Who would have thought five years ago that our daughter would be sitting next to the son of a San Diego State grad watching an ND-SDSU football game? Well, that's exactly what happened tonight as we watched the Notre Dame home opener with Mike's academy roommate, Brian. As blog postings indicate, Brian and his wife, Maureen, have become great friends over the past three years and we are lucky to have them with us in Northern Virginia.
The kids did their best to pose in their respective school colors. At top, Katie was quite distraught at the Irish performance in the first half. But by the end, with the help of a timely SDSU turnover, ND pulled out a 21-13 victory (which Connor could not bear to watch) to prevent the upset. Phew!
Kate has ALWAYS loved "reading" books since she was very young, much to her parents' delight. She often focuses on her books over all of her other toys whenever we play inside. (And, she was obsessed by this bear holding a book at the mall.) Perhaps this book-mania is starting to pay off. She has recently started to ask us to identify individual letters for her, and she has S ("essssss") and O ("OHHH!") down pat. Obviously, she has a long way to go before her own reading begins, but this is a great start!
Here she is at the mall pointing out every "S" that she sees to Mommy.
Here's a shout-out to Grammy K! Katie's latest favorite toy-du-jour is her (borrowed) ambulance that sounds its siren and flashes its lights with a push of a button. We think of EMT/nurse Grammy (and Great-Grandma M. for that matter) every time we play with it. Too bad we have to give it back to its rightful owner. Maybe someday Grammy can give Katie a tour of a real ambulance!
