Why is the dog sleeping on my shoes?

Does she not have a nice squishy bed to sleep in?

Why yes, she does. But she also won't make the cat get out of it.
And while she's content to snuggle with the cat if the cat comes to her, she won't go to the cat.

The snow finally melted enough to get to the swing set the other day. Katie was so happy that she could finally "fwing" again. Of course, it's snowing again this morning, but it seems to be warm enough that it won't stick around for long. Of course I could be wrong. I was looking through old blog posts this morning and remembered that when we got home from Europe last year on April 22nd, we got home to about 2 feet of snow. Doesn't look like we're quite in for that today, but we'll see.

So brave. Aunty Sharon stopped by this afternoon and wondered if we'd been somewhere special because Katie was wearing this dress. Katie doesn't need a reason to wear a dress, she just likes to be "fancy."

Cute story from this day though, we had actually been running errands in the city. Katie was very excited to go to the city and kept asking when she'd get to play with toys, which I took to mean that she wanted to go to IKEA, because they have a toy section to play in. Apparently, I was wrong. When we were leaving the city, she informed me that she had wanted to go to "the other city. Where we listen to the baby." My doctor's office also has toys to play with.

For Papa.

This is a picture of placating a restless kid who just wants to go outside on a very cold, rainy day.
Painty toes again!

She likes color, this kid. My toenails are blue too, because Mommy had to match.