Pretty Baby

Tickled about her new dress.


Playing in the grass.







Can't believe I just bribed her to sit still... with a cookie.

Not Me! Monday

I haven't been much in the blogging sort of mood lately, and a friend recently reminded me that I was falling down on my job. You know, the job I have keeping all of Kate's fans happy with lots of photos and stories and the like. So I was sitting here looking for inspiration and then I realized it's MONDAY!

How perfect! A compilation of things that I did not do since my last post. I thought about how glad I was that I would never put both of Kate's legs into one leg hole of her pajamas or buckle her face into her seatbelt (that's impossible anyway, right?). And then... I did not totally draw a blank, turning a potentially hilarious post into a dud. Argh.

In attempt to redeem myself, I will use lights and mirrors and pictures of Kate to distract you from my recent lack of motivation. And she's cute, so it should totally work. I was not too lazy to edit the video of her "jumping" rope.... maybe tomorrow?

More pool time.

Helping Daddy.

Flag.

The Little Chef

Kate has her own kitchen now. And it's stocked.

Thanks Amanda, Robert and Nicole! She's been cooking up a storm!


Here she is surveying all of the food.


We definitely need to have a talk about what goes in the microwave.


Talking on the phone (to Nanna). "Hey Nanna! Do Nanna?"

Is it Friday yet?`

Yes? Ok good.

In the mean time....


Shog boots!

We haven't melted... yet....

By all measures, we should have melted by now.

We even spent some time outside.

I'm pretty sure Foster would melt first.

Love the outfit, don't you?

You can also tell from the state of our house that we spent quite a good deal of time inside, away from the heat.

Don't worry... we've recovered from tropical storm Kate.

Playing in the shade.

Lots of swinging to keep Kate cool.


The highlight of Kate's weekend? The dollhouse. The toilet flushes, the doorbell rings, the tub splashes, the washer and dryer make noises. She must have played with it (and narrated) for at least an hour.

Sweet Dreams

I have been meaning to do a post about sleeping Kate. She likes to sleep with blankets covering her face, which breaks Rule #1 of preventing SIDS. The real problem is that she likes to sleep in the dark. Yeah, I know, that's pretty maverick. It also makes for pretty low quality pictures that don't do her sleep positions any justice. See?


And I find myself wondering if she dreams and what she dreams about. Apparently, so did this mom. See for yourself by clicking HERE. I promise, you won't be disappointed!!

Maybe you haven't noticed...

That we go to the zoo almost every time I have a day off! And am I going to keep boring you to tears with all of the zoo pictures. Yep! Looks like I am.

Was it hot? Oh, yeah.


Did we use the Carousel as an excuse to cool off? You bet!


Did we use also use the heat as an excuse to eat ice cream? Perhaps.


Did it stop us from sliding on the big "slide-board?" Absolutely not!


You do know why we went to the zoo, right? The Toucans didn't disappoint. We may have even snagged one on the way out.

If the Shoe Fits

I'm in love with a pair of shoes, and they aren't even mine.

Weekend

The weekend seemed long. Ok, maybe today just seemed long. Here's what we did to occupy the time.

Went to the park. We were on a mission to find a seesaw. Mission remains unaccomplished.


I discovered the best way to let a 19 month old "paint." Remember those books that had the watercolors already on the page? Add water and voila!


This led to a MAJOR toddler meltdown. She's never pitched a fit quite like that one. To calm her down, she watched a video on youtube about a toucan. And when it stopped? She screamed. So we watched it a LOT.


And then today... Kate head-bumped her little table.

What...

...have we been up to the past few days?

Snacking with Cats.

More swimming.

Playing in mud puddles (yes, no mud).

Saying "Cheese"

Ballet Baby

Today Kate was all about the tutu. Just like her favorite book - "Ballet Kitty." She wore it to Starbucks with a green top that hardly matched. But she was a cutie. Here she is in the front yard picking my flowers in her tutu.

And here are a few fun pictures from our road trip to Rome, GA. Don was on business and I tagged along. We do love exploring new places!

They take their similarities to Rome, Italy pretty seriously. This statue is from Italy, I guess because they share the same name and both have 7 hills. Just in case you didn't take Latin and learn all this stuff. That's Romulus and his twin brother Remus, who were raised by a She-wolf (The Capitoline Wolf is a very famous statue). Then Romulus killed Remus and founded Rome. Or something like that (it has been 20 years - yikes!).

At the top of the hill that's downtown, there is a great park with a clock tower. Beautiful and quiet. I sat a few minutes under a tree.

A view from the park.

I found this great little bakery downtown to have a croissant and cappuccino.

It was awfully tempting not to have one of these yummy cupcakes.

Tree-lined downtown streets.

A nice trip with the best guacamole EVER at Rosa Mexicano on the way home (thanks Ashleigh for introducing me to it!!!).

All American Girl

Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July weekend.

We took advantage of the long weekend and headed to one of our favorite spots: Charleston!

On the beach at Sullivan's Island.

Family feet photo.

Playing in the sand.

Just hanging out.

Happy 4th!

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