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I know it is not time for my usual long monthly post but there are just so many fun things that Katherine is doing and so many pictures that do not really make up enough material for a post on their own so they are all combining to make one long post.

The biggest milestone for the week does not have a picture to go with it. Isn’t that just the way it is? Tonight Katherine’s dinner was 100% big people food and 95% self fed. She ate green beans, lentil soup (not really soupy though), rice with cheese, ravioli, grapes and cottage cheese. Mommy helped her to feed herself the cottage cheese with a spoon. For those of you following our eating struggles, this is huge!

Every day I am amazed at how much fun it is to be the mommy of a toddler. At least most of the time, there are some frustrating moments as well, but they are a learning experience for both of us.

Bubbles - Katherine loves them. It is even one of her new words. This week she has been adding about one new word to her vocabulary each day. They include: bubbu (bubbles), baga (bagel), chesh (cheese), tee (teeth), beees (beans), buhd (bird), and woof (duh! it’s woof, like a dog). So, I thought I would be a lazy mom when I saw this bubble maker at Target. It had pictures of kids Katherine’s age making bubbles all by themselves. No mommy sick and tired of blowing bubbles. You put the liquid in the reservoir and the toddler pulls the handle causing the bubble wand to raise in front of a fan. Great idea!?!? No, it stank. I could barely get it to work and Katherine just held the handle down constantly so the bubble wand did not get any more bubble juice on it. Oh well, it has been returned.

Bag Lady - Katherine loves to carry any kind of bag around. She carries her toy purse and beach bag, her diaper bag, mommy’s purse, her lunch bog, the Easter basket, grocery bags . . . You name it, if it has a strap, she finds it and throws it over her shoulder. She will be a great shopper some day. Watch out daddy.

Trouble - I don’t think I already posted this picture. You see Hooligan is eating her food off of the carpet with an empty bowl beside it. Hmmm that is odd. I bet you can guess what happened. Katherine dumped the bowl of food on the floor. She has been told many times not to do this so guess why she is not in this picture. She is in time out.

Dress up - The other morning I was getting ready and Katherine came around the corner looking like this. She had grabbed one of my shirts out of the laundry (clean thank goodness) and tried to put it on. Her head got stuck in the arm hole instead of the head hole. She has also tried to put on mommy’s shoes. She cannot dress herself yet, but she is getting much better at helping to dress and undress herself.

OCD? - Katherine has a certain place for a few certain toys. I shared before how the Little People parrot and bunny always end up in Katherine’s kitchen cabinet. Now the Little People flamingo and x-ray fish always get put on the kitchen table. At the end of the day we put all the Little People in a basket but somehow these always make it back to their homes. I wish she was this particular about all of her toys and that their homes would be in the toy baskets.

Kisses - Today I was laying on the floor playing with Katherine. All of a sudden she came over and gave me a huge, slobbery kiss. She kept doing it over and over. I am sure it helped that we were really praising her and making a big deal of it. Then she laid on the floor and got to laughing so hard. I would tickle her and then pretend I was going to tickle her. It was so funny.

New Hair Do - Memorial Day we went to the Dallas Arboretum for a children’s concert with Sara Hickman. It was a wet day! The concert was moved indoors but we had our picnic on the lawn. It was more wet than we realized and Katherine and her cousins got quite dirty (nothing a little Biz bleach couldn’t take care of). As we were finishing our lunch, it started to pour and we all got wet. Sam and I decided to give Katherine a new hair do - a mohawk. What do you think?