2
Subtitled: Too. Much. Damn. Snow. And that’s coming from a Michigander.
Plowed and sanded…but only one lane.
So here, the kids are technically playing in the street.
The bus stop is still a little buried.
Looking up the main street.
Snow angel…in the street. 🙂
Taking a flying leap…
The landing!
Rule breaker!
Playing across the street.
Tom wanted to check out the town…and see how his new car did on the roads. 🙂 (He said it did great!)
The Wall O’ Snow.
Pouting because I wouldn’t give her the water spray bottle she remembered using this summer.
Using a net as a shovel.
Brushing off my tires with a scrub brush.
Dancing Fools
Katie’s turn on the video camera
Dancing at baseball practice
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!!
The kids discovered the motion-detector camera this morning.
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
Maggie and…Bella?!
I looked over and saw them and just assumed it was Charlie…until I realized that Charlie rarely comes in our room.
Helping me change her sheets.
She actually did very well…probably better than Owen, actually. 🙂
Lil’ Headbanger. Kinda.
Perfect song for it, but not quite headbanging. But still cute. 🙂
One wear only + dust catching
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!
Katie nibbles and tickles
Daddy’s Day Off, Part 2
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.
