Can you believe?

That this is the same cat we took in back in August???

Jan 20th - a Historic Day....

Regardless of your political affiliations, yesterday was a historic day for our country.... I think my heart burts with pride yesterday afternoon when Katie ran in from daycare all excited- Mommy, Mommy I got to see the new president on TV! Broccoli Obama! Lol, I guess I need to work with her on his first name a little bit! IT was so cute though to see how excited she was over the new president! This morning when I dropped her off I talked to the teacher about it and she said her whole class was so excited to watch it and that she said she has heard every version imaginable of his first name from those 3 and 4 year olds....

4 Years Old Today

Our sweet Katie bug is 4 yrs old today. I don't know why exactly but 4 is hitting me hard... Really hard.. I have been so sentimental this past week. Jim and I lay in bed last nite remembering where we were and the events of 1/5/05 and 1/6/05. We were laughing at remembering how my mom kept me walking to keep labor coming. She made me walk the whole store of Wegmans with the pretense of Oh I want to look for such and such.... Then she let me come home only to make me walk over to K-mart and made me walk through the entire store.... I was so pooped but she did not stop there- her and Jim made me do laps through the house since the weather was getting nasty outside....

I did so many laps around the house with Murphy right by my side. He knew something was up and he stayed by my side that nite guarding me.... Around midnite my water broke... I remember crying and my mom asking me what was wrong and I was I think I just peed my pants- and she was like no I think your water broke..... So we called the on call midwife and she told us to come on in.

Poor Jim we had sent him to bed at 10p in case nothing happened and a mere 2 hours later we were waking him up to drive us in an ice storm the 10 minutes to the hospital...

What followed was a very long and laborous birth but at the end I had a beautiful healthy little girl to show for it... At 841pm on January 6, 2005 we welcomed Katherine Lois Folmar into our lives and our hearts....

Happy Birthday Katie!

Love Mommy, Daddy, and Sarah!