elliott's first word...

so of course he won't say it real loud when i video him, but he is saying doggie clear as day. YAY! my little baby's first word. i'm a proud mommy.

a message for grace's penpals

Hi friends! Thank you for the movie message! That was so neat to see everybody! I love getting your letters and being your pen pal! i hope you all have a great day!

cloudy in florida? no way

it's an absolutely cloudy, dreary day down here in Florida today. so all you midwestern hoosiers and buckeys go ahead enjoy the day, i'm not going to talk about how it's always sunny with a high of 80. okay okay it's been a high of like 89. but still it's been really nice, and we do get a breeze off the gulf. this week has been a rainy week though. and it's supposed to be a rainy rest of the week. so i shall blog to keep busy inside. (since i have NO projects or cleaning that i SHOULD be doing) isn't that the way it goes? blogging is way more fun than dishes or laundry or picking up toys (actually i really like to do laundry so let's scratch that one off) anyway... so i wanted to post of few pictures like this one above of mike and grace. I wanted to do a serious photo shoot, and no one wanted to cooperate. i thought this picture was a cute daddy daughter snapshot :) since this is what they are always doing.

awe... grace and elliott sitting together in a picture. how cute.... since it was the ONLY one i got. she has sort of gotten past the i don't want to sit by my goey brother stage, but now he has moved into the i don't want to sit by my girly sister stage. i promised a real men wear pink picture to chelsea so here it is, and he's holding a flower. granted he took it from grace about 5 seconds earlier just to bother her. brothers.
and this is mothers day. Elliott kept bringing me a rose, and then taking it back so he could give it to me again later. i guess he was trying to get the mileage out of that rose. thinking maybe mommy will think i got her a dozen.
here's grace, she such a big girl learning to count on her fingers. it's tough though. the finger part i mean. she can almost get to ten in order. it's just the 4, 5, 6 she forgets in the middle. we're working on it, 4, 5, 6, aren't that important anyway. notice the tongue sticking out. yeah... that's hereditary. i still get chapped lips when i'm working on something difficult. and last but not least... the photo below has to be one of the worst kids park playground toys i've ever seen.a purple scary sharp tooth dinosaur. yeah i called it sharptooth, for all you "land before time" fans out there. it could have been anything a horse, a kangaroo, but a scary dinosaur for little kids? someone needs to talk to the subcommittee of the parks and recreation department about this.:) okay the kids didn't really care. it was a fun ride. oh look at that... the sun is out. gotta go.

special armienian rabbits and a visit to the midwest

well I (katie) had the chance to fly up to Indiana and Ohio this past weekend for my very special cousins bridal shower. Luke and his fiance Chelsea picked me up from the Ft. Wayne airport and on the way home luke and his sixth animal sense spots a huge frog on 3. and what does he do? he plays dr. dolittle and U-ies himself back around to not just see it again but to take mr. toad for a wild ride. I'm sorry but it was one gross looking frog. i'll bet it was a girl frog on her way to the vera bradley outlet sale. and in that case it would be awful to make it so far only to be dropped off back in the boondocks of k'ville, and heaven knows you don't mess with a girl and her vera. which by the way, i had the pleasure of making a first time stop at. If you are the kind of person who likes to shove her way through to snatch up the best of the best deals (and i am) then that was the place to be. we (chelsea and I) then made our way to sarah's place for an evening of GIRL STUFF. things i can't tell you. what happens at girls night, stays at girls night, or leaks into the bridal shower the next day. :) but the ice was great. on the way home we made a pit stop in ft. wayne to eat at fazzoli's, and it has been such a long time since i ate at the BREADSTICK HEAVEN! so that was nice, and then we headed back to the spaw place to play a serious game of balderdash. I must admit, I LOVE board games, i really really love them, but i am the crappiest balderdash player the world has ever seen. the special armienian rabbits off the bat is what hurt me. it went down hill after that. i think i about peed my pants. an apology to my sister in law for losing her those points. it's not my fault i couldn't read the cards everytime ben turned the lights off to poop. ha ha. a great evening with my brothers, and their girls. the next day i had the priveledge of meeting the adorable miss audrey bigelow. i new she was excited about seeing me too, i could tell by the quiet snoring. so ashley and audrey were a nice ending to a great weekend. now here i am back in florida. can't wait to see eveyone in June! I'll be bringing my whole family! so until the next blog in 4 or 5 months.... :)