Kate 3.10

Kate is having a good time at prek this month.  We made Valentines for all of her buds and really enjoyed opening all of her valentines (especially the ones with candy).

Her imagination is really amazing and she devotes whole days to caring for her kids.  A real delight to observe

Giving her kids a bath

Butchie is still numero uno.  He is toilet trained!  He celebrates a birthday at least weekly and now goes to 1st grade.  or 2nd.

Kate is really loving to spell (she asks me to spell and she does the letter by herself.  There will be YEARS of this, I know.)  This was one of the more creative ones (and edible.  Alex's favorite pretzels)

All down for the night

She wrote this after a  monkey was caught in the door.

Off to prek on Vday

Can I have some, sis?

Alex 12 Months: Fork and Spoon, Please

12 month checkup stats:  19lbs, 1oz (17th percentile); 29.75" (69th percentile).  She is long and lean!

Alex loves her "guys"

I said early on that if Alex ever chooses a lovey, it won't be a soft furry friend, but something hard.  I don't know why, but she just always gravitated towards the sturdier things.

Hell, Baby!  Kate likes to put rasperries on her fingers and sing the Big Bopper's "Hellooooooo, Baby!".  Alex caught on quick

A real raspberry hound.  And blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries.  Our girls have expensive habits!

Stole Kate's headband.  Ridiculous!

Alex is now very proficient with a fork and spoon.  She never really let me feed her!  She is a persistent, autonomous little one.  "What, you don't think I can use a fork? Who are you?"

Veggie lasagna

Yogurt.  Messy times here

Hello?  Isn't it strange kids still know what these things are?  Alex has never seen me on anything other than my Blackberry

Alex is saying Mama, Kate, hi, bye, bye (sounds like die, die)

Showboating

Perfecting her walking

The blockade.  Alex loves to take the CDs and records out, turn on the turntable, and try to put tapes in the tape deck (yes, we have a tape deck.  Very handy for the dusty children's books on tape section at the library!)

Want some?  No, really, take some.  I'm serious.  I don't want to get rough here.  Take it or I will scream!!!!

365 days of Alex!

Alex turned 1!  We had a dinner party for her.  Kate chose the plates (looks like Peekaboo Farm (a book), Mama, she'll love it!)

Kate and I made the cupcakes and Papa supplied the balloon (which hung around the house for weeks)

Kate was so diligent setting up for the party

Looks satisfactory

Let me at em

First cupcake went great.  Unlike Kate, she ate the cake part, too.

One more?

OK.  :-)

Present time!

Kate chose this peg hammering bench for Alex.  "Because she loves to whack"  Remember how Kate dubbed Alex's repeated arm movement her "whacking arm" when she was a newborn?  Well, she still has it and LOVES this bench.  I mean she really loved it more than any other gift.  So sweet that Kate apparently knows her best!

Notice Kat's face.  Suddenly she got quiet and then tearfully announced she wasn't having a good time.  She was unprepared for Alex having gifts and she none.  She got over it quickly but needed some TLC :-)

Kate loves to help her with it

Beautiful gift from Grammie came in the mail

Puzzle and PJ book.  Kate loved it.  I mean Alex.

A gift from Mama and Papa.  A WOW motorcycle

Alex loves her "guys".  If you tell her "go bring me a guys, Alex", she will toddle over and bring you a few.  I think he is even saying "guys"

I love the mama guy. :-()

post party rumpus