So I haven't posted recently and have a lot of photos to share, so here they are, in one big post. Some funny things K. has done recently are not represented by photos, so I'll just tell you about them. Others have photographic evidence.
The first was this morning. K. is sometimes afraid of the vacuum and sometimes wants to help. We had a new kitchen floor put in yesterday, so some of the things from the pantry were in the living room. K. helped herself to a can of cherry Coke, then came to help me vacuum. She would vacuum a bit, then pretend to sip the Coke, then resume her vacuuming. Oh, and excuse her lack of pants--some of her breakfast yogurt adorned them, so I put them in the washing machine.
After she finished her chores, she did some coloring. She usually sits at her table to color, but today she brought her book and crayon down to the floor.
I guess it was more comfy for her.
The other day, I went up to the church to get some work done. While K. wasn't napping, she and I played in the nursery. She loved sitting in the red beanbag chairs and reading to one of the nursery babies. (P.S. Thanks, Aunt J., for her cool shirt!)
Since she has been spending so much time feeding her babies, I got a high chair that she can put them in. She will fill the bowl with food (sure, this is a shampoo bottle she's using, but hey, she can't read the label), then mix it (like I do her yogurt--but it took me a while to figure out why she always mixed Baby's food) and feed Baby.
"I love baby!" ~K.
I didn't know if she would keep them in, but I just had to try her hair in pigtails. This is this past Saturday, and Dad makes breakfast on Saturdays (which means she gets eggs instead of cold cereal--lucky her!) She ate all of the eggs on her plate, then asked for some of mine. In a truly shocking display of how much being a mom has changed me, I gave her some!
Pigtails, again, and her jammies that match Baby's.
Other things:*I was writing with a pen on a piece of paper, and she wanted to use it. I have her the paper and the pen, but had retracted the point so it didn't write. I figured she'd be content to pretend. It only took her a few seconds to realize the pen wasn't writing, figure out the mechanism, and click the end so the pen worked!
*I've been singing the song "If You're Happy and You Know It" to K. a lot, especially when she cries (I know, ironic). I do the motions, and she's started to pick them up too. We were listening to a CD of cool kids' music (kids' songs re-done by "real" bands) and that song came on--not me singing, but a different group. She not only recognized the song, but put her fingers in her cheeks (as during the "then your face will surely show it" portion). I was so proud!
*She will give Mom and Dad actual kisses now at our request, complete with the sound effect. One of the best moments of my life was yesterday when she gave me a kiss, completely unprompted!
*The last update is that we've put our house on the market. We plan to move about 20 minutes north of here to something a little larger and a little nearer to friends.
"Well, I'm bushed. Naptime, here I come."
I find this absolutely adorable.
And she didn't mind wearing the backpack...or the headband.
But she's still small enough to fit inside a large tote bag:
