What's happening with Kate!: 2008

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas!!!

Kate had sooo much fun on Christmas. She was so excited to open presents, she had to "help" everyone else with theirs too! It was nice to have Poppy here!

I asked Kate to build me something and walked away. She came running through the house and said she had built me a house. Unfortunately, she knocked down part of it before I could take the picture and she rebuilt it. It was TOTALLY symmetrical the first time. She was so proud of herself and I can't believe how grown up she looks in these pictures!!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Meetup Christmas party

Kate and I are in a meetup for moms in our immediate area and have really enjoyed getting to know everyone. We had a kids' Christmas party and she had a blast. She mainly enjoyed eating but also made a sparkly Christmas ball, some reindeer food and a Rudolph puppet!

Future bowler, she got 2 out of 3 beanbags through Rudolph's nose and she meant business!

Catching up again!

I am such a bad blogger mom lately. I've been getting so much stuff done for Christmas and working on the three creative teams I'm on now which equals 7 layouts a month, Yikes! So here I am catching up again.

Kate got to see Santa TWICE this year and hugged him under the Christmas tree at the capital tree lighting too. She is sooo in love with him this year. She can't get enough.

We saw Santa first at the YMCA breakfast with Santa. Tova and Koran went with us and we had a great day. We weren't far back in the line at all. Kate walked right up, climbed up beside Santa and snuggled into him. I couldn't have asked for a better photo opportunity. Her happiness just shows! Here are the girls at the pancake breakfast, then riding the motorcycles at Budafest, Kate getting a pony ride and McDonald's after. It's so cool to see them having so much fun together. They've known each other since Tova was born!

Here's Kate with Santa at the mall:

And hugging him under the capital tree!

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Grandma and PawPaw's Visit

I am a little behind in posting. My mom and stepdad came out to visit several weeks ago. We weren't planning it far ahead, mom just found out she had some extra leave and they decided to come. Kate was so excited to have them here and we did a lot of her favorite things like going to the open gymnastics playtime and the Children's museum. She even put up with a grown up visit to the LBJ library. lol Here are some pics from the visit!

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Curious Kate!

I think my child is watching too much Curious George. In the past 24 hours, she has gotten into Ryan's wallet and taken all the cards out, gotten into my file drawer and spread papers all over the floor, cut up a little bracelet with her safety scissors and drawn all over a baby doll's head with a crayon. It was obvious she had no idea what she did to the doll was wrong because she brought it to me saying "look, mom!" with a proud look on her face. I gave her a magic eraser and she did a great job cleaning up her mess. She has definitely entered a curious phase!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Joe?

Kate likes to listen to "Mr. Joe", Joe McDermott a local children's musician. Today, we were listening to the radio and Dire Straits, "Money for Nothing" came on and the guitar part was playing. Kate shouted "It's Mr. Joe!" If you've ever heard how different Mr. Joe is, it's pretty funny.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Pumpkin Patch!

Today we went to a local pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin and get some great shots of out li'l pumpkin. We ran into Kate's friend Skylar while we were there and they had a blast running around. Kate was so excited about "my pumpkin" that daddy picked out. We're going to carve it tonight.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

My brave girl!

Okay, so Kate was supposed to dance at the Firefest today but freaked out, I mean kicking screaming, did not want to do it. So we watched the other kids dance. But, she saw the kid holding the snake and there was no way she was leaving without holding it. She loved it. She even kissed it!

On the less adventurous side, she also got to feed a camel. On the way out, she had a butterfly painted on her arm. Halfway home(all of ten minute ride), she exclaimed "I licked the butterfly off my arm!" Yep, sure enough, it was gone!

Friday, October 3, 2008

Shopping with Zander

Zander's mom, Michelle and I have discovered the joy of shopping together! The kiddos get a car cart and one of us pushes that while they other pushes a regular cart and shopping is sooo much easier! The kids love it!

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Work of art

This morning Kate had the imprint from the wrinkles in her pullup on her butt and I guess she's never noticed them before. She ran into my room with her pants around her ankles and turned her butt towards me, exclaiming "look mom! Somebody draw this on my butt!" She said it in a worried tone like she was really shocked someone would draw on her butt while she was sleeping. It was hilarious!

Painting Pottery

Kate had a blast painting a coffee mug for dad. I was really impressed with how intensely she concentrated and that she got the whole thing covered with paint without doubling over much at all. She and Faye had fun being silly afterwards.

The funny things you say and do...

08/26/09 - I found fresh tomatoes in your closet on the floor. Thankfully I found them when they were fresh! It was kind of dark and I was thinking, "where did these red squishy balls come from?"
08/09 "Noah's my favorite friend. Remember when he was here and he didn't listen to his mommy? Thaaat's why I love him!"
07/30/09 - It was raining outside, a not so common occurence right now in our area and we were in the car. You said "mommy, turn on the whipper wipers!"
07/18/09 - Your tummy was a little upset and you had to go potty. We were in a public potty so I went with you. You got up and looked back and said "that's bisgusting, mommy!"
July 1, 2009 We were leaving the library and a train went by. You were really excited so we stopped to watch and he blew the horn. You jumped and starting crying. On the way to the car, you said, "that train is too loud. I want a quiet train like Thomas."
June 09 - you ran the door over your toe and said "mommy, the door stepped on my toe!"
May 09 - We were going to a seafood restaurant and I asked you what you wanted. You grinned and said "shark food."
May 09 - When I call you, you come and said "here I'm are."
May 09 - Poppy said he'd buy you a toy at the zoo gift shop. You went through everything and decided on a rubber snake!
May 09 - We were putting you to bed and I said "let's make a Kate sandwich" and daddy and I hugged you from both sides of your bed. You looked at us with a big grin and said "I'm the cheese and mommy's the turkey." Daddy said, "what am I?" and you said "the lemon." You thought that was hilarious!
May 09 - You said "when I grow up, I'm going to have hairy on my legs like daddy!"
April 09 - I asked you who you wanted to pray for. You said Noah, Tova, Grace, Aubrey, Faye, Abigail, Belle, Sleeping Beauty and Jasmine!
March 09 - In the Farmer in the Dell. You say The Farmer in the tell, Hi Ho the Dairy Do, the Farmer in the tell.
January 09 - "I'm going scrapbooking with Jesus"
January 09- I was putting your bed together and you looked at me very seriously and said "when I grow up I want to learn to screw just like you!"
December 08 - When you first learned Jingle Bells, you would sing Oh what fun it is to ride in an open simpson way.
December 08 - For some reason, "come from" is your favorite phrase and you add it to the end of everything. For example, "I like peanut butter, come from." We have no idea why you like it so much!
September 08 - You say berzert instead of dessert.
September 08 - You passed gas and laughed and said "I tooted in my shoes" You thought it was hysterical!
August/September 08 - You say Opameal instead of Oatmeal
Sept 08 - "I've got lips on my stick!" after you put on lipbalm.
Aug 08 - We were out for our morning walk and a van drove by and up the road, it ran over an empty milk jug. When we got closer, you said "the car stepped on the milk!"
Aug 08 - We were sitting at the kitchen table and you were marveling that I could sit AND touch the floor with my feet at the same time. You looked at me really seriously and said "mommy, you tall like a giraffe!"
July 08 - Instead of saying "too" you say either. EG "I want one, either"
July 08 - We had just watched Enchanted, which you loved. I was putting you to bed and remembered how much I liked Annie when I was a kid so I sang "Tomorrow" to you. You looked at me and said "you sing like a princess." I so don't but I love you for saying so!
June 08 - Had a fit because she wanted to watch "Bernie" which I couldn't figure out. I asked if she meant "Barnie" but she said no and just got madder. Finally, I asked what color he is and she said "purple" so I turned on Barnie and she said "yeah, Bernie!". She's hardly ever seen him, so I had no idea she would ask for him!
June 08 - you say pidgerator instead of refrigerator
May 08 - When we go to the YMCA and you see kids out in the field, you say they are getting their "eckersize".
May 08 - I bought you a bottle of strawberry shampoo. Now when we are in the bathroom, you get all excited and point to it and say "strawberry poo!"
April 08- When I told you daddy was in Minnesota, you walked around grinning saying "daddy's in the sofa!"
April 08 - Every time the count comes on Sesame Street, you run crying and screaming from the room and come to me.
3/18/08 We were waiting at an intersection and an ambulance crossed in front of us with sirens and lights going. You watched it go by, then said "crazy bus!"
3/10/08 You saw me heat up my toast in the microwave(moms never get warm toast) so you wanted yours heated too. I gave you the slightly warmed toast. You took a bite and said "it's nice and toasty!"

What's happening with Kate!