Ketchup please

Kate and I were at a friend's house where we let her have chocolate milk for the first time. She watched me squeeze it into her sippy cup, then polished off the whole cup in a matter of seconds. She must have associated that squeeze bottle to a commonly used object in our house because the next night when I gave her her milk, she piped up "ketchup please!"

My little helper

Kate is so into helping now. She pulls a chair over when I get ready to make dinner and says "help?" Of course I have to find something for her to do when she asks so nicely! Here she is putting corn into the steamer. She didn't want to just pour it in the bowl. She had to do it by the handful.

At night if she gets into her crib and not everything is picked up off the floor, she will point to it and say away until every item is off the floor. I just need to start remembering to let her do it before bedtime! She's a good little cleaner and seems to like having everything in its place.

She's also started giving big hugs. She will just spontaneously grab me and hug really hard. She tries to hug people and animals in her books too. She will see a picture of something and say "hug" so I put it up to her and she hugs the book. Then she looks at me and says "she's hugging me." It's so cute!