Days With Kate: Ice Cream Party, Dirty Dishes, New Friends and Gentry's Farm

Dear Kate,

We had a fun week full of activities including a very yummy ice cream birthday party! It was Cole's birthday and you got to join in on the fun since Sister was invited. While you were the youngest one there, you hung with the best of them, proving you can eat an ice cream cone like no other!

You were one hot mess when we left the party, but you enjoyed every single bit of that ice cream cone, including the paper wrapper that I had to take away from you because you were munching on that, too!

You have taken a liking to washing the dishes, which Mommy hearts. Well, other than the water you get everywhere, but you are learning with each time how to control that a little better! For the mean time, you scrub like no other!

You also like to help mom cook and if I don't include you whether it's throwing stuff in a crock pot or spraying PAM on the cookie sheet, you have a big fit! I've learned things you can do and things you cannot do, like pouring sugar. We need to work on your aim :)

On Friday, we had friends of Daddy's come in town to stay with us for the weekend. It was Mr. Sanjay (or as we call him, Ghosh) and Miss Shannon and they brought their sweet little girl Annabelle (3 1/2) and little baby boy Oliver (9 months). We took them straight to Mexican on Friday night and you impressed them (and everyone at Mexican) with your attire. You INSISTED on wearing your costume to Mexican and if Mommy even made a suggestion on changing, a fit was thrown. It was 7 before we even made it to Mexican so I knew better and just let you wear it! I hope this is not a glimpse into the future. Yes, it's your mermaid costume. AND, that paci is about to drive Mommy crazy. As soon as we wrap up potty training (yes, it's in our near future) then we will move onto the paci. You love some pa-pa though... Anyway, more on that later.

On Saturday morning, we took our friends to Gentry's Farm and we had so much fun. We rode hayrides and played on tire swings and just ran around and enjoyed the beautiful (hot) day!

Sweet Annabelle loved the tire swing!

And so did our sweet Kate!!!

You and Sister waited so patiently for your turns on the tire swings.

But then Sister got a great idea to put one on the inside and one on top to make you not have to wait as long! Brilliant!

And of course you had to do it, too!

You loved climbing in the barn and going down the slide all by yourself and grinning with Sister...

Look how tall you've gotten!

But that darn Paa's still in your mouth!!

And look who we ran into?! Jakey!!!!

Such a fun day at Gentry's Farm!

We headed to Gray's for lunch and FABULOUS is what comes to mind. Such a yummy new lunch/dinner spot for us! After lunch, we headed home to nap (or, you and Oliver did) and Daddy grilled us some yummy food! We hung out most of the evening in the playroom or outside and the kiddos went to bed while the 'dults got to enjoy some time together.
Sunday morning was yet again beautiful, so we headed to the park for a bit. You loved showing Oliver the swings!