Water

Katie was pretending to be water so she wanted me to carry her around in this bucket. She has such an imagination! The other day she told me I was a cow, not to be mean just because she wanted me to pretend to be a real cow so that she could rope me. She had a jump rope and started swinging it around. I thought she might knock Charlotte out with the hard little plastic handle so I yelled "Katie. No. Don't swing that rope in the house!" She sat there for a minute looking kind of sad. Then she looked at me and said "You are a cow and cows don't say Katie don't swing that rope, cows say moo!" How do you argue with that?

Baby Shower

We had a baby shower for my beautiful friend Melissa on Saturday. Here she is with her prize for winning the dirty diaper candy bar game.

Melissa with her mom and grandma.

We all painted onsies for baby Hazel.

These masterpieces were painted by the kids at the shower! Thanks Linda for helping them out!
You can get more information on baby Hazel at her blog: Baby Goetz

Fat Lip

Charlotte is climbing on everything! The other day she climbed up on one of Katie's little Dora chairs and tipped over. This beautiful fat lip was her reward. Poor little girl, just turned one and already had her first fat lip.

Just Relax'n

Charlotte just Chill'n out.

What About Charlotte?

I know it has been all about Katie lately, so here are some pics of Charlotte. She pulls herself up and climbs on everything but she hasn't started walking without holding on yet. She has three teeth now and my Dad said that she said Grandpa the other day, but he is the only one that heard it.

Driving grandma's tractor.

Does she look one? This was taken on her actual birthday.

Rocking in Warren and Wyatt's John Deere chair.

The Whole Gang

Here is the whole gang at Dan and Susan's house in front of Rob and Sharon's helicopter. Thanks Dan for this picture and Phil for taking it! We took Charlotte on her first helicopter ride while we were there, she wasn't that impressed but Katie liked it. Thanks Rob, Sharon and Phil!

The Leg Story

Katie fractured her leg just under her knee the second day we were in Maryland. Sharon and Rob were having a very nice birthday party up at their house and all the kids were outside playing. Katie was jumping on the trampoline and just landed wrong I guess. She didn't fall off, that's what everyone asks. John was right there by her and he said he thought he heard a pop. Of course she started crying and wouldn't let john put her down. Becky, who is a nurse, looked at it but there was no swelling or anything. Finally after she wouldn't even try to walk on it we decided to go to the emergency room. Jacki went with us and she was a HUGE help with Katie and Charlotte. Even at the hospital I kept thinking they would tell us that she was fine, probably just pulled something, but nope! They came back from looking at the x-rays and said it was fractured and she would need a cast.

They put a splint on it, since it was a Sunday, and told us to go to an orthopedic doctor the next day for a cast. This is Katie at Sharon and Rob's after the trip to the emergency room. As you can see she wasn't really in the mood to continue the birthday party. This is after she drove me around in the little yellow car for a while. I think Sharon has a picture of that, so if I get it from her I will share.

I wanted to get a picture of Katie with her cast by the trampoline, but she didn't want to sit on it, so Jacki held her.

Now Katie has an orange cast because when we took her to the doctor out here they took the pink one off and x-rayed it again and decided she needed a cast for another 3 weeks.