Why Hello There

I don't even want to look at the date of my last post. You don't know how many times I've wanted to sit down and give the Winfrey family update and it seems like there are a million distractions. Tonight is no exception except I'm doing a diet game with a group of people and one of the requirements is to work on a good habit each day. Well here is my good habit, I'm updating the blogs. Most of you don't know that I have 2 other blogs besides this one. A cooking one with all my favorite recipes and a weight loss one, at this point it's for my eyes only but who knows some day I might make that one public especially now that I've teased you with it. I have a ton of stuff to update you all with. You missed Easter, Lydia walking....at 10months, running by 11 I've got the video for proof which was one thing I wanted to get up here, you missed Lydia's birthday, father's day and I'm sure a ton of other stuff which I hope and I can get you all updated with by then end of my round of habits....ends on Aug 1st!

Well I'll start with this past weekend. July 4th was fantastic. We had a 3 day weekend and it flew. Saturday we went to the town parade. We just moved to this small town (I won't say the name since this is a public blog) but lets just say they celebrate the 4th in style. The parade was so much fun. We then hit the pool for an hour while we waited for it to get dark to see the fireworks. It was awesome that all we had to do is walk to the back of our neighborhood to get a front row view of the fireworks. And for a small town our fireworks rivaled some of the bigger towns fireworks around here. I was SO impressed and look forward to it next year.

The beginning of the parade, it gave me goosebumps

Kate showing off her loot, they passed a lot of candy she was storing it in her bug collection container which have never held any real bugs because she is too scared of real bugs!

The only picture I have of Lydia at the parade, I wish she was looking at the camera

Sunday the actual 4th was spent with family and celebrating my birthday ( a little late but better then never). We did fireworks at nana's house and headed home. It's a 2 hour drive for us. We caught about 4 firework displays on the ride home which was such a fun way to celebrate the 4th.

On the drive down Kate and Lydie were holding hands, it was so cute but by the time I got my camera out and snapped the picture they were sorta over it and of course got the uncutest looks on their faces, trust me they were really cute doing this.


Monday we decided to venture into the big city. We don't head very often into the big city because we aren't big city type people but felt that once every 7 years (I think that is the last time we were in the big city) wouldn't hurt us. We went to the Natural History museum and you would think that by Kate's reaction we were at Disney world. She lite up at everything she saw, it was fun to see her so excited about this stuff. Probably the coolest display we saw was a room full of butterflies. There were tons of them, fluttering about, it was so surreal and very peaceful and VERY BEAUTIFUL. Kate was in butterfly heaven but what was so cute was watching Lydia getting excited over these little creatures. We saw some of the coolest butterflies, and they all seemed to have their own personalities. Some were friendly, some were shy, some were scared and some were big show offs. I'm unhappy to report that our family was the cause of one butterfly casualty that had some of us in tears. (uh hum...daddy)

Kate loved the ocean display

Daddy and Kate checking out some cool tropical fish

We are looking at a butterfly

In the butterfly room, Lydia is pointing at who knows what...probably a butterfly

A funny Kate

I just had to write this down before I forget. Tonight Kate did a hiccup/burp (basically made a strange noise) and immediately said "I've the hiccups, I need to go to the doctor" (she says this to me everyday cute but no big deal) Then she say, "it came from my belly, it happens when I eat strange food" OMG she said "strange food" and I bursted into tears. Kate looked at me and said "mom it's not funny" and I lost it some more. It was really had to compose myself for her. Now that I'm reading this it isn't' near as funny to me, but at the time I promise it was pretty funny.

My Fam-ah-lee

This is just a cute little Kate story. She woke in the middle of the night and wandered into my room. (She had wet herself a little and wanted me to take her potty and change her). Instead of calling for mommy, she called for her family or fam-ah-lee. It was like 4am and I was cracking up at her calling for her fam-ah-lee.

Also when I picked Lydia up from daycare she was so cute. She was standing next to the toy bin picking out toys. I was wowed with how big she looked, she is growing up so fast and at that moment just looked like a toddler to me. Then when we were leaving I put her down to help get kate ready and she of couse takes off into the kitchen. We are learning Lydia is a garbage disposal and loves to eat, so I'm sure she was headed to the kitchen to find spare cheerios that hadn't been swept up from lunch. Selda caught her and brought her back in to me. Of course Selda was just lovin on her and kissing her and such and then handed her to me. Lydia immediately fell back to Selda (you know how babies do that, sorta just reach over to the other person like "take me"). I couldn't believe Lydia did that, she wanted to stay at daycare with Selda! So Selda loved on her and handed her back to me, Lydia was mad and cried the whole way out to the car. Doesn't even seem like my kids ever want me to be home with them.

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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