A friend posted this on Facebook and I loved it. It’s hard to think when you’re in the middle of a meltdown, tantrum, or mess…but it’s the truth. I’d love this on a big poster to hang somewhere I’d see it every day…
Katie words v5
Birdie
Buh bye. See you soon.
Bunny
Bunny coming! (There was a house we’d pass on the way into town that had a blow-up bunny on the porch.)
Burt
Cookie Monster
Count
Down please
Ernie
Flower
Frog
Help
Katie bite (When she wants a bite of whatever you have.)
Kitty cat
Mama, get up! (When she wants up on your lap.)
Phone
Pill (every time we give Owen his allergy pill, Katie says “Katie want pill.”)
Purple
Sesame Street (sessa seet)
Strawberries
Turtle
Scrolling through pictures on my phone, Katie says who’s in each one. I get to this one.
Me: Who is this?
Katie: Katie bunny!
Previous words:
A-B-C-D-E-F-G
Apple
Awesome
Balloon (bayoon)
Banana (nanna)
Bath
Bite
Boppy (character from Doc McStuffins )
Bubbles
Cereal
Cheese
Chicken butt
Daddy work
Doc (character from Doc McStuffins )
Duck
Elmo
Excuse me
Feet
Flag
Fork
Grape (Gape)
I don’t want to
I got you!
I have more please?
I want that
I’m okay!
Juice
Katie go outside.
Mama, can I have more apple please?
Mess
Minnie [Mouse]
Monkey
Mouth
Nap
Night night
Nose
Orange
Owen (o-wee)
Pants
Peanuts
Pills
Please (peese)
School bus
Shoes
Sleeping
Snowing
Spoon
Stuck
Swing
Thank you
Toes
Water (watee)
What’s that noise?
What’s wrong Owie?
Where’s Charlie?
Where’s daddy?
Where’s Maggie?
Where’s Owen?
Where’s [daddy, milk] ?
Wipes
You’re welcome
Helping daddy and getting wet!
It was a nice night so we were outside. After Katie got in some swinging and Owen fought some bad guys, they helped daddy fertilize:
And then I went in the house for something and came out to this! 🙂
Katie in Owen’s old PJs
From April 23…I forgot it was on my real camera. 🙂 And then I had some Photoshopping to do.
Katie is scary smart.
She saw the iPad and said “Watch Daniel [Tiger] please.” So I handed it to her. She purposefully looked at all the folders then tapped one…then looked purposefully at the app icons and picked PBS Kids without hesitation. I didn’t even know Daniel Tiger was in the PBS kids app, let alone where it was.
MSU Girl
A tee from Grandma Marsha, if I remember right!
Daddy would love that!
Tom was out in the field so I suggested we take a picture to send him. Owen said “Yes! Daddy would love that!”
A cricket!
On the hunt!
Got it! I’m amazed he touched it—he’s never liked bugs.
40 Bags in 40 Days—Day 22
WOOHOO! Someone bought and picked up our old King headboard and frame!
I hated to get rid of it because we spent a good chunk of money on it (it was a Martha Stewart!) but we just didn’t love it anymore plus it was REALLY big and REALLY heavy and we’re trying to downsize.
Watching the school bus
Then sitting with mom.
Good morning cutie
Second set of school pictures!
We got the CD from school today! Man he’s a cute kid!
And of course, Owen’s favorite!
And we also ordered a class picture! (Click for larger version.)
My dirty cute girl
She is definitely NOT her brother when it comes to getting dirty. Before this picture, she was laying in the dirt pile messing around. Here, she pretends she’s on a slide and scoots down the ramp into the grass. Notice the dirty knees.
But damn she’s cute.
Pretty in pink
There’s a little girl in there somewhere.
I’m not sure if she wanted to wear Owen’s jacket or didn’t want him to go to school.
40 Bags in 40 Days—Day 21
Tom and I worked in the garage today—it’s a hot mess since we’ve just been throwing stuff out there as we prepped the house. I mean, there’s always been lots of stuff out there but it was always nicely organized. Lately, I couldn’t even reach my pantry shelves!
We only had what time Katie slept during naptime, but we tossed at least two bags of garbage, a bunch of boxes went into recycling, and we have a big box for the garage sale. And I can reach my pantry again!
Sesame Street Live 2014
A quick family selfie before heading in to the theater.
Katie sees the decorated Sesame Street semi and is pointing to Elmo!
Two more spinny toys!
Owen bumped me as I was taking a no-flash photo so with the slow shutter speed I got this awesome shot!
Katie was perfectly happy sitting on daddy’s lap!
Some of it was a little loud for Owen, but overall he did really well and wasn’t bothered by it. (Which is awesome since when we tried this two years ago, he lasted about two minutes.) Katie never even flinched at ANY of the noise!
Katie watched a lot of the show like this!
They revolved the set pieces…
…turning it into Sesame Street! The little girl muppet’s name was Katie! 🙂
Dancing!
Our seats—quite a bit different than the up-front row we had before, but it worked out just fine as it wasn’t quite as loud.
Looking excitedly at the Sesame Street sign as we were waiting our turn to take pictures!
All of a sudden Owen went from super happy to super cranky when we needed to take the picture.
Oh well. Katie was happy!
So a good time was had by all! I’m glad Owen got to enjoy it after missing out on it the last time, I’m glad Tom was able to go with us, and I’m glad Katie was amazing and just sat/stood on Tom’s lap the entire time! (Afterwards Owen said he was sad that the characters didn’t come up to him—a few of the characters came down the aisles about six rows during one song—and we told him they just didn’t have the time to come see everyone! Poor kid.)
A walk with daddy
Tom had today off so he took Owen to school…and then later we went on a walk! After she stepped in every small puddle, sat in the dirt and played with acorn tops (they fit perfectly on her fingers), handed said tops to daddy to take home, and watched the ducks…she got a shoulder ride to the top of the hill!
I asked her to put away her toys.
Owen flying a speeder bike.
He’s pretending to fly a ship from the Star Wars movies. 🙂
Katie’s Easter Ears
She did it herself!
Happy Easter 2014!
So Owen was up early with Tom as usual and told Tom that there was an R2-D2 downstairs. That’s one of the “eggs” we hid, and Tom knew he hadn’t been downstairs so was perplexed as to how he knew about it. So he had a talk with him about lying. But Owen claimed he wasn’t lying so Tom finally said “Okay, show me.” And Owen took him to the landing which overlooks the entryway…and part of the toy room where Katie’s changing station is…where Tom had, in fact, placed an R2-D2 on the corner in plain sight!! Mr. Eagle Eyes strikes again!!
Then, surprisingly, when we headed downstairs, he completely missed the egg on the windowsill on the landing…Katie actually saw it as she was coming down (in video).
Owen sharing his eggs with Katie because we warned him not to grab all the eggs before she could see them!
He loved the R2-D2 containers!
She found about three eggs and then she was done—she was opening them and eating the candy as fast as she could!
We tried to get a double bunny ear picture but it wasn’t happening. This was all we got. 🙂
She wanted her bubbles right away!
Dinosaur apron from Grannie Lin!
Chocolate bunny and Lego from Grandma Marsha and Uncle Rob!
Some of the eggs had barrettes and hair ties for Katie! She’s putting one on her wrist here.
Owen REALLY LOVED his chick!
Both kids ate a package of the Despicable Me gummies Grandma Marsha sent!
“Open please daddy?”
Now watch me as I try to shove all four eggs in my mouth at once!
This is daddy laughing at how piggy Katie is being.
A full mouth!
“Bunny!!!”
The aftermath!
You can see her hoarding her Robins Eggs. 🙂
Overall it was a great success! I think they missed a few eggs so they’ll find them throughout the day. And while candy and chocolate was their pre-breakfast snack, they didn’t do too badly!
Easter baskets and eggs
Thanks to the grandparents, I didn’t have to buy much (we had the baskets and I bought bubbles—everything else is from grandmas)! No, our kids aren’t spoiled! 😉 The only bad part is the eggs are hidden inside since it’s rainy.
The kids helped me make cookies!
Nothing intensive…just a quick sugar cookie bag mix that I got on clearance at Target. I figured that was our speed. 🙂
I gave Owen the option of making colored cookies and he wanted blue (his favorite color)!
After we finished the first tray, there was still a bit left, so Owen made these four—“One for each of us!” 🙂
Passing the time, waiting for the cookies to bake.
Enjoying the spoils!
EEK! Our first showing!
Long story short, we didn’t know our house was actually listed…so were spurred into a frantic cleaning frenzy when we got a call asking if an agent could be there [in about 20 minutes]. EEK! But of course we said yes.
Man, if we only cleaned at that breakneck pace all the time… 🙂
My guys are talking!
On the way home from errands, Owen was playing on his phone. But he needed to put his Legos somewhere… He said his Battle Droids were talking. 🙂
And a closer view so you can see it better.
Woooow x 2
We took the kids down the fish aisle at Walmart…and both of their reactions were “Woooow!” 🙂
I really hope we have a good spot for a small aquarium at our next house (we already own it).
40 Bags in 40 Days—Day 20
I haven’t been keeping great track since the brunt of our sorting and organizing is done…but we have still been tossing stuff here and there, adding to the donate and garage piles, and deciding what to sell.
But today Tom got rid of the raised garden bed (and burned the wood) and I sorted my bedside table top drawers. I forgot the actual Before picture, but I did take this picture of everything that came out of the drawers…
Proof they were actually empty!
And then back in, somewhat organized, with a bunch tossed.
It still needs more paring down but it takes baby steps—and I have two drawers to go!
It’s my bed!
When I was with Owen in the bathroom getting his teeth brushed, I saw Tom sneak by into Owen’s room, turn off the light, and shut the door. I wasn’t quite sure what he was planning, so I started recording. 🙂
I love hearing him laugh!! Especially as lately he’s been having a rough time…he worries when we’re out of his sight, he wants to know where we are in the house, most of the time he’ll come running (and crying) if he looks for us and doesn’t immediately see us…
And bedtime is the worst. He’s always been a great sleeper—but recently he’s been crying at bedtime, getting up out of bed to come find us, etc. We’ve asked if something happened to make him worry more and he says no… We feel bad, but it gets old.
So anyway, it’s nice hearing his laugh at bedtime. Except afterwards when it was really bedtime, he started getting scared. Tonight it was monsters. So I layed his B on top of him and tucked it all around him, telling him it was magic and would protect him from everything. He liked that…
And he promised to be brave…