Katharine is 3!

Happy birthday to KaTHaRiNe!!! We love this little girl so much!

She is a princess in every way. Love love love her. Mom was fixing K's hair before the pic. 

(My mom apologized for the writing on the cake. She said it was the first day for the girl at the bakery, haha, totally ok.) It's my mom's birthday too. It's fun that they share a birthday, and that is also why they share the same middle name. My mom was happy to let the spotlight be on Katharine. Opening some fun lego presents.

Here's how the birthday day went... This morning, Corey Joseph and I got up early for a ride up the quarry trail. Going on a ride with Corey was on Joseph's bucket list before heading back to Ohio. Check.

We made it to the ruins, then back home for me to take Owen to his last soccer game. They played hard. Owen was goalie for the first half, and they were ahead 3-1 going into the second half. Then the other team got 3 goals right away and the hot hard battle continued. End of the game was a loss of 7-4. Owen's team was on defense most of the time. Owen played the whole second half. His games are fun to watch. He's a good little player.

At the game his coach/my friend Meghan asked if we could help watch her kids during Daniel's game. I said yes, Corey was planning to go to Daniel's game. Then I said I was going to be at home for K's bday and suggested they could come by our house. She didn't want to disrupt birthday plans, but I told her it would be great, and so she opted for that. That also got Corey out of the game, cause even though it was the last game, Corey was ok with missing it, so we just let her take Daniel. (1st/2nd grade games aren't quite as fun to watch.) Katharine was excited for Scarlet to come over!! Scarlet came in hiding a present behind her back - she brought a present for K, cute girl (and awesome mom). Katharine is 1...2...3!!!

So I met coach Meghan through soccer, and Owen and Daniel and her two boys have been in classes together at school, and then she also has a 5 year old boy that Peter plays great with, and then Scarlet is Katharine's age, so it's fun they each have a friend. After I was back from soccer, K opened her presents. 

Natalie and Peter gifted Katharine some of their stuff - plush animals and make up. I got her a few new outfits: an Elsa night gown and 2 dresses...  

...which she promptly changed into. Natalie putting on make up. 

Then she changed into another outfit to match her new Ariel shoes. Katharine and Scarlet enjoying pink ice cream.

They are a cute little duo, as cute as Katharine and Becca (pic 8).

My mom got Katharine an Elsa nightgown too, so K is very happy with her wardrobe additions. Abi texted from Brazil asking how the birthday girl was doing. I sent her the pic at the top of K's cute smile, to add to her collection of Katharine photos.

Abi said "I miss her..." 

Abi is having a good experience in Brazil though. She is going to school at "Colegio Nova Veneza" for the next two and a half weeks. Rafael's girls don't go there, but there was some other connection. 

I'm sure it will be much like the kids' experience in Chile, ha. Abi enjoying the food too. Eating chicken hearts! 

I haven't texted her much. Corey's been checking in on her everyday. She gets back on June 16th. Tonight we are doing another thing on Joseph's bucket list, which is to watch "Storks" together. That is a classic movie for Eliza's family that they quote all the time, so it will be fun. We are taking a quick break, cause a neighbor is having a "beginning of summer" smores cook out. We're half way through the movie but the mom texted that they'd love to see Joseph and Eliza and Mary, so they all ran over there real quick for a minute and we'll finish when they are back. Things are good. I'm looking forward to summer. Hope I can seize the day and use my time wisely.