Labor Day Weekend

We posted a bunch of pics on Shutterfly from the weekend (link). I guess they technically start with last Thursday, which was Kaitlin's first day of "school" (Mother's Day Out). The program is every Thursday from 8:45 until 2, but since she still takes a fairly early nap I think I'll be picking her up around noonish most Thursdays, which will still give me some time to get some work done. Per instructions from Cindi, I was ordered to take a pic of her first day of school, and since I was alone it was kind of difficult to get her to cooperate. This is the best I could get, and I actually think it turned out kind of artistically good, with both our shadows there and her holding my keys, the door slowly opening towards my baby walking away from me. Yada, yada.

On Friday we left for Houston to spend some time with Nana and Pop, and to attend a couple birthday parties. We also went down to Discovery Green, a new park in downtown Houston. There are a ton of pics on Shutterfly from Kaitlin's foray into the water fountains there, she had a blast. She even met a boy with her exact same birthday but a year older. His parents were kind enough to let us borrow a Little Swimmer diaper, since we weren't planning on her going in the water we didn't bring one and the poor girl was waddling around with a 10lb diaper for most of her morning. She was a bit embarrassed to say the least.

When we got back to Dallas we went and purchased Kaitlin yet another birthday present. (I wonder how long pre and post birthday you can call still call them birthday presents?) We got her a Little Tikes car, which she absolutely ADORES. We took it for a couple spins around the block and the house today. I had Scott put it in the guest bedroom when she finally broke herself away from it to have a snack of "sauce" (applesauce), and then a few hours later when I was putting away the laundry she wandered away and I found her in there, in the car again! She had crawled inside herself and was just sitting there talking to herself. She loves that thing!

We also got her a Little Princess decorated table and 2 chairs. She doesn't really show very much interest in that now, but I'm sure in a couple months she will enjoy playing with it.

She ended the long weekend with a relaxing bath with her dad before he leaves for Orlando tomorrow. She even got to break in her new hippo towel, courtesy of Nannie and Pawpaw. (Notice she is on her duck phone in this picture. It was a very important call).