Oogly Boogly

Kate and her Uncle Robby have a special way of communicating.

That's a Mouthful

Kate, how many puffs can you fit in your mouth??

Oh, ok... that is how many!

Make sure to chew them up good.

What can I say... She loves her puffs :)

Way, Way Overdue

Well, a lot has been going on the last couple of weeks to say the least. Sorry it's been so long since I posted last. When Kate doesn't nap well, I don't get computer time! Thanks to my blackberry I can at least get e-mails :) I hope to get everyone up to date very soon.

For now I just want to share these cute pictures and story.

Kate and I had to go by Sears the other day to pick up some vacuum cleaner bags and while we were at Southlake Mall I had to show Kate the carousel. First, we just stood and watched as the other children took turns riding. Then Kate started dancing to the sweet little music and I had to let her ride. Anyone who knows Kate, knows that she usually has no fear but today was a little different. Once we got on and strapped her in I took three steps back to take this picture and she became petrified. I don't know if she was afraid of falling or being "alone" on the ride but she was not having it. As the ride started she wanted to stay on the horse but also wanted to cling (ok, it was more like a death grip) to my neck as I stood by her. Needless to say we were some sort of scene. Kate's body going up with the horse, her arm and head staying stationary with me, me trying to move with the ride that was already at my shoulder level so she wouldn't strangle me, me trying to convince Kate to hold onto the pole, all while the other moms watch and wave to their smiling, laughing children.

These are the pictures I took right before she "realized" she didn't like carousels:

I'll just leave it at that. No need to elaborate on the next, not so pretty, 5 minutes. :)

SnOw Much Fun

That's exactly what the snow was...SO much fun. Kate loved the snow. She wanted to throw (well it was more like drop) snowballs for hours. She didn't care that it was 30 degrees outside and that her little fingers were about to get frostbite. All she wanted to do was play, play, play.

Of course she had to bring her juice with her, just in case she got thirsty.

This is our miniature snowman. Because our yard was saturated from the 2 previous days of rain, the snow on the ground turned into slush rather than staying true snow, so we had to use the snow on the truck to play with. After all the snowballs Kate threw there wasn't much left to make a snowman with. He's cute anyways!

Whether rain or snow, Kate is going to ride her tricycle, literally!

While the rest of us were out in the snow having fun, this is where Trip stayed. He might have been the smartest one in the family :)

The perfect way to end the perfect day!

The Snow Dance

Spaghetti Face Kate

The Greatest Show on Earth

On Sunday we got up at our regular time, ate our regular breakfast, got dressed in our regular fashion, packed the regular stuff in our bag, and loaded up the car like regular...sounds kinda like a boring day doesn't it... but this day was anything but "regular". Instead of turning into the church parking lot like we usually do we zoomed on by and headed a little further south to Aunt Erica and Uncle Earl's house. From there we headed to the big top in the city for some fun and entertainment at...



Ella and Kate headed straight for the arena floor for the pre-show action. Here they are stopping for a photo opt.


This is Kate trying on her clown nose! That look looks good on you girl :)

Ella, Aidan, and Kate enjoyed watching some sort of jump rope-gymnastics thing.

Kate was definitely getting into it. Here she is saying "Hey, I can do that too!"

The jugglers were impressive!

When we headed back to our seats look what we found...

A clown! Oh, what's that you say? That's not a clown? It's Uncle Earl? You coulda fooled me :)

And the show begins!

She's mesmerized!

Yes, those are goats standing on the backs of miniature horses. I must say I was impressed too!

I think the 7 motorcycles in the the steel ball was Aunt Erica's favorite.

During intermission Erica and I were the girls entertainment. As a side note, Erica and I probably have 100, ok maybe not 100, but a lot of pictures in this exact pose. Earl even commented on how it looked exactly like the one he took right before this with a different camera. What can I say? We've perfected the BFF closeup shot.

Kate found Cooper's popcorn while he was gone and decided to help herself.

A cute picture of Ella.

And the show continues...




I couldn't tell if Cooper's look of concentration was focused on the tigers or the cotton candy but it's cute either way!



A little coke makes everything more interesting.

The rest of the crew.
"Wow, look at that!"

Aren't the elephants cute? I think they were my favorite part.

The final celebration with confetti and all!

We said goodbye to the elephants once again as we left. How did they get outside so fast?



Everyone had a total blast! Thanks Uncle Earl for the tickets. We will never forget all the fun we had.