Doctor says feed Kate more ice cream

At long last our family doctor finally sent us to a specialist for Kate, not for her stuffy nose but for her lack of growing (at least in terms of weight, she's getting taller). We had the appointment today at a GI clinic and the doctor was fantastic! She looked at the lab reports, asked me a ton of questions and examined Kate. The conclusion? She's probably fine, she just needs more calories. She told me, among other things, to give her plenty of ice cream. That may be the best medical advice I've ever heard.

 Here's our silly Kate playing with one of her favorite things, hats.



And for anybody who doesn't believe Kate has hair yet, here's the photographic evidence.



This is from the other day when Molly dripped water on Kate's head and rubbed her hair the wrong way to make it stand up and showed me Kate's "porcupine head."

Big sister's been playing in the dirt every day -- digging dirt out of the garden into containers (many of them good bowls and utensils from the kitchen, grrr!) and making mud, serving pretend meals, I don't know what else. There's a pile of dirt on the deck. Nothing like trying to keep the house clean with a 4-year-old around. Ugh!