The World According to Kate and Lucy: August 2009

Water Paints

This was after we realized the water paints were not washable (who makes non-washable paints for kids anyway??)

Kate's Obession with Noah (and her other cousins)

Kate LOVED spending time with all her cousins in Michigan. Here she is with Noah, who she particularly idolizes.

Here she is with Anna, showing off Anna's nail-painting job.

Kate and her cousin Jessica

With Uncle Mike

Kate and Noah playing My Little Ponies (You can kind of notice in this picture that Kate's front two teeth are grayish colored. She fell a few weeks ago and cut her lip pretty badly. She cried for a while when it happened, but I didn't think too much of it because she tends towards the melodramatic and will cry equally hard over a hang nail...Well, last week, her top two teeth started to turn darker. Paul took her to a pediatric dentist this week, who said there is not anything we can do at this point - they're not infected and they may turn back lighter or they might stay dark until she loses them. I'm not too thrilled about the prospect of her having 2 gray teeth for the next 3-4 years, but at least she didn't knock them out. Paul tells me I need to quit talking about it, because I'm giving her a complex. She keeps going to the mirror and saying "Yup, they keep getting darker...")

Can you tell that Kate is used to the hot, humid DC summers and not the 68 degree Michigan weather?

Trip to Michigan

We spent last week in Michigan at a house in Grand Haven with my parents and brother Tim and his family. We also got to spend some time in Grand Rapids with Paul's family. We all had a great time, especially Kate, who idolizes her cousins. We also got to meet my brother Mike and his wife Danielle's new baby, Lucas.