Better late than never!

 Mamma and Pappa are here so I need to share a few pics!

Katie Ray loves their hotel because it's small enough that she can have the run of the place, just like Eloise. Yesterday she was their with Namma and Pappa all day on her own... Mac, Matt and I came later for dinner. Katie Ray could excuse herself to go hang out in the room on her own.:. What s thrill!

This visit will be too short... 

You are my sunshine

Some times it's hard for Katie Ray and me to find some "us time", so some days we plan to get up *very* early together. 

There are days that Mac gets up first but now and again we manage to find some mother-daughter time. The other day we managed to sneak out to the kitchen to make cocoa and hang out just us...

when the sun started to come up we went outside to welcome the day!

She is my sunshine!! 😍

First grade work zone

Now that Katie Ray does homework every night we needed to transform her Lego zone into a homework zone!

I promised we could do some redecorating (she's envisioning purple walls, a canopy, and lego project displays) if we could also do some weeding out of toys, knick knacks and general stuff every where.  Negotiations are now in process!

Let's go Fro Yo!

Katie Ray and I slipped out for a little afternoon outing yesterday while Mac napped and Matt nursed his thrown-out back. 

It was HOT this weekend! We needed a cold treat. 

But we also had to do a little Halloween shopping at CVS. 

She suggested I might want to invest in a costume of my own. 

Fine feathered friends

Katie Ray and I visited my friend Michael...while KR expected to have fun at the pool, finding a new feathered friend was a happy surprise!

 

 

Polly want a cracker? 

Eye see you!

Katie Ray has always wanted glasses.

Now she and her little friends can wear them too!

So helpful to have good vision when you're an artist!

Even more so if you're actually a professional eye doctor like Barbie!

We can now start our own bienveneda chapter of Women in ophthalmology,

Chaired by Katie Ray and Barbie!

Toof

It feels like only yesterday that Katie Ray was teething and getting her first "toofy" smile, and now she's a gap toothed gal!

Here we are on a visit to the Getty with Namma and Poppa!