Catch up with the Kaufmans: January 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Katie the Adventureous

Katie's school picks a student of the week every week and this week Katie won the award for being Adventureous. She was very proud of herself, but her mother was beyond proud. Katie has never been selected for this honor and I was quite pleased.

I was also very proud of Katie today as she was a Cantor at Mass this morning. She was one of six singers who led the congregation in music at Mass. I don't have any pictures of this as I didn't feel that it was appropriate to take pictures during Mass. But we've gone from shy Katie to Katie singing and standing up in front of her whole school (and the middle school).

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Celebrating Gma Kathy's birthday

Katie is a huge fan of the TV show Cake Boss and she decided that we needed to make Gma Kathy the best four layer cake ever! So, here it is... a purple/pink strawberry/funfetti four layered cake. She also insisted on candles!

Gma and Katie with the cake Katie made her

Gma trying to make the numbers look better!!

January has been a busy month for Katie and I. We have both been trying to get back into routines and schedules now that the holidays are over. Mother Nature has really tried to keep things shaken up a bit. Katie has missed quite a few days of school due to weather and will probably be going to school into June again this year.

Last weekend we had a special treat - Gma came to stay with us. We wanted to go see the men and women play BB this year and they played on a Thursday/Saturday against PSU so Gma came. Katie loves it because Gma picks her up from school right after school and she doesn't have to go to day care.

This week we had our first ice storm. We completely had a skating rink on our front driveway. It is almost completely melted now, in part thanks to the foggy weather that we've had. We haven't seen the sun in 10 days!!