On our way back we stopped at the outlet mall in Castle Rock, Co and bought some new shoes for Katie. It's a little late now, but I didn't know they make shoes specifically for crawlers. The workers at the Stride Rite outlet showed us the crawler shoes and walker shoes. We went ahead and got 1 pair of each. And they measured Katie's foot too. I know that's so simple but it was her 1st time to get her foot measured in a shoe store and just a moment when I realized she's not my swaddled little baby anymore.
Katie saw another little girl about her age at McDonalds on our drive home and was totally fascinated with her. It was so cute. They were staring at each other across McDonalds and waved to each other when we left. So cute! The other little girl had the cutest little piggy tails sticking up on top of her head and I know Katie has enough hair for that so we tired to put Katie's hair in pony tails for lunch on Sunday and it was not easy. She's so active it was really hard to get the clips in. Andy's the one who finally got them in and I must say he did a great job! She looked so grown up with her hair pulled up and her new "big girl" shoes!
We went to lunch at one of our favorite restaurants in Amarillo, Kabuki. Katie wasn't sure what to think of the fire when the chef made the onion volcano. They also make it rain in there every so often with thunder sounds and "rain" that falls around the seating area. Great atmosphere and we love the food too!
I love watching Andy with Katie. He's such a good daddy!
This 1st one is from the balcony. Isn't it gorgeous. What an amazing God we have who created these mountains!
Katie would be perfectly happy just playing here too. We put her animal magnets on the fridge and she loved throwing them on the tile and listening to the sound they made. She's also starting to crawl using her right foot (as opposed to her right knee.) We're going to have a walker on our hands before we know it!
Helping Daddy with his fishing pole!
She finally wore herself out with all that "fishing" and fell asleep in Mimi's arms.
I'm glad we stayed there, but it was a really long night. Katie's sleep schedule was off all week because of the time change and us getting in late every night. On top of that, Katie never sleeps in the bed with us but we didn't bring her pack n play with us to Salida so she slept with me and Andy slept on the floor. (Not enough room for all 3 of us. We were in a camper.) I think we started at 10:00 trying to get Katie to sleep and she didn't finally fall asleep until 12:30! At one point she had me crying I was laughing so hard. She was all over the place trying to crawl around, stand up, and play. She kept standing and looking over the wall at Aunt Becky then she would put her head down on the top of the wall because she was so sleepy. But she was NOT going to sleep!
Katie had some issues too. She must be allergic to something that grows in Colorado in the summer because as soon as we got there her nose started running and she had puffy, red, watery eyes worse than I've ever seen her. Her poor little nose was just raw by the end of the week from running so much and us wiping it all week. She's such a trooper though. She didn't fuss about it except for when we were cleaning her nose. She hates that! As soon as we got back to Amarillo on our way home she was so much better and she was completely over it all when we got home yesterday.
Andy caught the 1st fish of the week and Katie was definitely curious about that thing. Here fishy, fishy!
