Shopping list

Kate is on the cusp of reading.  She is learning the sounds and is working on stringing them together.  She loves to write and got very excited the other day when she made our shopping list for Costco.  She is learning the difference between capital and lower case and is still working it all out.  That is coffee at the bottom which we buy in bulk...we have to stay awake somehow!!!

TWO!!!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday to Ben!  This year for his birthday he got an ear infection and pink eye. And to make it all worse, I managed to nick his eardrum while putting in ear drops to make him more comfortable.  

Ben, at two, is a lot of fun.  He loves one thing and that thing is trucks.  He can spot them and hear them a mile away.  He stalks and takes other trucks at the park but do not ask him to share his truck because he will not.  His three word phrases are "bye, bye big truck," "look big truck," "oh, big truck."  When he hears a truck he puts his hand to his ear and says "oh, truck" and then he runs to the window and throws open the shutters.  It is hard to believe that he is so big!!!!!

T-ball girl

Kate started T-ball yesterday and loves it.  Here she is showing off her best batting stance (sans bat).  She is on Dodgers with a couple of her best buddies.  She could barely wait for T-ball to start and when I got her a "real bat" she thanked me about twenty times.  I figured it would be a bit unfair to make her go to practice using her bubble wand as a bat.

What????

What?  Can't a boy carry his pink shield, wear his pink hat, and push a stroller?

Hanging out together

I just love that the kids get along fairly well.  Here they are just hanging out together...huddling for warmth in our cold house!!!  Kate will often say "Benny is my best friend in the whole, wide world." 

Kate Funnies

Kate is really experimenting with her vocabulary.  Here are a few of my recent favorites.

Upon walking into a restaurant where the TV was on in the bar and showing the basketball game.  "Daddy is going to be very pleased when he sees the TV and the sports."

While having dinner with some friends.  "Look at that coincidence Mama, there are three boys and three girls.  What a coincidence."

Discussing the unlocked gate.  "One gate includes a key but the other does not include a key."

Getting her Kindergarten shots.  "This is not fair.  This is not fair.  You cannot give me a shot."  This was said through hysterical screaming.

Getting some work done...

In an effort to be like Daddy, Ben pulled out his laptop so he could get some work done over the long weekend.  Notice his hand poised perfectly on the "mouse" and the other on the keyboard.  The tongue sticking out is his new look of concentration.