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What is up with the blog?

I updated the blog last weekend, but it didn’t post for some reason (hm). So, here are two batches of pictures from our last two weekends. You can see that one of our family projects this weekend was washing our very dirty cars. Katherine took it as her personal mission to make sure that our bucket remained full of soapy water – “more soap.” She must have put several tablespoons of dishwashing soap into the bucket. She even decided that “tata” had her own towel! The amusing part of this story is that Steve decided to futz with a PC to get some music. About 20 minutes later, I had finished the sedan and K had started in on the wagon! One hour later our cars were washed, vacuumed and wiped down. We even excavated K’s car seats.

Shiver

One of Katherine’s new words when she’s cold is “shiver.” On Sunday, she got sopping wet and we ended up stripping her and changing her clothes. Last night, I walked in the house and found K standing at the back door. She looked very unhappy, saying “Shiver….hold me.” So, I pulled her up and within 30 seconds, she had gotten sick all over me. I was racing up the stairways and to the bathway, thereby ensuring that Steve had quite the cleanup job. ๐Ÿ™‚

She doesn’t really have a fever, just a slight 99.5 at most. But, she does have a slight stomach bug. Tonight she had crackers and applesauce for a quick snack. What’s unheard of for her is that she sat on my “lap” and read books tonight. We watched 10 minutes of Olympic swimming (TV is a treat only when she’s sick!), with her cuddled on a pillow under a blanket on the couch. It’s amazing, even when she’s sick she still kept me on my toes tonight.

Swim Party

We went to a swim party this past Saturday to celebrate a friend’s birthday. Part of the fun was watching Steve blow up some of the plastic animals. Well, it took a while but Katherine finally ventured onto a plastic bee with Steve. ๐Ÿ™‚

Let’s try this again

I’m going to have to provide feedback to our web site provider, since I just lost my original posting. Let’s try this post again…

Katherine needs to go back to the pool! She’s been doing little froggie pushups in her bath – pushing up and down on her arms while leaning on her knees. She then leans forward and blows a bubble or two in the water. She then sits up and laughs out loud. She’s really getting the hang of being in the water and I think she’d enjoy some of our water baby exercises now. Apparently, she’s been floating on her back in her bath – so this is a good sign!

Katherine loves her ABC book. We flipped through it at least 2 times tonight, pointing to different objects. She would point at objects and we’d say the word. Occasionally, she would say the word too. Unprompted, we got “abble” and “egh.” Once we said the word, we got “babee” and “dohl” for doll. This morning, she grabbed Patty’s house key and said “dohr” for door.

We went mountain biking on Sunday morning. We strapped Katherine into her Chariot (it’s got a neck harness and seat belt) and we went careening thru a nearby park set of trails. Luckily, we put down the clear plastic cover on the Chariot, because it got covered in mud and dirt. Nevertheless, she seemed to do well – munching on raisins and asking for “agua” (e.g. Steve’s water bottle). The only time she made any sort of noise was when Steve would go down the steeper trails with wooden bars – then we’d hear “ahhh ahhh ahh” along with the bumps. I asked her this morning “Did you have fun with Daddy biking and did he go fast?” I got vigorous head nodding and smiling. I guess that means we’ll be biking again. Unfortunately, Steve’s bike gave up the ghost and two links, so Tina towed Katherine home from the park.