Art Class

Here are some shots from art class two weeks ago, when we were making masks. Kate just wanted to sort her products into various buckets and ice cube trays, so I had to make the mask. Hmmph.

 Yep, that's my edgy, artistic, lion mask. Not much better than what Kate could do, huh? ;)

Here's a shot of her running wild at music class; it's so blurry because she wouldn't hold still! Oh well, at least she likes it, right?

And because I also use this blog as a journal (since I'm terrible about keeping up with her baby book!) I wanted to jot down some of the cute things Kate's been doing/saying. She's already changed so much in these two years; I want to remember all of the things she did/said when she was this age.

• I always tell her, "I love you very much!" so when she wants to tell me she loves me, she'll come up and hug me and say, "Very much!" She almost sounds worried when she says it; I think she's trying to sound soothing like I do when I say it, but it's funny because it ends up sounding like she's worried.
• Now that we've been watching the Disney movies a lot, everyone is characterized as "good" or "bad". So she'll often say, "Mama good!" or "Belle good!" or "May-May and Adelaide good!" and then sometimes she'll focus more on the evil side of humanity, saying, "Gaston bad!" or "Mif-cent [Maleficent] bad!" She just brings it up out of nowhere, which is funny. 
• Every dress she wears now (or even her shirts); if they can be twirled, it's a "pretty dress." 
• She can count to 10 without skipping any numbers; yay!
• Sometimes I'll ask her if she wants a little brother or sister, meaning "Do you want a sibling?" but she just emphatically replies, "Sister! No brother!" Ok, then; we'll see what we can do about that.
•  She has been talking more and more in close-to-complete sentences. Last night, for example, we were sitting on our patio as she went up and down the little hill between our patio and our neighbor's yard. She kept saying, "I climbing hill!" Or she'll say, "Baby eating lunch!" or "Kate reading book!" It's so crazy that just in the span of a few months she went from saying just two words together (Mama driving, Daddy work, Baby bath, etc.) to saying, for all intents and purposes, full sentences. The funniest was one day when I had given her a little chocolate, and she wanted some more, but I said there wasn't any more (meaning I didn't want her to have any more since she'd already had enough.) She looked at me for a moment and then said, "Go store, get more choc-choc." I was just amazed that she could put that thought process together and actually make a coherent sentence out of it! My little baby is sure growing up.