So, Katherine's birthday was 2 weeks ago, but if you're one of the few regular readers of this blog, you understand that NOTHING is ever updated on time. 2 weeks is rather early!

Katherine actually had about a week of birthday - with a friend party the week before, and family celebrations extended past the actual day.  She loved every minute of the extra attention (especially after suffering through Abby's birthday and Maggie's Communion - it was finally her turn!)

The day of her birthday, the Kindergarteners had a day off of school  so that next year's class could come and tour the school. Chris was off as well (that day was a snow day make up, but the lack of snow this year meant a 4 day weekend for South Milwaukee!) Since everyone would be home, we told Maggie should could stay home as well and we'd all do something fun. Maggie started by saying she wanted to go to school, but in the end she was glad to have fun with us. We went downtown to Discovery World, the Art Museum, and rode bikes along the Lakefront path.  In the afternoon, a friend happened to call for a playdate with Katherine. We invited her to our house (to give her Dad a break, he's recovering from broken leg after a motorcycle accident, sound familiar?) and the girls played nicely. Then it was off to Texas Roadhouse for dinner followed by a stop at Whitnall park for time on the Monkey bars for the birthday girl. All in all, a thrilling day!

We spent the next day in Evanston - happy to cheer on our favorite runner - AUNT NORA- who ran the Soldier Field 10 miler that morning. As well as celebrating AUNT BRIDGET and her graduation from Law school.

It was on the way home from that day that Katherine gave me my first "Deep Thoughts with Katherine" quote for this post. She's been coming up with the funniest (and sometimes heartwarming) thoughts lately!

Driving along the highway, the sun was coming through the clouds - with individual rays (I'm sure there's a meteorological term)  Maggie said, "Oh look, I know from my Bible that's what it looks like when Jesus comes down, I wonder if he'll come to our car!" Katherine responded, "We don't need him in our car, because he's already in my heart."

Last week as I was frantically trying to get dressed for church, Katherine came to me with 2 quarters and a nickel and said, "I want to bring this to church and give it to the poor people, I don't need it, I have so much!" And she did bring it and put it in the poor box on the way into church. It was so sweet!

Chris reports that on learning what a laundromat was, Katherine suggested"Why don't we just take out laundry there, then we wouldn't have to put it away at our house!

This afternoon, when I found that the girls were not weeding the way I had told them to, Katherine exclaimed in exasperation, "Well, where do weeds come from anyway? Do you plants 'Weed Seeds' or something?"

And finally, while discussing flip flops at dinner tonight, she stated, "Well, I don't know why they call them Flip Flops anyway. I mean, I guess if you throw them in the air they might 'Flip' but they certainly don't FLOP!"

Oh Katherine, you certainly keep life interesting!