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Audrey’s Birthday Party

Steve and I continue to snap pictures when we see something funny or interesting. Here’s a bunch of pictures from Audrey’s birthday party, our house re-organization and more. Where do I start to describe the last several weeks?

Birthday Parties

Katherine has been busy going to birthday parties – three over two weeks as a matter of fact. It started out with a PEPs friend’s sibling followed by Audrey’s tea party the next day and then Sid’s the next weekend.

Katherine practically burst apart at the seams at Audrey’s party. During the party she ran up to me and told me, “this is the best party ever!!” She loved the games which involved stacking sugar cubes, a tea cup/water relay, making bracelets and musical chairs. Funny enough she was the first kid to lose a chair, but she gamely stood on the sidelines to watch the other kids. Katherine was so eager to prove that she was a big kid. She asked Tina at the beginning of the party if the moms would be staying. When Tina said that it was up to the moms, Katherine turned to me and said, “I don’t need you at this party. Mom you can go.” I did end up staying discretely in the background, until Katherine needed assistance.

House Reorg

Steve and I have had a vision for the last several years, one that involved massive furniture moving and reorganization. We started down that road last weekend, rolling up our sleeves and giving our muscles a hard workout. In retrospect, hiring moving labor (the original plan) was a good idea. But, thankfully, we managed to make it through last weekend in one piece.

What did we do? We emptied the playroom of ALL the furniture. The huge entertainment center is dissassembled in the garage. The 50″ rear projection TV was sold on eBay. We lugged, tugged, turned, and managed to get the huge leather couches down to the family room. The family room furniture is in the living room…and the living room couches are in the garage waiting to be put on eBay or Craig’s List.

We’ve decided to make the playroom a full fledged play area for the kids – wall mural, organizational system for toys, throw carpet for art projects and much more. The wall mural is one day away from being done, and we’ll post the day by day pictures when its completed.

Booster

Allison’s Vocabulary

I’m probably not doing justice to Allison’s burgeoning vocabulary, but it’s just that. It’s burgeoning and growing more quickly than we can track. New words this week:

– Eat – usually accompanied by opening the pantry and pulling out her O’s
– Milk – finally!! It kind of sounds like “Mil”
– Raining – She really says it…and its very discernable.
– Key – She spotted Steve put his keys down today, and the word just popped out.
– Outside – This sounds like “ouuusii” but it’s very clear what she means.
– No No No – Sounds like “Naooo” but you can’t miss the head shake and insistent no’s.
– Bowl – She says this while waving her “baooo” around.
– Bunny – This refers to Annie’s cheddar or whole wheat bunny crackers. She says “buhhhie”
– Water – This sounds like “waer” – often interchanged with “agua.”
– Ball – Just that
– Gate – We tell Bisco to “go behind the gate” when we eat. If Allison spies him under the table, she’ll say “gaaie” and point to the gate.
– Dog – She says “dah” while pointing to or looking at Bisco.
– Mine – This she got from Katherine. We heard K say, “It’s mine!” followed by Allison exclaim “mi!”

The kids are so funny these days together. Katherine wants to play with what Allison has and vice-versa. They have to see what their sister is doing, and they have to eat the same foods. It’s not uncommon for them to have sharing issues – often indicated by Allison yelping or saying “no” or “mi!”  Today while cooking dinner I heard the “she took my toy” cry from Allison. I told Katherine sternly to give the pretend phone back to her sister or else lose her Bernstein Bears TV time. After a few seconds Katherine said softly, “how did you know??”

Booster

It’s here…the Graco flower booster seat for Katherine arrived yesterday. Katherine is overjoyed. We’ll have to take pictures of her reading books and enjoying her three cup holders in the back of the minivan. I took the kids to the library today. Katherine managed to spread all her books out in the back seat on the way home. I didn’t hear a peep from her, just an occasional mumble as she flipped the pages of her books.