Katie continues to be a great traveler - up & back to Colorado without any problems! We had a good time and Katie got LOTS of Grandma (we're working on getting Katie to call my mom MeMaw, which MeMaw HATES), Grandpa (in Katie-ese: "Ba") and Grammy (Katie calls her MiMi) time. Skip and I got some skiing in without any major issues (yippee - any ski trip without a face plant is good for me!) and the weather was even pretty good - lots of snow. Katie wasn't too sure about the snow at first, but once she figured out she could throw it, she thought it was pretty fun.

Katie has now learned the word "MINE", which is fun (not) and continues to use the word "no" although she obviously does not always understand what it is she's saying. Grandpa would ask her "Do you want $100, Katie?" and she'd say "NO!". So we gotta work on that one.

Coming back to work just SUCKED - usually at this time of year things are slower. Not so this year! So taking a week off just got me further behind ... and then yesterday at work: blue screen of death. So I'm sans laptop although the desktop guys did manage to find me a loaner - which is good, because I hate typing on the crackberry! Next week I'm off to San Antonio and the following week, Chicago. It just never ends! And now I'm addicted to Facebook ... sheesh.

This weekend will be all about catching up, I hope -

L8R

One day this week. Skip walks into daycare to pick up our sweet, cute little Katie.

Skip gets to Katie's classroom, and Ms. Allison, one of her regular teachers: "Wow, Katie really threw a fit today!"

They pass Ms Sarah, the director, in the hallway: "Wow, Katie really threw a fit today!"

Skip continues down the hall ... and passes Jason, who "floats" into the toddler rooms from time to time. "Wow, Katie really threw a fit today!"

During the course of the day, if it's not especially nice outside, the teachers will load the kiddos up into little wagons and buggies and take them around the inside of the daycare. Well, one is a one-seater and it looks like a car ... and Katie did not get to go in that one. Which, apparently, pissed her off mightily; so much so that apparently everyone in the day care knew about it. (Skip joked later that he half expected the laundry/cleaning ladies to tell him, "Ah, Katie tiró realmente un ataque hoy!" For what it's worth, Katie does tell the laundry/cleaning ladies "Hola!" when she passes them in the hallway, which is pretty funny.)

And she has been known to lie down on the floor here at home, and cry for no real reason. Ah, good times!

Her vocabulary is increasing:

O dat uuuu (Oh, thank you! Usually said when Katie hands YOU something)
Bye bye (sometimes bye bye cah - bye bye car)
E (for her friend Eva at daycare)
Oh no (usually said after she removes her shoes in the back of the car ... because she wants me to immediately put them back on, of course)
Shoe
Jaf (for giraffe, her little sleeping buddy)
Boo (book ... and yes, there are several we read over .... and over ....)
and my favorite ... i ov uuuu mama (I love you mama)
sheez (cheese)
ni ni (night night)

And she can quack, moo, woof and meow.

Katie has also figured out that if she can get you to take her hand, she's able to lead you wherever SHE wants to go, which in this house is usually one of two places: in front of the computer (where all she wants to do is look at the two or three pictures we have of "E"), or in front of the Wii - she likes to watch me on the Wii fit, which is a good thing (well, until she stands on the board and totally throws my balance off).

Well - off to find some pictures to upload. TTFN.