January 2013

Elayna, sledding. Such a cutie!

Annalisa was playing with my phone and I said, "you want to listen to some music?"  and so she pointed right to where the music is and pushed play and music started playing. But I told her to turn it off and she pushed the button again. She knows exactly how to do it.
January 3, 2013


Elayna- mom, are ninjas real?
1-2-13

Today I was at my parents house. Annalisa was in the kitchen, so I told her to come over into the living room. I told her to come over so that grandpa could eat her belly. She pulled up her shirt and held her shirt with her chin. Then she walked over, grinning the whole way.
Jan 5, 13

Mom was talking to Katie, and telling her that she had saved some of her drawings. Katie looked at her, aghast, and said "you threw some away?"
1-4-13


Katie loves to hold and help with Annalisa. Seems like Anna might be a little too big for Katie though.

I think that Katie has figured out I'll take pictures of them cuddling, so she does it a lot. 

Cute winter hats.  Katie likes having her hair like this, mostly because she can do it herself.

Elayna and Gracie are cousins, but I think they could pass for sisters.

They have so much fun together.

Annalisa wanted her hair done differently, so we tried this. I think it is really cute, and it keeps her hair out of her face, which is such a good thing.

One of the ways the girls play with their dad. They also try to push him off the couch, tickle him, wrestle, tackle, etc. They love their Dad so much!

Katie went to chess club this morning. I kept trying to take her, but week after week, I would forget. So this morning, she woke up, ate, got dressed, and did her hair before 8, so I took her. :)  Determined little girl.

I was reading a book with Elayna . One of the characters needed to learn how to swim. Elayna said "that's so easy!"
Jan 17, 2013


Katie loves this Butterfly shirt. She wanted me to do her hair like this "because it made her look like a butterfly". She is pretending she is flying as a butterfly in this picture.

Elayna, Gracie, and Sadie. These 3 are such good friends. And cousins. My daughters aren't quite sure what the difference between friends and cousins is. Their friends are all their cousins too! 

Posing at my parent's house. Mom and Dad had some extra flowers laying around, so Katie and Elayna picked them up and needed to have a picture with them. 

 These are some dresses I picked up after Christmas. They are such beautiful girls.

Showing off their special earrings that Irma gave them for Christmas.

Katie was standing at the counter. She said she needed to practice standing. I asked why. She said she had to stand for 3 days in class because she fell off her chair 3 times one day.

Elayna was saying that if they talk to much in class, Miss Lacee says they are being chatty, and they have to go sit in the thinking chair. I asked if she had to sit it in lots, and she said not lots, but she does have to sit in it.
1-18-13


Katie, relaxing on her Dad. It looks pretty uncomfortable for them both, but Katie thought it was fun.

Reading books with Dad. 

Cuddling together on a pile of blankets

Clarissa (Ryan's sister) gave the girls these adorable glove and hat sets. They love them! 

Annalisa loves to jump in her crib, as you can see.

November 2012

 Playing dress up with Mom's shirts, pajamas, and high heels.

We were driving down the street, and Elayna says, " I want a popsicle carrot." "What?--you mean an icicle?" "Oh yeah, but I'm going to call them popsicle carrots."  Nov 13, 2012


Annalisa just playing on the floor:

Snowsuits and snow:

These girls sure love each other

Wearing way too big boots

Anna said "ou" for out, "on", and "buh" while pointing at her boot this morning. Ryan has been teaching her to nod her head by putting his hand on her head and trying to nod it for her so now she puts her hand on her head and tries to nod it herself when I ask her a question.
11-29-12


Katie did her own hair this day, and they wanted to get all dressed up. Katie has about 10 flowers in her hair, so it looks like a headband of flowers. Such pretty girls!

Again with lots of flowers. As long as they let me brush their hair, I don't care how many flowers they want in it. I'm just glad it is brushed. 

This was so funny. She was walking around, banging her shoes on her head. I took a picture, then asked her to stop.

Such a cutie! 

We were at JCPenney's getting our family pictures taken. Katie and Elayna were watching a movie while we waited. They have such good expressions while watching movies. Especially Elayna. She looks so concerned. I love how Katie looks like she is about to smile, and Elayna is all worried.

We ate dinner with my family for Thanksgiving. Ryan, Jay, Jacob, and Junior played some foosball.  Anna was refereeing. 

Preparing for Christmas!

Making a gingerbread house:

Finished product: 

Annalisa didn't have clothes on, because they got covered in frosting. :) 

Ryan, diligently hanging lights. He really enjoys decorating with Christmas lights, which is tons of fun. The girls love to see the lights as we drive up to the house at night. 

Decorating the tree. I would hand out ornaments, and they would put them on the tree. They do a good job. Ryan puts up the higher ones, but Katie and Elayna are pretty skilled at spacing the ornaments. Sometimes I find 4 on one branch, or all the same ornaments together, but it makes it fun. I love that we can do this together as a family.

 Katie hit her hand, and it got all swollen. I was a little worried about it, but after consulting my in house physicians (Michael and Clarissa), we decided ice and time would make it better.

We were at the dentist office. They have a little play area. I looked over, and saw Annalisa doing this pose. It was so adorable! 

Speaking of adorable..... I love this laugh! She giggles after each time she blows bubbles.

Movies

This is Elayna. She loves to walk around in my shoes. And Ryan's shoes. And Katie's shoes. She will bring me her shoes at random times throughout the day and want me to put them on her. The girl loves shoes. There are also some fun things she can say:


This is Katie doing a somersault. We tried hard to describe to her the direction we wanted her to go, but she never seemed to understand. That's the funniest part to me, is her confusion. And the "Oh my dosh!" at the end:


This is Katie singing some Nursery Rhymes and Primary Songs. I love how she goes into her "upper voice" on the chorus of the Primary song. Apparently it is a little too high for me, and so she thinks it needs to sound that high when she sings it:

Movies, Continued

When Elayna had just started walking a couple steps. It's more of a lean and jump rather than walking, but her feet do move:


Beautiful girls dressed up for Church. Elayna walks a couple of steps. But notice the weird dragging crawl Elayna does at the end of the video. She will crawl on her hands and feet (not knees) when she wears dresses. This was kind of half way between a regular crawl, and a downward facing dog crawl.



Katie dances and sings a compilation. All I can make out is Baa Baa Black Sheep at the end:


Elayna practices talking on the phone while taking a few steps. Also Elayna walks to Gracie. She says "Hi", and "Baby":


So, in the last post about movies, I showed Elayna walking with the help of our hands. That was in July. Then, September 16-she takes some steps on her own! Yay! Now, October 20th. She can be coaxed to walk across the room to you, but she doesn't like to do that more than once a day, maybe twice if you're lucky. Just on Sunday, the 18th, I guess she was walking more, but she doesn't do it much at home.

Movies

This video was taken in July. She was just starting to walk with us:


Elayna loves to laugh, especially where Katie is concerned. Sometimes Katie will do something, and Elayna will laugh and laugh. I don't get it most of the time, but I laugh with them, because their laughs are so contagious. Here Katie and Abby were playing with balloons, and it was apparently hilarious!


This is what meets me most mornings. I'm usually a little slow getting into their room in the morning, and they are awesome about just playing in there until I come in. Katie comes and tells me they are awake, then she goes back in and entertains Elayna. The other morning they were both just saying, "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" until I came in. Such cute girls! (this was taken in August, right about Elayna's first birthday. Note how she says Hi and waves.)


This is just a couple of different clips of Elayna. The first clip shows her getting upset that Ryan is holding onto her. The next one is her reaction to seeing the camera--climb on Mommy to get the camera! Next is Elayna dancing and singing, standing up by herself, and then getting distracted from walking. Last is Elayna meowing like a cat.

Videos and stuff

A quote from Katie, "When you was a kid, and I was a mom, like 3 months ago?" (she really likes for us to trade places, so she can be the mom. The other day she wanted to be a mom so she could take a nap. "Cause mom's tired all the time." Uh-oh. Guess I better be more energetic. :)

Speaking of energetic, this is my two girls dancing: Katie freezes up when she sees the camera, and this is pretty tame for Elayna.


We played doctor this week. She was the doctor first, and asked concernedly, "What's wrong? Does your throat hurt?" Then she put a movie on for me, of my choice. (interesting to note, most of the time, the first movie that was requested was usually not available. Like she feels that no matter what she asks for first, it just won't be there?) Then, she dropped some pretend eye drops in my mouth for my throat. Next I got a pretend shot on the neck. And then, at the end, 2 pieces of pretend candy. We then switched places. We did this for about an hour. Lucky for me, Ryan came home, so we could stop. During lunch, she said, "How you feel guys? I did heal you cause I'm Jesus."

Ryan really wants to teach Katie to speak correctly. "Say Bio. Now say physics. Biophysics."(Not really a word we have worked on, but I can't think of a suitable example at this point.) "Speak clearly, Katie." Anyways, Katie was trying to tell Ryan and I about the movie "Fox and the Hound" that she had been watching at Buppa Irma's house. She said the dog's name was "dofur". This is the conversation that followed:
Katie-Doughfur
Us-gopher?
K-No. Dahfur.
Us-Dahfur?
K-no... say Dah
Us-(laughing uncontrollably at this point) caw?
K-no. speak...
Us-clearly? Katie, we just don't understand. The fox is named Tod, right? What is the dog's name? Can you say it again?
K-I don't remember anymore.
So I came home and looked it up. It is Copper. Close to Dahfur. I think we might have made her feel bad about it, but it was just so funny.

This was supposed to be a video of Katie opening presents, but I switched to filming Elayna halfway through. She is really moving all over the place. I'm reminded why crawling is such a hard stage of a parent's life.


Elayna is pulling herself up on anything she can grab. Including Katie's legs, drawers, etc. She likes to hold fingers and walk, as long on when you walk with her, you go in the direction SHE wants.

This is some phrasing that Katie uses when she prays. It is so cute! "Thank you for we can bless the food." "Thank you for we can go to Daddy's Mommy's house."

Elayna waved at Ryan today. Opened and closed her hand at least. And, I think she might have said "Mommy" at me while I was changing her diaper. Plus, I've got to get a recording of her saying "Hi Katie!". It is so clear. It's amazing that she is talking already at 10 months.

Katie's 3rd Birthday

Happy Birthday Katie!

Katie had a fun birthday. It actually lasted about 3 days, just because schedules didn't match up. On Friday, she spent the morning with Ryan, Elayna, and I. Then Ryan and Katie went to lunch with some of Ryan's extended family. (I didn't feel well, so I stayed home with Elayna.) She came home and took a nap before Ryan's 2 softball games that night, and that was pretty much the whole day.
On Saturday, Katie opened some presents from us. The first was a backpack with books in it.Then my parents came and brought her a set of Littlest Pet Shop animals. Then she opened 2 Barbie dolls, with extra clothes and shoes. (Sidenote: So, apparently all Barbies are not the same. The first one I bought her had ballet shoes on, so normal shoes won't fit her. The 2nd Barbie has wide "normal" feet because she is a Beach Barbie. So the normal shoes won't fit her either! It's a conspiracy!) We went to Gigi's and Grandpa Joe's and she got some CD's of children music, and a baseball cap. (just like daddy, and Grandpa Joe, and David, and Uncle Ryan, etc.)

This is a video of her opening the Barbie clothes, and then the Barbies. It makes me laugh every time I watch it.

I love how she compares the clothes and shoes to herself. When Katie pulled the 2nd Barbie out of the box, the Beach Barbie was in a package. Katie just looked at the back of the box and said, "It's a beach." We got her to turn it around and look at the doll, but she acted like she had never seen a Barbie before. Odd, considering her response to the first one.


Then we had a party in our backyard. Cupcakes and ice cream. Katie loves her cousins, so it was great to have some of them there to help her celebrate. Irma and Jerry got her a fun pool thing, and some cute, cute clothes.
As if that wasn't enough, on Sunday, Clarissa, Ryan, and Ryot gave her a bag full of paint, paper, snacks, foam letters and numbers. This girl has way too many people that love her! (As if that could ever happen.)

This is Katie's little Mexican dress that Irma and Jerry got for her. She looks so cute! Her hair is getting so long. It is so beautiful! It always looks good, even if it is messy. It's just so curly and soft.
We are so glad we have Katie in our lives. She is such a joy to us. She has the sweetest smiles, she helps me with everything, and her giggle melts my heart. Katie is smart, has a great sense of humor, loves to pretend, tickles and entertains Elayna, and is just a good girl.

There is no way to adequately express how much we love her.

April 2009

This is what I like to call "Elayna's happy dance".

She does this when she wakes up; when she sees me, or Ryan, or Katie. Sometimes at night, she will nurse until she falls asleep, then wake up to burp. When I lay her on her blanket, she will do her happy dance, I'll wrap her up, and she will fall back asleep. She will also do this dance when she wants to be picked up, or when she is excited for anything. Too cute.

Elayna says "Da da" and gives a HUGE smile when she sees her dad. It is so Cute! Also, Ryan and her were "hiding" under a blanket from me. As I grew closer, saying "Elayna, where are you?" she was just giggling and squirming all over. Adorable. Today she was chewing on my chin and smiling. At first I couldn't figure out why, then I remembered that I like to tickle her under her chin, and on her chin bone. She was trying to tickle me!

Katie is so smart. I have to lock my computer so she doesn't get on it without my permission. She can get on the computer, find the bookmark of the game she wants to play, and she can play games or videos on about 3 different sites. She even recognizes some letters and numbers (either from playing them so often, or because she is smart. I'm going with the smart theory.) so she can "win" the games. Amazing.

Ryan has a pin that he has been wearing on his shirt the last couple of days. Katie saw a picture of the design on the pin and proceeded to tell me "that's Daddy's new pin? He wears that on his shirt. It has a little thing for it will not poke Daddy." (the back of the pin) She just remembers things so well. She asked Irma if she could play with Irma's little guitar. The last time Katie saw that guitar was at Christmas, and it was only for about 1/2 hour. Then, out of the blue, she remembers it, and wants to play with it. Sometimes it really scares me how much she can recall.

The girls have so much fun playing together. This is a short example:

And Elayna has just figured out how to crawl. She has been working on it for so long! She finally has gotten it down. This video is from May 1. Every day she just gets better and better. She'll be racing around the room soon.

Updates

Elayna got her first tooth on March 27th. Bottom left. Her 2nd tooth came in April 6th on the bottom right.

Elayna likes to touch her index finger to my index finger. I call it the ET touch.

Elayna has been clapping for a while, I guess. I just realized it today, but Ryan says she has been doing it for a couple of days. (now a month or so, since I wrote this in March)

I asked Katie how her nap was, did she sleep for a long time? She looked around, said "is there a clock in here? Well, I slept for 3 hours"

Elayna is so close to crawling. She folds herself in half just to reach something, but she won't go far enough to get on her tummy.

Elayna makes Da, Ma, Na, Ba, noises. She is "talking" quite a bit, it is fun.

Elayna has figured out she has eyes. She was winking at Naomi a week or so ago. It was so cute! I've got her to do it once or twice since then, but not much more than that.

This was Elayna's first attempt at eating. I love the grimace at the end of the video. Katie would do almost the same thing when she was learning to eat.


I just can NOT get enough of this laugh. It makes me smile every time.

More movies, and long stories

Elayna had her 6 month appointment on Monday, the 16th. She weighs 17 lbs, 13 oz, and is 26.5 inches long. Her height and weight are in the 75th percentile, but her head circumference is only in the 50th percentile. No worries. She is doing great, and takes her immunization shots fairly well. When Katie found out Elayna had to have shots, she asked to leave. The waiting room has a movie room, as well as a kind lady that just sits in the waiting room. The lady tries to keep the kids happy, watch kids that are staying in the movie room, and just keep the patients waiting appeased. She's nice. So Katie watched a movie while Elayna saw the doctor and got her shots.


On Tuesday, my mom's aunt Jean was visiting my parents. Katie, Elayna and I went over to visit. Amanda, Junior, and Abby (2 weeks older than Katie) also came over. Katie and Abby were playing downstairs, and Jean remembered that her pills were just sitting on top of her suitcase, so I went downstairs, shut the door, and told the girls not to go in that room. Well, about an hour later, Katie and Abby came upstairs, naked. They had evidently decided to go to the bathroom. Which was great, because Katie hadn't done that before at Mom's house. There is usually too much going on.
Well, Amanda and I went down to get their clothes and noticed, you guessed it, pills on the floor. Katie had also mentioned that she had makeup on her face, which after much prodding, we realized were bath beads that they had broken open and smeared on their faces. (Actually, Abby said she ate some, but we couldn't verify this) So, panicking a bit at this point, we got all the pills and had Jean verify what was missing. Luckily they were in those little week-long pill boxes so it wasn't too hard.
We called Poison Control (they are great, by the way) and told them that one diabetic medication called Glucaphog (no idea how to spell it) was missing. Ed told me to find out what all the other medication was, and call him back. Because, get this, there is a certain type of diabetic medicine that just happens to be fatal to children! Agh! So, really panicking now, we get the list of medicine and call him back. Thankfully, that medication wasn't on Jean's list of medicines, but it was still really scary. Ed told us to watch for vomiting, diarrhea, lethargic or unusual activity in the girls. After I got off the phone with him, I went to tell Amanda what we needed to look for, and she was crying. And that's when it hit me. This could have been so much worse! What a blessing that they didn't have any side effects (I don't know if Abby did, but Katie didn't) and didn't die or something.
About the time I got off the phone with Ed, Ryan and Jay showed up with the Chinese food for lunch. Hopefully the girls understood how serious it was. They had to sit on the couches, without talking to anyone, or playing with anything for about 30-45 minutes. They were still sitting there after we had checked for the pills, called Poison Control, checked the pills again, called Poison Control AGAIN, both mothers had started crying, and their fathers came to help.
Not an experience I want to relive. Unfortunately, I'm sure this will not be the last time I call Poison Control.

Ryan is so great. He didn't have to work on Friday, so he let me go shopping for about 3-4 hours. I'm not normally a shopping person, but it was really nice to wander around, find great deals (almost everything was 50% off), and just be by myself. (5 shirts, the most expensive being $6. A cute black skirt, some running shoes, and a pair of dress pants for Ryan) I shopped, had some lunch and yummy frozen custard, and went home. Then, on Saturday, Katie and I went grocery shopping while he watched Elayna. We didn't get the house clean, but meh, it isn't like it's really that important, right? And Ryan keeps telling me, we can always do it next week.

Elayna is not very fun to nurse right not. I think this is what goes through her mind when she nurses: I'm HUNGRY! Where is my food?! Oh good, there it is. Wait! What was that noise? Oh well, I'll keep eating. What was that!? Let me look. (at this point I will try to force her head back towards eating) Hey! That's my head! What do you think you are doing? I was looking around!
Eat more. Oh wait, is that Mom up there? Hi mom! How are you? I'm just eating. Did Katie say something? ....
you get the idea. If I'm in a dark room, just me and her, and she can't hear anyone talking, or making noise, she might just eat the whole time. Only 6 more months of this. :)

More movies for your viewing enjoyment:

2 movies for your enjoyment

This is a video of Katie dancing. She cracks me up. I hadn't seen the hand movements, or heard the song before. Come to think of it, I haven't seen them since, either. Strange.


And this is Elayna talking to me. She's so cute.

Funny Katie moments

A jumble of memories since the last time I posted (in December).

Katie got some lip gloss disguised as a pretty flower (the petals were different shades of lip gloss) for Christmas. She assumed it was a pretty flower (I wasn't going to tell her otherwise) until the girls next door came over and enlightened her. This is the result:


Katie got her flu shot the same day Elayna got her immunization shots. Katie cried when she got her shot, but she was very upset when she realized that Elayna was going to get shots also. She kept saying, "Not Elayna, no, owie". It made me feel awful. Now, Katie will come up to me and give me pretend shots, and put pretend bandages on them.

Katie will also play "dentist" and want to clean my teeth with the nearest toy. That game didn't last very long. I didn't like the idea of a phone, or an eraser, or a hair thing, etc being put in my mouth and swiped over my teeth.

One night, I went to check on Elayna, and just about tripped over Katie. She had come in our room in the middle of the night, and was curled up under her blanket at the foot of our bed on the floor. I don't know if we didn't wake up when she wanted to get in bed with us, or if she just decided that would be a nice place to lay down.

One day, after Katie had been playing in the living room by herself, I noticed what she had done with her toys and books. Where they actually belong:

Where they had been stockpiled:


Katie climbed up my baker's rack (shelves) in the living room. Of course, that is where I had the glass nativity, and the porcelain angel Ryan gave me last year, and the stained glass nativity scene. Well, when I heard the tinkle, tinkle of things falling on the ground, and then a loud thud, and a scream, I came running. I didn't have the heart to yell at Katie too much, since the shelves had fallen on her, but I was pretty upset. Thanks to super glue, they are all in mostly good as new condition.

On Christmas Eve, we had told Katie we were going to Grandma Paula and Grandpa Craig's house. I needed to drop off a neighbor gift on the way, so we actually passed my parent's house. Katie yells out "We missed it! There is Grandma's house!" She has such a good sense of direction. She can tell if we are heading the right way to go to church, or my parent's house, or Ryan's parent's house. It is amazing.

Katie was on an "Ice Age" movie binge. She had watched the movie 2 or 3 days in a row. Then one night, Ryan and I were dragging her to her bedroom, and she started quoting a part of the film.


Note that she was being dragged backwards, and the intonation and facial expression was obviously mimicking the movie. Katie-"What's this? A pinecone? My favorite!" (Crunch crunch)

Katie is trying to tell us what we have to do. We have had quite a few discussions about how Mommy and Daddy can tell Katie what to do, but she can't tell us what to do. Sometimes, if we ask her to do something, she will say, "I'm trying" or "Otay, otay" while doing nothing. It can be frustrating.

Jan 20-Katie had been playing with the bedroom doors, and I asked her to keep them all open. As I walked away, I thought I heard her close one, so as she came into the living room, I was telling her she needed to go open the door. She just looked at me, so I started counting to 5, and when she hadn't done anything, I spanked her. Her little face got all scrunched up and turned red, she started crying and she screamed, "What are you doing?!" My heart fell, and I went and looked at the doors. All open. I felt so bad. I just held her and said I was sorry until she stopped crying.

Jan 21-Katie watched David changed Tayvin's diaper. She looked at the open diaper, and gave a shocked "Huh?! What's that?" Apparently she hasn't seen much of "the way we know that Tayvin is a boy". Probably not the best explanation, but it worked.

We have a porcelain temple in the living room. This is the conversation that followed after Katie pointed to it.
K-"That's a temple!"
M-Yes, that's the temple Mom and Dad got married in"
K-One day I'll get married in the temple, and get baptized, splish, down in the water.

For some reason, she associates these together, although they should be about 15-20 years apart.


What a cutie!

Awesome Movie

I was reading another blog, and saw this link to a movie called Validation. I really enjoyed it, and think it is worth passing on. Hope you enjoy!

Validation

Cooing and Smiling

This is a video of Elayna cooing and smiling at me. It is absolutely amazing to watch her grow. When she was born, she could barely keep her eyes open. Now, just 2 months later, she is cooing and smiling; trying to carry on a conversation already.




Her 2 month doctor's visit was October 10th. She weighs 13 lbs, is 22.5 inches long, and in the 75th percentile for her head, weight, and height.

I'm not sure what Katie was at 2 months, but I found her 4 month stats. She was 13 lbs 6 oz, and 25.5 inches long.

Katie Singing and Counting

This is a video of Katie singing a couple of different songs. "Eensey Weensey Spider", The "ABC" song, (which consists of A,B,C,...W,X,Y,Z...now I know my ABC), and counting. Not necessarily in that order.

Katie and Elayna

This is when Katie saw Elayna for the first time.

Rock Band

This is a video of our Craig and Paula Evans Reunion. David brought the video game "Rock Band", which was a big hit. Everyone took turns playing and singing, but I only got a few minutes of it.

Happy Birthday Katie

Here is a short video of Katie.

Singing

Katie sings a lot now. It is so adorable. I recorded her at dinner last night. I don't know WHAT she was singing, but it is so cute. Also, at the end, she does this arms-stretched-out-thing to finish the song. First time we've seen that.

Katie's onsies are getting way too small for her, so I have started just putting a shirt on her. (Versus the onsie, then the shirt on top.) The first day I did, she pulled up her shirt and tickled herself. She does this cute little ksksks sound for tickle. It made me laugh.
Then, a day or two later, Grandma Paula was playing with her. Katie pulled up her shirt, and Grandma reached over and "took" some of her tummy and ate it. Katie just looked at her with this weird expression, and then indicated that Mom needed to give it back. So, Mom, being a good sport, "spit" out Katie's tummy (while trying very hard not to laugh) and put it back. Then Katie was happy. What a strange girl. We "eat" her tummy all the time, which apparently isn't nearly as serious as when you "take" her tummy. :)
The weather has been so nice the last couple of days. I think it actually got up to about 60 degrees today! It feels so wonderful to be outside and have the warm sun shining on us. Katie just followed me around the yard yesterday while we looked at the new plants coming up, and inspected the trees. I think we will have a fun summer.

Walking on Sunshine

Well, this is a compilation of Katie from crawling to walking to running. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. I find it so hard to believe that she was just starting to walk in May! That was only 6 months ago! In some ways it seems like she has been walking for so long now. I think my favorite part is when she is twirling, and then almost falls over because she is dizzy. It just cracks me up every time.

This movie is 4 minutes long, so be patient while it downloads.

If you click the play button, then push pause while the gray bar shows that it is downloading, and wait until the bar fills the whole length, it won't stutter while you watch it. (I think)