Getting the Christmas Tree

Katy was a big help when Daddy was carrying our tree home. She's a little blurry in one but very happy.

Katy's 3rd birthday party

Katy and Maya enjoying their cupcakes.

Katy's first haircut

After resisting it for a very long time, Katy finally tired of the hair in her eyes...

'Hiking' with Katy

Along the Croton Aqueduct Trail on 11/08/2009. Katy picked up sticks and was a great walker.

NYC Marathon

Cheering on the runners at the halfway mark in Long Island City.

Trick or Treating

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This year she didn't actually walk into any houses!

Halloween #3

On the way to the Jackson Heights Halloween parade with Snow White Maya. This was actually Halloween (finally!)

Halloween #2

At the Woodside branch library with Spiderman Sarah.

Halloween #1

Our little Pirate riding a horse at playgroup with Tinkerbell Tai on Monday, October 26, 2009.

Apples and Pumpkins

We had a fun day at Applewood Orchards (and Winery!) in Warwick, NY picking apples and finding pumpkins.








Katy ate apples while picking, on the tractor ride back, while getting measured in the picnic area, on the car ride back...

Lorelei's 5th Birthday

Katy enjoying a blue cupake.











And on a pony in the rain.

The Land of Make Believe

The winners! (Katy really won this game - I don't know if it was fixed but she whacked the mole faster than Hannah or me!)





















She loves a carousel.

A day at Sesame Place

Hannah and Katy with some topiary.













On the teacup ride.

Playing in the fire hydrant at the Sunnyside Block Party on August 16, 2009.

At Robert's 3rd birthday party.

Katy 'holding' baby Luna as mom Brenda looks on.

The pool in the Courtyard

Playing Simon Sez...

...with Gabriela, Cristian, and Maya while patiently waiting for the pool to fill.

Cape Cod 2009

On the ferry from Orient Point to New London.

Katy at Plymouth Rock.

Katy and Hannah at Mayo Beach, Wellfleet.

Trying to get a good bye picture.

Hannah and Katy looking at a tiny frog.

Katy and Owen lunching at beautiful Long Beach

July 10, 2009

Katy and Owen visit the Norwalk Childrens Museum

June 12, 2009

Some Katy happenings

Even the cast didn't stop the climbing!

Owen and Katy with their medals after the spoon and potato race in Sunnyside Gardens Park Memorial Day weekend. (Yes, we let her race in her cast. Twice.)

Having a picnic and reading to Bitty Baby.

Katy and Sarah sharing some cupcake icing off Katy's shirt.

Playing some music for Tweety Bird in the basement.

Katy doing a little reading on the LIRR.

Katy and Mommy in the garden at the Museum of Modern Art.

It started out like any other day. Katy and I went to a new park where she jumped and ran and made new friends. But during her nap she decided to try to escape from her crib. We spent the next morning in the emergency room where they told us it was just a bruise. So we went out to NJ to visit the grandparents and came home Sunday night to this message: 'we misread the xray and it is broken'. Uh, oh. So back to the emergency room on Monday (who knew ERs were busier on weekdays than weekends during a swine flu scare?) The cast does not bother Katy at all. But it does bother me.

Building a birder

Here is Art trying to point out an osprey to Katy at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. She likes the binoculars as much as she likes the birds.

Our friends Paige and Tetsuya are nice enough to invite us to Hanami every year at Branch Brook Park in beautiful Newark, New Jersey. This year was perfect, the trees were in perfect, snowy bloom and it was a beauriful, warm spring day. Katy had a grand old time running around in her socks all day.

Today we went to Citifield for the last pre-season workout before opening day tomorrow. The new stadium is beautiful and it will be fun to see a game there. Katy was all decked out in her birthday present from Owen.