Play Ball!

Katie's Gymnastics Show!

Katie gets her certificate!

Getting fancy on the balance beam

Hi fiving Daddy after a trick

"sticking" her landing

Completing her balance beam routine with her teacher

Doing her floor routine with her other teacher

Fun Weekend!

We had a lot of fun this weekend, eating crabs with freinds and picking strawberries at larriland! Katie was much more fascinated with smashing the crabs, not so much eating them. The strawberries, on the other hand, she couldnt' get enough of!

Baby Rock Star

Tonight when I got home from work, we had a dance party! Katie started by playing some tunes, then broke it down, crazy baby style. The fashion, by the way, is ENTIRELY her doing.

This sweet baby? Act totally crazy? no way...

Katie doing her pumped up version of twinkle twinkle. I wish I had it on tape!


Rock ON!

Will's Birthday Party

Katie and Will chowing down on cupcakes!
Katie trying to dance/jump with Will, he's just not that interested!

The Baby Rave!

Happy Birthday Will!

In the Meantime...

Yes, yes it's been a long time. So I thought I'd post some highlights of what KK has been up to in the last two months.

Scaring people with her teeth (she thinks these are hilarious!)

Celebrating G.G.'s birthday!

Visiting Florida and the beach for the first time! She did great on the plane, although she did eat no less than 30 pieces of gum during the 2 hour flight. She LOVED the beach too!

Visiting Great Grandma in FL!

Joy riding in her new Jeep!

Katie Eats a B-day cupcake!

She did not enjoy this nearly as much as she thought she would after watching Frank do it.

Big mouth uncle and niece!!

She eats just like frank and steve!

It's so YUMMY, it's scary!!

Katie's Christmas

We had a wonderful holiday this year, Katie is almost 3, and was VERY into santa claus. She sat on his lap at the mall and asked for a camera and a scooter. She must have been a very good girl, b/c she got both! Here are some pics from Christmas morning...

Her fav color...ORANGE!
This is the first thing Katie did when she came downstairs...taking off on the scooter!

Playing her new marble game with dada.

The three of us!

Recent Fun

I went out shopping on black friday (yes I was at kohls at 4 am) (and stood in line at toys'r'us) and one of things I got was new throw blankets, which came wrapped in what Katie thought resembled the masks the doctors at the "pospital" were wearing when she went in for her stitches. So, she wanted to wear it too, and operate on Steve and I (over and over again!)
Here's Dr. K in action:

Dr or Bank robber? I'm hoping Dr.

Having the appropriate surgical instruments is key...

Katie loves when I hold out the camera and take pictures of us. She always tries to mess with my hair right before the flash goes off.

I may live in the middle of nowhere, but I really do love the view. Here's a storm rolling in from my backyard.

Decorating the tree

Last night, after what we will not refer to as "the crayons in the dryer" incident of 2008-we finished decorating the christmas tree. [FYI- 4 crayons in Katie's pocket=completed ruined load of laundry which happened to include all of Katie's winter coats.]


YUM!! Dada's vegetable soup for dinner-I had to include this pick b/c man her mouth is huge!! She ate 2 bowls of soup!
Santa came by on the fire engine! Katie was thrilled!

Here's the girl in front of the tree ready to go out to see Santa. She hung a total of three ornaments and then lost interest, along with her dada.

The finished Tree!