D. Family Coffee Break

sunshine. God Bless, Kat

Happy 2 years and 1 month to our little Buggy.  Yes, I am still doing monthly updates.  It's even more important now because I find that things are so busy and happening so quickly, the monthly updates force me to pause and think about how much Bug has grown each month.  Lucky you! I'm sure you're eager to know all that Bug has been doing.  She's now an official kid- one who is accountable, daring, and in no need of anyone's approval.  Sounds more like an adult, right?  Seriously, she's all of these things. Accountability:  After almost two years of watching Daddy feed McKayla every morning before leaving for school and work, Bug has decided it is now her job.  She rarely forgets and if she does, we ask her and she gets to it ASAP.  Bug went to the dentist recently and that went way better than we had expected.  Now, all she can think about is counting teeth!  (By the way, she is cavity-free and we hope to keep it...

In November, this girl will be a flower girl for our friends' wedding. We better get to training her. The dress came in!  (No, the fan is not blowing her hair.  It just looks like that.) Liking it... Gah!  We better practice walking in it.  Wish us luck with all the practicing!   God Bless, Kat

This weekend, we took a little road trip to Sacramento to see some cousins! I stole these photos from the hubs and my sis-in-law, Cat.  I was camera-less...which is actually a good thing these days.  I got to soak in the sight of cousins playing together and all the screaming and laughing they do too.  :)  If ever a little boy should enter this family of a million girl cousins, he better be able to keep up because these girls are the most outgoing bunch I've ever seen- each with a personality bigger than life. I know you're wondering how we got there. Well, we loaded up Bug, Lo, and the four parents in a van.  It was noisy and awesome all at the same time. :)  A toddler and a preschooler in one van.  Think about it. :)  This will be the first of many road trips for Bug and Lo in the same car, so they better just get used to it.  What a fun weekend!  I miss them all so much already. God Bless, Kat

We have been unbelievably busy since Bug turned 2...which is why this post is so late.  I'm not even sure when my last one was (could have been yesterday, could have been last week -- I can't even tell the difference these days).  Now that Bug is 2, she is so much harder to tire out.  You parents understand me.  When I'm with Bug, the only thing I can think of is how I can tire her out.  It's exhausting!  :)  Admit it- you do it too.  So, a few of Bug's school friends and their families meet up with us at the park for some after-school-tire-your-kids out time. :)  We bring dinner and watch the kids run around, trade food, help them up the playground apparatuses that frighten the living daylights out of the moms, and have some parent quality time. :)  It's so amazing to see Bug interacting with her buddies from school.  She is a Bug I've never seen when she's with them.  I love watching them talk to each other like mini adults,...

I'm not sure if you remember the wedding we went to for our friends, Elyse and Evan .  Well, they just got their wedding photos back and we made it in a few.  Some lessons were learned... 1. Everyone loves wine.  We have now joined the club.  I no longer drink wine with a sour look on my face. 2.  These parents need to get out more because after "X" amount of glasses of wine, we partied way too hard. If we could just go out every so often, we wouldn't look as though we don't get out much (even though we don't) when we're actually in public.  Can anyone say "out of control?"  Who dances like this anyway?  THIS mom.  I will make sure to pull out these moves when I pick up Bug from junior high school...because I can.  (Obviously Bug did not get her smooth moves from mom.) 3.  When women catch a bouquet, we all have the same look on our faces -- mouths and eyes wide open.  I wasn't even competing and I still look t...

We are seriously hoping this is the first and last of ANY trips to the emergency room.  That's right.  I said it.  Emergency room.  Last night, after giving Bug a bath, in an attempt to get Bug off the floor during a semi-tantrum to put on some pajama's, Daddy heard a POP!  Then Mommy heard some crying.  It was done.  After hoping it was just a dramatic attempt on her part to postpone bedtime, we tried to put her shirt on and as she cooperatively lifted her left arm through the sleeve of the shirt, her right would not move.  AH!  This was it- our first trip to the emergency room...at 9:25pm on a Sunday night.   Shirtless, wrapped in a blanket, waiting to be seen.  As we were bringing her in we saw a "safe drop off" sign for parents who drop off babies they can no longer take care of.  I feared people would think we were dropping her off, wrapped in a blanket.  No.  We do not want to drop off our 2 year old k...