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Katie Words v6 + Katieisms 2

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Big Bird
Blueberry (boo bears)
Cracker
Dinosaur
Mickey [Mouse]
Sir Kirby
Snack
Table
Truck

Owen: Katie, can I use the iPad?
Katie: No, I’m busy.

Katie: I want more cheese.
Tom: I don’t have anymore.
Katie: Points at the fridge. There’s more!

We were watering the grass with a sprinkler.
Katie: It’s raining!

I was going to the bathroom.
Katie: I wanna go potty.
Me: You want to go potty?
Katie: Yes!
Me: Okay, take your pants off.
Katie: NOOOOOO!!!

While playing in the front yard, a car goes by pretty fast.
Katie: WATCH OUT! WATCH OUT!

I was getting Katie dressed and she leaned over to hug me.
Katie: I’m sad.
Me: Why.
Katie: I miss daddy.
🙁

Owenisms 45

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Out playing in the backyard.
Owen: Mama, close your eyes.
I close my eyes.
Owen: No peeking!
Then he hands me this:

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Talking about a time he threw up.
Owen: Remember that time when I was four and ate the pizza?
Me: Yes.
Owen: And we got home and I felt some little throat stuff coming up into my mouth so I ran to the bathroom and then plop.

Getting into bed at night.
Good night darth vader. *KISS* Good night ogre. *KISS* Good night other darth vader. *KISS*

It was raining and thundering.
Owen: Mama, do we have cheddar?
Me: Cheddar?
Owen: Yes, cheddar.
Me: Cheese?
Owen: No! Cheddar! Like on the Doc McStuffins storm show.
Me: Cheddar?! I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Owen: I’ll show you.
I put the episode on. The characters say they have each other.
Owen: See—cheddar!
Me: Ahhhh! EACH. OTHER. Two words. And yes, we have each other.

Owen: I gotta go potty.
Tom: Are you going poop?
Owen: No, pee.
Tom: Isn’t that potty?
Owen: No, pee is pee and poop is poop.

Taco Wednesday

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Owen has said he likes the tacos at school so we thought we’d try them at home. I just did regular ground beef with barely a hint of salt and pepper because I’m pretty sure the school doesn’t use any special taco seasoning (and Owen usually complains about things like butter or S&P).

So, we were supposed to have Taco Tuesday but I forgot an ingredient…so we had it tonight!

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Success!

I also had him try “nachos”—tortilla chips he loves with the exact same ground beef and cheese and of course he said he liked it but didn’t even finish one chip. GRRR.

Baby steps. Baby steps. After all, he’s eating TACOS!!

Which TV Mom Would You Be Most Like?

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You got Cindy from “Beverly Hills 90210”! You are the main source of stability and guidance for your children. You always keep an open door and a place at your table for whomever might need it. You’re a Down-to-earth mother, who is loving and sympathetic to your children but also to your children’s often-troubled friends. You’re a role model!

I can live with that. 🙂

If you want to take the quiz for yourself, go here.

Gardening girl + ride along + kittens

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We went to a friends house for a play date and Katie grabbed the gardening gloves and shovel. 🙂

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And enjoyed being driven around…

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She also managed to get up into and out of the trampoline (using the stepstool) which nearly gave me heart failure.

Then she got to pet a kitten (they have a few strays that they feed) and she loved it—“Kitty cat! Kitty cat!”

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Then she got up on the swing herself but needed me to push her. 🙂

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You can’t beat a great morning spent with friends.

Our late (yet still typical) morning

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Owen and Katie both slept in this morning, and Owen really didn’t want to get up at all so I had Katie dressed before he even got out of bed…and she was sitting there saying “C’mon Owee!”

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“Mama! Take a picture!” So I did and only realized afterwards I had to edit it. 🙂

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Then just when I finally had him dressed, she crawls into his bed to pretend to sleep (one of her favorite things).

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I forgot the dolphins!

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As we were packing up to leave the beach we spotted dolphins! I forgot about it until someone mentioned dolphins elsewhere and I thought “Hey, wait, I took pictures of the dolphins, why didn’t I see them?” Yeah, I had to REALLY zoom in…I had deleted the pics because I thought there was nothing in the pictures! 🙂

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Our day at the beach!

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We are not beach people. Yes, we live somewhat close (45 minutes) so maybe we should be, but we just never go. Things get busy at home on the weekend and it’s a bit of work to go (toys, towels, snacks, drinks, diapers, wipes, yada yada yada) so we end up just staying home. But since we’re moving soon and we know the kids love the beach, we thought we’d treat them! Unfortunately, most of our beach toys were packed away, so we made do with some bath and pool toys, a big bucket, and a kids garden rake and shovel.

Getting dressed in the restrooms.

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Tom dug a small hole for Owen and Katie immediately got in it.

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Friends of ours happened to be there, too!

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Then we took a break and had lunch!

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It took a few hours but she was FINALLY super comfortable in the water!

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Owen made friends with some kids who were building this.

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The kids Owen was with had nets and caught some minnows—and he was holding one!

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Katie’s New Tricycle

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Katie liked bikes. However, the regular tricycle we already have is too big for her. The big-wheels-type tricycle we bought for her was too big (so we returned it). We tried a seated scooter thing that she hated so that went back, too. So we finally found a bike that she fits! Now, the challenge is to get her to ride it!

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Pushing the bike!

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Two kids in the police car

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We’ve been debating selling the police car because Owen just never uses it—we practically have to force him to drive it. We mentioned selling it and he kinda freaked out saying he loved it. So we told him if he used it, we’d keep it. It would kill me to get rid of it since it was EXPENSIVE and he WANTED IT…but I hate to move it if he’s not going to use it (since there’s lots fewer places to drive it at the new place). I had hoped Katie would like it, but thus far she’s been mostly scared of it. So Owen got in it today…and had A BLAST. And after watching Owen in for about 20 minutes, Katie wanted to get in…and boy did they have fun.

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Helping Katie with the speaker.

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Awwwww!

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The car was charging so the seats were out—so Katie hauled them around to sit on them.

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Then daddy put them up here for a photo op. 🙂

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Owen reading…and not.

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So this morning he wanted to read his book on his own.

He did pretty good again.

But.

We tried to have him read tonight and he seemingly couldn’t read one single word! What the—?!?!

We know he guesses at words when he’s not sure (instead of sounding them out) but he wasn’t even doing that tonight. The word was can and he’s saying fish or something. WHAAAAA?!

So, this new skill isn’t quite as locked down as I’d magically hoped. 🙂

Missed Mom Art

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Apparently I missed giving Owen a kiss when I dropped him off Monday morning, so this was the artwork he wanted to do at school (the MOM was missing and he told me on the way home he had to add my name):

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Later in the week, he really missed me again and did this one:

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I love my eyelashes and hair. 🙂

Wait. Owen can read?!

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Owen pretty much read this entire page to me on his own.

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Wait. What?!

When did this happen? We haven’t practiced much reading at all! He’s been doing ABCMouse but I don’t think there’s much (if any) actual reading involved. But he probably read about half the book!

We asked him where he learned how to read and this time it was “at book school next to the DC store” (with DC being where we’re moving).

I’m just floored. Thrilled, but floored.

Our 4-minute morning walk

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On the way home from taking Owen to school Katie started saying she wanted to watch a movie (her newest favorite thing) so I brought up a walk to distract her. It only worked for a total of two minutes down the road (so four minutes total counting the return trip—or not even two driveways).

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And of course a big smile when she saw herself!

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How Owen helps Katie down the slide

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Katie wanted to get off the playset so I kept telling her to go through the tube and down the slide. She wanted me to get her down. No, Katie, through the tube and down the slide. She eventually made it to the slide then just sat there like this, pouting. 🙂

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Then Owen “helped” her. Which is basically flinging her down the slide under the guise of holding her hand. And she doesn’t care one bit. 🙂