Washington DC

We expected to spend a short time moseying around to show Kat the monuments that she'd already learned about. Traffic was awful. Weather was awful. Parking was terrible. Kat pitched a fit.

We finally found a spot and put on our new (we hit REI) rain gear and headed out. She was still carrying on when we were checking out the White House. but, once she saw how much water there was, the rivers running down the streets, the enormous puddles, she moved on. We got drenched. Repeatedly. And had a blast! We (wearing my sandals, I was all over it too) did some serious puddle jumping. We watched a river run down the Washington monument. I tried to explain to Kat about war. Good wars vs bad wars....

Anyway we really did have a blast playing in the rain and visiting some of our nation's greatest monuments.

Belt testing

She's getting closer.... Just solid red, red/black and a thousand gradations then black belt!!!

New pet; old pet

Well, not that old. But certainly odd....

Random pics

One is before going to Girl Scout camp. The other was at the fun fair at school last week.

Catching

Not a lot happens in this vid, but you can see her great catching form. She got hit in the foot, fingers, I think both shoulders. But she was a trooper and roughed it out. And, more importantly, bedtime didn't go on and on with her litany of injuries/complaints!! She went peacefully.

Medals from competition!

Her last competition was last weekend. She took 3rd in figures and her group competition took 1st out of 3. Medals-not ribbons for 1-3rd places!!!

Girl Scout encampment

Kat's first overnight at girl scout camp. We pick her up in an hour. Despite being very sad that she would miss us all, I'm confident that she had a blast!!

The first FL pics

Paddle boat. Squared

Random fl pics

Cool frisbee dogs from the fair

Racing ducks at the fair

I'm sure it was unintentional, but..... She happened to put grandpa's duck upside down in the trough when she was setting up for the race... Her duck, right-side up, won!

Run, forest, run

We had a 5k at school yesterday. It was a beautiful sunny day and we did it in 38 minutes! Not a great time, but we ran a lot more than I expected! Probably about half? Katie did great and we all stayed together. It was a great time. I'm still feeling it in my legs....

Lunch al fresco.

Mom & dads kayaks!

Easter egg massacre

Well, I knew better than to leave out the filled Easter eggs. But I did. And while we are at tae kwon do, Gromit took it upon himself to empty all of the candy out! Without breaking one egg!!

Fortunately only a minority of the eggs had candy, just a few dozen peeps and some chocolate eggs. But, the little jerk was clearly on the table selecting his prey out of the basket.

This dog is too friggin smart. I hope that Roxy at least got some of the candy. But I doubt it.

Synchro competition

My phone was full, and thus I only recorded 1/2 of their swim. Doh! And while I brought my camera, I didn't check the batteries... Which were dead. So this is all you get.

They took first place! Out of 2!!!

Talent show!

Skiing

Second place!

They took second place! Out of four! They did great.