Sesame Place

On Sept. 30th, we went to Sesame Place with Dave, Karen, Angie, and Jared. They are season members there and invited me, Katie, Maddie, and Mom-Mom to join them for a fun day with Big Bird, Elmo, and all the Sesame Street characters on Bring-A-Friend Day. We had a great time!

Katie playing on the bouncy mat with the big blocks.
She could have stayed there all day!

Jared, Maddie, Katie, and Angie playing in the nets

Me, Mom-Mom, and Katie
(I'm finally in a picture, lol)

We got to see Lazy Town! :-)

Katie and Karen watching Lazy Town

Katie and her future boyfriend Jared
(I approve, I like his family! lol)

Katie and Maddie on the Sesame Street steps

C is for Cookie...

Maddie, Jared, Angie, Cookie Monster, Karen, and Katie
(Katie wasn't digging the characters... Disney will be fun!)

Karen's Bachelorette Party

I haven't had a chance to add anything here for a while so hopefully over the next couple of days, I'll be able to get us up-to-date! On 9/29, Mom-Mom and Pop had a block party where we celebrated 9th Maddie's birthday:

Maddie blowing out her candles

The Birthday Party "Glee Club"

We also got Karen's Bachelorette Party started there

Jen D., Chrissy, Karen, Jen M., Sandi

Then we moved it over to Breen's for some karaoke and free shots! Once people knew it was Karen's Bachelorette Party, they kept sending over shots. Yeah for free drinks! :-)

Notice Jen M. trying to keep her head up. It was that kind of night! lol

The "Sisters" - Sandy and Karen

If I had a million dollars... (I'd get these girls some singing lessons!)

And just for the record, this is Chrissy NOT doing shots ever again! (She gave them up...)

Never touching those things again!

Just pouring for everyone elseJust taste testing for everyone else, lolDarn, I can't believe I just did that!

Tom and Kerri's New House

A couple of weeks ago, we went to visit my cousins Tom and Kerri and see their new house (which is only "up the road a piece" from ours!). We also got to see Aunt Mary since she was up visiting for the weekend. It was really nice because we don't get to see her much since she lives in Virginia. Tom and Kerri have a big pond in their backyard and Katie loved feeding the fish and sitting on the "dock". Katie had a great time, she would have gladly stayed with Kerri and Tom to watch Shrek. I think we'll have to go visit them again soon! Aunt Mary took some pictures, here they are...

Me, Karen, and Tom watching Kerri and Katie feed the fishies

Katie on the "dock"

A water lily in the pond

Good Job Mommy

We are potty training Katie and always give her some praise when she goes on the potty. Tonight I put Katie to bed and then I had to go to the bathroom. Katie called from her room, "What are you doing Mommy?". I said "I'm going potty." Katie: "Ok". So then after I was finished, I hear her call out "Good job Mommy!" Hmm, do I get a sticker too?

Princesses

Tonight me and Katie were driving home and Katie was really quiet for a while (a rarity!). Then all of the sudden, out of no where she said "Me and Juli are princesses." I said "Really?" and she said "yeah..." (trailing off). And that was the end of that conversation.

Um, ok, so tell us something we didn't already know! :-)

Irish Lassie

In honor of Wildwood's Irish Weekend, which we didn't get to this year, Katie is sporting her Irish gear today!

Katie's First Post

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Katie wanted to type too!

We might be on to something here...

The past three nights Katie has gone willingly into her room at bedtime, laid right down, fell asleep, and slept 12 hours. (After way too many nights of screaming and winding up in our room in the middle of the night!) On Friday, I even had to wake her to go to school, which she was not too thrilled about. The catch... she only wants to sleep on the floor! Every night I try to convince her to sleep in the bed and she isn't interested. So we set up her blanket on the floor and she goes right to sleep! I'm not too worried, Maddie did the same thing for a long time but she sleeps in her bed just fine now. I'm sure eventually Katie will realize the bed is actually more comfy!

Our Budding Picasso

Katie's new favorite thing to do... color, draw, and use stickers! Keeps her busy, quiet, and in one place for a long time. (I like this new hobby! LOL)

A Pick Me Up

So I'm not sure this will be as funny in words as it was in person but...

I was doing the dishes and Katie was hanging out in the kitchen with me. All of the sudden I hear her making straining noises. "Uggggghhhhhh!!!!" "Uggggghhhhhh!!!!" I turned around and saw her squatting down on the floor like a sumo wrestler with her hands behind her knees, pulling on her legs with all her might.

I said "WHAT are you doing???" As serious as could be, she said "I'm trying to pick myself up!" LOL

She was trying to lift herself up with her hands and couldn't figure out why she couldn't get herself off of the ground. So funny!!!