Happy Birthday to the best daddy ever! I love you so much!
Love, Kate
Love, Kate
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
We love grandparents!
The Brantley's brought Kate home a moose video from Jackson Hole when they went. Kate loves it! Yesterday she went and sat on Papa Lee's lap and just pointed to the tv and kept saying "please." It is a video of wildlife, mainly a moose, and there on songs on it. Besides how it captures her attention I think it is so sweet that she loves to sit in Papa Lee's lap and snuggle with him while watching the video.
Monday, March 9, 2009
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!
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!
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!!
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!
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!
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!!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Time Out
We have started trying to do "time out" with Kate recently. We have the lure of Lucy's water bowl and food that we deal with and even though we do spank, I try to only spank Kate when she is doing something that will hurt her. Now, every time I catch her in Lucy's food or water bowl we go to time out. Sometimes she goes crying, sometimes she goes with no whimper at all. Tonight was hilarious though. I turned around to see Kate in Lucy's food and I stood up and asked "Kate Brantley, are we supposed to be playing in Lucy's food?" Kate quietly said "no" and then she walked right around the corner to her time out spot and just stood there. Jason and I were cracking up (silently of course)!! But it is so funny to watch her stand there with her nose in the corner. If she isn't crying then sometimes I find her kissing and licking the wall. To be honest, I am not sure that time out is working now that I think about it!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Snow and Other Random Things
I started posting some pictures last night just about some random things that have been happening around here and then this morning we woke up to SNOW! Kate is actually a little sick so we went outside to get some pictures this morning but we will spending the rest of the day inside. Our house, yard, and neighborhood is completely covered and the best part is that it hasn't even stopped snowing yet!
this picture was taken while we were waiting on Jason to finish getting ready....Kate wasn't happy about waiting to go outside!
Here comes all the random pictures and comments...
1. While we were in Jackson Hole last weekend, all the stores there have all their stuff on sale. We got this North Face jacket for Kate at 50% off. Its a little big but I just couldn't resist. (oh, and here is her classic funny face too)
2. One of the main reasons I love my new sewing maching is that I can make sweet and simple outfits like this one. The pants take about 15 minutes to make (my kind of pattern) and the shirt is so simple to applique. And now we have a little outfit for the Easter season.
3. We have a new love of driving cars. Kate could sit in the drivers seat all day long and play with the steering wheel and punch buttons on the dashboard.
4. I think we need to lower her bed one last time. I found her like this the other day when I went to get her up from her nap.
2. One of the main reasons I love my new sewing maching is that I can make sweet and simple outfits like this one. The pants take about 15 minutes to make (my kind of pattern) and the shirt is so simple to applique. And now we have a little outfit for the Easter season.
3. We have a new love of driving cars. Kate could sit in the drivers seat all day long and play with the steering wheel and punch buttons on the dashboard.
4. I think we need to lower her bed one last time. I found her like this the other day when I went to get her up from her nap.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Jackson Hole, WY
We just got back from a great trip out to visit Jason's little sister, Bry, in Jackson Hole, Wy. If you have never been, Jackson Hole is a great quaint town that is BEAUTIFUL in the winter and the summer. Obviously going in the winter we took advantage of the snow skiing out there. Jackson Hole is one of the most vertical mountains when it comes to skiing and it is said that their blue ski runs are equal to others ski resorts black ski runs (meaning that skiing out in Jackson Hole is much harder than anywhere else). Let me say that I found that to be very true. The runs are very steep and I found myself a few times asking what in the world was I doing trying to come down some of those ski runs. The benefit to knowing someone out there is that we got to ski with Bry's friends who can help you out and I also got a friend of hers who is a ski instructor to take a run with me to teach me how to ski correctly and not the way I have taught myself!
Speaking of how steep and hard this mountain is. They have a run called Corbets and it is one of the hardest runs in the United States. It was explained in USA Today as this, "You enter the chute's narrow, flinty mouth in free fall, dropping two stories onto a 55-degree slope. Fail to execute a hard right turn immediately, and you smash into a face of Precambrian rock. Survive, and you then smear speed by executing two nervy turns, exiting down a 45-degree slope as the chute fans out." Notice how Jason and I just took a picture of it from the ski lift, we didn't even go near it!
The sad part about the trip is that Bry injured herself skiing a few weeks ago so she was unable to ski with us while we were there.
If you have ever been to Jackson Hole then you know these antler arches well. There are four arches that flank the town sqaure.
The last day we were there is started snowing. It was so beautiful!
And last but not least. There is a kiddie terrain park there that I thought was so much fun. We all went off this ski jump which was only about 6 inches off the ground maybe. However when your skis leave the ground whether they are 6 inches or 6 feet it feels like you are flying. I took a stab at the ski jump and Jason caught video of it. Enjoy!Saturday, February 14, 2009
We've Moved On To the Real Thing...
Kate could literally spend hours jumping on the trampoline. And she will whine and sign "please" until I get up on the trampoline to jump with her!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
18 Months
I can't believe that a year and half has come and gone! This age is proving to be a lot of fun and a lot of work. Kate is very sassy now, knowing exactly what she wants and throws a complete fit if the answer is "no." However, she is a lot of fun at this stage too, running, laughing, dancing and playing so hard. She loves being outside and will stand and play at the front door waiting for you to let her outside. A lot of nights we turn on the radio and have dance parties....Kate loves a good oldies song! Kate still has a very limited vocabulary of only a few words but every now and then I catch her trying to say something new...like "bubbles" and "Lucy." But I do know that she understands me as she will follow directions very well (that is until you tell her no!!). We went to the doctor yesterday and here are her stats:
Weight 24lbs 11oz
Height 32.25 inches
Head 18.25 inches
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Why these pictures make my laugh!
Besides the obvious reasons in the picture below. I couldn't help but laugh when I was downloading pictures tonight and I came across this one. I didn't recognize it and that is because Jason had taken it earlier when I was not around. It made me laugh first of all to see Kate's little bottom hanging out and then secondly because I could see how humored Jason had been to go and get the camera to actually take a picture of it!
This new face of Kate's just cracks me up...and probably because she thinks its funny too. She really thinks its funny when she puts her lips like that and then she breaths in through her nose and her top lip gets suctioned to her nose!
Does anyone see anything else in the picture above?? We have a nice little goose egg on our forehead on the right. If my brother, Michael, is reading this...Kate ran into the corner of the door but thankfully it did not turn out to be an ER trip with stitches!!
This new face of Kate's just cracks me up...and probably because she thinks its funny too. She really thinks its funny when she puts her lips like that and then she breaths in through her nose and her top lip gets suctioned to her nose!
Does anyone see anything else in the picture above?? We have a nice little goose egg on our forehead on the right. If my brother, Michael, is reading this...Kate ran into the corner of the door but thankfully it did not turn out to be an ER trip with stitches!!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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