We celebrated the birthdays of two of our dearest friends, Kathy and Richard, with a party in the park. It was a perfect day. The kids played in the grass and with the toys. Unfortunatly Robert also played in the ants. Keith brought his beautiful black lab, Annie. When Katherine saw the dog, she started crawling as fast as possible towards her yelling , “Da, da, da” or “Dog, dog, dog”.
We had dinner with our good friends Jen and Richard after Richard and Kathy’s birthday party (post coming later). They ahve a wonderful glass top dining room table that really confused Katherine. Daddy put his tea on the table and Katherine wanted it. She just was not quite sure how to get it.
We belong to the LHAECPTA (Lake Highlands Area Early Childhood PTA). There is a monthly moms meeting, weekly playgroups and monthly kids activities all helping me to meet neighbors with kids.
So far Katherine has been too young to participate in the kids activities (like pumpkin carving and bowling). This month there was an Easter egg hunt and she was able to participate. They had it divided by age and Katherine was in the under 2 division. It was really not so much an egg hunt, but an egg gather. All of the eggs were inplain site on the flat lawn.
Katherine did not really get the concept of gathering as many eggs as possible. She would pick one up, shake it, look at it, put it in her bag, take it back out, shake it some more. It took some help and encouragement to load up her bag with eggs. Mommy and Daddy have been enjoying eating the candy out of them.
The Easter bunny made an appearance but she was not to excited about it. I guess a person in a big fuzzy costume is a little scarry to a toddler.