Party Time

We all went to Steve's Aunt's party last weekend. Katie's cousins took great care of her, played with her, took her in the moon bounce, on the trampoline, on a walk, Katie couldn't get enough of them! Of course, she did make time to do several dance performances. Her best booty shaking moves, which I had never even seen before, were done to "All my exes live in Texas."

Suma Baby!

My new McWhip

Sadly, I have to report that Alero is no longer with us. She was a great car for a long time. As a matter of fact, I got Alero the day I first met Steve, (or should I say the day Steve first spilled beer all over me). I was definately sad to trade her in. Steve did not share my sentiments at all. We were both excited however, to drive away with our new Elantra. Or, as Katie prefers we call it, our new Big Red Car.
maybe someday we'll actually be able to park it in the garage!

Girly Girl

My little girl (notice I did not say baby)had her first little mani/pedi today. Magically, she was able to sit perfectly still while I painted her nails. Every now and then she rediscovers that her hands and feet have pink paint on them and says "oohh, aahhh." Could she be any cuter?

I love Summer

Nights like tonight are the best of summer. It's light a little later, you get to stay up and take special trips - like to the carnival! Katie rode rides, played games and even became a total Sticky Monster trying to eat cotton candy.
Here we are riding the merry-go-round - I think this was her favorite - it played music, which she danced to!
Flying high with Daddy on the Dumbo ride!
Moon Bounce was a hit!
My old favorite when I was a child - looks like Katie loves the duck game too!

visit to Nambikia (almost)

Katie, Steve and I traveled to the Poconos this past weekend. Besides the trip up being a diasterous 5 hours long, kicked off by us being pulled over, once we got there it was great. Katie got to see/entertain everybody and enjoy the beach and lake. Here are just a few of my favorite beach baby shots.

A Fourth BBQ

We all had a great time at the Stoner's BBQ for the fourth of July. Katie experienced her first fireworks, which she watched with complete fascination and total horror. She was scared while they were going on, but asked for more boom-booms immediatly after they stopped.

Kelly was a hit giving Katie some of her favorite dessert - whip cream and chocolate. I love the totally messy face with the "who me?" expression.

A rare shot of all three of us together.

Katie finally got to meet Mason, and they enjoyed a game of back and forth sharing of golf balls tied to strings.