I'm back!

Hey, blog. I'm back. I haven't forgotten about you. I just needed some space. It's not you. It was me. But hey! I'm finally back into a part of my life and my head that I want to share. I know, you can't wait. :)

Prairie girl

My grandmother indulged my every dress up desire when I was little. She made this prairie girl dress when I was going through a (rather intense and long) Laura Ingalls Wilder phase.



And now my daughter loves to play with it. I love that.

I think we need an agent...

Katie was in the paper again! Well, it was the online edition of the newspaper, but that's almost the same thing, right?

Here she is, at a Pink Week festival at the local high school.

Bringing home a baby bumblebee...

We are slowly (thanks to Angie) figuring out something about Katie's learning style. When introduced to a new concept, she will vehemently protest that she can't do it. Then, the next day, she'll do it very well. She seems to really need that down time to process her learning.



The practice of the letter b was like that. She did them all buy herself!

Johnny Appleseed...

He was quite a guy,
A hero guaranteed!
And as American...
As apple pie!

It's weird what you remember from elementary school. That was a song from our second grade play. RAM = Random Access Memory




Katie learned about Johnny Appleseed at preschool. She's wearing a Johnny Appleseed hat. They also made apple on a drink lid with tissue paper and small twigs. So cute! And when I got there to pick her up, all the apples were hanging in an "apple" tree!

A is for Apples

Katie's preschool teacher is so creative! The kids painted apple trees, and they used paint on their hand and forearm to make the trunks!

The County Fair

We've taken Katie to the fair every year, but this is the first year she rode a ride. And my little daredevil skipped the kiddie rides, with their cute spinning strawberries and their tame dragon coaster. Katie ran straight to the Ferris Wheel.


And she loved it!