Snow Day

I have to blog about this because this will probably be our only snow day this season. The east, or at least where we are out east, just didn't get that much snow this winter, it was still plenty cold just no white stuff. So you can imagine my surprise when I woke up to a white blanket of snow covering our yard. I decided to call it a snow day. The first rule I have with a snow day is you MUST remain in PJ's all day long. The second rule is you must go out and play in the snow no matter how cold it is. Well this rule came back to bite me since it was really cold to me, but didn't seem to phase Kate, we were outside 20 minutes and I was done. So I grabbed Kate and made her come inside where she bawled hysterically and threw a big temper tantrum, she kept saying "no don't take my hate off, no don't take my snow soup off, no mommy no" at one point she even said, "I want daycare" because she knew her sitters would give in to her pleas...so any mom of a 2 year old will tell you that pleading that cute will let you get your way. So back out we went for about 40 more minutes. It was cute to see her have so much fun in the snow, she loved making "pah-pents" aka hand and foot prints and she loved making "giant snowballs" and loved saying to me "follow me mommy" to force me to stay close to her. We couldn't build a snow man since the snow wasn't sticky enough.
I did finally get her back in the house it wasn't easy but the hot chocolate made it better. Which is the 3rd rule of a snow day and leads to the 4th rule you MUST take a nap. We had a great snow day.
Here are a few pictures of our day.





A little video, sorry for the windy background noise...

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A Brother or Sister?

So everyday I ask Kate if she wants a brother or a sister? Awhile ago the answer was "No" then it turned into "A brother or a seester" and then it was "brother" and sometimes "seester" but recently for the last couple of weeks it's always "seester". I really don't know what I'm having and I don't really have any impressions. I want a boy to experience all the boy stuff like sports and sending him off to father son campouts, and I would love to pass on the family name(s) (Brock's name is a family name not to mention our last name has yet to be passed on to a male, Brock has 2 brothers which both have 2 girls, geez). But it would be nice to have another girl since I love having a girl; I'm set for girl stuff and Kate seems to want a seester. I'm grateful that the baby seems to be healthy and I really don't care what I'm having and already feel this little one is a perfect fit in our family. I've recently started asking what we should name her seester, to which her very first answer was "chocolate" ok I could handle that except I would end up eating my baby! I asked her again and this time it was "pumpkin" I wonder where she got that from. Tonight I asked her and she said "Marta" her babysitter, I'm sure Marta would be honored, Brock then suggested "Selda" her other babysitter, Kate didn't like that as much!



So here is a little video to show off how cute Kate is, or at least I think she's cute. I was trying to get her to sing a couple of tunes but she saw the camera and thought I was taking pictures of her, so started saying cheeeezzzzeee. She still seems to show off so if you make it through the video I hope you will be entertained.


Oh earlier tonight I overheard Brock and Kate talking about keeping a secret from mommy. Apparently Brock was smuggling chocolate to Kate and telling her "it's our secret" to which she would go "shssssh, it's our secret, don't tell mommy". What a little stinker, she loves chocolate.

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Poor Husband

I just asked Brock what I should title this entry and he said "poor husband" what a drama queen! So the story behind the 'poor husband' is a week ago on February 8th Brock went outside to shovel the last bits of ice on our sidewalk, never mind that it got up to almost 70degrees that day and would've jsut melted away! At any rate he slipped on the little bit of ice left and banged up his arm pretty good. It warranted a trip to the ER for xrays since we both thought it was broken, the way it swelled up almost looked like it could've been a bone sticking out, fortunately it was just sprain. Between me being almost 6 months pregnant and his sprain we don't get a lot done around here. Of course this occurred right when we are trying to put together the baby room and need to move furniture around. We are having to bug neighbors and church friends constantly to arrange help for moving stuff. Ugh! What a pain.

These pictures were taken today, (7 days after the accident) so as you could imagine 7days ago it actually looked worse then this. It's still pretty swollen and he has to wear a soft cast on it just to keep from banging it into stuff.

This isn't the first "poor husband" battle wound. When Kate was maybe a little over a year old he was walking the down the steps at the daycare and slipped... a combination of new carpet mixed with socks, all the while holding Kate. It was a scary thing and I'm so thankful nobody was hurt. He said the whole time he was falling all he could think about was protecting Kate, what a sweet daddy. But Brock's rear-end took a beating as he bounced down almost a flight of stairs. I took a picture...(don't worry we covered the essentials). I'm trying to dig up the picture now but can't find it, keep checking back.

Fun Stuff

It's been awhile since I last posted anything and I finally uploaded pictures from Christmas to the computer so thought I would play catch up. Christmas was exciting this year with a toddler, although I don't' think she is a typical toddler when it comes to gifts I had to trick her into opening her gifts by telling her "mommy will open it" and as stubborn and independent as she is would always reply "no, Kate open it" she hates the idea of me doing anything for her when she can do it herself. It definitely has to be her idea. Which leads to potty training, not happening! Not at least until it becomes her idea to do it. I spent a good amount of December bribing her with cute undies and chocolates for doing her duty on the porcelain throne but to no avail. She seems to get and love everything about potty training except the part where you go potty. So we took a break and I'll try again at some point.



She has definitely become a chatty Kate lately and it's so cute and fun to actually hear all the things that have been running through her mind for the last couple of years come to life. I could makes lists and lists of the cuteness of her language and probably will, for my benefit since I never want to forget them. I'll save her cuteisms for another post for now since I'm trying to catch up here.

I should be shot, we hardly have any Christmas photo's, Ghrr! I really need to get on the ball with my photo-taking. These are a couple from Nana's house. We have the best Christmas's there, she does more for us then we can for our own family. Maybe that's why I didn't take pictures at the other Christmases we did.

This is Kate is her Christmas Dress that Nana got for her. Green is definitely her color! Of course I think she looks great in any color. That's Nana's black cat Tiki, she rescued him from K-mart.

This was her big gift from Nana, a kitchen I just love how she is snuggled up with her bear just drooling over the box. She got some great toys from Nana, an Elmo live, some bath toys, a cute little puppy that moves, I think it's a furreal maybe? Oh and our dog is in the striped sweater with the gingerbread man on it.

Baby Pictures

So I'm beginning to think I was abducted by aliens a few months ago and they impregnated me and now I'm carry an alien baby. We had the big ultrasound and from the pictures it can clearly be determined that this is not a human child!

The truth is this little one is just like it's big sister and can be very uncooperative. We couldn't get any good images because the baby preferred to be in a position that was undesirable to achieve good shots. But from what they can tell everything looks healthy. That's the only thing we wanted to hear. It was really hard to resist finding out what we are having but we did it. I guess we are going to wait until the big day to find out if we will be blessed with a son or another daughter. Of course I have more ultrasounds coming up to watch for a few things, placenta previa for one, so in my mind that is just more temptation to find out. I will keep you posted.

Making Cookies

Is Christmas complete without making and decorating sugar cookies? This was Kate's first attempt at decorating them, it was practically mine. It's been a long time since I've done this. As you'll notice from the video I only had one shape cookie cutter. I bought the mix and used store bought icing, so I took a lot of short cuts in this project. It was fun and of course very entertaining for us to watch Kate totally into the whole thing. I'm sure she went to bed with a tummy ache with all the finger licking and m&m snitching she did.

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Our finished cookies, can you even tell which ones I did and which ones she did?

Here she is showing off one the cookies she decorated, she's already licked off all the decorations, I don't think she even ate the cookie part

Picking out our Tree

For the last few years we've gone to Christmas tree farms to cut our Christmas trees. This year I wanted to go down the street to Home Depot when Brock insisted that we go cut our own tree. I think it makes him feel manly to cut down a tree, but he says it because the tree lasts longer because it's fresher. I know he's right, I haven't had to vacuum up any needles yet and it's been almost 3 weeks.

Daddy and Kate on the hunt for the perfect tree

we found the tree!

Video of Brock cutting down the tree

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Here's a little video of her looking at the tree once we got it all set up and put lights on. We did this while she was napping so that we could WOW her once she got up. I was hoping for more of a reaction but she still seemed to enjoy it. She loved helping us decorate the tree with ornaments and she is constantly rearranging them still.

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