Katy on the Move!



I went to Columbus this past weekend to see the kids and to spend some time with Katy. All my pictures turned out blurry for some reason, and Katy was very interested in the camera . . . and the computer and anything else that was within two feet of the floor. She is crawling all over the place and standing up to everything that has a hand hold in sight.

There are still more sounds that start to approximate language. Bye-bye is now starting to have a little bit of an 'i' sound to it and is accompanied by a sort of claw-like motion of the hand. This usually takes place a minute or two AFTER the person making the exit has given up and left the house. But, hey! Timing will come!

Oma's love of music is always a part of my play time with Katy, and this time we sang through the first CD of her two-CD set of Bible songs for kids at least twice. The piano in the picture only has four keys which play a major triad and an octave. I am appalled that so many of the children's musical toys LOOK like one instrument but sound like something else. How terrible to have something that looks like a saxophone sound like a harmonica! The piano is the worst instrument of all. Many of them only have three or four keys and no half tones so you couldn't even play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on them. What a waste. But I digress. Katy seems to love various songs and sounds and definitely knows how to bounce along with the beat. We had a wonderful time.

On Saturday evening, Brian and JT stayed home with Katy and watched basketball while Emily and Melanie and I went to dinner at Outback Steakhouse and made a trip out to Easton to go shopping. We had fun at New York & Co., Williams Sonoma and eventually Starbucks before heading back to the house. All in all, it was great to see the kids and then head back to Pittsburgh on a dry and sunny Sunday afternoon. The time change and the milder temperatures made for a truly lovely weekend.