Long awaited for birthday party pics.. uh huh

I've been getting yelled at for not posting so here we go. To be fair we did just get back from vacation. To be honest we just left last Friday, so we weren't gone that long. I will have to post some vacation pics later, we had a lot of fun.

Katie is coming up with quotes faster than I can write them down. She has made a visible change having turned 5. It's like she feels a year (okay 10) older. And can I just say - I don't like it!!! Okay, that's done.

And my 5 year old doing her nails for the first time like she's been doing them for 10 years already. Ugh.

Oops ... forgot a couple pictures...

Birthday celebration with the cats....


It's amazing how quiet she can be when we're sleeping.

Pictures as promised

Katie's new bike.

Island girl Katie
My little pre-teen... I had to have them do one shot zoomed in on the feet. Gotta love kids' feet.
Her close up.

Now, I know that you guys are going to be shocked by this, but the woman taking her picture laughed at her because when she said "Ready?" once to Katie while she wasn't really paying attention, Katie immediately got on point. It was hysterical - like she was at a real model photo shoot.

Life with a FIVE year old!!!!

Today is Katie's birthday! Actually she turns 5 well after she will be asleep tonight, butI'm not going to bother her with the details. I'm sure that I'll have more than one post about her birthday since we started celebrating yesterday and her actual party isn't until next Sunday. We just couldn't get our act together - and really still haven't since we're doing a guest list more by word of mouth than sending invitations! So if you are reading this, you're invited! LOL

Yesterday we went to get her picture taken and buy her big birthday present. This morning when JC and I got up we realized she had already started celebrating with the cats.

I seem to be having trouble posting pics this morning, so I'll try again later.

But in the meantime....

At work with Katie

Yesterday Katie went to work with me. We are just now recovering. We moved my office on Friday, so this was a new area for her to explore. Luckily we had no one from outside the office coming in yesterday because she had taken over. Amidst the boxes I set up my wipe board for her and let her go with the markers. She did quite a bit of artwork complete with her name. I should take the camera tomorrow and take a picture of it.

She also had brought her barbies - naked of course, stuffed animals and a dinosaur. She set them up around the conference room table but left one seat for herself and one for - my boss. She then convinced him to have a meeting. Apparently had a lot to tell him about her cousin Patrick and how he was killing off the pets. I personally think Patrick is getting a bad rap, it was one pet and I don't know that Patrick had anything to do with it, but I'm investigating.

She also made my bosses office the place where the "bad" animals had to go for a time out. Luckily my boss is great with kids and his daughter is on vacation with his wife so he needed a kid fix. I guess it could have been worse. She could have started talking about sleeping attire. Ahem.

Nana gets busted!

Finally someone else is getting in trouble!

Katie was at Mom & Dad's yesterday and was taking a walk with Nana. She had been trying to get Nana to say hi to everyone they saw, but when Nana stopped to talk to one of the neighbors Katie went running back to the house to tell Papa "Nana is talking to strangers, you'd better come!" Papa walked around the house with her and told her that it was okay because Nana knew the person. When Nana told Katie that she knew the person (Nana had not known why Katie had run off) Katie told her, "Well you didn't introduce me, how was I supposed to know?"

I have repeated what I have been told, if there are any errors I'm sure that someone - Dad - could clear them up.

That's my kid - she tattles on everyone! But at least I know she has the stranger concept down.

Pool time!

Okay, here' s the munchkin!!! Who, by the way, has been her usual sweet self 90% of the time lately. I know it won't last, but I'm going to enjoy it while it does.

Okay, on to something more fun...for me...

Fun at the zoo. Before my sweet little 4 year old turned into a 13 year old and started hating me. How does that happen this young?


She's going to be 5 at the end of this month. Does that mean I have to change my blog title?


By the way, that's daddy in the tree in case you didn't notice him.

Let's play how have your kids embarrassed you!

For those of you who don't have kids, you can sit back and laugh at everyone else.

Katie spent the night at my Mom & Dad's this weekend. Mom and Dad were taking her upstairs to bed and Katie turned to them and said "I'll have you know your daughter sleeps naked."

Someone please pipe in with something worse. Please? Ugh.

Happy Father's Day!!!!

Happy Father's Day to all the great dad's out there!!! JC had to be at the firehouse today, so we celebrated yesterday. Guess what he wanted for Father's Day? An ice cream maker! Guess we all win on that one!

(Roddy, hope you got to spend the day with the girls!)

JC is in such trouble

JC took Katie out last night to a carnival. I was out with my sisters. Apparently I need to hire a babysitter for JC too. Katie's bed time is 8 pm. I got back home at around 8:30 pm. No Katie or JC. I went up to our room and started watching TV. At 9:30 pm, I heard them come in the front door. I'm listening to them and had to laugh at Katie.

JC: Go upstairs. Mommy is probably up there.

Katie: I'm going to tell her that you kept me out late.

JC: Narc.

She cracks me up because she always wants to make sure she's not getting blamed for anything. What was even funnier though was JC saying "She's making it sound like it's my fault!" I said, "Does she drive? She's 4, whose fault do you think it was?"

By the way, did I mention that her face was covered in blue cotton candy?

Katie's debut

Katie's debut

Sunday was Katie's first dance recital. Okay, well dance may be stretching it. My father took a video of it - in 3 pieces because we kept thinking it was over. I have to say that I had tears streaming down my face because I was laughing so hard. Make sure if you watch the video that you have your sound up - so you can hear everyone else laughing... If you don't watch any of the other videos, make sure you watch the 3rd one. It's my favorite and has me cracking up every time. ETA: You need to sign on to see the videos - my login is mvid55@yahoo.com and the password is tigger.

And here are some pictures - For everyone who has wanted to see Cynthia - she's in here too!

Can you have a mid-life crisis at the age of almost 5?

It is Katie's last week of pre-school. Ever. Apparently, this has been driven home a few too many times today, and not knowing this, inadvertently pushed my child over the edge. I was looking at the things she had brought home from school today and asked her if it were her last day at school. She told me that it wasn't because they have school picnics for the next two days. But then she's done with pre-school and she "doesn't have to go back. Ever!"

I followed up with telling her "you know what that means... you go to kindergarten next fall!" She said "I don't want to go the big kids school!!... I don't want to be a big kid! (getting louder).. I want to be a little kid!!" At this point she is jumping up and down in complete desperation and big crocodile tears are running down her face. I felt so bad for her. But more so for me. I was planning on being the one not handling this well! Now all of a sudden I have to be strong for her because she's not handling it well? So not fair!

And yes, I did give her a big hug and tell her that she would always be my baby. I also told her that the big kids school had a class for little kids in it, not to worry, she wasn't going to be a big kid right away. She calmed down, but I still feel bad. She's got a rude awakening coming.

Who's the grown up here?

Katie has been having bad dreams about a rhino eating her. That might sound odd unless you've watched the movie James and the Giant Peach. Good movie, but does have a somewhat scary scene with this rhino. She's had this dream four or five times now over the course of a month. What's odd is that she saw the movie months and months ago and is just now starting to have the dreams.

This morning I told her that I thought we should draw a picture of a rhino tonight and then cut it up into little bits so it goes away forever. My "mature" daughter said, "No we should cut him out and play with him." "Ah, so when you see him in your dreams he'll want to play with you, huh?" She's a smart cookie.

More Pics

The down to earth, apple pie, ribbons & bows Katie:





The "I'm going to buy my mommy a summer house right after my first Oscar - which should be next year" Katie. Waiting for her next scene.

Pics and Conversation

Here's my cheesy Easter girl and the bunny cake that we made for Easter.


I had a conversation with Katie today. I have been noticing lately that the full-length mirror on our bathroom door has been massively smudged, smeared, shall we say...messed up.


I hadn't thought too much about it because I assumed that I knew who was behind it. I was corrected this evening. Apparently it's a mystery..although there is a suspect.


I was getting Katie ready for bed and we were in the bathroom. As we were walking out she said...


"Why is there steam still on the mirror?"


Me: That's not steam, someone messed up the mirror.


Katie: Not me!


Me: I wonder what whoever did that used to get the mirror looking like that.


Katie: I didn't do it, but I think maybe they were trying to clean the mirror and maybe they used a wipe.


Me: Well, that didn't help did it?


Katie: No, and maybe they used a little bit of soap too!


Me: Soap? Well we know that doesn't work either, huh? I hope that whoever it was doesn't do that again.


Katie: It wasn't me. I think it may have been Cynthia when I wasn't here to tell her.


So, Cynthia? Why are you messing up my mirrors?

Technical difficulties

I had a post on here that was not taking comments. When I went to check it, it disappeared completely. I was able to copy the text, but I will post it again with pics tonight.

Sorry if you saw it and tried to comment.

Almost Easter....

Katie is pretty excited about Easter. Although the most excited I saw her was when I was telling her what Good Friday and Easter represented. We had to have a small chat about the fact that she thought Jesus was coming back tomorrow.

We are coloring Easter eggs tonight at JC's sister's house, so I will try to remember to take the camera with and post pics.

I'll be back!

Okay, okay....

Here she is!

Hello!

We took Katie to the Shedd Aquarium today. They have a new lizard exhibit and she is a reptile nut so, of course, we had to go. She had a great time leading us around the place. Seeing that we were not home during nap time, she was able to skip her nap today. When I put her to bed I told her that since I hadn't put her down for a nap, I expected her to go right to sleep. I was told that her brain had been asleep and that she had been sleep walking, so she really had taken a nap.

She got a star fish painted on her face while we were there. I took pictures, but I'll post them tomorrow. When the woman asked her what she wanted, she said a kitty. I told her that she better look at the pictures on the table. It was more of a fishy thing. LOL