acting like a baby

So there are a few things that have happened that I’ve forgotten to write about. Kat can spell her name, K-A-I-T-L-Y-N and has been able to for a few weeks now. She can also spell C-A-T sometimes.

Kat is obsessed with Frosty the Snowman movies. She begs to watch them several times per day! We have a DVD with 2 Frosty movies on it and she tells you “First I want to watch the one with Karen, and then I want to watch the one with Holly DeCarwo”. And in fact, the 1st episode has a little girl named Karen and the 2nd has a girl named Holly DeCarlo. Kat can sing all the words to the Frosty song. She told me that she can’t remember the words to the Strawberry song, just to the Frosty song.

We’ve been babysitting Baby Adrian this week and also this week Kat started going pee pee in bed, which she hasn’t done for months. She woke up for a few months with dry pull ups so we decided to put her to bed in panties now. Today she had 2 accidents in her panties and for the last 2 nights she’s had accidents during the night. So I was talking to her, pointing out that Baby Adrian has been taking a lot of Mommy’s attention and asking her if that made her feel like she wanted to be a baby too. She says “yeah I a little bit jealous”. Oh my, how she knows that I don’t know. Anyhow she has been trying to drink from baby’s bottle and sit in his bouncer, etc. She then proceeded to tell me, “Also, if I go pee in my bed I get to come into Mommy and Daddy’s bed”. OH SO THE TRUTH COMES OUT!!! It will be interesting to see what happens when Baby Bear gets here though. On the flip side of the jealousy thing, Kat is so good with Adrian. She would tickle his feet, talk to him. She doesn’t freak out when he cries (he had to cry for a few minutes while we heated his bottle). She just talks to him and says “it’s OK BABY, I taking care of you!” She is very patient and wants to be a little mommy. She had to be there for every diaper change and she at least started to give him every bottle. She’s a little care taker. I did assure her that I love it that she’s a big kid and wouldn’t trade her for a million babies. I told her that she is super special for being so big and all the things she can do. I hope she believes me. I believe that she’s smart enough to understand me.

She also knows the meaning of first, second and third. She was saying today that she “can’t” do something. When we did it for her, she said, “oh, I couldn’t do it”. I was surprised that she knew how to change the tense from “can’t” to “couldn’t”. She makes me laugh every day. When I do laugh, she says “I made you laugh!” She likes to please people. If she does something naughty or even just accidentally wrong, she says “oh I’m sorry, that’s my fault”. After she had her accidents today she said “I’m sorry Mommy”. Broke my heart. I generally do not get mad when she has accidents but I got irritated today and when she said sorry it broke my heart.

Kat likes to lick me and say she’s being a kitty. It drives me nuts! I tell her all the time NO LICKING because I don’t want germs in her mouth. Last night when Chad was changing her sheets, she was laying with me half asleep. I was also half asleep as it was about 3:00AM. Suddenly I feel a lick on my cheek and I open my eyes and see her laying there with her eyes tight shut but a smirk on her face. She’s so silly.

Kat has really vivid dreams that she explains to us. One night she was riding a train through a tunnel but they couldn’t go through the tunnel because a dragon was standing in the way. Even though the dragon was pink, he wasn’t nice and he was breathing fire. Another time she was sure bugs were crawling all over her. Breaks my heart. We’ve tried talking to her about dreams… telling her she can control them and make the dragon be nice and take her swimming. So sometimes she says she dreamed about fishies and kitties and the pool was warm and clean with no spiders or rocks in it. She’s crazy. Now she invites us into her dreams. When we kiss her good night, she says “I’ll call you into my dreams”. I love that. I hope we do meet in her dreams. Today she told me she dreamed about me. I asked her what we were doing and she said “cuddling and…” and I couldn’t understand the rest.

Kat is big into arguing right now. If you tell her not to do something, she’ll say “I’m just…” and there is an excuse or reason why should be able to continue. When we tell her to stop something, she’ll say “just ONE more time” and do it anyway. We need to get stricter with this because today she took medicine she found UP HIGH even though she was disciplined for it the other day. (Per poison control the medicine wouldn’t hurt her, but still). She thinks she’s way smarter than us and she is getting brave with picking up scissors and trying other dangerous things. I can’t hide the “dangers” quick enough, where she used to say “I not touch that until I big like Mommy”. She thinks she’s big now, which scares me to death.

I just went into her room and cuddled her for a few minutes. She’s such a sweet angel. I could hold her all night if I didn’t think it would interrupt her sleep too much.

smarty artie!

Today I was putting Kat’s hair in piggy tails. I was using light blue ties because they matched her shirt, and blue is her favorite color. So I told her I was using blue. She handed me a dark blue pretty for the second piggy. I said, “oh, actually sweetie, I need the light blue one because it will match the other one.” She thought about it for a moment and then said, “so the one I got was dark blue?” She’s so smart. I’m not modest at all anymore, she’s really very smart.

memory!

I told Kat that Auntie Candy would be watching her today. She said, “oh, remember when she took me to a farm that time?” It’s true, Candy took her to a far a couple of months ago. Her memory is amazing!

memory

In the doctor’s office today Kat pointed to a piece of cloth hanging on the wall and said, “remember when I took a picture of that?” The day we got her a digital camera she took a picture of that same cloth. That was April 25th! I don’t know how she remembers so far back.

my sweet girl

We had a good time at Marine World today. Kat is so thoughtful, she kept saying “next time we bring Bro and Elle Belle here”. She always wants to share her fun time with them. She’s a sweetie pie.

1...2...3.... GO!

Kat was so precious watching the fireworks tonight. She was amazed as they went off and soon enough she started counting, “1-2-3... GO!” She had it timed so that the fireworks went off right when she said go. She turned to me and said, “Mommy I’m making them do that!” She was having happy seizures the whole time. It was so amazing to watch her. I had tears in my eyes because she was so excited. A couple of days later she was telling Auntie Dianne about counting to make the fireworks go and Dianne said, “Big Girl, did you make the fireworks go off?” Kat said, “no… I make them go ON!”.

Kaitlyn!

Kat can now spell her name… K-A-I-T-L-Y-N. She does it right every time, too! She is growing up so fast!