4 Peas in a Pod: Our Week: Memorial Day and Working on the Den

Rich took this picture when he got home from work one morning. He thought Katie would be asleep and he could catch a picture of her sleeping. Instead he walked in to her standing up, wide awake saying "Cheeeeeeese!"

We've been quite busy this week with all of our usual activities plus visiting family and working on our den.
We're still working with Katie on potty training. We're taking it slow and she only sits on the potty when she wants to. We sing songs and make it a game. We've had one potty success so far but, we're in no hurry.

Daddy and Katie singing and clapping while Katie sits on the potty.

We have a lot of huge frogs in our yard. A few live in the vegetable garden and at least two live in the flower garden. Katie loves following them around the yard saying "Hop, hop, hop."

Katie got her very own toolbox to help Daddy work on the den. This was Rich's toolbox when he was little. We bought some play tools at the grocery store to put in her toolbox. She also puts random tools and objects in it that she finds in the garage.

We went to visit Rich's parents this week. Katie had fun playing with her cousin Ethan. He gave her one of his old dump trucks and she loves it!

We went to my grandparents for Memorial Day. We're all big coffee drinkers and Katie is getting an early start. Pops was pouring tiny bits of coffee in Katie's tiny coffee cup. I'm not sure she really likes the taste of the coffee but she likes drinking it anyway, especially when it comes from Pops lol!

Aunt Vicki and Katie

Gotta love the overalls, perfect for working in the garage.

Rich was getting really hot working in the garage with his beard so he decided to shave it off for the summer. Katie was really confused at first...she kept looking at her Daddy out of the corner of her eyes and then laughing at him. This picture was when she first saw him without his beard.

She looks like such a big girl sitting there coloring.

We went to Knox's house for our playdate. Those two have such a good time together. As we were leaving Knox was sitting down to eat lunch. Katie thought she would help by putting on his shoes.

One of Katie's favorite things to do while Daddy works in the garage is take the scraps of wood, take them outside and stack them.

Katie's favorite book is still The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss. I think we've read that every night this week. We read to Katie before bed every night. We pick out a book then usually she picks out a book. She always picks The Foot Book.

It's so much fun to work in the garden with Katie. I have never had a better looking vegetable garden and I think the reason is Katie wants to go down there so much that I get a lot of work done.

She loves eating the sugar snap peas. Sometimes when I pick them none of them make it into the house because she eats them all.

Playing in her new dump truck Cousin Ethan gave her.

Katie is learning so much while we build our den. Her Daddy is so patient with her. He always takes the time to stop and show her what he's doing and she tries to copy him. He taught her how to use the square to measure and draw straight lines. She worked really hard and was able to put a pencil up against the straight edge and draw a straight line. She's also learning how to use screwdrivers and other tools.

Katie is working on learning her shapes. We drew huge shapes on the patio with chalk and Katie walked on the lines.

We went to my Dad's house to see the new baby goat that was born on Thursday. Katie wasn't as interested in the baby as we thought she would be. She liked petting on Sugar the horse....