We've had another wonderful week filled with lots of activity!  I've started selling thirty-one products and have been working on getting the word out and trying to book parties.  Katie and Lillie have enjoyed playing outside...most times you can hardly get them to come inside!

 Katie and Lillie had fun playing with the bags I got from thirty-one.

 The two little troublemakers love playing in the new garden...and eating dirt.

 I love Katie's face in the background.

 Katie relaxing in the chair.  She put her hands behind her head and sighed.  Looks exactly like her Daddy!

 We got Katie some wooden blocks.  Her and Daddy played with them all afternoon.  Daddy built towers and Katie couldn't wait to tear them down. 

We tried a new recipe for refrigerator oatmeal...Katie gobbled it up, as usual!

Knox came over to play.  He's going to be a big brother next week!  Katie and Knox played with Katie's new dollhouse.

Katie and Lillie are inseparable.  You can bet if you can't find either one of them that they're into trouble together.  The other day I walked into Katie's room and found them laying on the floor eating cheez-its together. 

Katie had some fun with art this week.  She used her new stampers and markers that she got for Easter and her new fingerpaint.

There's been a turtle hanging around in our yard the past few days.  Katie likes to watch him but she's not quite sure what she should do with him.

Katie got to have her first peanut butter and jelly sandwich this week!

I love pinterest, they have so many ideas that I use for Katie.  Here's a simple fine motor skill activity where she puts straws through holes in a container.

Our baby birds have hatched, grown and now have flown away.  Here's one of the babies the day they flew away.  We had so much fun watching them grow up and Katie loved being able to see them everday.

Katie also turned 18 months this week...wow!  Everyone has been asking what words she says so here's a quick rundown of all the words I can think of.

Daddy
hi
bye
done
bath
bubble
ball
no (she learned this recently because Lillie kept taking her toys lol!)
cup
eat
dance
Elmo
one
wheee (when she wants to swing)
She also knows animal sounds (moo, quack, meow, woof, baa, etc.)
She can tell you where her head, hair, eyes, nose, ears, belly, foot and toes are.

Easter

 The day before Easter Katie enjoyed painting Easter eggs.  We weren't quite ready to try using the dye this year so we had Katie paint the eggs with her crayola washable paints.  (Washable being the key word)

 She was very serious as she went about painting each of her eggs.  She concentrated and dipped the brush into each color.

 And this is why washable paint was wonderful!

 Grandma and Grandpa Vaughan came over Saturday night to give Katie some special toys.

 Here's Katie's Easter basket from Daddy and Mommy...books, stuffed animals, finger paint and of course Easter eggs.

 Katie's completed Easter eggs.

 Opening her Easter basket on Easter Sunday morning.

 Reading the story of the meaning of Easter with her Daddy.

 Pops and Tina came over Sunday morning to give Katie her Easter gift-a garden wheelbarrow with shovel, trowel, plastic pots and flowers.

 Smelling the flowers.

 We went to Grandmother and Grandfather's were both Katie and Lillie got more than enough love.

 Such a sweet picture of Grandmother and Katie.

 Hunting Easter eggs at Grandmother and Grandfather's house.

 Hunting Easter eggs at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  She had fun playing with her cousins.  The boys were so sweet to help her find eggs and put them in her basket.

 Grandma made this adorable outfit for Katie...notice the pink ruffles on her bum...too cute!

Blowing bubbles with Great Aunt Jo and cousin Tammy.

Our Week: The Past Two Weeks

Katie and this meerkat spent time running back and forth and looking at each other.  By far Katie's favorite part of the zoo...she laughed and laughed.

Katie trying to look through the telescope to see the cheetahs.  Notice the scrunched up face as she tries to close one eye.






We've had a wonderful couple of weeks filled with trips to the zoo and to see family!  Daddy was on vacation for a whole nine days so we enjoyed a lot of family time together.

Katie and her Daddy worked on building a flower garden for the backyard.

Katie had fun stacking the scrap pieces of wood and then knocking them over.

Katie and Lillie coloring.

We spent a lot of time outside, enjoying the weather and letting our two girls get their energy out.

We planted flowers...Katie loves smelling the flowers.

Great-Grandma got Katie a huge dollhouse with all the accessories.  Katie has spent two whole days playing exclusively with her dollhouse and furniture....

...except for the two minutes she spent inside this box.