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Kate's shopping trip

Well Kate received some gifts for Halloween and went to spend some of her loot today. She's been talking about the Wonder Pets now for awhile. We took her cute purse and went to the store for her first personal purchase. (Aunt K really knows how to pick out a cute purse!)

She totally got it. To the point she asked "Don't you have money Mommy?" hm. bright light.

She used HER money though and a good time was had by all.

Thanks for the Halloween loot, and the great opportunity to show Kate how money works.

Look what's arrived at our house!!

Yep, Christmas is coming! We skip Thanksgiving decorations and jump right into the big fat guy in the red suit stuff. Actually, it's in stages. Tried to find my angels last night, and pulled up a couple of other things as well. The first picture is a music box from Hallmark that had "Christmas around the world". Please note the Asian adorable at the front of the tree.

I'm collecting Asian angels for Kate, so if anyone sees any, I'd love to hear. Who wouldn't want their very own angel that looks just like them?

Have a great weekend.

Happy Halloween

I know, you love pictures!!

So Halloween wasn't quite as expected. Uncle Robert and Grandma came, but Uncle Robert and Kate are sick. Bummer. Kate spent most of Friday and Saturday on the couch. Good think we got the robe when we did! We managed to get outside for tnt, but after about half the street, she wanted to go home.

We didn't have a the hundreds of kids that we usually do, so we have plenty of candy in our house. If you need some stop by!

Kate decided to be a pegusus unicorn again this year, which was helpful in that I could put clothes on her underneath. It was cold this Halloween for us.

Eventually we headed home, Kate spent most of the night either looking out the door, or sitting on the steps with Grandma to handout candy.

then, it was "eat whatever you want', and she did.

Hope you all are well, full of candy, and happy this day.

Pictures

was just noticing how much she has changed!! Hard to believe this was just last year.

Princesses. what fun.

camping, Kate and Mommy style

Kate is fascinated with camping. Now, I wouldn't mind camping, but the idea of dragging my tired soul and hers home at 3 am because she's scared, etc isn't my idea of a great camping trip. So, what do we do? Camp in the living room. This lovely Dora tent was quite the bargin awhile back. AND you can make smores by toasting marshmallows over a gas burner. Quite the multi-tasker, aren't I?

Baxter loves camping. He manages to pull the tent over regularly. He hides in it, kicks it, and makes me wonder if I should go ahead, pitch a tent in the backyard and let him live there. Oh, just kidding. (well mostly)

Happy October! Mom pulled out the power tools and made a cat jack o'lantern. I think it is the influence of my father who assures me the right tool make the job easy. That and I'm pretty sure he'd find every reason possible to buy a power tool. ;)

Kate's decided to be a princess for dress up this year. I love the blue velvet cape I snagged at a garage sale even before she arrived. That and sparkly shoes and our harvest festival was fun. She's so over KI though. Not one ride ridden. bummer.