More Transitions

Here are a few pictures of Kate and some of her neighborhood friends from last weekend. We had a going away party for our good friends who are moving to Richmond at the end of the month. That's the huge downside to living in a transient area - people seem to always be leaving...

(I had to throw in the one photo of Kate with the juice box, because of the expression on her face - she looks like somebody spiked her Motts for Tots....)

My Olympian

While I'm not big on watching the Olympics in general, I do love watching women's gymnastics. I was watching the team qualifying round on T.V. Sunday night and Kate seemed spellbound watching the tumbling. She was staring at the screen and then all of a sudden, out of no where, she dashed across the basement with her hands up in the air, threw herself into a somersault and promptly landed right on Sadie. Sadie looked mildly annoyed, but Kate was quite pleased with herself, stood up, threw her arms up in the air again and started clapping. She's been practicing "nastics" every night since. I just signed her up for a toddler gymnastics class for the fall - we'll see how that goes :)

Transitions

Kate will be starting preschool in less than two weeks. I think she will enjoy it, but I know it will be a huge transition for her, because she's been with the same child care provider (who she calls "Ema") since I went back to work. So I'm really worried that the transition is going to be hard for Kate. Here's a few pictures of Kate and "Ema":

More Summer Pictures

Here are a few recent pictures from the block party this past weekend, as well as some other pictures from the pool and hanging out this summer.

Tim and Jill - if you're reading this, you'll see that Kate's wearing the lady bugs pajamas you sent her for her birthday. She is obsessed with them and if I try to put any other pajamas on her (say for instance, when the coveted lady bug ones are in the wash), she looks at me in an accusatory manner and says (in what I swear is a German accent she picked up from her daycare provider :) "Theeesse is not the lady bugs!"

Shake It

I find it a little bit scary that my toddler knows about ITunes. There is a popular song on the radio now, that's both catchy and slightly annoying at the same time. It's called "Shake It" and it's by a band called Metro Station. Kate's heard it in the car a few times and she loves it - she'll start dancing in the car in her carseat and say "I'm dancing in my seat!"

We got in the car a few days ago and she said "I want to hear Shake, Shake!" I told her it wasn't on the radio and she replied without missing a beat "Call Dada, tell him go buy Shake, Shake." So now we have an ITunes copy of the song and must listen to it several times a day and dance...and for those who are wondering, Kate unfortunately inherited my dancing skills, if you know what I mean. Here's a picture of her doing what I like to call "interpretive dance."