randomness for the week

My kids have gone through a gallon of milk in less than 48 hours & are asking for more.

Kathryn likes to point at random things with words and say to Andrew, "You see that sign?  It says you can not do that" {whatever "that" may be at the time}.  A moment ago it was the menu on the fridge saying he could not get the milk out of the door.

Andrew has flip-flop tan lines.

It never fails.  If I fix fish sticks for lunch, Andrew will be asleep before he has finished the second stick.

Kathryn said to me the other day, "Mommy, when you get smaller and I get bigger and I am driving and you do not get into your seat car when I say so, I will give you a spanking.  Because that is what Kathryns do."

"Because that is what Kathryns do" can be applied to anything... spankings, jumping off couches, crying, throwing toys, crayons on the carpet, etc.

Kathryn picked out clothes and got dressed all by herself today.  Only glitch was the panties on backwards.

Kathryn does not like her hair behind her ear.  My hair, if down, is always behind my ears.  I can't stand it in my face.  So out of habit, I push hers behind her ears if she is eating or doing something else that her hair needs to be out of her face.  She in turn pulls it right back down.

The other day, Kathryn came & got her stool so she could turn on her light.  Little did we know, until too late, that her ceiling fan was on and the light wasn't.  She put the stool on her bed and pulled the string to turn the light on.  Intuitive, but not real bright.

Kathryn will gladly tell you that she will be 3 in a couple of days.  I wonder how many free kids meals we can get before Thursday??

An "A"!

Kathryn wrote her first "A" today!  I'm so proud of her! 

I wrote her name.  She's been drawing As.

my little helper

Kathryn has been "helping" me with my chores lately.

First, she thought she would save me time by painting her own toenails.  They needed more pink.

Then, I was being too slow and not picking the right items for our dinners for the next couple of weeks.  She decided to fill it in for me.

And then... she needed to teach me how to fold the laundry because for the past twenty plus years I've been doing it all wrong...

She's growing up.  And even though sometimes she can be "that child" that makes me want to scoop her up and run away from public, I love every kissable square inch of her.

What a day

I had planning on taking the kids outside this morning.  But on my way out I hear the lawn guys.  Figures.  I was deciding on what to do instead and a friend called to invite us to the park with them.

We play.  I was ready to get home.  It was lunch time and I knew that Andrew was getting tired.  I told Kathryn if she wanted to go to Daddy's picnic tomorrow, we needed to leave.  She bee-lined it for the car.  I don't know if she forgot or was too excited about tomorrow, but she didn't see the rope fence.  :(

I think my heart stopped until she screamed.  She was clothes-lined and lying on the ground.  I almost dropped Andrew running to her.  She wasn't as hurt as she could have been.  I think she may not be running at the park for a while.

We came home and ate lunch.  Afterwards I felt the need to give her a treat.  So we made M&M cookies.

Now she is taking a nap.  My poor little girl :(

Teaching items

Kathryn recently has rekindled her love of Super Why.  For a while I was beginning to think I was going to have to teach her letters all over again.

Yesterday I got this idea.  Well maybe I had it for a few days but I acted on it finally.  A friend of mine has a daughter a month younger than Kathryn and she is tracing letters at daycare.  I wondered if I could get Kathryn tracing.  I printed a sheet of letters and numbers and then laminated them (thanks Lyn for the laminating machine). 

I then did one of "octagon dots" to see if I could get her to start playing connect the dots.  Instead she drew circles around the dots. 

Here are my creations.  Oh and do you know how few fonts use a lower case "a" like you would write?

The green circle

K:  Mommy, you took the green circle away from me. Me:  the green circle?  What green circle?
K:  Yes.  My toy green circle.  It is in the car.  That's where you left it.
Me:  Kathryn, I have no idea what green circle you are talking about.
K: (now on the verge of tears)  My green toy circle. You took it away at the house with food.  It is in the car.  I know that is where it is!
We open the car door and the little light in my head goes off.
Me:  (reaching into the outside toy bin and pulling out a green frisbee from Moe's) Is this your green toy circle?
K:  Yes!  See there is a picture of Bob on it (pointing to the tomato). I love my green circle.

Moe's now serves their kids meals on green frisbees.

Yummy muffins

I've been on a baking spree the last few weeks.  Mostly strawberry muffins.  Today I opted for a little change...  Strawberry Banana.  YUM!  The kids won't stay out of them.  But they keep taking them to their "hideout", aka under the piano.  Crazy kids.