It's hard to believe it's been 4 years since we had our Big trip.    We have been spending much, if not all, of our time and energy helping Katie to adjust.  After 4 years, life has finally calmed down and I even reset the password for this blog!  I  plan to maintain it more now.    Katie just had her 6th birthday and she has grown soo much.  She just started kindergarden and is learning to swim.

 We were blessed to have Katie find lots of friends at pre-school and at our church.  It provided an excellent environment for her to talk and make friends and talk non-stop at recess.   We have a new treasured gift we desired called  "Peace and Quiet" and to be able to get "Power Naps" for 30 minutes.  One of the funnest joy that Katie does is to copy me taking pictures with her toy camera.  Something, sadly, our boys never picked up. I have learned to treasure the little things in life called "sleep" more now.  I can fall asleep almost anywhere in any position. Because there is so much going on with family and Katie.

 Katie continues to be a bursting bubble of joy and able to make the most obnoxious "MU HAHA Laugh" yet contagious laugh ever. Katie's favorite stuff animals have been versions of Simba and Nayla.

She may start playing the piano soon.  She has shown interest playing other instruments well and now can whistle one note.  She likes to tweet into my ear when I'm trying to have some "peace and quiet" and having a "power nap"

 Nothing  like raising a girl who loves to say "NO".  We are blessed that Katie's favorite drink is a can of V8 juice.  Parents of other kids, nearly fainted when she drank that instead of juice boxes.  They ran to us asking us how we did it?

We shared that we had to like drinking it too. And the parents gave us a look of despair.  "What?"  Just kidding.  We don't know what we .did.  We told her it was good for her and that was it.

Like most girls, she loved anything Disney.  She was infected with the Princess Syndrome and we told her that we only liked a few of them.  Belle was great because she loved to read LOTS of books.  Rapunzel was cool, she was a hard worker and wasn't lazy.  TinkerBell was cool because she was inventive, a team player and thought outside the box and had a good esteem.

Katie currently loves books, being creative with unlimited scratch paper and rolls of generic scotch tape, and plays a lot of Duplo and Lego.