Oh Kate How We Love You... No Really We Do!

Kate is something of a wonder. I guess we thought since she was the fourth that we could predict her personality a little more easily than the others. Well we are not too proud to admit that we were very mistaken in our thoughts. She's our little tornado and she's just now learning to walk, I'm sure there will be more to come in the Kate Chronicles. Here's a little of what she's been up to.

Hey look there's a bowl on the table, maybe it's the dinner I refused to eat.

Yep, that's what it is.

Maybe if I mix it with my toes it will taste better.

This is so great!

Yum, it tastes much better off the floor.

Beach Pics With More To Come!

I finally emptied my camera with over a hundred pictures on it. I know, I know I'm way behind. School is out for the summer so I will attempt to not only get caught up, but to post more recent happenings as well. So this is from spring break which was in April. We thought it would be lots of fun to take the kids to the beach and it was, almost too fun. While the kids were playing in the water I took Kate to explore some tide pools. Well there was some neat stuff there so I went back and told Geoff he should take the other kids over. What I didn't realize was that just on the other side of those tide pools was the "nude" side of the beach. Let's just say that Geoff and the kids saw a whole lot more than starfish when they went exploring. Geoff's convinced I sent them over there for that very reason, but I swear I didn't see the nakeds sunbathing, I mean seriously would I send my kids to see that? Geoff maybe, but not the kids. :)

Talent Show

Emily participated in her school talent show and I've finally figured out how to get some video on here, it's only taken what a year? Anyways, here she is playing Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and reciting the poem Sick, by Shel Silverstein. Unfortunately we don't have a very good video recorder, so the sound is not great.






Ok, I am still having a hard time figuring this out. Let me know if this works.

Happy Birthday to Kate!

I'll admit I'm a little depressed writing this post. My baby is one now! How can this be? She's such a little joy to have in our family. Her actual birthday was on Wednesday, but we decided to wait for Grandma and Grumpy to get here to celebrate. So here's the party!

She knew just what to do with her fruit pizza. The fruit pizza is a bit of a tradition. It makes me feel better than putting a big frosted cake in front of them.

Oh yeah, this is yummy!

She loved the little glow worm Grandma and Grumpy gave her. It was sweet to watch her look at it.

Why open a present when you can sit on it. :)

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to...... Can you see the tear rolling down her cheek? Kate's been a little out of sorts lately, maybe she feels the same way about her birthday as I do about mine.

We love this girl!

Easter

I just wanted to post some pictures real quick for my fam. I have always wanted to do the matchy, matchy thing with my kids, so I did and I think it's pretty dang cute if you ask me. :) We still haven't done the Easter egg hunt, so sorry no pictures of that yet.

My kids crack me up. It's amazing how little it takes to make them happy. Case in point, Geoff pulled a palm tree out of our garden this afternoon. The kids immediately started gathering the palm fronds and buliding them a "tiki house." They do this kind of stuff all the time. Give them a box and they will play for hours in it. It's amazing to me how entertained they can make themselves. It really does support the idea that kids don't need you to buy them loads of stuff to make them happy, but you do have to go sit in the fort for awhile. We are supposed to dye Easter eggs this afternoon, but they are too busy building their fort to care about the eggs. Don't worry they'll come around.

The engineers at work.

Now that the work is done Ryan can come and relax.

The "tiki room"

Complete with fans

I just thought that this photo was hilarious. We took the kids out for pizza, something we rarely do, and a 1970 World Series baseball game was going on. You can see how interested in pizza our boys are.

Nate the Slugger

I don't have much to report on. The kids are good, life's trucking along. I did have a friend send me some pics of Nathan playing baseball so I thought I would share. Easter pictures coming soon....