She's four today

My sweet baby has grown up into a beautiful little girl. I don't know how it happened. It seems like yesterday she looked like this.


Kara at approx 1 day old


Then this:

And then:



And last birthday:




So now she looks a little something like this. She's so grown up!

First day of school

Kara started preschool at Erie this year. She really seems excited to be going to school, and wakes up EVERY morning raring to go. Someday I'll get her to understand the concept of weekends. We drop her off at school and she gets to ride the big bus home. She loves it! The whole first two weeks of school she insisted her daddy take her fishing before and after school. They are getting pretty lucky it seems!

End of summer fun

Kara has had a lot of fun this summer. Toward the end we had my friend from work bring over her two little ones to swim and see the critters and Grandma and Papa's. Kara and Derek have decided they will be getting married when they are grown up. LOL They are pretty funny together!

I also love this pic of Kara and Landen after a swim. They are having a snack of milk and animal crackers to rebuild their energy!

Happy 4th!

We had a fun 4th of July. We spent the day at Grandma and Papa's looking at their new goats and new llama. Kara has decided to name the new llama Number 2 Steve, after their previous male llama. I sorta feel sorry for him! On the evening of the 4th we had a family dinner and then fireworks. Daddy was in charge of lighting everything off and he did a wonderful job. Kara wasn't really a big fan of the sparklers, she would hold one for about half the sparkler worth then wanted someone else to take over. I was able to get some good pictures though.

Sparkler girl


Number 2 Steve


Kara and one of the "Alpine Girls"


Kara in her 4th outfit, we were doing some parachutes and snakes with Uncle Matt


Kara in her new swimsuit

Haven't posted in a while

There hasn't been too much new going on around here to take pictures of, so I haven't bothered to log on.

Kara is super excited to be a big sister, although she is CERTAIN she will be having a baby brother, and won't take any other answer. I had toyed with the idea of actually finding out the baby's sex at my next ultrasound (This Thursday, I can't wait!) so I could start preparing her if baby is actually a sister. Then I realized that it isn't going to matter, because she will not believe that baby isn't a brother until she can physically see it herself. So we will be going with the original plan of not finding out. I figure what will actually happen is we will have an exhibitionist baby that let's know even though we don't want to!

She is also become super-observant. The other morning I had changed from work clothes into shorts and a T-shirt. She noticed immediately that the shirt I had on wasn't mine, and said "Mommy, why you wearing Daddy's shirt?" I told her that the baby had made my belly big enough that I couldn't wear my own shirts anymore. She then wanted to know "After my baby brother gets here, will you be able to wear your own shirts again?" I told her I certainly hoped so!

And I guess I was lying when I said I had no pictures this time, I just didn't take them with my camera is all. Last week Kara spent the night with Grandma and Papa so Mommy and Daddy could celebrate their anniversary and Daddy's birthday (we had dinner and grownup movie = heaven!) The next day I went over to sleep before work, and she decided to wear this getup to pickup pizza for supper. Don't blame me, I wanted to change her, but Uncle Matt said it would be fine, and he was the one taking her.



She uses this vest as part of her 'dragonslayer' getup, complete with nerf sword. She usually makes Matt be the dragon!

Graduations

We had a busy weekend this past weekend, with several graduations we could have attended. We opted to only go to my brother Matt's and Blaine's brother Josh's. Even still it wore us out, since one graduation was in Pittsburg in the morning and the other at KU in the afternoon. For Kara the best part was the hotel we stayed at that had an indoor pool and a "huzzi" tub!

Baby Nathan

Kara's newest cousin was born May 6th. So on Mother's Day we went by for a visit. Kara was so sweet with baby Nathan. It makes me very hopeful that she will be a good big sister. She even did a pretty good job trying to hold him all by herself.