Farewell to GiGi and Pepaw

Brian's parents are about to sail off into the wide blue yonder (really they are going to sail their sailboat to the Bahamas) and won't return until Kate turns 3. So I think it is safe to say that they will be gone awhile and Kate will miss them. She loves her GiGi and Pepaw and of course Shelby and Banna. I hate that they will miss all of the milestones between now and then, but this has been their dream for a long time. We wish them the best of luck and will miss them terribly. They will be in our thoughts and prayers as they make their voyage. We will see you at Thanksgiving (it is for sure now!!!) and hope to see you after Christmas.

My new creation

I've recently signed Kate up for Mother's Day Out and in preperation for the big day she was required to get a few things to bring there. One of them being a sleep sack. The ones they were selling at the church she will be attending were really ugly. And $30. Enough said. I just didn't want one and besides, my friends Tara and Rachel already made one for their kids. So Tara came over with the directions, and we made one. Well, it took two days with three screaming kids tearing my house apart. However, I am very proud of it and Kate loves it. I totally think that we could sell these things, but I would have to make them without kids around. Anyways, Here are the pics.

Here it is rolled up.

Here it is rolled out.

I know, I know..... you can't believe I made this! Me either. It even has a strap to carry it. Cool Huh???? I'd like to give a shout out to my very bestest friend Tara for helping me and listening to all my stupid questions. I guess this is just helping me to become a little Martha Stewart. Now all I need is to learn how to cook better and clean better and I'll be on my way. Everyone pray for me!!!! :)

What I know

I love trying to catch Kate doing things on video and this is just a short clip of some things we are working on. More to come....

Talking Back

I thought that I would have a while until I had to deal with Kate talking back, but I've recently figured out that I didn't have to wait. It is happening as I type this. Some of her recent spouts are:
I don't want to!!!!
Cuz, I want to!!!
No!! I don't want that!!!
But I want......!!!(chocolate milk, orange juice, snack, popcorn, candy, ice cream)

And of course, if she doesn't get exactly what she wants, she has started:
throwing things down on the ground
throwing things at me
throwing herself down on the ground
tearing stuff up

I usually ask her if she wants to go to time out, to which she usually says yes, so that isn't working really well. She has no fear of punishment!

So along with all that, she is just climbing on everything. She thinks it is really cool to climb up on our tub to get to my lotions and other bathroom stuff. She then proceeds to put lotion all over her and even in her hair. Which she says is shampoo and that she was just washing her hair!

She has also been climbing on our coffee table and the kitchen table. I'm not sure why all of a sudden she has decided this is cool, but if she doesn't stop soon, I may lose it! I can just see her falling and cracking her head open. I try not to worry too much about her, but this is something I'm just paranoid about. I'm sure she will come up with something even more dangerous to do tomorrow. I can't wait!!!!

I wanna baby Sistah!

Kate has been in love with babies for as long as I can remember. She gets so excited when she sees them and everytime we are around baby things she wants to sit in them or play with them. We went today to see a friend who had a baby about a month ago and of course, Kate was elated. She wanted to hold her and kiss her and put her in all the baby things sitting around the house. She found a baby doll and began to sit the baby doll in all of the baby's seats. So when it was time to go, she looked at me and said,"I wanna baby sistah!" And I replied..... Go tell your daddy!!!!!

Translation for the day

Today we were watching a video that Kate is obsessed with and she is starting to repeat things she hears on tv right after it is said on the tv. It is amazing that she can just say anything now. She really can carry on a full conversation. Sometimes I catch her having full conversations with herself. Believe me when I say they are very interesting. All kinds of different things are thrown in there. But I digress.... she was watching the previews on this video and one is of Beauty and the Beast. At one point in the trailer someone says... "Oh Beauty!" and killer runs up to me and says......"Oh Booty!" Thought I would die. Now I don't know whether I should let her watch that movie now until she can talk properly b/c I don't want people thinking I'm letting her watch Booty and the Beast. I can already see the dirty thoughts running through peoples minds. Oh yeah... that lady is letting her daughter watch porn!

Kiss my Heiney

Yesterday Kate was up to no good as usual and she was trying to balance herself between the couch and the coffee table (shoulders and arms on couch; feet on table). Of course she fell like I told her she would! Doesn't she know I know everything!!!! Kidding of course.

As soon as she fell, I knew it hurt because she had that look like "Should I cry or not??" Well, she got up and didn't cry but looked at me and said.... "Mommy, my heiney hurts." Which I responded " I'm sorry. I told you not to do that b/c you would get hurt. I hope you won't do that again." And then she looks at me with sad eyes ..... turns around and bends over and says "Kiss Heiney mommy. It hurts". Now I know that I usually do kiss boo boos but is this going over and beyond my mommy duties? I just laughed when she said it but I knew she was serious. So all I could think of was to tell her that I didn't think I would kiss her heiney but maybe we would just rub it to make it feel better. To which she replied... "No kiss heiney????" No baby I don't want to kiss your heiney. I'm sure this is not the last time in your life you will ever tell me to kiss your heiney, except I'm sure we will be calling it something else then.......

ER Weekend Blues

So this weekend was exhausting as we spent a good part of it in the ER. No, it wasn't for Kate thank God! Brian got a nose bleed on Friday night that we could not stop and so we ended up at the ER. Now as you all probably know, this is the the most wonderful place to be in the whole world!!!!! You would think that a nose bleed would be simple right???? So we get to wait in the waiting room for an hour or so..... I know not that long right???? I wouldn't have been so mad about it had there been a bunch of people there , but it was us and two other people. And on top of that, Brian is bleeding profusely into one of my washclothes and I'm running back and forth to the bathroom to wash the blood out so he won't bleed on the floor. Should've let him bleed on the floor. Maybe they would have helped us faster! I say this b/c as we are waiting, we are joking about it. I even suggested to Brian that if he felt the urge to throw up or anything to please do so on the floor. That might hurry the process up a little faster.

So while we are waiting this really skinny crackhead, I mean nice man comes over and hands us some paper towels and some laytex gloves. Are you thinking the same thing I am? What in the world do we need gloves for??? Brian and I are still trying to figure that one out. Does he need them to hold his own nose??? I of course asked him to wear them, but he refused. He is no fun!

So, we finally get back to our room and we wait again. Then the doc comes in and she is probably Brian's age and not very friendly. We go through the whole, hold your nose and breath through your mouth thing a couple of times and she finally decides that that isn't going to work... Really, Duh! Remember at this point he has been bleeding for about two and a half hours. So she procedes to cram these tampon things up his nose. I felt so bad for him. So the first time, she didn't think she got them in far enough. She decided this after letting him sit there for an hour or so. The second one she felt like she pushed in too far. I think we are on hour 4 now. And during one of this wonderful things, Brian is leaning over the sink bleeding to death and the crackhead, I mean nice man comes in to tell us that he used to have nose bleeds all the time and then he went to church one day and a woman prayed for him and told him to read one verse and he hasn't had nose bleeds since. Thanks man!!!! That is helping a lot right now. NOW GET OUT!

Onto the third tampon shoving. I think my husband is going to die now because we have been here for a long time and he is still bleeding. So this time she thinks she has shoved them to the proper place if you will. And she says she is going to call an ENT because he has a really stubborn nose bleed. Really? You think? Then the ENT doesn't want to get his lazy butt up and come in the middle of the night for a nose bleed so he tells her to let us sit there for a couple of hours and if the bleeding isn't horrible to let us go home and come back to the ER on Sunday for removal of the tampons. Of course we didn't know all this until she came back to the room after leaving us saying "I'll be back in a sec... I'm going to call an ENT and see if he will come up here and take a look."

So now Brian can't breathe through his nose, it hurts to swallow and his head is pounding. And then I have to wake up at 6 in the morning to lay sod by myself. Thank goodness for friends. Terra came and helped me and it went fairly quickly. That night neither one of us slept well and Brian woke me up at 4:30 Sunday morning saying we had to go to the ER to remove the tampons b/c he couldn't take it anymore. So we went and no bleeding. We were home by 7 and went straight to sleep. Thank goodness my mom took Kate home with her so we didn't have to take her with us.

I know this didn't really have anything to do with Kate, but I figure I can add some extra stuff in every now and then! Hope you had a better weekend than we did.

My First Pillowcase Dress

I'm ecstatic b/c I finally made my first pillowcase dress (with help from Kimberly of course) and it is perfect if I do say so myself. I'm so proud! I have gloated about it ever since I finished it yesterday afternoon. Is it wrong that I want to show it to the world? I can see it now. People will be begging me to make them one and it will get to the point where people will fight over them and it will go to the highest bidder and I will be rich and famous. OK, so I'm over excited. I can dream can't I?

Of course now that I have made something presentable, I now am imagining making all Kate's clothes and maybe some of mine, but I do this with every hobby I pick up. I get over excited like a kid in a candy store and buy tons of stuff just to realize that I'm not that great and then the ton of stuff just gathers in yet another corner of the house. I have had to start hiding this stuff from the hubby though, b/c he knows that I'm obsessive about things I think I'm going to love. I can never do anything in the small way, if you know what I mean!

Not now! I'm busy!!!!

Today I was feeding Kate lunch and she was throwing stuff all over the place and telling me things, that I am still not sure what they were and she started buckling herself into her booster seat. I tried to give her a bite of something and she said... Not now, I'm busy!!!. Stunned, I asked her what she said and she looked at me with a stupid look like gosh mom, why can't you listen, and said "Not Now, I'm Busy!!!!". So there you go. She's busy!

On another note, we worked on potty training today and she did have one accident, but she had more progress than not. She is wearing cute little Elmo panties so I constantly have to remind her that if she pees or poops on Elmo, he will cry! So we don't want to upset Elmo. Other than these two things, she hasn't done anything exciting. If she decides to do something worth blogging about, I'll let you know.

What doing?

So this is our new saying. I don't mean she says this every so often..... it is more like every 5 seconds. It doesn't matter if I tell her what I'm doing either! She continues to ask. I think a vein exploded in my head yesterday because she asked so many times, I thought I would die!!!! I don't know if I will make it through the Why? stage. I may just go ahead and shoot myself......

On another note.... why do kids continue to scratch and pick at mosquito bites until they bleed and then once you put a bandaide on they pull it right off and ask for another. Another vien exploding. I think I will buy stock in the bandade market!

Note Three: Why is it that she loves to watch other people go to the bathroom and cheer for them and then talk about how they pee pee and poo poo in the potty, but the light isn't going off in her cute little head that "hey, I could do that too"! I mean, isn't my bribbing her with ice cream and a choo choo train not good enough. Man, I'd be pooping all the time if someone bribbed me with something. Maybe I'll just start peeing on myself and see if Brian will bribe me with something. Wait a minute, that didn't sound right! Well, you all know what I mean.

I do get a little aggravated at her but I know she is a pretty good kid. I know she is loving and sweet and has the funniest personality. It is when she hangs out with other kids that I get that warm feeling about her because she usually acts pretty good. I think it may be because she loves to observe what others are doing that she kind of settles down and isn't so "spastic" if you will. I'm not saying she loves to share, but what 2 year old does? Heck, I don't like to share, and if you don't believe me, ask my husband. He knows.

I'll leave you with this interesting fact for the day. I went out with some of the girls last night and left Kate with Brian. Before I left, he was teaching her something and I just thought, that won't last long. It is just funny for now. Well, this morning I asked her what she wanted to eat and she responded in a low manly voice "Nuts". Thanks Brian!!!!