Fishing and Boating

The Saturday before Father's Day we headed to Grapevine Lake to go sit on Grandpa's pontoon boat. Katie loves doing this. In fact, her great-grandparents gave her a fancy Barbie fishing pole for Christmas last year, and she's been dying to use it. Since Katie is becoming more of a girly girl each day, we didn't even bother putting bait on a hook. She just sat in her daddy's lap and threw the line out, and then reeled it back in with the "turner" (as she calls it.) When she got bored, she would help Great-Grandpa drive the boat, and she LOVES pushing the horn on the boat.

Hold me closer, tiny dancer

We enrolled Katie for a short 2-week tap/ballet session at Miss Persis' Studio. Katie had a blast. There are times I think I may have a future performer on my hands. This child just continues to amaze me. She loves singing (and making up her own songs.) She loves dancing in front of people. "Hey, look at me!" she says. Of course, she fell in love with it. We may need to wait a year to fit it into our budget (since 2 kids in daycare is like a mortgage payment), but I don't have to worry about her having stage fright.

Katie's first swimming lesson

My parents have a pool, and this was inevitable. I tried to teach Katie how to swim at the end of last summer to no avail. She is just too stubborn to learn from her mommy. So, after much consideration, we paid the City of Arlington to teach her. We were so fortunate. She had the best instructor, Sam (about a 17-year-old girl) who taught 4 girls 3-4 years old.

Katie was a superstar. After the first class we saw massive improvement. After 2 weeks, we no longer had a child afraid of water, but a true fish. Now, I can't get her out of the water. No more floaties, no more fear....just swimming, which is good. Now, Katie can teach her sister when she gets here. She learned how to push off the wall and glide, swim distances with her face submerged, stroke and kick simultaneously, back float and roll over to front float. She loves going underwater now. Oh, and they had to retrieve toys that had sunk to the bottom of the 4-foot deep area. Dave is thinking Olympics, but I'm personally glad that she has more confidence in the pool now.

Shower at School

First, let me start by saying that I work with the best people on earth. I've always been fortunate enough to have awesome co-workers. This year was no exception. My team totally went out of their way to make Kenzie's impending arrival easier on me. Katie of course came and enjoyed cake.

Reunion with Jaxson

Jaxson used to live next door, and they moved away a month ago. Katie's frequent playdates were extinguished, and she was going through serious withdrawl. Robyn, Jaxson's mom, and I were pregnant at the same time, and Katie is about 6 weeks older than Jaxson. They absolutely love playing together. It seemed perfect to meet at the park for a date on Spring Break with Robyn and I being off. So, we headed to Sunrise Creative Playground and the kids had a blast. They played in the sandbox, rode down the slides, swung in the swings, and just ran around. When we left, we headed to Chick-fil-A for a quick bite before heading home. I think Annabelle had just as much fun as the other two.

Snow Day

This was Katie's first real major snow. I think it set all kinds of records in the DFW area. Schools were closed. I was excited because I got sent home early the day before, and Saturday School was cancelled. I wasn't feeling great, so Dave and Katie headed outside to make snowmen.
We didn't have any carrots, charcoal, or any normal things to make facial features for the snowmen, so we used Christmas candy. I know it's lame, but it did the trick.
Katie absolutely loved the snow. She always asked after that day, "Is it gonna snow again?" I hope it does because she had one of the best days ever in the snow.

First Trip to the Doc

I went to Dr. Wiegman today for my first exam. He was so excited I was pregnant. He brought in the doppler. He told me not to get upset if we didn't hear a heartbeat. Since I'm so irregular, they couldn't really guess how old the fetus was or my due date. It took almost 2 minutes, and he got a heartbeat. It was so exciting. He told me that I was probably about 8-9 weeks, and that I could schedule my first sonogram on Wednesday (2 days away.) I was psyched.

Two days later, I went to Dr. McCullough's office next door. The sonogram tech said that Dr. Wiegman was a little off. The fetus was 7 weeks and 5 days. The heartrate was 154 bpm. Our due date is September 3. The pics aren't nearly as clear as Katie's sonogram photos, but that's ok. Dave and I were both super excited.