Warning...this is a long post.

So we have been doing a bunch of random small things that I wanted to share and figured to share all the pictures with you that slide shows would work best. However, you won't hurt my feelings if you don't make if through this entire post.


1. We are new members of the McWane Center and we are loving it! Most of what is there is a little above an 18 month old's head, but there is still plenty of fun to be had. To explain the pictures below...there is a great play area on the first floor and they have this water table. Last time we played in the water without an apron on so this time I suited Kate up. The little apron isn't so little on her as it touches the floor so it should be great protection right? Well, not really, it is pretty pointless when you have a toddler who pours water down the front of her through the neck hole of the apron! Needless to say, kate was soaked for the rest of the day. Another fun activity for us there is the piano upstairs. Kate isn't heavy enough for it to play when she walks on it so I got her to jump up and down. She jumped her little heart out for a long time and what kept her going was that every now and then she made the piano play. Another activity we loved that the McWane center had no idea that they were even offering was playing at the water fountain. Kate figured out that if she pressed the button on the water fountain that water came out. I bet we stood there for 30 minutes while she played. And from then on we couldn't walk by the water fountain without a small play session at it!

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2. The park has always provided lots of fun and it has been beautiful here so we are definitely trying to take advantage of the good weather and spend lots of time outside. However, when did our children grow up? I realize Kate is a toddler but she stills feels like a baby. She doesn't talk much and she will still snuggle and let you rock her. But we were at the park today and she climbed up the stairs and got to the top and sat down and proceeded to go down the slide all by herself! I almost cried. She is not supposed to be able to do that without my help! She also loved the see-saw and wanted to sit there all by herself. I just couldn't get over how much she's grown up and how fast!

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3. Last week the girls from my small group at church got together to celebrate two of our friends finding out the sex of their babies. The two girls kept it a secret and when we all got together we each got a pink balloon and a blue balloon. We got to write on the balloons what we thought each of them were having! Kate and I got both of them wrong! But it was a fun day of celebrating with sweet friends and the life that is growing inside them.

4. Jason and Kate had some great daddy/daughter time this past weekend because I was gone to Sharptop Cove (a Young Life camp) to help as the Work Crew Boss. I had a wonderful time but I will post about that later! Oh, and Jason survived the weekend very well!!