Kara's Baby "Brudder"

We've finally told everyone that we are expecting a new baby. Kara is certain that she will be getting a brother, so I'm just going to humour her for now.

We told Blaine's Granny by handing her the u/s pics and having her guess what the picture was of. Her eyes must be really bad since she guessed a car window or an arm. This prompted Kara to beg to see them, and she said "Granny, it's a triangle" I've laughed and laughed over that, although she does have a point, because the way the u/s works the first pic does have the outline of a triangle.

So now she has questions about how the baby is doing on a daily basis. Before I went to work on that first night we told her she wanted to know what I was going to do with the baby while I was at work. I told her the baby would just be coming with me for a little while yet. She also laid her head on my tummy and told me that she could hear the baby crying. The following night she wanted to know what the baby eats. I told her baby still gets his food from Mommy, so he eats what I eat. After supper she asked "did the baby like his macaroni and peas?"

Such a smart kiddo! If only this next one can be as sharp we will be in good shape!

Happy Easter

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter! Here are a few pics from ours. On Saturday I took Kara to the city egg hunt at the park. She was really more interested in playing on the playground than she was in getting eggs, but she seemed to have a good time. The only wrinkle in the day was that they had a "bunny catch" and she wasn't the one that caught the bunny and got to take him home.









On Easter Kara and I went to church with Grandma and Papa. Mommy got to sing in the choir while Kara played in the nursery. She wasn't real up on having her picture taken in her pretty dress afterwards, because she was ready to watch a movie and get comfy. That afternoon she got to build a cookie bunny house with Matt and Mir. The poor kid got worn out halfway through and told Uncle Matt he could finish it himself. Then she settled in to watch a movie with them and fell asleep. Poor kiddo was running a fever and didn't even wake up for the party that evening. So there was no actual egg hunting on Easter day!

And this final pic is of Kara wearing my concert t-shirt from my last NKOTB concert. She really wanted to try it on, and then once it was on it was too cute not to take a picture of!

One fun weekend

We had a super fun weekend around here this past weekend.

We kicked off on Friday with a trip to Chanute to go to the library. We also went to a farm store and placed an order for our baby chicks. I can't wait to see how Kara does with them!

On Saturday Kara and I went and picked up Grandma Laurie to go to Pittsburg and shop. Mom and I also had haircuts this day. At the mall we ran in to a very special bunny, and Kara just HAD to sit on his lap. She was very brave to go up there, but the poor photographer had to work VERY hard to get any kind of smile out of her. He even had to have Mr. Bunny tickle her!




We ended our day with a trip to the movies to watch Monsters vs. Aliens. Kara LOVED it! She sat still the whole movie through and even today will tell people all about it.

Sunday we went to church, and Kara and another girl had a great time smacking each other with the palm fronds for Palm Sunday. We spent the afternoon playing at Grandma and Papa's. Kara was so worn out that she fell asleep on the way back home, and only woke up once in the middle of the night for a drink and to change beds!

Tony and Emily's wedding

Kara was the flower girl for Tony and Emily yesterday. She did a great job, and I'm so relieved that she didn't call TOO much attention to herself. These are just a few pictures that I took for the day. Since the uploader didn't work the way I wanted it to, I can't put captions for each of them, but most of them are self explanitory. Kara is really good at the chicken dance, by the way!

Cellphone video

I was going to try and post some of Kara's videos from my phone for you, but I've fiddled with it and can't seem to get it to work for me, so I doubt it would work for you either :(

New hairdo

I decided I had finally had enough wrestling around to get the tangles out of Kara's hair every day. She didn't like to have ANYTHING done to it. This weekend I did something about it. Here are before and after pictures from Kara's biggest haircut yet.

Before from the back:
Before from the front:

Shelli doing the duty! Thank goodness she is so patient and has so much experience with little ones!

After from behind:


After from the front. Kara really enjoyed playing at Shelli's after the "beauty shop" was done. She ran and played with all the dogs. And the best part of that was it gave her hair a chance to fall where it normally would so we could get her bangs just right!

A toddler's worldview

Santa brought Kara her very own camera for Christmas. I finally took the time the other day to upload the 100+ pictures she had taken with it. I was very interested in what I found. I just find it neat to see the world from her perspective. She did take a lot of Christmas morning pics that had half faces, up the nose shots, and butts (dog, Cousin Kenny, Cousin Landen). These were some of the most interesting to me.

Here is a self portrait. The set up of the camera makes it very easy for her to turn it around and take pics of herself because the button is on the front rather than the top of the camera.





This is her Diego train that she was so happy to get. I wasn't surprised to see several pictures of it pop up when the pictures came up on the computer.




She had her camera in the bank one day, all the pics from that are angled upward. I guess that is where all the important stuff is when you are her height.

Christmas breakfast. While she didn't eat much of it, she obviously found it exciting enough to photograph.

A close up of Grandma Jo's Christmas sweatshirt.