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Katie
My name is Katie and I am a wife, mother, and baker. I love to run, cook, and spend time with my family. Follow me and my family as we spend each and every day living life to the fullest.
Tonight Sophia made her first Halloween art project, her Spooky Tree. On Sunday, I took her to Michaels and let her pick out one of those foam art projects for kids. She got to choose between the black glittery tree, an orange glittery pumpkin, and a ghost. She chose the tree. While in the store, she informed me the tree was spooky. So this is where the name came from for the project.
She was super excited to start it and of course wanted to and did do it all by herself. Here are a couple of pictures of her with the spooky tree. putting the decorations on her spooky tree a completed spook tree.....can you find Sophia?? We had a great laugh about this!
This weekend we took Sophia to a pumpkin patch to pick out her pumpkin. It was quite wet outside since we went early in the morning, but she still loved touching all of the pumpkins and picking out just the right one. Here she is with daddy picking out a pumpkin
In keeping with the fact that Sophia can barely wait for Halloween, I took her to the library on Tuesday to look for some new Halloween books. We also found a cd with Halloween songs on it. I think it is the funniest thing in the world that her favorite song on the cd is Ghostbusters!! When the song is done, she giggles and says again with the ghost song. Who would ever think that this would be her favorite out of all of the songs on the cd!
Today Sophia decided she was ready for Halloween. I think it was because we bought her costume after church this morning. So she thought she should put on her Halloween shirt courtesy of Grandma Jayne. She looked just adorable so I figured it was a much needed photo op.
Last night Sophia had all of her friends over to our front yard to watch 101 Dalmatians in a tent. All of the kids had the best time ever. It was quite the sight to see. They were just adorable laying on their tummies and eating snacks.
So I need to do a little bragging about the baby shower gift that I made last night. I just love the way these adorable little onesies turned out. I can't wait until she opens them tomorrow!! All three sets of onesies together
We bought a caterpillar at the State Fair over Labor Day weekend and have been patiently waiting as it turned from a caterpillar into a chrysalis. It has been a chrysalis for quite some time now. Finally yesterday I saw it turn to a black color so we knew something would be happening soon. Sophia could barely wait for it to turn into a monarch!
Last night between our quick stop home and then off to the Y, we noticed that there was a butterfly in the cage. It was just about the coolest moment ever to listen to Sophia get excited about it being a butterfly and to watch the look in her eyes as she examined the cage. I will never forget the sounds or the sight of her face at that moment.
After taking some photos with it, we took it outside and let it fly away. It took some getting use to it's new wings, but eventually figured out how to fly away. I think we were all sad to see it go.
If you haven't ever done this before, take the opportunity to do it now! My mom still talks about when we had a monarch and I still remember it from being a little kid, so I know Sophia will too!
Here are a couple of pictures to document the butterfly:
