Playdates this week...

This past week, I took Katie on a playdate to Chuck E. Cheese where they have added a lot of new games and more of them. Look at that pose.
Look at that face. My child is such a ham for the camera. She is just like her older sisters...lol.
Here we have Katie and her friend Autumn at another playdate playing together at Hickory Dickory Dock. Katie and Autumn are 5 days apart in age and they were having a blast playing with the ball pit balls.

Katie and the TV

Here we have Katie watching the "Wonder Pets" on TV. She seems to be enthralled with the pictures on the screen just like she is with the colors on the computer screen. Katie won't stay in one spot for too long but she will stop and watch for a few minuets before moving on to her next activity.

Katie is 11 months old today.

I can't believe that my baby is 11 months old today. Doesn't she look so sweet? Don't let her fool you...lol. She is a pistol when she wants to be. It seems like only yesterday that I first held her in my arms. She is growing up so fast and learning so many new things each and every day. I sometimes get sad when I see her growing and doing things so quickly because I know that she is my last one.




A friend of mine posted this poem on her blog (thanks Julie :) ) and I decided to copy it for mine. It is an old nursery rhyme called Monday's Child.

Monday's Child

Monday's child is fair of face,

Tuesday's child is full of grace,

Wednesday's child is full of woe,

Thursday's child has far to go,

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child works hard for a living,

But the child that's born on the Sabbath day

is bonny, blithe, good and gay.

I decided to go ahead and look up the different days we were born on. I was born on a Sunday, Richard, Ally and Maddy were all born on Wednesdays and Katie was born on a Saturday.

Ally's Pen Pal

Ally came home from school today and part of her homework was writing a letter to a pen pal. The entire class will get adult pen pals (grandparent age) and they will write back and forth to each other through the school. I had to laugh because as I was reading Ally's letter, she sounded as if she was grilling someone. She was asking alot of questions. I was able to talk her into not putting in that many questions and telling more about herself. I told her that if she asked all of those questions, she wouldn't have anything to talk about in the next letter...lol. She did a nice job on it and I was proud of the effort that she put into it.

Katie at the horsebarn...

Today we went on a playdate with our mommy group to a horsebarn where the kids got to feed, brush and lead the mini horses around the barn. Katie loved looking at the horses and she even touched one.

Here she is playing in the grass beside the outside pen.

Here we are petting some of the big horses. Katie touched one on the nose and then giggled. She had a great time it seemed.

I am going to be a Girl Scout Co-Leader...

I have finally decided to go ahead and become a co-leader to Ally's Girl Scout troop. The troop right now has Brownies and Juniors together. We (the other leader and I) will be splitting the troop into two groups. She will take the Juniors and, once I finish training, I will handle the Brownies. Training is scheduled for two days in September (the 25th and 27th) and then I will have to register. I am so excited about this and look forward to planning projects for the girls to do so that they can earn their Try-it badges.

Next year, Ally will be old enough to bridge up to Juniors and Madison will be old enough to join the Daisys. At that time I will take the Daisy training so that we can add some Daisys to the troop.

Last night I went to a leader meeting and we got the info for the nut/candy sale that is starting in October. Ally has already seen what prizes are being offered and she is choosing her sale goal.

Katie is walking...

For the last few weeks Katie has been getting ready to walk by testing out taking a step or two at a time. She would try to walk and then would get so excited that she would fall down. Well last night she walked 6-7 steps from my room to the living room and again walked about 5 steps from the table to her daddy.


So I can say that my baby is now walking!! Oh boy, what am I going to do now...lol.