Happy Thanksgiving!

Today we give thanks for all of the wonderful blessings in our life, and obviously, a big one this year is the addition of Kate to our family. This will officially be her last "first" holiday, which I can hardly believe is possible. So here is our baby, no longer a baby but a toddler, enjoying her first Day of Thanks.

How Are You?

This morning I realized that when I asked Kate, "how are you?" she actually answered me, over and over, with the same answer. I can't believe it, but this afternoon I caught it on tape. Here it is!

PS - Happy Birthday to Aunt Sheri and Brenna today!

Alphabet Pal Goes Away

A few months ago Brad and I decided it was time to purchase some educational toys to help stimulate Kate. Brad picked out Alphabet Pal (seen in this video), mainly because he quickly realized that using the phonics function of the toy, he could make it say dirty words. Recently during a playdate, the triplet's mom said, "doesn't that thing drive you crazy?" Well, when her kids played with it they dragged it across the tile and hardwood floors as fast as they could go, so the answer was yes. At that time, when Kate played with it she just pushed the buttons and made it sing the ABC's over and over. Well, this last weekend Kate figured out what Alphabet Pal's string was for. And so, for the health and safety of Annie The Dog, and for the sanity of #'s 1-2, Alphabet Pal may be finding a new home very soon... maybe Joey Cooper would like it!

Bath Time

I don't normally bring the camera into bath time, but lately we've had so much fun during this evening ritual, it seemed time to share it. Leading up to Day Light Savings, trying to keep Kate awake -and happy- later than usual, in addition to her recent distaste for afternoon naps, has led to rather noisy, sad, tired evenings. Bath time; however, is always fun.

Additionally, I continue to hear from our family and friends viewing the blog that Kate looks so much like Brad. I admit that from time to time I see it, but normally I think she just looks like herself with my same baby hair, skin and eye coloring. Well, I cannot deny these pictures look EXACTLY like Brad.

Enjoy!

Playground!

I tried to tell Kate to wait her turn and not to push or bite her friends on the playground, but she was just a terror...

Okay, none of that is true (someday soon I'm sure it will be), but Kate did recently try out the swings at a local playground and thought quite highly of them, so we headed back today with the camera. Enjoy - and turn the volume up so you can hear the giggles!