Katie Dancing to the Mechanical Santa

The Barton Family has a mechanical Santa that they bring out each year. We wanted to introduce Katelynn to Santa and so we decided to start with the Santa. We may have rushed it a bit when they had to remove the head from Santa to get him to work right. He has a little remote sensor on the front that if you walk close to him he starts singing, well you guessed it, someone tripped the sensor and headless Santa started singing and dancing.
They fixed his head and after a little coxing, Katelynn started to Dance to him. I may be biased but I think she is a good dancer.

Dancing happy

This video was sent to me by Carrie. Her sisters are taking care of Katelynn down in Paragonah and they are rocking out.

CHEEESSSSSSSEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Carrie was showing me pictures she had taken over the past several months when she came upon this one. She and I are teaching Katelynn to smile.
Here we actually have her captured in digital film that smiling can happen with our daughter. I for one think that she is a very cute kid.

*Note the cute little chair behind her right shoulder. Since mom had a rocking chair I guess that Grandma Barton thought Katelynn should have one too. The amazing part is it seems that Katelynn actually enjoys sitting in it.

A new one for the family

Announcing the all to soon arrival of Little Baby Otis Patrick. You get to be one of the first few people who see this debut photo. We don't know the Gender yet, but we will next month. Right now we know that we have a baby with a very strong heartbeat. If he/she is anything like Katelynn they will be impatient to join the world...

Carrie has installed a counter to the left that will count down till our due date.

First snow of the year and time to Play

It snowed in our little neck of the woods today, so Carrie took Katelynn outside to play. Bundling her up so she would stay worm, putting gloves on her, and visiting the neighbors Katelynn played on the swingset in the neighbors back yard.

That happy face let me, her father, know that she would be an outdoors lady for the rest of her life. I know if I went out in the snow like that I would not be the happiest person in the world........Maybe that's why I work with computers?

I do beleive in Fairies

When we went to Disneyland to visit Tia & Richie my parents bought Katelynn an entire tinkerbell costume. Note the wand in her hand. At first I thought that her mother would not be able to keep the costume on her. I was mistaken when Katelynn left the costume on all night, and loved it. She even left fairy dust, glitter, behind her wherever she walked. I still have some on the floor of my house if anyone is interested.


Chalk one up to Carrie and her ingenuity, after we received Katelynn's costume she went about figuring out what we would be. Her dress was made by my mother to match the rest of us as Peter Pan, Wendy, and Tinker Bell. Do you think Peter Pan looks great with facial hair?

Katie gets enough hair to cut

Katie's grandmother noticed that her hair had grown enough that it was time for an "even me up" trim. I, her father, did not notice that it was not even. So we went to our favorite hairstylist for katie's first haircut. Do you think Katie looks happy about this?

Finally, Another Graduate in the House

I did it, despite a ton of problems, setbacks, and other issues preventing me from finishing I have finally finished with school. I had thought about this moment for so long, what I would feel, what I would do, how I would act. My first thought...Gee I should go back and get my masters degree. I must be an insane man, should I not be happy for a moment.

Thanks to Carrie, who basically sacrificed her world with me in order to let me get finished, and I would like to thank my parents for the time they let us hang out with them so Carrie and Kate would not be alone.

Boppa and me

Katelynn loves snuggling with her grandpa who she refers to as boppa.  In this photo they are watching the disney playhouse show "my friends Tigger and Pooh."  Carrie is substituting for my mother today and so Katelynn gets to hang out with the boys.  O yah, and lets not forget Her blanket.

I wanna be a big Girl

Katelynn has decided it was time for her to be a big girl and eat at the bar instead of in her own chair.  Carrie tied her to the chair with an old belt of mine commenting that at least my ugly gray and blue belt was good for something.  

Katelynn now eats breakfast from the bar every morning, until she sees her moms breakfast shake.  I think that our little daughter is a one year old going on twenty.  

**The food she has on her plate is banana bread made by Carrie the fantastic chief.