Katie has an announcement!

We can't tell if she's happy about it or not... but we certainly are!!!!
Our due date is March 27th!!!!

More details to come soon:) Happy Wednesday!

Oh no, what happened??

That is Katie's new favorite phrase at the moment and it's unbelievably adorable. (until you've heard it 100 times in 2 hours.. then not so much)

Grammie and Grampie were here this weekend and we got to play all weekend long! I got to show off all my talking skills and tell everyone what to do.

"Gammie, SIT"- "Come Play" - "March" - "More eggs" followed by "Oh no what happened" when she opens the eggs (the easter egg plastic type)
"More beep beeps" - "Grampie Wake Up" - "I'm running"

They got to see just how fast I run ALL OVER THE PLACE.
On Saturday, Grammie, Grampie, daddy and Katie went on a date to the Zoo and park to play in the morning. On the way home, she found one of her beep beeps and for the whole ride home she kept saying "more beep beeps" and they kept telling her that there were more beep beeps at home... but she kept asking for them - this is how it went.

Katie: More beep beeps, more beep beeps
Everyone else: Katie the beep beeps are at home
Katie: More beep beeps
Everyone else: Katie, where are the other beep beeps?
Katie: home - more beep beeps??

This is our life with our 19 month old and it's great an stressful and funny and challenging and we love it.

Sunday morning we tried to paint, but Katie wasn't as into it as she was the first time - so we'll try again later this week.

Happy Monday!!!

Grammie and Grampie are here

And so are my new CLOTHES!!!!!

Happy Weekend!

Today we had one of our awesome play dates with miss Mia from downstairs! They brought up lots of fun paints and some fun stuff to paint. It was Katie's first time painting and I didn't know what to expect but she LOVED IT!!! She was super concentrated and silent and didn't try to eat the paint or do anything bad. She just painted her wooden butterfly and turtle and seemed perfectly happy to do so. I will take pictures of the finished product later... but she did a great job and I guess that means I have to go out and buy paints to add to our craft and lesson plans!!!!




Happy Monday!!!

I swear she's saying DUCK. DUCK DUCK DUCK DUCK.
I'll work with her on it... but until then, we wanted to share the laugh!
:)

Just some dinner conversation between me and Katie while Dave is out at a soccer game:)

He took her to the zoo today and they rode the train. (woo woo) and the carousel (horse) and I kept telling her they were going on a date... and she totally remembers. It's 6:45 now and their date was this morning:)

Buuuuuuz WUUUUUUEEEEEEEE

It took us awhile to figure out what she was talking about. Even before she saw the movie, buzz and woody characters always drew her attention at stores and on commercials. So, we got the movie and watched it and she's hooked!

She walks around the house going... buuuuuuz weeeeeeee, buuuuuuuz, weeeeeee - T - then points to the TV as if we don't know what she wants!!! It's adorable!

I used to love the alien from the first toy story and we had one at Mimi's house and brought it home with us and she requested that she be allowed to take it to bed last night. She held it with her blankie told Dave to SIT in the chair and READ her a book. Ba ba was still in the crib, but it was the first time she wanted something other than Big Bird.

Mimi ordered her soft buzz and woody's cause I couldn't find them anywhere so I wonder if they will all end up in bed with her. (which dave won't allow cause he hates when she brings stuff to bed:))

let's see... what else is going on??? Ummmmm Negotiation. It's a wonderful thing. We can usually get Katie to finish eating something she would rather not eat if we tell her that if she eats it, we will give her something she wants. And the something she always really wants is 9 times out of 10 FRUIT. FRUIT are these gerber fruit strips that are like fruit leathers. She LOVES THEM. So, we can get her to eat a broccoli patty by telling her that if she eats it, she will get fruit. It's win win for us! I hope it works for a long time, although these little buggers are expensive and small and she could eat 2 or 3 at a sitting - so I am looking for alternatives that are all fruit as we try very hard not to give her any crap or added sugar or processed foods. Along with negotiation is the fact that she completely understands us. I was trying to wash her hand the other day (she had shredded a crayon under her fingernails and I was trying to dig it out with a wipe ) and she was fighting me. At the time, we were watching Dora and I told her if she didn't let me wash her hand, I was going to turn Dora off... so she thrust her hand at me to let me clean it. I almost fell off the couch!

She is talking more and more every day. She copies TONS of stuff and has come up with new "words" that we can't yet translate yet. I love that she is putting two words together like her new favorite thing to do... "wash hands" at the sink, standing on a chair.

She also says, Hi mama, Hi Dada, Hi Dama (I think she just gets excited and jumbles it)

We taught her this weekend to say Mimis house which comes out MIMI HOWSH and PUZZZSH means puzzles (she LOVES puzzles) She has also discovered Curious George cartoons and says GEORGE.

We are busy as you can imagine and trying to come up with ways to keep her busy and interested in learning. We will post more pics when we have some!
Here is a pic from our last pasta night!