A "Big Girl" Room

When Katie was taking a nap one day, we converted her crib to a toddler bed for her. We also set up a book shelf for her books in the hall outside of her room. When we were done, we brought her up to explore. She was pretty excited about her big girl room.

Look at my new book shelf! I love it! 

Now I can crawl in my bed myself. 

I'm so happy that I have to clap! 

My music player is still here! 

I love to read next to my new bookshelf!

The Slide Returns

Katie has loved going to the playground lately. She loves it so much that we've had to resort to turning our furniture into a slide for her again. It takes the place of the big slide at the playground, and it's never covered in rain!

It's easier to get to the top of this slide than the one at the park. 

Whee!

Lookin' Fancy

Garyldine and my mom got Katie an early Easter present - an extra special pair of sunglasses!

They look pretty good right now...

…but look at this trick! Part of them flip up!

I feel just like a model!

Flowers

When Garyldine was over to color eggs with us, Katie had to show her the flower costume that she loves to wear. Katie wanted Garyldine to be a flower too, so she found a way to make it work!

I think we're both pretty flowers!

Easter Cards

A few days before Easter, Katie was thrilled to get a couple of Easter cards in the mail. She truly gets excited when she gets an envelope in the mail. She takes her envelope-opening very seriously.  Even after opening cards up, she often goes back to look at her cards in the following days.  It's a lot of fun for her!

This is the tricky part! 

I love the egg on the front of the card! 

It's from Grammy Noreen and Grandpa Joe! 

There's another egg! 

I better look at this again! 

Another card for me? 

This card had a funny front…a dog with bunny ears on his head! 

Thank you, Aunt Lois! I love my card!

Happy Easter, 2013!

Katie had a good Easter this year.

Katie started the day by reviewing her shapes while she waited for everyone else to wake up and celebrate. I have some foam shapes that Katie loves to match up to a corresponding poster. She was so proud of herself this week when she learned to recognize an octagon, or in Katie language, an "ocgon."

Hmmm…where does this square go? 

It's an ocgon!

After eating breakfast and playing for awhile, Katie got dressed, and we went outside to search for the Easter Bunny. (The Easter Bunny didn't visit our house until the afternoon this year.) It was already a beautiful day with the sun shining! 

I hope I recognize the Easter Bunny!

Is he down this hill? 

Whoa! This hill is a little steeper than I thought it was. 

Do I hear something? 

I see something up the hill! 

Up there! It's not a bunny, but it might be eggs.

I didn't find Easter eggs yet.

I found Easter rocks! 

This was fun.

Then Katie came along to do some last-minute grocery shopping for Easter dinner. She had lots of fun riding in the cart with the car attached. She didn't want to go home once she drove all over the store!

I like to drive using two steering wheels!

After I got dinner in the oven, Katie took a nap. She actually ended up sleeping through our early dinner. When she woke up, the Easter Bunny had visited. It took her awhile to completely wake up and figure out that there was a basket for her. She did snap out of it, however, as soon as she opened up some bubbles. That Easter Bunny sure knows Katie. Once she had her bubbles, everything was about bubbles for a long time!

Katie's Easter Basket

Hey, what's that basket doing there? 

Are those things really for me? 

Look at this light-up ring! 

I love bubbles! 

I could blow bubbles all day!

When we could finally pull Katie away from her bubbles, we took her on on an Easter egg hunt. The Easter Bunny hid part of the eggs inside and part outside. Katie, being Katie, especially liked going outside to find eggs. She would get really excited when she'd see eggs, and announce very clearly, "EGGS!" However, she wouldn't pick up any of the eggs that were sitting in the bark/dirt. She'd point them out to us and make us pick them up. She really doesn't like dirt!

EGG! 

Those are touching the dirt.

Will you please get it, Aunt Jennifer? 

Look at all of my eggs!

After we got back in, it was time to enjoy the rest of the day.

Chloe sure wants my eggs. She saw me get a cracker out of one of them. 

I got an Easter card with Elmo on it.

It's from Sam - oh yeah, and Garyldine and Jim! 

It has a picture inside that I can color! 

Aunt Jennifer taught me how to make a salad! 

It needs a little oil and vinegar. 

Salad is good even when it's made of felt and wood! 

The salad bowl also makes a good hat! 

It was fun to color my picture! 

Did you know that a pinwheel makes a good guitar? 

Ta-da! 

Let me take a bow!