Christmas Vacation

I am lucky that my office closes between Christmas and New Years so the Potchad family enjoyed some good family time this past week. Here are a few pics of the week's highlights!

Kate loving the ice skaters at the Crown Center skating rink.

Checking out all of the lights and Christmas displays at the famous "Falmouth" display

in Prairie Village.

We met some friends at an in-door play gym one morning so all of the kids could burn off some energy. Here is Kate going up the steps and then down the slide super fast!

Following her buddy Graham Briscoe!

Hanging out with Joshua Eberhart at the gym.

Kate and Emory Niswanger going down the slide together.

We enjoyed an evening with our friends Debbie and Buddy McFadden and they spoiled Kate with this cute puppy dog!

Kate with Austin and Luke Steging and Finley Kullberg on New Years.

Christmas Fun

We had a wonderful Christmas and were lucky to spend time with both sides of our family. We spent Christmas in Coldwater with Grandma and Grandpa Boisseau or according to Kate "Gigi and Papa". Then we headed back to KC the day after Christmas and did "Christmas" with Grandma and Grandpa Potchad or "BG and Charie". The pics below are a mixture of Christmas with our families and fun Chritmas sights in KC!

The Man in Red

We were able to see Santa and Mrs. Clause yesterday. (twice for those of you who notice that Santa has two looks in the below pics) Kate could not have been more scared of Santa and wanted nothing to do with him. We told her that he might bring her an Elmo doll but as you can see below that didn't really matter to her.

CupKate!

This year for Halloween Kate dressed up as a cupcake! Kate still doesn't quite know what candy is but she really enjoyed putting it in her pumpkin!

Our own little cupcake!

Kate and her dad before "hitting the streets"

Showing off some of her Halloween goodies!

We went to a party on Saturday and we attempted to get a group shot of all of the kids in their costumes. Kate and Elmo couldn't stop looking at the other kids...so they missed out on the pic!

Family pic with the witch!

First Day of School

Kate's first day of "Sonshine School" was today. This is at our church and she will be going one day a week. Overall she had a great day and can't wait until next week!

Kate with her dad first thing in the morning. The girl LOVES her thumb!

Saying "bye bye" to mom...such a big girl!

On our front step with her back-pack.

Walking into school...so happy!

Getting dropped off with her teacher....not so happy!

We went out to eat at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants....Kate had some black beans. Can you tell!?!?

Kate's Adirondack Chair

Grandpa Potchad aka "BG" and his good friend Twylia have made Adirondack chairs over the years. They have always been adult size....until now. BG brought Kate over her very own chair this past weekend. As you can see from the pics....she thought it was so fun to have a chair her size!

Bike Ride

We recently got a "trailer" to pull Kate in behind a bicycle. We have really enjoyed our "family strolls" and of course we had to get Kate her very own helmet. I thought she might not like wearing it but as you can see from these pics, she actually likes it.