Potty Training....uh, take 2

Today we got Oscar awesome new big boy underwear to get him started on potty-training before his 3rd birthday.

Check him out!

And then 20 minutes later as Oscar was getting a "time out," he left us this surprise...better luck next time.

Boys of Summer

We are getting some warm weather here in the Chicagoland area.

Here we are at Glamma's club and Oscar is finally swimming by himself

(with the use of a floation device.)

Oscar loves his floaty so much, he wears it all the time and eats lunch with it too!

Hendrix was chillin' at the baby pool, but here is the big boy enjoying Glamma's famous mac n cheese. If you want the recipe, send me a message and I am sure you have all the ingredients in your house, if not-you can get them at a gas station or Walgreen's.

Lil' Taste of Summer

The Kat Klan went to a lil' fest we had in our town.

We hooked up with some friends and family (cuzin Kevin came!)

Here is Oscar with some friends from school.

Leave it to a Kat member to steal the attention in a picture.

Here is Oscar playing with bubbles with his buddy Grant.

And Mr. Hendrix up past his bedtime being tickled by his big bro.

Yea! Summer!

What a joke this summer has been. We are wearing long sleeve shirts, socks and frowns. We went for a walk today around the burbs, I guess the good thing is that we weren't sweating and hot! Here is O & Dad checking out the river dam.

.....and Hendrix jealously looked at the boys with a fishing pole riding shot gun.

We do have some bragging to do. This is a bean from Oscar's bean plant he brought home from school in May. We planted it with our tomatoes, jalpenos, basil, parsley and oregano and totally forgot about it. I found this giant today, here it is next to my phone to give you an idea how big it is.

Freezing Friday.

Yep, it was a July scorcher today, and we had a playdate at Butterfield CC. At first, I thought we had VIP service and the whole pool was rented out for us, but then I realized it was cloudy and 65 degrees!

Here is Oscar NOT in the pool, chilling (seriously, CHILLING) on the chair.

And Hendrix we left at home, of course....here he is before bed, he wants his bottle NOW! Just wanted to show off the 6 snaggle teeth, got 2 more coming in too.

Smile with your eyes boys.

Happy 4thish of July

We had a fun filled 4th of July weekend.

Here are the boys and Gus enjoying the weather and our lawn.






I pretended that I made these cupcakes...thanks Whole Foods!

Of course we hit Ribfest, here is Hendrix chillin' in the grass licking up Mom's glass of wine.

And the boy and his stool....

On a Boat

DadKat took the day off and we went to visit the Murphy's for some boating action on Friday.

Of course Oscar did the jump into the lake.

And they went on a jet ski ride.

And MomKat chilled with a cocktail in shallow water.

Here is Oscar and his best friend/twin Jackson.

This was a common occurance the whole day...the boys fighting over toys.

Of course we brought Hendrix!

And we ventured to Wauconda Fest. Here is the family, minus Hendrix on the ferris wheel.

The boys on the tilt-a-elephants.

Hendo Draggin'

Put in the books, we got a crawl-drag-pull from Hendrix at 7 months.

Here is Oscar's first attempt at crawling at 5 months.

http://oscarkat.blogspot.com/2007/02/crawl-attempt.html

These are defenitly my children....one crawls to a Blackberry, and the other to an UsWeekly.

KAT Klan does Dallas

We had a fun trip to visit Corey & Kate in Dallas.

Of course it was an adventure and our flight got canceled, but the experienced staff at American Airlines thought it was smart to send our family to Arkansas, then connect in Dallas....

Here are the boys on the plane to Bentonville, Arkansas! Home of the Walmart! We unfortunately got stuck there for a night without our luggage, and it was very humbling for me. I got to appreciate the finer things in life, like no conditioner, wearing and sleeping the same clothes for 2 days, no Tivo, and living with the fear of catching scabies.

Here are the boys playing in the "Sleep Inn" bed.
I am so creeped out about how many germs they got rolling around in it.

And Oscar kept amused in the Northwest Arkansas Airport (that is the real name & it had only 3 gates) for hours going up and down the escalator.

We finally got to Dallas and got meet Nicholas Burton!


Uncle Corey & Nick.


DadKat throwing Oscar up in the pool.

Here is Aunt Kate with the babies!

Hendrix and Nick, 10 weeks apart and 10 pounds too!

MomKat and the boys, of course never looking at the camera at the same time.

Uncle Corey & Hendo

All the KAT boys!

Kat Klan minus Corey



Here we are now home!

We had an awesome trip in Arkansas & Texas and miss our family!!!

(and yes, I do put my children in car seats)

Help me out with this one.

Can someone please tell me what color this kid's eyes are going to be?

Extreme Home Makeover.

Here is the boys tree house/playset. Of course we paid someone to stain the whole thing, but I demanded that we put a magnetic chalkboard paint on the inside walls of the house. This means...2 coats of black magnetic paint, and 3 coats of chalkboard paint. Why are we doing this ourselves?!?!?!

Yeah, we had a visitor while we were painting...he even went down the slide 3 times! Who said 6 year old bulldogs were lazy? I also want to brag that I did about 85% of the painting, but no one seemed to capture those photos.....

Hendrix 007

Since I posted Oscar's passport picture experience.

He was 5 months old.

http://oscarkat.blogspot.com/2007/01/say-cheese.html

Here are Hendrix's photos.

He is 6 1/2 months old.