Incase you were wondering...

every princess needs a *great* purse. That's what Katherine tells me anyway!

This morning as we were getting ready to go and get pictures taken, Katherine, all at once, stands up and takes off running as fast as she can. When I ask her where she's going, she tells me that she's got to find something and it's really important. A couple of minutes later, she comes back into my room, her arms draped in purses. Pink ones and purples ones, glittery ones and ones covered in Disney princesses... even an Easter egg one. She's insisting that they ALL come to the photo shoot with us. Why you might wonder???

"Because every princess needs a GREAT purse, and Morgan and I certainly princesses". How on earth can I argue with that??? I can't ... I won't!!

Then to top it off, she INSISTS on wearing her most fabulous pair of dress-up shoes. Since Katherine and Morgan were wearing matching dresses, and I had no intention of having them wear shoes, she wore bright pink, glittery, feather laden high heels to the studio. She was fabulous!! LOL. AAAHHH, I so LOVE having a daughter.

Speaking of the "matching dresses"... My mom bought all the girls (including Laurie's step-daughter, Hannah) matching dresses for Disney, and we decided to have Katherine and Morgan wear them in the pictures today. We were driving to the studio in 4 separate cars, about a mile from the studio I get a call from my mom... (The studio is 20 minutes or so from our houses).

Mom: You picked up Katherine's dress, right?

Me: Ahhh, no. I didn't go in your house, remember?

Mom: Well I didn't bring it either. It's sitting on my kitchen table.

Me: What? How could you forget?? I guess Katherine will be wearing a bright pink capri outfit she's got on...

We hang up, and I'm fuming so I call Laurie. Luckily, she had Hannah's dress in the car, so Katherine wore that. It was a good 2 sizes to big, but nothing that should be noticeable in the pictures. Talk about luck!!

Oh and Caleb... He was a total pill today! I'm sure it had a little something to do with the fact that pictures were scheduled right during nap time, but I had NO idea how uninterested he'd be in getting his pictures taken.

He was on a high from bath time anyway today. Katherine taught him how to "swim" by laying down in the water and kicking his feet as hard as he could. She also taught him how to put his mouth under the water and blow bubbles. It was hysterical. I wish I had the video recorder in there. They were having so much fun! But it got really interesting when Caleb discovered that the best way to splash in the tub was to stand up and flop down in the water. Now, this certainly isn't the safest thing in the world, but I tell ya... for the first time I actually had to use the words "monsoon" and "bathtub" in the same sentence!! LOL. Katherine was laughing so hard she had tears running down her face!

Then, when we got to the studio, he was immediately uncooperative. He wanted NO part of it! Usually Caleb runs up to my dad and begs him to hold for as long as possible. Today was no exception UNTIL we got in front of the camera. As soon as the camera was pulled out, he literally went running! I was trying to wrestle with him so that he'd be in the some of the pictures, but holy cow! I was sweating and he was begging to be put down. Guess who won??? Yep, my little man!

Holly took over 300 pictures today, so here's to *hoping* that she got at least one good one of the entire group! My fingers are crossed!!

Tomorrow we're off to the Science Center with Andrea and her boys, Max, Isaac and Collin, Carolyn and her girls Allison and Claire, & Julie and her kids Jenna and Nate. Should be fun!!