Where Pee Pee Comes From?

About a month ago I was in the kitchen one morning and I heard Brock come down stairs and go into the powder room to do his business, the door was ajar and Kate waltzed right in because she was so excited to see her daddy up. She looked at her dad, going potty and then I overheard her say "Daddy your pee pee is coming from your trunk". I bursted into tears laughing so hard, I asked Brock, "where did she get that from?" He just laughed and said he had no idea. Now when daddy goes potty and Kate is on his heels, he asks her for some privacy. I've seen her stand outside the door throwing a fit, not really understanding why she can't be invited in.

Who's got my Octagon?

This video clip from Seasame Street has become a family favorite. We are always playing off of it. We say things to each other like "Who's got my Octagon?" or "Have you seen my Octagon?", or "Give me back my Octagon!". It's funny to see Kate get into it. This morning we were driving and she tells me "Mom can you catch all my octagons" and I told her "sure throw them up here to me". I had to admit I am a pretty good octagon catcher. It helps when you have a great octagon pitcher though. Jack Black is crazy as usual in the clip, he's totally into it.

Lookin Up to the Big Sister

Here's a cute little video from the other day. I just love how Lydia is just mesmerized by her big sister. About 2 seconds before I shot this video Kate was feeding single cheerios to Lydia, just like she was a little pet and Lydia would beg for more. Kate got distracted by the TV and stopped feeding her but Lydia is still hoping Kate will give her a few more. I'm surprised Lydia isn't freaking out on Kate which is what she does lately when she doesn't get her way.

Cute things they say

I thought I would jot down some of the things that Kate says. She was really great speech, she talks very clear and knows a lot of big words. So this makes it extra funny when something comes out that isn't right. Or when she tries and describes something or just when she is talking. The funniest thing she's said (while walking in on her dad going to the bathroom) is "daddy that pee is coming from your trunk" I over heard her say this one morning and about died laughing. I love that she calls marshmellow = marshpillows, neighbors = neigvors, slober = slahver. Her alltime favorite word that she uses all the time is clahvering or cobbaling = clobbering (I think to her they mean the same since she tends to use them interchangably), this is her go to word, everyday she says it and everyday it's used to describe something when she doesn't know what else to say. Like this "Lydia is clahvering me" or "this taste cobbalish" are very common phrases for her. If I try and correct her she and say "you mean Lydia is clobbering you" she answers back "No she is clahvering me" but sometimes she'll say "Lydia is cobblish"

One morning she came down stairs and with her sleepy little 'I just woke up look' looked at me and said "I'm dad's Kate" so to tease her back I said "You are my Kate" she didn't like that one bit and in her stubburn tantrum voice cried back "No I'm dad's Kate" and proceeded to rub it in repeating it to me for the next few minutes. At one point she said "Sorry mom I belong to dad". So later that night I'm on my laptop and she comes over and wants me to stop what I'm doing and put on a game fo her to play and say back "No you are dad's Kate go ask him" And she says "I belong to you now" so she sold her dad out for a computer game.


Brock has this little phrase he always says when the girls are fussing at him he says "I'm just a dad". Today he was getting Kate out of the car when we got to church and I guess he wasn't fast enough getting Kate so she started fussing at him to which he said "Kate I'm just a dad" and she replied back "I'm just a Kate". I thought that was cute.


Kate listens to a book on CD in the car on the way too and from daycare. I've hardly even paid attention to the stories, they repeat themselves over and over again and I still don't know all the stories. However one of them I do know and it's not because I paid attention. Kate tells me the story and she does it just like the voices on the CD. It's so cute. It's the story of the Little Red Hen. In a nutshell the hen asks all her friends to help plant the wheat, then grind the wheat then make bread, no one wants to help. But when it comes to eating the bread all her friends want to help in which she replies "No you wont I'll do it myself". Here's Kate's version. She talks fast in the video I barely got her to coorporate to do this for me.

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From Christmas to Vday

If I have any followers of this blog you'll know that I've terrible about updating it lately. I don't really have an excuse. I could say that I was busy but everyone is busy. I'm now making it a priority to update my blog more often. I'm in a diet competition right now with a group of people and one of the parts of the competition is to work on developing a good habit each day. So I'm blogging daily as my good habit. I also have a recipe blog and a weightloss blog (it's private)that I keep up with so you might not always see a post here but I'm posting somewhere. So I'm playing a little catch up tonight. One thing I noticed about my blog is that I didn't post anything in January and now that January is over I can't remember what happened that month. We just moved into our new house in November. Moving was such a hassle I'm just now starting to come out of that moving funk. On January 1st we had family and friends up for a housewarming party. And much of the rest of January was spent snowed in. Here are a few pictures of my time over the last few weeks.

One of my favorite pictures from Christmas morning I still can't believe I got both girls smiling and looking at the camera

Cute little apron set Kate got from her cousin Skylar

Lydia getting into trouble. She is constantly opening up drawers and cupboards. I just LOVE this stage (I'm kidding) She cruises around the entire kitchen really fast, I've got to get it on video cause it's crazy.

What my sweetheart gave to me on Valentine's Day. I LOVE red long-stemmed roses

Kate eating spaghetti

I'm sure I'm violating all the rules of motherhood here. Aren't mom's suppose to teach their kids to not eat like this. My poor children don't stand a chance with me as a mom I guess. Seriously, I got such a kick out of watching Kate eat her spaghetti that I grabbed the camera and recorded her. The cute thing was that Kate started to perform for the camera and so even when it was off she begged me to keep filming her. What a ham.

Here's the video where I am incriminating myself, I won't tell you the part where Kate was in the same pair of jammies from Thursday night until Sunday morning (we take Snow days seriously at our house) or how almost nightly we eat off of fine paper dinnerware so I can avoid dishes. I can't be such a horrible mom cause the green stuff on her plate is baby spinach (with ranch) and she ate all of it!

OH SNOW!

This week was the week of Snow for us. We had massive snow storms this week, the first one started Friday afternoon and didn't end until around 8pm on Saturday, and left us with about 25" of snow. Then Tuesday night another snow storm came through, this one with strong winds which made for blizzard like conditions and it piled on another 12" of snow. I should mention before these two back to back storms we had snow almost every weekend so there's really been snow on the ground since the beginning of winter.

It was great to be snowed in with my family, we had a lot of fun and did lots of little things together. Kate insisted that we have a picnic so we laid a blanket out in the family room and ate sandwiches. We also made Valentines day cookie's for the kids at her daycare and we had play dates with Cole our friend in the neighborhood. Lydia did her part in keeping up with the big sister. She is such a great little baby. I'm amazed with how much love these two have for each other. Kate always shares with her and is never mean to Lydia. And Lydia just loves her big sister. I can tell these two are going to be great friends for life. I almost feel like these two girls make my job as their mom too easy.

The day after the second snow storm, check out the drifts that are almost as tall as the fence, I think those fences are around 6'

This is a snow mountain created by shoveling the driveway, Kate has had so much fun this winter

The snow plows covered our mailbox so Brock had to dig it out

Kate and Lydia next to the snow moutain, I think it'll be July before this melts away

I love this picture, Lydia has her typical "what are you doing mom" look while Kate is being a big helper and making sure Lydia is staying put and now falling down the stairs. I love the look she is giving Lydia.