Peek-a-Boo

One of her most favorite things to do lately is play peek-a-boo.


And this is her other favorite thing to do...

Clowns....

So Hillary put up her childhood clown pictures on her blog and since I too hate clowns and would rather not think of them ever again I'm going to show you my clown picture that ruined me forever and then be done with it.

See there IT is....trying to give me balloons but I know what it's thinking.....YIKERS!!

....I'm not scared....I'm not scared....I'm not scared.

Kate is almost a year....

and I can't believe it. Where has the past year gone? It certainly has flown by. Just a quick post with lots of pictures since it's 1:24 a.m. and I should be sleeping.

This is what I find her doing all day...pulling books off her shelf in her room...
See, here she is the very next day....
So we had crazy lightning and thunder last week and Conor snapped this picture of the cloud right before the storm....
Kate playing in the laundry (with Auntie Jennie's help)...
This picture makes me laugh...look at that toothy smile....

Playing with her Elmo toy...

Discovering the zipper on her jacket...

Not exactly sure what was going on here...

Helping me with the laundry...

So it's been a while....

I'll start you off with some Mother's Day Photos:

Kate had fun watching the bubbles daddy was blowing at her:

Kate crawls everywhere now, she gets into everything she can find. Her new favorite toy is the door stopper. Don't ask me why! lol

Here are some pictures from one of the super hot days we had a few weeks back. I went to Target and got this cute little pool for Kate and she loved it so much:

This is my most favorite picture of Kate. It seems to capture the real color of her eyes which are blue/green.

Thanks for looking everyone! :)

My Sweet Kate

Here are some pics of Kate I took a few weeks ago. She is just tooo cute. :)

Layouts...layouts...layouts

So first off my partner-in-scrap Rachel is now selling her amazing kits in her NEW STORE at Divine Digital. Congrats Rachel, I'm sooooooooo happy for ya girl!! I decided to scrap with a few and boy did I have fun!! :)

Rock Star!!!

Here she is....our future Rock Star!!

I used Andrea Gold's Sisters Kit and her template #216.

While at Jim and Julies in Fresno Kate played with this old Mickey Mouse piano they had. She banged on the keys and 'sang'. It was soo cute.

Um, just a few more...

I participated in two Sunshine Studio Scrap challenges. I won one of them and am waiting to see if I won the other. Here are the layouts I used for them:

I'm also the new Community Leader of the Digital Scrapbooking Board on Ivillage and I post weekly challenges over there. Here are 2 layouts for the challenges I've posted so far:

CT Pages

Yes.....more layouts!!! lol
Credits: Kim Smith's Spring Romance Paper Pack & Element Pack from Scrappin Digital Kreations
Credits: LorieM Designs Cherished Moments Kit

Scrapbook Pages Overload!!!

Credits: Raspberry Road Design Bailey Room Papers and Elements, Template from Free Digital Scrapbooking Credits:Vintage Oreo's from Summertime Designs

Credits: Bliss Kit by Andrea Gold

Credits: Template by Andrea Gold, Theresa Borntreger's Something Artsy Kit

Credits: Raspberry Road Design's Anne's Room papers and elements

Kate's Stanford Apt & a Fresno Trip

So we went down to Stanford to meet with Dr. Lawrence Rinskey, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. Eureka Ped's sent us down there because the x-ray and ultrasound we had done on her hip came back with a slight problem. There was more depth in her right hip joint than in her left hip joint. Our appointment was last Friday morning. We left Thursday afternoon and stayed in Palo Alto at a motel about 8 minutes from the clinic. Here is a picture of Kate and Daddy hanging out in the room Thursday Night:

Kate slept pretty well and woke up bright and early at 7:30 am. So we decided to get up and start getting ready. Here's a picture of Kate hanging out in her pack n' play as we got our stuff ready to go:

After we'd loaded all our stuff in the car we decided to head to Starbucks to get some coffee, go fill up the gas tank and get some sandwiches since our appointment was at 11:00 am. Here's a picture of Kate and Conor after we picked up our sandwiches:

We got to the clinic right before 11:00 and checked in. We waited a LOOOONNNNGGG time, 1.5 hrs to be exact. Here's a picture of Kate and Conor hanging out in the clinic waiting room and waiting in our room for the Dr:

Once we were taken back to our room a nurse chatted with us then in came a resident and she looked over Kate's hips. She said she'd also looked over the x-rays and did not think that Dr. Rinskey was going to do anything right now. Dr Rinskey then came in and did in fact say there is no need to do anything. He said that when children are born with hip dysplacia they are thrilled to set their hip the way Kate's is set right now. He wants us to come back in 6 months for a follow-up x-ray.

After the appointment we then drove south to Gilroy so that I could go shopping at the Carters Outlet in Gilroy. I got tons of cute clothes for Kate to wear in the summer. Then we drove east to Fresno to spend Friday night and Saturday with Conor's Aunt Julie and Uncle Jim and their three kids; Joe, Megan and Samantha. Kate had fun hanging out with their dog, Frosty, too!

Here's some pictures from our day with them.