A Weekend of Fun

We had a really fun weekend. Despite only being packed for 1 day but deciding to stay 3...the weekend at home was great! We stayed with my brother and sister-in-law. On Friday we went to a car show that my brother's racecar was in. Saturday Melissa, (my sister-in-law) Kate and I went shopping. (since I was only packed for 1 day we needed a few things) Then Kate stayed with Dustin and his parents while I went to the races with my dad, Justin and Melissa. It was fun!


Sunday we went to Meadowcroft village. An excerpt from the website describes it like this: Take a trip back in time with Meadowcroft's carefully recreated 19th century village celebrating rural life. Visitors can experience how our ancestors lived by stirring apple butter, dipping candles and celebrating an old-fashioned Indepedence Day in July. During your visit, stop by the one-room schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, church, covered bridge, or one of two log houses. Then travel back to the dawn of prehistoric people in North America with a visit to the Meadowcroft Rockshelter. They weren't churning butter or dipping candles when we were there but we still had a good time.

Here's Melissa throwing the spear (i can't remember what it was really called) the blacksmith, Melissa and I sporting the latest fashions of the day, the one room schoolhouse, the barber shop and the covered bridge; known as the kissing bridge.

The boys had to wear this bonnet if they were bad in school.


Kate writing on the slate board


Dustin and me in front of the kissing bridge


Kate was exhausted by the end of the day


MEMORIAL DAY

baby's crying

Kate started this crying one day while looking at a book with a crying baby in it. Now she does this every time I ask her...

random

I haven't blogged for soooo long you might think I'd be here blogging something really cool or important. NOPE. I've got nothing. Here is some of the randomness that has been our life lately.

I just thought Kate looked super cute this day :)


Kate with Uncle Justin


Her new surprised face


Kate eating her 1st Popsicle...she loved it (actually it was daddy's popsicle that she stole from him)


Kate looking pretty at church


Kate's 2 favorite things these days...her elmo chair and goldfish. she went out to the kitchen, got these out of the cupboard and brought them in and sat down on her elmo chair to enjoy them.


Kate's crazy hair after a good night's sleep


Kate's growing vocab now includes "hip, hip, hooray", "ribbit", and "duck". Here's duck and hip hip horray!

I've been having a really difficult week with kate this week. I don't know if any of you experienced this when your little one turned one but it's been a challenge. I don't know if it's from her shots (which made her sick) or just that's she's having a really bad week. Or she's miss independent. I have to give her food a certain way or she spits it out and throws it on the floor. I have to hold her at all times of the day if she wants me to or I have scratches on my neck from when she didn't want me to anymore. We spend hours every day outside at the playground because that's what makes her happy. Anyways...the joys of motherhood. This post is really to post some of the really cute things Kate has been doing lately...despite the challenges she's still my favorite person in the whole wide world!

*She loves dogs! She barks anytime she sees a dog, hears a dog, sees her stuffed animal dog, or we mention dogs!

*(To answer some of your questions about Kate's vocabulary) She says hi, bye, daddy, mama, Elmo, baby, doggie

*She did the sign for more yesterday for the first time! I've showed it to her before but I always forget to work on it. It's been at least a month since I've even done the sign to her. So she pretty much just did it out of the blue!


*She loves to blow her own nose lately. Like I said, she's sick so I've been wiping her nose all the time. She just started picking up tissues and holding them to her own nose and actually blowing!! So now if I hold it there and say blow, she does!!