catching up

I found scratched on a piece of paper some things I wanted to write down about Kat. These are from a month or maybe a little more than that ago. The first story was when we were driving home from Matt’s house and Kat thinks the road he lives on is “spooky”. There is a slight wooded area off to the side and Kat said, “robbers live in trees. Hey! Robbers are like tree frogs! They BOTH live in trees!” It turns out in Shrek, one of the characters says that there are robbers in the trees. She learned about tree frogs living in trees from Diego. She put the two together on her own!

That same night, she said, “you need an umbrella for the rain. Rain comes from clouds. Sometimes it gets cold and I need a blanket!” I love listening to her thought process.

She calls little babies, “Sweet little pie!” now. She’s very gentle and sweet with them.

She looked up into the sky and noted, “the moon is out. That means I have to go to bed”. She also noted that the moon was trying to follow us as we drove home.

When Kat is being challenged or wants to sassy talk us, she’ll say, “you know what I mean!” Oh, she’s so sassy!

She found a worry stone that someone gave to me and I explained to her what it was. Several days later, she said “I worried”. I asked, “why are you worried honey?” She said, “Oh, never mind, I not worried anymore!” And pulled out the stone and started rubbing it.

Kat can play computer games now pretty accurately. She can move the mouse exactly where she wants it to go and she plays Dora the Explorer games that seem complicated for a 2 year old to me, but she loves them. She told me, “I can do it myself, no sweat!” I said, ‘honey, where did you learn ‘no sweat’”. She said, “from my friend Bro, him taught me that words!”

Baby Shower

We had our baby shower last Saturday for Baby Bear and Kat was such a good girl. We had brought presents for her so she didn’t feel left out, but she was happy to run around and play with the other kids. She was excited when we would open things and say they were for baby. She would say things like, “OH! Him gonna be so happy!” She is a very non selfish 2 year old.

At the shower one of the presents she got was a “My Little Pony” that takes it’s bottle making a sucking noise, then says “I love you Mommy!” Well we were driving back from the store and from the back seat we hear, “oh! There’s a button in her mouth! Yeah! That’s how she works! You just push the button! That’s what makes her talk! See? I just pushing the button with my finger and it works. This is how she works!” Hubby and I just sat there amazed that my 2 year old princess could figure out that the darn toy talks due to a button, not magic.

Yesterday the phone rang and I answered it and spoke quickly to whomever it was and then hung up. Kat started waving her hands around and saying, “the PHONE has been RINGING all DAY LONG! First it was my grampa then mine other grampa and then Auntie DD and people JUST KEEP CALLING HERE!” No one had really called that day but still, an interesting observation.

Just now I hadn’t heard from Kat in a while so I yelled, “Kat, what are you doing baby?” She yelled back, “I just running around in circles!”

Lately she has been more naughty than normal and I wonder if I’m not paying enough attention to her since I’m so tired. I would tell her to do something and she’ll glare at me and shake her head ’no’. Or, she’ll just say, “no”. She is throwing herself off of my lap, which makes me want to rage. Today has been better, but I’m pushing through the tired to pay lots of attention to her. I hope she adjusts well to not being the center of everything anymore.

She is excited about Bear. She’ll bring me books and tell me she wants to read it to Bear. Today we went to the baby store to purchase some things we still needed, and she wanted to wrap one of the presents for him. I let her, and after we wrapped it, she said, “Oh! We made a beautiful present for Baby Bear! Him just gonna love this present!” So freaking cute. People in the store were staring at her totally amazed at how smart/cute she is.

getting a little jealous

Well as we get closer to Baby Bear’s birth and talk more and more about baby, Kat is pretending to be a baby herself. She comes to me and says, “mommy, mommy, change my diaper!” I’ll tell her, “you don’t wear diapers!” She’ll say, “no, but Baby Cole is gonna go poo poos in his pants!” We are trying to reassure her that being a big kid is the best. Hopefully this tactic will work.

Kat is often saying to us now, “Are you KIDDING me?” or “You know what I mean!” Chad thinks the 2nd one is her version of “F-U!” She definitely says it when she’s being sassy because she’s been told no. Another common one for her is “but I want to” after she’s been told no. She argues with pretty much everything we say. She argues with logic though which adds an interesting spin.

Lately I’ve been having a lot of headaches and back aches. Kat will say, “where does it hurt Mommy? I’ll kiss it for you”. Today she got her shot out of her Dr’s kit and gave me a bunch of shots in my leg and then kissed it. She told me that my legs wouldn’t be bothering me any more. She’s the sweetest thing.

She shares extremely well for a 2 year old, and she knows it. So today I told her that she shared very nicely and she said, “yeah, Bro doesn’t really share with me that well.” Bro is very well behaved but she seems to think that he doesn’t share as good as she does.

Today her grampa was here and she went and got her bike and said, “hey everyone, you wanna see my cool new bike?” She’s so proud of it, though she still doesn’t peddle very well. Bless her heart, she’s very smart in her brain but not as advanced physically as she could be.

Every night when we go to bed, we read Kat books and then sing her some songs. Before we sing the last song which is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, we ask her what her favorite part of the day was. She used to always say getting her kids vanilla milk from starbucks was her favorite part of the day, regardless of whether we had gone that day or not. She insisted that was it. Then it evolved into “I don’t know”. So we started telling her what all we did and asking her to choose her favorite. We went through a short phase where her favorite part of the day was just something recent, like we had a party for her over the weekend and that was still her favorite part of the day on Monday. Just Tuesday of this week she’s starting choosing a part of the day all on her own without us telling her what happened. On Tuesday, her favorite part of the day was “having dinner with Auntie DD”. Today her favorite part was “playing ball with Grampa and Mommy”. I’m so proud of her she’s getting a grasp on time.

Kat is very needy lately and I think it might be in response to everyone talking about Bear all the time. She is always saying, “mommy I want you!” And she just wants me to hold her. Of course, I’m fine with this. I just hope it doesn’t come from insecurity. I want her to be confident even if there is a new person joining the family.