Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Videos

Here are some cute videos of Kate.

This was a great story she was telling us in the car about a "big bird". The story eventually turned into the Barney song, and then she ended with so much sweetness, I could just eat her up.



And, here's some fun that Daddy and Kate had at bath time.



Here's Kate showing off her weirdness.



Last, here's Kate telling the story about seeing a deer at Mimi and Papa's.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Sweet Kate

Here's Kate in the car the other night. Ahh, her sweet voice...


Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Little People in our Life

We love these little people!

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Check out the Jack Man's hair!!

Friday, April 9, 2010

Our Egg-celent Easter

Just had to throw that "egg-celent" in there. I am a first grade teacher, you know!

We had a fantastic Easter weekend! We got to do lots of fun stuff and clocked a lot of family time.

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We dyed our Easter eggs on Saturday morning. This was Kate's first time and she really got a kick out of it.

The kit came with a "magic crayon". It was just a clear wax crayon, but when you drew on the egg with it, that part wouldn't get dye on it.

Kate gave this "magic crayon" a try, but got frustrated when she couldn't see it on the egg.

I told her that you can't see it until you dye the egg. For some reason, she took that to mean that she wasn't supposed to look while drawing with it.

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She probably broke more eggs than she dyed, but she had a great time.

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We also painted these fun little things.

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On Easter day, we went to church and then had lunch with Mark's family.

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We feasted on wonderful food, the kids got some Easter goodies, and Kate had an egg hunt with Gran and Nanny.

We also visited Mark's great aunt, Judy, who is dealing with cancer treatment right now. Poor thing. But, it was nice to see members of Mark's extended family that we don't get to see very often.

After visiting with Mark's family, we headed to my family's house for dinner and some more fun. The kids got more Easter baskets and goodies.
The weather was so nice, so we tried to get some good pictures of both kids together.

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See how well it went? Poor Jack!

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This was after I had changed out of my dress... I always forget that I want to take pictures of all of us. At Kate's 2nd birthday, by the time I remembered I wanted a family picture of us, I was already in my pajamas!!

In the middle of all of this picture taking, Kate stepped on my new sunglasses and broke them! See how sorry she was? :) Yeah, right!!

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That last picture is so very "Kate".

After Kate got out of her Easter dress, she got her Easter basket from us. I bought her a little jewelry set with clip on earrings. Even when I bought it, I didn't think she would wear the earrings, but I figured I'd give it a try anyway. Turns out, she LOVED them!

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She wore them while she had yet another egg hunt.

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The night before, Kate convinced me to buy her a wiffle ball set at the grocery store. So, we pulled it out after her egg hunt. She actually didn't do too bad.

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Let me tell you, this girl was D.I.R.T.Y. when the day was done. She crashed hard that night. Actually, we ALL did!!!

It was such a nice day... beginning with the rememberance of what this day is truly about, and ending with memories made with family and friends.


Thursday, April 8, 2010

Jack Man

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This little guy is starting to get a little personality.

He smiles and coos when he sees us.

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He is staying awake for longer periods of time (like during this little photo shoot when he was SUPPOSED to be asleep).

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But, most of the time, he looks something like this.

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That serious stare, taking it all in, and contemplating life. Just like his Daddy.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Jack & Kate

This video cracks me up. Poor Jack is just looking up at his Mama and then in comes Kate's big head with her hair falling all in his face. :)