Miss Kate turned three!!

Kate's birth day.  So adorable and tiny.



Not so in love with Santa!



Sister love!



Always moving



Happy girl



Loves her daddy!



What a helper!



As promised, a whole post dedicated to my Katie, since she celebrated her third birthday at the beginning of last month. So here are a few fun things about Kate.  Right now she is really into coloring.  At the beginning of the school year I probably bought about forty notebooks because she could spend all day just drawing in them.  She has experimented with a little body art, drawing with pen and marker on herself and her clothes, but for the most part keeps it to paper. 
Kate is a bright ray of sunshine in our family.  She is incredibly smart and talkative for her age (of course, I am in no way biased being her mother!).  She really speaks as well as most five year olds.  She is also very affectionate, and I think has never met a grandma she didn't like (of course she prefers her own, but will go to almost any older woman) We were at one of the boy's basketball games earlier this year and an older lady said "hi" to Kate.  Well to her that was just an invitation.  She went right up to her and wanted to sit on her lap.   Kate also likes to get into things explore.  If it's quiet and she's awake that means there is a mess being created somewhere.
 She also likes to help me in the kitchen a lot.  Her favorite spot is sitting on the counter next to where I am making something good to eat.  Kate loves her brothers and sister too.  Lucy and her get along pretty well most of the time.  In the future I am sure that Eli will get some bossing around helpful advice while playing.  Kate does have a humorous strong aversion to anything/anyone that is in costume or animated toys, like the talking Elmo or the toy elephant that moves and makes noises that we got her for Christmas last year.   She says, "It is scary to me", or my favorite "It's creepy!!".  Another Kate characteristic is her beautiful curly hair.  Her poor hair has taken forever to grow.  Now that it is growing though it has come in pretty curly so it still looks kind of short.  I almost always have to wet it down first before I fix it because it just looks like a frizzy 'fro if I don't.  But when it's wet down and she has defined curls it looks so cute!! 
Kate is a joy to be around and is almost always happy, though, and full of boundless energy.