Things to Remember...

Life is flying by right now.  Setting up an apartment in Richmond and a house in Roanoke, working, Matt going to school and working, and of course spending time with Katie.  There are so many things I want to remember about Katie's childhood.  The big milestones and the little everyday things that make me laugh.  At this pace, I know if I don't write it down I will forget it.  So here goes my recent list...

• I love how Katie calls a stethescope a stethescoat.
• I love how she says Mommy I'm "saturated" when she means "frustrated"
• I love how she can take a bath towel, lay it on the carpet, and pretend its her car.  She asks me to get in the back so she can drive me to school.
• I love how she lays down for bed at night, and we turn on her music, and she says...."Mommy will you lay with me for a whole lot of songs tonight."  And then she is asleep by song 3.
• I love (and often hate) that she asks "WHY?" about 100 times each day.
• I love that she is learning the pledge of allegiance at school and gets it right about 10% of the time.  The versions she comes up with are quite entertaining.
• Okay - I don't love the tantrums.  But I definitely don't want to forget them.  Sometimes I want to laugh at her and sometimes I want to scream.
• I love when she says to me "I had fun with you today Mommy" right before she falls asleep.

We are in the process of planning Katie's 3rd birthday party.  The options we have given her are Monkey Joe's, Romp 'n Roll, or the Children's Museum.  Despite the fact that her party was at the Children's Museum last year, she has asked to have it there again.  No matter how many times we ask, the answer hasn't changed.  So, we are going to have a bit of a repeat.  Not my first choice, but hey....its her party.  Oh, that reminds me of another thing I don't want to forget.  Katie's favorite book right now is Franklin's Birthday.....or virtually any Franklin book.

Pictures from this post are from today.  We went to the mall for a bit since it was raining and we couldn't go to the pool or the park.  The upside of being indoors is that Chick-Fil-A had 2 cent sundaes.  YUMMY!!!