Oh blogging! I feel constantly nagged by this blog. I love when I write up the fun details of my life. I love seeing my favorite fun and silly things my kids do documented so I actually remember them a week/month/year/multiple years later. It really isn't hard to blog, I just don't. Maybe it is hard because there is so much that I would love to put on here and every week there is at least a couple things that I would love to document and jot down here but each week that I don't blog, I get further behind. I think the snowball effect drives the itty bit of OCD that I do have crazy. I just want our life to stay written in chronological order! So here goes another attempt...let's see if I still remember how this whole writing thing goes.
I will start with Katelyn! She is our spunky little girl and she just turned 4! It has been about 3 weeks since her birthday and she makes sure everyone knows she is "4 like Liam" as Liam is her very best cousin buddy that she has said she is going to marry multiple times....we are trying to teach her that we don't get married to our cousins, but they sure can be best friends but that just seems too silly to her! She mentions she just turned 4 to everyone from the neighbors, the running shoe store guy, the target cashier, the person next to us on the escalator, and everyone in between! Everyone MUST know that she is 4 LIKE LIAM! Liam is turning 5 soon and she is wondering how many sleeps until she will be 5 too. I just need her to slow down this getting older and wiser thing she is doing so well!
For her 4th birthday we were in Texas prepping for David's sister's wedding. Her birthday was the day before the wedding which made it a little hectic, but we still managed to celebrate this sweet girly! We had cake and then headed out with the gang to Medieval Times.
We cheered hard for the best looking knight who was fighting for us and the princess!
He tossed Katelyn one of his personally kissed carnations and she thought it was so special! I thought it was slightly gross with how sweaty he was, but I let her enjoy that flower anyways!
The next morning was her actual birthday. We were making her much requested favorite breakfast pancake castle and she heard us and came to see us in the kitchen. I told her to go back to sleep so we could surprise her and she did a good job faking it while we brought her the castle!
As David brought in the 8-pile-high pancake castle, she loved it! I love this cute face of hers! I wish we could all look like this when we woke up!
She loves My Little Pony stuff right now and Rachel and Sean got her the pony or unicorn named Rarity....and she came with a comb! Katelyn loves accessories!She worked with Grandpa Ken to give Rarity a fancy hair style!
All of the girls went and got our nails painted for the big wedding day! She had a tough time deciding between the bright pinks and purples! It is tough to choose!
Rosie is an awesome aunt! Her and Peter have no problem being silly with the kids! We LOVED staying at their place for all the wedding fun!
All of us girls (Amanda must be related...long lost cousin or something...the bride, Rachel, Katelyn, Rosie and I) We really squeezed in for this picture and squeezed Katelyn out! Whoops!
Katelyn is such a good big sister to Davy even though he can be so rotten sometimes...often times! He really likes to pester her, take the toys she's playing with, stand in front of the TV while a movie plays just because, and other similar annoying sibling things he can think up. She is so kind and deals with him way better than I think I would have if I were her. She is too kind and I love that she cares about him still! We are all hoping he takes it easy on her sometime soon.
She loves lots of girly things like painted nails, anything sparkly, dresses, princesses, ponies and unicorns, make-up and hair styling, caring for her babies and stuffed animals, dancing and twirling...she was showing me how to to a hula dance the other day and it was too funny and I am kicking myself I didn't get it on video!...her ballerina moves get me giggling too! She is so fun! She loves loves loves a game of hide and seek and will ask people to be her friend and play it with her at the park often! "I'll count and you hide, GO!" She is so fun and loves to play and be free! She also loves any iPad time she can squeeze out of us. We were setting up for the reception for the wedding and she was looking bored and someone offered her a tablet and she was in heaven amidst the rest of us buzzing around getting everything prepped for the party that night.
So maybe I will open this up to anyone who has some wise words of wisdom as I have some teacher friends and friends and family that have kids...I know there are checklists and blogs about getting ready for kindergarten. I have read some but still wonder. What would you do? What have you seen work or not work and why?
I am thrilled that I won't have to pick with Davy since he has an October birthday. I should have planned better and had all my kids in the middle to end of fall ;)
Hopefully there will be more and I will sneak in some tidbits of what we have been up to as I go along this blog so that I don't have to feel like I have to rewind my brain to what we were doing back in the day that I wanted to document. I have been taking pictures, so I haven't just skipped over the last year or so, it just hasn't been written down. We are done with our summer travels and missing the fun family on both sides of the family that we got to see while we hopped around from California to Washington to Texas! If only we could gather all of our favorite people and live in one place...
I will start with Katelyn! She is our spunky little girl and she just turned 4! It has been about 3 weeks since her birthday and she makes sure everyone knows she is "4 like Liam" as Liam is her very best cousin buddy that she has said she is going to marry multiple times....we are trying to teach her that we don't get married to our cousins, but they sure can be best friends but that just seems too silly to her! She mentions she just turned 4 to everyone from the neighbors, the running shoe store guy, the target cashier, the person next to us on the escalator, and everyone in between! Everyone MUST know that she is 4 LIKE LIAM! Liam is turning 5 soon and she is wondering how many sleeps until she will be 5 too. I just need her to slow down this getting older and wiser thing she is doing so well!
For her 4th birthday we were in Texas prepping for David's sister's wedding. Her birthday was the day before the wedding which made it a little hectic, but we still managed to celebrate this sweet girly! We had cake and then headed out with the gang to Medieval Times.
We were on the green team and we were checking out the horses. Uncle Peter is awesome with kids and liked the horses as much as Katelyn did ;)
Katelyn is such a good big sister to Davy even though he can be so rotten sometimes...often times! He really likes to pester her, take the toys she's playing with, stand in front of the TV while a movie plays just because, and other similar annoying sibling things he can think up. She is so kind and deals with him way better than I think I would have if I were her. She is too kind and I love that she cares about him still! We are all hoping he takes it easy on her sometime soon.
Katelyn is a fun mix of the girly things and giggles to the boy-ish things too. The boy interests are probably because of Liam and he has shared his love of ninja turtles and Davy is all about cars and trains so there is plenty of that around here. She loves the show Octonauts too.
I am kind of scrambling and frantic thinking that in a year she will possibly be heading off to Kindergarten!!! This is not based on the mere fact that she is growing up. I considered homeschooling, but I think I we will try out public school and I can be actively involved and we will see how it goes. I am on the fence about the idea of keeping her home another year and then she will be older and more mature, or sending her next year right as she is turning 5. Will she do just fine as the baby of her class? (I was a June baby so I know it is possible to be successful in school even when you are one of the younger ones) Will it make that much of a difference if she is the oldest of her class opposed to the youngest? And these age differences will last through all of her school years. More than the age gap stuff, I wonder if she is ready maturity wise and academically. I don't want her to be hanging on for dear life and just barely be surviving if I put her in early, and I also don't want her to be bored or annoyed with school if I wait and she goes to school in 2 years. It is easy to think that our kids are the greatest and smartest and will be perfect, but I wonder about the reality of it. How will it really go? I know her reading is great as we work with her a lot with her reading, but there is WAY more than just reading and academics so I worry a bit about it all. I also just want to relax and just play and enjoy this little princess while she is young and free and doesn't have a worry on her mind except for her worry of the green stuff I put on her plate at dinner sometimes....and those sneaky tomato/potato things that sound the same so she thinks they are both terrible!
What to do, what to do?!
I am thrilled that I won't have to pick with Davy since he has an October birthday. I should have planned better and had all my kids in the middle to end of fall ;)
Hopefully there will be more and I will sneak in some tidbits of what we have been up to as I go along this blog so that I don't have to feel like I have to rewind my brain to what we were doing back in the day that I wanted to document. I have been taking pictures, so I haven't just skipped over the last year or so, it just hasn't been written down. We are done with our summer travels and missing the fun family on both sides of the family that we got to see while we hopped around from California to Washington to Texas! If only we could gather all of our favorite people and live in one place...
