Katherine, you continue to learn so much and you are so funny that daddy and I are always laughing at what you say and do.
You continue to be very verbal and sometimes it gets you into trouble. The other day you had a negative mark on your daily sheet at school. When I asked the teacher about it she said that she kept telling you to go down the slide and up the stairs. You replied, "No, I want to go up the slide, not down the slide". You were then put into time out for your disobedience. Many of the other kids are not quite so precise in their language so their response would have either been silence or maybe a "no" but it is quite obvious that you not only understood what Ms. Kristin was telling you but you were knowingly choosing to disobey. The problem with having such a large vocabulary for your age is I think sometimes more is expected out of you. You can say so much and sometimes I forget that you still lack maturity in other areas.
Here are some of your sentences and phrases of the last month:
- Mommy, may I have a Kleenex please, I have a booger? (so polite about it too:)
- Mommy go peepee, good job mommy.
- Mommy is Christy, Daddy is Sam.
- Don't get out of your shoe or get a spankin. Obey Katherine! (Said to her toes in the car)
- Come on guys.
- Wait a minute.
- Stay right here.
- No big deal.
- Be right back.
- I run fast
- Ready, set go!
- Cars can hurt you (a common warning I give when we are walking in a parking lot)
- Time for a zerbert (for Squeak of course)
- I run up the hall, I run down the hall.
- Mommy, baby's tired and wants to watch TV (who do you really think wanted to watch TV?)
You love to tell stories. Sometimes I can figure out what you are telling but you have been known to babble nonstop for over 5 minutes in the car. It is so cute. when you tell a story and talk about what you said you always repeat yourself in a high pitch voice. It is really funny.
You are quite the helper. Anytime I am cooking you bring over your stool or chair so you can watch and help. We made banana pudding for a friend who had a baby (along with more stuff). After stirring it you took a test. You liked it! I had to take it away though so you did not put your fingers back in.
You also got to help mommy put together a new bookcase for your big girl room. You used the screwdrivers to help turn the screws and you used your stuffed hammer too. You were so proud of the finished project when daddy came home.
Your eating habits are funny some days. You are doing really well at eating what we eat. This month you have enjoyed salmon, chicken (in all kinds of sauce), meat loaf, shepherds pie and quesadillas among other things. I love that we can go out to eat on a whim without worrying that I did not pack you a meal and that I do not have to prepare you a separate meal each night. The main frustration is that for some reason you will not eat leftovers. You will love something for dinner and I get so excited but then you refuse to eat it the next day. It is very frustrating. You also will love a food one week and not touch it the next. It makes it very hard to pack your lunch for school. You have discovered that you really like ice cream and you are not a huge fan of chocolate.
You have quite a collection of stuff that you like to haul around. The funny thing is that the pile might change from day to day so I never know what the essential stuff for the day will be. Usually it includes baby, her carrier and her blanket along with other dolls, blankets and toys. You have an amazing memory of here your stuff is and go around the house collecting your pile. In the photo you are going to read to your "stuff" but you have so much you can't really even open the book.
As with all 2 year olds you can have a very strong will. I do not worry because you are doing things that are developmentally appropriate like exploring your independence and testing limits but sometimes it is just not much fun. It is good to know you are on track but it is so hard sometimes to know how to discipline and guide you as you are learning about the world around you.
Sometimes you are very adventurous and sometimes you are very cautious. At a new playground you amazed me that you learned how to climb a pretty high ladder with no help so that you could go down a very tall slide. Yet the next week when we were at the spray park you just played in the small sprinklers not really wanting to get all the way wet.
You are so lucky to have some great friends. I love this picture of you and Robert in a chair reading together. Every day you will ask if you can play with one of your friends either at a park, at Katherine's house or at their house. Almost every day you are lucky and you are able to play with your friends.
This month you learned your last name. It is soooo cute when we ask you your name and you say the whole thing. The funny thing is when we ask you our name and instead of Christy or Sam you say Mommy ____ or Daddy ____ even though you know our first names.
Speaking of names, we still don't have a name for Squeak. When we ask you what we should name baby sister, your most recent response is "mommy" or "daddy". Silly girl. Tonight we tried to tell you we were going to name baby sister "Katherine" and your response was "no, Fafrine right here".
Speaking of "Fafrine", that is still how you say your name. I am working on clearly pronouncing the "K" at the beginning of your name and having you imitate it. You do it correctly sometimes. (Don't worry Heather, I do it without a stutter though it is hard to emphasize a /k/ without a stutter).
Your big girl room is almost 100% complete. Now we have the bookcase in, we need bins for in the bookcase. The only two other things I need to do is repaint the red shelf that was in there when it was a guest room and I need to sew the curtains shorter. Another new addition to your room this week is mommy's old desk. My Nana (your Nana's grandmother and your great grandmother) bought it for me, I think when an old school house was selling things they were no longer using. My mom (your Nana) painted it green (most of my childhood room was this color), put my name on it and covered the drawing surface with fabric and contact paper. I have decided to keep it the original color with my name on it but I need to replace the dirty fabric and put new contact paper on it. It is perfect for you and you love to sit there to draw.
You have a few new habits this month. You have started to twirl your hair. It is getting really long and it is still curly on the ends. I love it. When we lay down for you to nap or sleep at night you often fall asleep twirling your hair. One of my favorite things each day is snuggling with you in your big bed. I thought that I would miss our evening story time in the glider but replacing it with snuggle time in the big girl bed is so much better. There have been many times that either your dad or I have fallen asleep with you. You love to read a few books and cuddle up with us. I try to treasure these times as I know it will be much harder to snuggle and take a nap with you when Squeak arrives.
Another new obsession is washing your hands. Don't get me wrong, I thing that good hygiene is very important and washing your hands after you use the bathroom is very important. But, you have a routine where you wash your hands with your blue soap (which is a foam) and then you want to wash your hands with your Johnson Buddies soap bar. Then you want to use the soap bar to wash the counter and sometimes even the floor. Of course this is all while the water is running. Then you need a towel to dry your hands and the counter but sometimes if I am not looking you get the towel wet and use it to clean the counter even more. There have been many battles recently over washing your hands but at least they are clean.
We are about to have to do another bit of baby proofing by buying a new kind of lock for high up on our door. Yesterday you told mommy to wait when we were going outside so you could get your stool. You brought it over to the front door and used it to unlock the deadbolt. You also unlocked the bottom lock but could not get the door open because it sticks a little. Yikes, that sure scared mommy.
Katherine, you are such a joy. Though you take a lot of energy out of me while I am 8 months pregnant, I love every day that we spend together. I love seeing you learn and grow. It is always an adventure.
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