Mar 15

We are lucky enough to have a really nice park area in our development, just a short walk down the street, with a nice playground and plenty of room to run crazy.  We headed there after naps and met up with our neighbor and her kids, and her sister with her kids.
Katherine loves to run and says she's practicing for her "kids half-marathon".

 

Ring around the rosey with Fiona, Phoebe, and their mommies Clare and Ellen.

 

Weeeeee!

 

Daniel and Fiona having a little toddler date on the swings

 

Happy boy!

Mar 14

Naptime was pretty funny today.    Katherine was singing and having a very enthusiastic, lively dialog between a few of her stuffed animals.  I didn't think she would fall asleep.  She was pretty loud, and then all of a sudden - silent.  I think she fell asleep mid-sentence, all sprawled out.

Marching on . . .

After this post, I'll be all caught up with posts for this year!  Hopefully I can do better at keeping up-to-date from this point.  Picture talking total so far- January: 1172, February 620.

Mar 1, 2011  Daniel just loves to play trains!  He's getting good at making longer chains of cars and pushing them around.

 

Mar 2, 2011  Katherine and Callum, the boy next door.  We are so fortunate to have great neighbors, at least on one side of us.

 

Daniel and Fiona

Mar 3, 2011  Today was Jonah's first birthday!  Our friend Sarah invited me and the kids over in the morning for a playdate, and everyone had a great time.  Happy Birthday, Jonah Bologna.  :)

Mar 5, 2011  Because he was already pretty good at being one-year-old, having had two days of experience under his belt and all, Jonah wanted us to come over again to celebrate!  Sarah did a fabulous job with organizing the party, making enough food for an army or two, fun treat bags for the kids, and yummy "J" and "1" cookies for everyone to take home.  It was a great party.

It was pretty warm (by early March standards), so the kids had fun running around the backyard when we got there.

 

Jonah did a nice job of digging into the icing on his smash cake.  Yum!

 

 

Our college friends Denise and Mike came with their three kids.  Katherine and Kaleigh are just a few weeks apart in age.  They bonded right away and played together for most of the party.

 

Daniel thought all the balloons were fun to play with.

 

And he did his share to help clean up when the party was over.

 

Katherine declared Sarah to be the queen, gave her this tiara to wear, and said everyone had to obey her the rest of the day.  She really loves Sarah.  :)

 Mar 6, 2011  Katherine had a fun afternoon with Grandpa at Lehigh Country Club.  They had a special kids event with characters, games, magic tricks, balloon animals, and then dinner.  She got to meet Captain Jack Sparrow (from Pirates of the Caribbean), Batman, and Cinderella.

 

They had a "chicken dance" contest, and Katherine was the champion!

 

She may need to work on her limbo technique.

 

Cinderella did Katherine's face painting.

 

Jack Sparrow made her a balloon flower.

 

And then she pretended to be Spiderman . . .

 

And Grandpa.

Mar 7, 2011  Sometimes being the little brother means you're stuck wearing a tiara.

Mar 8, 2011  Daniel has just started to become interested in Elmo.  He won't watch Sesame Street but he loves the Elmo books we have, and thinks Dancing Elmo is pretty funny.

 

He really loves to color now.  The hard part is keeping the crayons out of his mouth!

Mar 9, 2011  Silly Kat!

Mar 10, 2011  Gym class fun!

 

Kids night at Perkins was face painting.  Katherine chose the "pink princess" design.

Mar 11, 2011  Kim, Emily, and Andrew came up this weekend from MD to visit.  Katherine and Daniel had a great time playing with their cousins.  Daniel and Andrew formed a band . . .

 

While Katherine and Emily showed off their vocal abilities.

 

Gram and Grandpa with all four of the grandkids!

Mar 12, 2011  Katherine modeled her new swimsuit for us before heading over to Gram and Grandpa's house to swim in their hot tub.

Mar 13, 2011  All snuggly in the morning.  This bear was sent to her for Valentines Day 2010 by Uncle and Joanie.  It's so soft and is easily her favorite of her stuffed animals!