Liberty Science Center

We visited the Liberty Science Center early November. Here Katie is pointing out the Statue of Liberty in the background.
Writing with a quill

Very cool science experiment about estuaries

Always fun to get your hands wet - learning about water flow

Some rock climbing

Bill and Katie took on a project to build a special cube (polyhedral) out of 3D magnetic blocks

Well done guys!!

Oops - guess it wasn't meant to be sat on.

And she rode on a square tired tricycle - who knew.

All and all a fun day - with a little learning thrown in

DJ Katie

I don't know where she comes up with this stuff

Swimming

We went to the Y this past weekend. Katie finally tried on her goggles and put them to good use.
She has been "trying" to put her face in the water for a few months - she would stick her face in or put her head under but come up immediately. We finally convinced her to try on her goggles and she loved it. It took her a few attempts before she would open her eyes, but once she did and she saw that there was no water in her eyes she was good to go.
She is acting silly

Gotta love the foot in the ear.

We asked her what she saw under water - her answer "feet - lots of feet" love that kid

Outdoor Expo

last month we went to the Outdoor Expo in Jackson. It was fun. Katie was brave enough to hold a little corn snake.

There were crafts for kids.

Here she is stuffing a pine cone with materials that a bird can use to make a nest ( neat idea )

She tried shouting an arrow. It didn't go very far but she did enjoy it.

Then we all went on a "scavenger hunt" around the lake. The call it Orienteering - you use a map and natural landmarks to find set points on the map. At the point there is a special stamp to mark your card that you were at the point. Bill did an awesome job getting us around the lake and finding all our points.

The points were marked with flags - some of them were set back a way.

All in all a fun day.

Black Belt

Katie is still doing great at karate - she will test next week for her solid yellow belt.
Here she is getting an honorary black belt for her birthday
I am not sure if you can appreciate how intensely she is standing there. She definitely has a black belt attitude

The face says it all.

Here she is sparring with her Sensei. She is the little one - front left

Happy Birthday Katie

My little girl is now 6 !!!! WOW were does the time go. As much as I love this photo I thought it was time to update.
Here she is the morning of her 6th birthday. Love you kiddo - we are so proud of you.

Monster Mini Golf

Bill, Katie and I went up to Manalapan to play Monster Mini Golf last weekend. We had never been and thought it might be fun - we were right. It was an 18 hole course under black lights. Nothing too challenging but enough for Katie to stay excited.
It's hard to take pictures with the black light but this is her enjoying herself.

A look at the whole room - the balls also glowed ( mine was yellow and it was awesome). The holes glowed so you could aim at them.

The final hole was a little creepy. The only time Katie really got scared was when Frankenstein made some noise unexpectedly.

All in all a good time - will definitely be going back in the cooler winter weather.