Kate enjoying Grandma's house // Playing Wii with Uncle Billy

This is her newest face... she does this while breathing heavily out of her nose... to show that she wants food and you're not getting it to her fast enough. Pretty funny!
Isn't she just the cutest girl you've ever seen?! Seriously! I just can't get enough of this chubby little girl!
Kate and Uncle Josh

Jackson LOVES the Wii... which is 50% of the reason we will probably never have one. (The other 50% is because Parker also loves the Wii... neither of them can "hear" me talking to them when that thing is on!)

Jackson & Billy

Playing with Grandma's puppy, Scout

We got to spend a week up in Seattle visiting my family and we all had a blast! Here are a few pictures of Kate and Jackson enjoying having a puppy around again (my mom's dog, Scout... she's a bit of a princess herself!)

Seattle's Pacific Science Center

We decided that it would be fun to take Jackson to the Seattle Science Center (we were right). Since we don't get to visit too often, my Mom decided to let Christian spend the day with us instead of going to school. It was a fun field trip!
Jackson & Uncle Christian playing with a freeze-screen camera thing.

Jackson was really getting into it!

Kate just hanging out in the stroller while we all enjoy the Science Center
Jackson thought it was pretty cool that HE could control the hydrological powered tractor

He LOVED this helicopter! It was like pulling teeth to get him to move on to the next thing.

Sorry for the weird lighting... I was having issues with my camera! Here we are in the butterfly house! This was definitely Kate's favorite part. She slept through most of the remainder of our visit to the science center.
Jackson was waiting for a butterfly to land on his hat. They were flying right in our faces!
Baby Kate with a monarch
Jackson & Christian checking out the tide pools
Kate catching up on some beauty sleep
Christian and Mom in that shadow wall/room, before the camera/light flashed.
Christian and Jackson experimenting with water
Some of the animal exhibits...

Jackson also LOVED the dinosaurs
This is Christian and Jackson laying in an imprint of a dinosaur's foot... it was huge!

Jackson was really excited to show us (by pointing) and tell us about everything that we saw! He was a very busy boy (not that it's unusual for him to be busy)


Uncle Christian (my 9-year old brother) and Jackson checking out the dinosaur exhibit



Holding a cockroach... he was the only one that the little asian man could convince to hold this nasty creature... I've showered with too many (in Brasil) and wasn't interested in holding one in my hand. Yuck! Way to be brave, Jackson!

Katie-girl standing up in her bed

Sweet baby girl

I know I always say this, but Kate really IS such a happy little girl. Her sweet face just lights up when she smiles, which is most of her time awake. She loves everyone and everything.