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.......