For the files

I have to save this picture to whip it out when she's a teenager and refuses to clean her room. I'll be able to say, "see Katie, it used to bring you so much joy to help your momma clean!"

Don't Ask

What happens when you ask a toddler to go get a tissue and blow her nose?

You walk into the bathroom to find this -

Said runny-nosed child holding entire roll of toilet paper.

Happy Birthday Great Grandma!

A couple of pics from my recent weekend away to sunny, wonderfully warm Florida to help celebrate my Grandmother's birthday. It was a great time, and needless to say, the train platform was extra sucky Monday morning.

My Girl

Every night, Katie chooses a book to read before bed. See below for a picture of what she choose last night. I couldn't talk her out of it either. So, into her room she marched, carrying the book that's 1/2 as long as she is, plopped down by her bed and preceeded to "read" the book "by self." And she did too. When she flipped to the answer key section, with all the bubbles of the correct answers filled in she exclaimed "Momma, Jelly beans!! Jelly beans in the book!" "one, two, three, six, seven, eight, nine, ten Jelly beans!!" (for some reason four and five are mysterisouly left out most times when she tries to count to ten).

Note again, that when given the choice of what she wants to wear, (to bed or out, it makes no difference) she always picks her halloween stuff. And it's not just that she requests it by name. She goes into her draw, pulls out the shirt she wants, and tells me "I wear that one Momma!" And like I said, it's always a halloween shirt.

Practice

Katie wasn't that into the easter egg hunt last year. This year, we were figuring she would enjoy hunting eggs. Well, she does. Ganny made her a "practice" hunt at our house, and she kept asking for Pam to "hide again! hide again!"

Here she is desperatly trying to cover her eyes and wait a minute while the eggs are hidden and rehidden.

She's got one! Whenever she would spot an egg, she'd just let out this excited, adorable giggle and run to pick it up.

Looks like we'll be having quite a few easter egg hunts this season!

Watching her boyfriend, Harry Potter

Yesturday Katie told me she had a crush on Harry Potter. She really likes to watch the movies in 10-15 minute bits before bed each night. She carefully selects what she will wear and hold. This is her favorite - halloween pjs, santa hat, "wand" and doggie.