Another First

Katherine is once again experiencing the first day at a new school. This will be her third for the year! Today she started the Montessori Preschool that is part of the childcare facility run by Cerner. She will be going three days a week all day long so it will be a change for all of us. After lunch her teacher emailed to say she was doing well. With the email she sent some pictures of Katherine's first day. Here are my favorites:

Water Fun

Jack playing in Hunter's water dish in front of the condo. The weather is nice and we are enjoying some nice family time outside!
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Birthday cake anyone?

Jack quite enjoyed his birthday cake (unlike his sister on her first birthday).
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Walking

Wow, I can't believe that Jack is already a year old. The kids are both so much fun right now! Now that Jack is walking, he and Katherine are interacting more than ever. I fear that he may be starting the process of giving up his morning nap (something I am not ready for) now that he is getting around so well.

I took this video of him this morning, walking all over the place and having a great time.

Out of the mouth of babes...

This week my mom has been in town enjoying her grandkids. More than once she has remarked that we needed to find the baby book to write something down that one of the kids said or did. So, since I am terribly disorganized right now with 3/4 of my earthly possessions in one state and the rest crammed in a small condo with four people and a dog, I am going to attempt to capture some of the recent zingers here.

One of my current favorites is how Katherine shortens the word pretend to just "tend" as in, "Mama, tend your name is Sarah." A favorite of my moms: "yesternight." Last night we were in the car and James tried to join her in the ABC song. She preferred to sing it on her own so told him, "Daddy, I need you to concentrate on your driving. Can you do that for me?" Talk about hysterical - we all laughed.

The other night my mom was sewing new hair on an old doll (a doll from when I was little who Katherine has adopted as her own). Katherine was monitoring the progress and as my mom picked up a glass of tea to take a drink Katherine said, "Grandma, you either drink your tea or fix Molly's hair." Apparently we are big on having Katherine focus on one thing at a time!

Also noteworthy this week: Jack took his first steps! He has taken three in a row on several occasions over the last few days. I am excited that it happened while a grandparent was here to witness! So far he has a couple of sounds that resemble words: dada (and sometimes daddy) and something that sounds like Hunter. He has six teeth (four on top and two on bottom) and I think he is working on two more on bottom.

They are growing up so fast!

Sweet moment

Looks like a sweet moment with Katherine reading to Jack. In reality she wrestled him into a seated position so she had an audience!
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Is a kanary a songbird?

Katherine's school has an auction each year to raise money for the school. The week before the auction there is a preview at which each class gets up to sing a few songs. Here is Katherine's class singing:



How funny are they? We have come a long way from the Christmas program from her other school where her finger was in or near her nose most of the time!

"bath"room

Ok, one of the major issues we had with our house in Cincinnati was the lack of even a half bath on the main floor.
This shortage was especially painful during both of my pregnancies when I had to pee all the time.
Our current place in KC has a small half bath off the kitchen area. Awesome, right? Well, as you can see - between the dog bowls, the hockey equipment, the potty seat, and the two stools there isn't much room for an average sized human to use it for its intended purpose. Oh well, it works in a pinch.
Can you tell we are feeling a little overcrowded in our temporary accomodations?
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First Day of Her New School

Here is a video we took dropping Katherine off for her first day at the new school she is attending here in Kansas City. This is the second week she has attended and she really seems to love it! She comes home with lots to share every day, new songs to sing, new things to talk about (last week they did a unit on transportation), and new library books to read. We are happy to have found such a great place!