The Catey Family

4.27.2008

April - Remainder of Week 2

Well, it wasn't super nice out, but nice enough to put on (winter) jackets and have a little fun outside. The kids wanted to play outside so badly, so...here they are, bubbles and all! Yes, Amanda's lawn mower is a bubble maker and she loves it. The girls loved stomping on the bubbles that landed on the driveway too!

Daddy practiced the Ariel puppet show w/the girls while I ran to the grocery store and when I returned, they put the play on for ME. Wow, they did great. Here they are in their puppet theatre. Natalie really got in to it, go figure!

Amanda enjoyed her Toddler Art class at the library and so did Natalie and Ryan. Well, Natalie, maybe not so much...haha! She was being a stinker that day b/c she wanted to do the craft project too.....oh well. She still got to sing and dance. Amanda did a great job glueing and needed very little help.

4.25.2008

April 8 - Children's Museum

We finally made it back to the children's museum w/Grandma C. and the kids had a blast. We hadn't been there for quite some time and we sure did miss it. Fun was had by all. Ryan's first time there and he had a ball!

1. Making a BIG bubble 2. Wind tunnel 3. Suction tube

1. Navigating the ship 2. Baby fun play

1. Woodworking w/Grandma 2. Finished pieces the girls made for Mommy & Daddy

1. BIG chair little people 2. Balancing the scale 3. How tall am I?

1. Ry and Grandma 2. Triangle fun

1. Looming 2. Telescoping. The girls loved this!

4.24.2008

April - Week #1

Well, I am playing catch-up but wanted to get some cute pictures up of what we've been up to. The kids have been playing so nicely together lately. I think it must be the weather and being able to run off that extra energy outside too. At bedtime, they are in bed and ready for sleep. Haven't had Amanda coming in our room 5-10 times telling us she needs to go potty, needs water, her stuffed animal fell off the bed....etc. Ryan is all over the place, climbing the stairs..and he's having a hard time with his first tooth coming in. Really, the child is a dream. He barely complains and you know when he does it must hurt. Anyway, I'm hoping it pops thru soon, as they get easier after the first couple...and as I post this, he will be 10 months old tomorrow already. Breaks my heart, my baby is almost 1 year already. I wasn't kidding when I said I needed to start planning his birthday when we brought him home from the hospital!!!!

(April 2)

Prince (ss) Ryan

(April 3)

So Natalie came home from school and had this brilliant idea to make homemade apple juice. Well, we didn't have apples, but we had grapes, so she was all for that. After smashing about a handful of grapes and she was a little disappointed that she only had a few drops of juice, not enough to fill a cup. So, next time we will make orange juice. I think she will love that. She is just full of ideas, it never ends...I love it.

(April 3)

Baking cookies w/Mommy - YUM!

(April 4)

Ry Ry in his bear outfit Jane got him from the Big Bear Discovery Center. Beautiful Babe!

(April 5)

After Grandma & Grandpa C. came to watch the girls in their Saturday morning swim class, we went out to breakfast at IHOP and Amanda had the HORTON HEARS A WHO! meal! She ate some of the spinach eggs but loved the lollipop the best. What a cutie pie! She loves her sweets!

CUPCAKE MANIA!

We love cupcakes so we couldn't end CUPCAKE WEEK w/o celebrating with CUPCAKES! I of course decorated the girls' table w/the cupcake pillow and put them in their cupcake p.j.'s to round out the themed evening! Catey Cupcake Cafe, what do ya think? Maybe someday we will have our own cupcake cafe!

One more thing, I am seeing a funny trend in Amanda's pictures lately.....look @ the middle one above, yes, I must have more than 1/2 a dozen pictures of her like this in just the past month or so. Where did she learn how to do this? She is hysterical. What a funny girl.

4.21.2008

Rainy Day - March 31

Almost-April showers, bring May flowers!

4.13.2008

Spring Break Highlights

Well, we didn't go away anywhere for Spring Break this year, but we did do a lot of fun things. Here we go.....

On Tuesday, Grandma Catey took us all to McDonald's PlayPlace for lunch and to the movie theatre to see Horton Hears a Who! Natalie was jumping up and down in her seat, screaming, yelling at the screen, so excited, scared. She absolutely loved it. Amanda was glued to the screen too! Ryan eventually gave in and took his nap. Daddy even snuck away from work for a 'long lunch' and saw the movie w/us. Can't wait for this one to come out on DVD!

And then back to Grandma's house to play. Natalie climbed the tree and also found a birdie's nest that had fallen out of the tree on to the ground. I had to put it in a ziploc b/c it was making quite a mess, but here it is.

Wednesday was a day of rest and play at home. Natalie rode her new bike for a few minutes. But still too cold to be outside for too long. She's doing great.

On Thursday, Ryan had his 9-month checkup. Daddy came along too!

Here are his stats:

Weight: 23 lbs.

Length: 28"

75th %'ile

What a big boy. He did great and his doctor was very pleased to see how well he is progressing w/his milestones. So are we! :) And no immunizations this time, yeah!

After Ryan's checkup, we met Grandma Catey and headed to the Children's Museum. It had started snowing and by the time we got there the parking lot was full and it was very chaotic since it was Good Friday and everyone was out of school. I decided at that point we should go there another day and we headed to Odyssey Fun World instead and had an absolute blast!

Although the kids played a lot of games, the funnest part was the EXPLORATION ADVENTURE, where we spent most of our time. You could be in this thing for days!

And we ended the afternoon with snack...Natalie had a big pretzel and Amanda had pink & blue ice cream dots!

Friday...A week off of school and Natalie was looking for a new adventure. She asked us how she could make money. Scott told her she could do chores. At first she didn't think that was such a great idea (but has since bought in to it!) He also mentioned that she could make something and try to sell it to her Grandma (who would buy anything from her wonderful little granddaughter!) So she decided to make art. She designed this dress and came up with a price: 4 quarters + 5 cents ($1.05) - so Scott made a price tag for it, stapled it to her design and we went to Grandma's house. Guess what....Grandma bought it! What a smart little girl Natalie is. What a concept. I don't think I could have been so creative at that age or shoot, even now?!?