Stacking and Building

Katie loves to play "blocks" with daddy. Sometimes with me too. We made a pizza once and a cake. Of course we sang "happy to you" to everyone and everything we could think of . Kimball builds really cool things with her. They started out with airplanes, then animals and now he is building her bathtubs and showers for her baby. Of course, Katie likes to pretend to use them too. He is amazing. This is the shower/bathtub combo complete with soap dispenser. Depending on what they come up with next, she might be getting more blocks for Christmas (or Kimball's birthday).

This one is the first bathtub.

This is her new thing lately. She stacks and lines up everthing. She pulls all of her books out and somehow strategically places them just right and then reads all of them. She does this with her Little People and blocks and food. Bedtime stories have become a long process. She has to stack all of her books first and bring them to me. I'm pretty sure she gets this from all of the engineers and accountants on my side of the family.

Fingerpaints

This is Katie's first experience with finger paints. She was very hesitant at first. But as you can see that didn't last very long.

Cookies

I decided to make peanut butter cookies the other day. Katie loves to help me cook. We decided to use a potato masher to squish the cookies instead of a fork. I got the idea from my mom who used a meat tenderizer (clean and sanitized of course) to make the marks on the cookies. Katie was a pro.

Here she is with her tray of cookies. We need to find another word to get her to smile. Her "cheese" isn't really a smile.

Here she is reading some of the ads while we patiently wait for the cookies to come out. She also likes to go through the silverware drawer while she waits too. I usually end up washing all of the silverware afterwards.

Firestation

My friend Amber set up a field trip to the Fire station in Gilbert. They did a great job considering it was such a young crowd. The kids were really the most interested in the fire truck. They even got a call while we were there. When they turned on the truck Katie kept saying it was loud like the lawnmower and the vacuum. Thanks Amber it was fun!

Nursing Graduation

We did it! Kimball graduated from Nursing School last week June 24th. I am so proud of him. It has been a lot of work and not a lot of sleep. I was really sad that my pictures all came out blurry. But here are some of the highlights.

This picture is the Candle Lighting Ceremony. This is where they take their oath.

Katie did a pretty good job. She kept asking when it was mommy's turn and Katie's turn to go on the stage. Since daddy got a turn and all of those other people got a turn. She did pretty good considering how long she had to sit. We also had lots of snacks and grandma and grandpa to keep her occupied.

Here she is getting her turn on the stage. She was pretty excited.

Thank you everyone for all of your support and prayers. We couldn't have done it without you.

AB Song

Katie has been practicing singing the ABC song. She calls it the AB song. She loves singing along with the caterpillar. This is the second almost full time she sang it. Of course, the first time I didn't have my camera.

Science Fun

My friend Amber and I have done a few science experiments with our kids the past couple of weeks. It's fun to do something new and exciting. The first one we did was called "Dancing Raisins". When you put raisins in soda water they are supposed to dance. Only one or two of them did. They really enjoyed eating the raisins though. Katie actually ended up dumping half of hers in her jar. So we changed it to things that would sink to the bottom and things that would float to the top. When we finished the experiment we recorded it on paper. They had a chart that they glued things that went to the top on one side and the bottom on the other. A couple of days later we were talking to grandma on the phone and she started telling her about the bubbles in the water. It was funny because she hadn't said anything about it since that day.