Sickness!!!

Katie is sick again! It started out with runny nose, fever, cough. Finally I got my mom to take her to the doctor and she has another ear infection. I am glad we did because we will be going to the beach this weekend. Katie went to Kayals today. Kayla is awesome at taking pictures. She needs to go into buisiness but she wont. Enjoy!

Easter 09

What a great Easter we had! The first part of the weekend was not so fun. Shannon had another death in the family and it was very sad. Katie is sick again! She had fever Thursday night but of course it was gone by Friday afternoon. Snotty nose and coughing again. Anyway. Saturday night she was up all night croup coughing so needless to say we did not make it to sunrise service. We did however make it to the 11:00 service. It was a wonderful service and you could just feel Jesus in the room. The Easter bunny did come and see Katie. She got a set of plastic golf clubs and a purse with "fake" make up in it. She was so excited. Later that day we went to Wes and Tonyas (brother of Shannon) house to have a big Easter lunch and then the big egg hunt. We hid 148 eggs and the kids actually found all of them. The babies got about a 2 minute head start. Katie did great. We had practiced earlier in the week so she new exactly what to do. She even got 2 money eggs. You will notice that she is in a dress but loves all of the "boy" toys. She also has a thing right now with sticking her tongue out. If anyone has any suggestions on that one please let me know. Sorry the video is blurry..we had a rookie doing the video shoot...DADDY! Hope you enjoy. I am off today and may not get out of my pj's all day. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family and a wonderful God to make all of it possible! I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Spring is in the Air!!

Wow I didn't realize it had been a month since my last post. We have been so busy. The week before Spring Break was awful. My sister in law passed away, my mom was put into the hospital, and Katie and I both got sick. That week and half into Spring Break is a blur. by Wednesday Katie started feeling better. We made a short trip to the zoo and had an afternoon at the park. I really needed one more week to enjoy, but now we are back into the swing of things.
Katie is changing so much everyday. She has learned so many new expressions, actions, and words. She keeps me running. As you can tell by the pictures it is hard to get a good one. She does not stop moving. She has a shoe fettish. She wants everyone to wear shoes and she wants to wear everyones shoes. When we went to the park she would get a kids shoe and take off running. It was so funny. She still only has 4 teeth in her mouth, but she will eat just about anything you give her. Peas will always come back out! One of her favorite things to eat is guacamole. She really does not like sweets. She might eat a bite and then spit it out. She is learning to say names. I am mommy, Shannon is momma (lol), my mom is Nani, Regan is Rae Rae, Adam is Ada, Dad is Daddy. It is amazing what she has learned just in the last couple of weeks. She loves to read books and be read to. Nani is the best at reading because she does all of the sound effects. Katie is a girlie girl inside the house and a tomboy outside the house. Inside she wants her purse, makeup, and even wants to wear panties. Outside she wants to run, play in the dirt, and splash in the mud puddles. She is an all american girl. What more can you ask for! :)

Snow pictures and video!

I was surprised to wake up this morning to SNOW! At three I looked out and it wasn't doing anything outside. I thought the forecasters had missed again, but at 7:30 the ground was covered. Katie was so excited. She just kept going to each window pointing and smiling. Technically this is her second snow but last year she was only about 3 weeks old when it snowed. I layered her up this morning with two of everything. Two shirts, two pair of pants, two pairs of socks, a sweatshirt, hat, gloves, and her fur coat. She was like the kid in the Christmas Story movie who could hardly walk. She loved the snow at first..that is until she fell face first into it. After that she was ready to go in. We put her in the tub to warm up! Enjoy the pictures and videos!

New Dress!

Katies YaYa sent her a new dress today. She was so excited to get a package in the mail. I had to put her in the dress as soon as I saw it. It was so cute!!!!! Here are some pictures. A video will be coming soon. Thanks YaYa!

So Busy!

Things have been so busy lately. I really don't know what I did with all of my time before Katie came along. I thought I was busy then but no way. Katie has basically skipped the walking stage and is now running everywhere. Shannon thought it would be fun to play chase and now that is all we do.

Katie is into everything and on everything. She is a climber. The other night mom kept her while we went out with some friends. Mom was wiping off the table. She turned around and Katie had managed to get the dishwasher open. She was standing in it, pulled out the top rack, and was rearranging the cups. The other night she had climbed up on the side table and was playing with the answering machine. She is a mess but so much fun right now.

We had our first experience with '"blood" the other night. She fell and sat down hard. She started crying and her mouth was filling with blood. I was a nervous wreck. I scooped her up and was literally walking in circles trying to figure out what to do. (Shannon was still at work) All of a sudden I thought...Popsicle! (for those of you that don't know I always have popsicles in my fridge for kids that come over) I gave her one...it stopped the crying, bleeding, and the panic. I was able to see just a little nick on the tip of her tongue...but it sure did bleed a lot. I figured out I am not great in emergencies.

Katie is now calling Shannon mommy. It is very funny. She is mimicking a lot of what we are doing. Her hair is a mess. It is straight and I can't do much with it. I am finally able to pull it up on top of her head. I love it but as soon as she realizes it is there she pulls it out. It is a constant battle.

I have posted a few pictures and video. Let me assure you that in the video when she falls it is her hand that hits the table. It sound awful and it looks like her head but it wasn't. As you will see in the video I thought it was bad, but turned out to be ok. I have a feeling we will be headed to the ER before the year is up. She is a clumsy daredevil!