Monkey Bizness

Last weekend mom and dad took me to a really cool place called Monkey Bizness. It is an indoor play place for kids just like me. My favorite thing to do was to go down the slide. They would count to 3 and on 3 I would push myself from the slide and slide down as fast as I could. When I hit the bottom mom or dad would throw me up in the air! It was so cool...I did it over and over and over and over again. I just giggled like crazy!

My other favorite thing to do was to watch the other kids. Some bigger kids were so nice and would come and talk to me. I would wave at them and say "hi "until they got close...then I got a little shy, but when they would walk away I would say "hi" again!! One bigger boy (he was about 8) would watch me and laugh at how funny I was. I liked him a lot!

I went back with mom, Aunt Carolyn and cousin Tom the past week and had some more fun! I did trip over my feet though and bang my nose really bad...it got all swollen and is now bruised. That is okay though...I am still pretty cute!

Did I mention my big cousin Tom is in town??? We have had so much fun playing together! He is so fun to watch...I just cheer him on, and steal his stuff! They are trying to teach me to be nice and share...I am learning! We went to Deanne Rose Farm this week too! I love the ponies and Tom loved the goats!!! I can now nay like a horse and moo like a cow! I saw horse and cows there! Cool! We will send you all pictures of us playing together soon!

Love,

Kate

xoxo

1,2,3...WEE!!!!

It is such a big place...and I am such a little girl:

Daddy is showing me the ropes!

The Easter Bunny's Coming...

I am really excited for the Easter Bunny to come Sunday! Grama Fimmen and I always sing the song together and she has had her decorations out for us to get all ready for the bunny! Last weekend mom, dad, Grama and Pa Fimmen all took me to an Easter egg hunt. It was really cold though...I had to bundle up to stay warm! I had never hunted for Easter eggs before, but boy did I get a lot of them!!! Once I got the hang of it, I grabbed as many as I could find! I might have even been the winner in the kids under 2 group....heehee!!! :)

Guess what? The Easter bunny was there and I got to meet him. Mom and I got our picture taken with him. He was much bigger than I imagined, but I loved him so much. I wanted to have lots of pictures taken with him. I was really disappointed when everyone told me it was the other kids turn with the Easter bunny. I wanted to talk with him all morning long!

Love,

Kate

xoxo

I have been one busy girl!

Hi Everyone! It has been awhile since I had the time to blog...sorry! I have been really busy and have been learning and doing all sorts of new things. Every day I have a new trick!! Here is a little update...

I love to watch "Ba" (Barney that is). He is the coolest purple dinosaur ever! I just love music and his shows are jammed packed with songs and dances! I even know some of them now. I can do the actions to the song "if you're happy and you know it"! Everyone finds that pretty neat. I clap my hands, throw my hands up for hurray and let me "face show it" by pointing to my face. I love Barney so much that I bring the remote control over to mom and dad and ask them to turn "Ba" on for me. We all dance and sing together! I also learned to hop from Baby Bop on Barney...she hops all over the place in one of her songs!

Grandpa Fimmen "Pa" sneezes all the time, so when you ask me what Pa says I say "Aaaachew"! I love to get in my bathroom cabinets to pull out the wash clothes and I pretend I am washing my face like mom and dad do. I am such a big girl!

I can sing and when asked sing "la la la" or I try to repeat whatever mom is trying to sing! Mom thinks I have such a cute voice! Maybe I will be on American Idol one day!! Every time I see a clock with arms I say "tick tock".

At Grama Fimmen's house one day we were watching basketball and Gma taught me how to be a cheerleader. When anyone asks me to be one I throw my arms up in the air just like cheerleaders do! Grama lives across the street to a place that teaches karate lessons so I learned how to karate chop!

I got my 6th tooth (bottom left). I have transitioned from formula to whole milk. My favorite main courses are pizza, hot dogs, chicken and mac n cheese. I still love my veggies....but will only eat baby food veggies. And I LOVE bananas!!

I love to look out of windows to see all the action outside. I say "shh shh shh" when I want everyone to be quiet and listen! I love to help clean up. I now take my dirty diapers over to the trash...I pull open the trash can and drop them in and then shut the trash can just like a BIG girl! I learned how to put my blocks together and to pull them apart. I can also scribble with my magnetic pad....I can't wait until they let me use real crayons and markers!

One day Grama, Aunt Jenny and me went down to mommy's work to see her. We went out to lunch, shopped and then went to the Wizard of Oz display. Some of the pictures of the fun time are below. I got my picture taken with Dorothy, the tin man, the lion and the scarecrow AND I got to look like a munchkin!

We went down to Pittsburg a few weeks ago and I got to play with everyone! I even got to meet my 2nd cousin Lucy for the very first time!! It was so neat! I even gave her kisses!!

Well, it's past my bedtime...I better go to bed before mommy and daddy get upset!

I love you!
Love,
Kate
xoxo

"BALL!!"

I can play catch! I just love my ball! Watch the video!!

Love,

Kate

xoxo

It's been awhile...and I feel guilty!

I have been so busy lately that I have forgotten to blog! Sorry to all you faithful readers out there...ha! I have been really busy since I officially became a walker!!! Mommy and Daddy went out of town last weekend and I had a long sleepover at Grama and Pa Fimmen's house. It was so mush fun! The weather was nice and we got to play outside!! I just love hanging out with them, but was happy when mommy and daddy came home too!!


Mom, Dad and Grama have been having some struggles with what to feed me. See, I am pretty picky and let them know it! I would rather just eat Goldfish, Cheerios, crackers, bread...anything carbohydrate!! I have decided I am sick of baby food....except for some yummy fruit - I will eat it out of a baby food jar sometimes. I really like chicken fingers!


Grama had a painter come paint the inside of their house and now I can show everyone what a painter does! I move my arm up and down like I am painting!!! I still love to drive my Barbie car and have lots of fun riding in my wagon - it was nice out one day and Daddy took me for a ride outside in it!! I love to throw kisses (from my ear, not my mouth) and am starting to want to feed myself...it is cool how messy it gets! Good thing Murphy is around to clean up after me...it is really funny how I am her best friend now - she just loves me and won't leave my side when it is dinner or snack time!


Now that I can walk I get around SO fast! Before mom and dad even know it I am tricking them by climbing up 2 stairs!! I am so funny that I wait for them to come get me and then I giggle like crazy and try to go as fast as I can up the stairs!! It is such a fun game!! I think they like it too because they sure run to me fast when they see me on the stairs! Fun stuff!


One day I thought I was so funny and when Grama Fimmen had me on her lap I lifted up her shirt and pressed her belly button!! HA!! I can say "bubbles" (kind of). Actually I can sound most first letters of words after people ask me to (i.e. I say "ca" for clock or "Ba" for Becky (my parent teacher educator)! Becky thinks I am pretty advanced for my age!!! Mommy, Daddy and Grama F. were so excited! Now Grama is working on some of my areas I was not as brilliant on, like stacking blocks and using a shape sorter!!


Now that I am walking I got my first pair of big girl walking shoes from Stride Rite. I was so excited, but I think mom and dad had a little sticker shock!!! Especially since the lady at the store said they would have to bring me back in 3 months for a new pair!!


I love to pretend....for example, I now pretend like I am eating and will share. I make little eating sounds when I put make believe food up to my mouth and say "aah" after I am done! I can now stand myself up in the middle of the room with no help of anyone or anything! I still just love to play with balls and call for them to come out to play with me "ball!!". I love it when people chase me...I get the major giggles and run as fast as I can. Daddy is really good at chasing and getting me!


I have a new sound that for some reason makes Daddy laugh like crazy and although I know mommy thinks it is hilarious, I think she may be a little embarrassed!!! When anyone asks me what I stinker says I tell them by blowing a big and loud raspberry! It is a crowd favorite!!!


I can point out my belly, nose, mouth and eyes when asked. I know what my shoes and socks are and help mommy and daddy when they dress me by pulling my arms through the shirts! When I get sleepy I get the major giggles and get so slap happy!


I had my 12 month doctor appointment and checked out well! I weigh 24lbs and 3 oz (87th percentile), am 29" long (36th percentile) and have a head circumference of 18" (67th percentile). Don't worry...the doctor said that I am not doomed to be a short fat kid!!! hahahaha!!!!


I am a bit of a clown and love to make people laugh!! I have a new funny thing I do...Grama Fimmen would say to me "Kate, be careful...if you fall you will cry" - when she says cry I scrunch my face up in a sad face and make a funny cry sound!!! It makes everyone crack up and then say it over and over so I fake cry!!! Mommy cracks up the hardest over this one!


When I want you to listen to something I say "shh, shh, shh" so we can hear. Grama Fimmen taught me this...me listen for airplanes, garbage trucks (I love those things), motorcycles and all sorts of things. I love to watch for birdies with Grama Fimmen too!! They are so sweet...Gram put out a new bird feeder....I hope that means the birdies will come over to play all the time!


My favorite shows are Barney and Sesame Street! Barney is the best though!!! I say "Ba" and love all the music. I dance through the entire show!!


Well, that was a long update, but it was long overdo!
Love you!
Love,
Kate
xoxo

I'm a WALKER!!!

I have been taking little steps here and there....but today is the official day I am a walker! I can walk halfway across the room...it is really fun! I love to see everyone's expression and love it when they cheer me on!! "YEH Kate"!!

Some other fun stuff I do not know if you know about...

• I climb stairs
• I can sound like a doggie, a fishie, a lion and kinda like a cow!
• I can eat big girl food and am getting pretty sick of soft baby food!
• I love the outdoors! It has been really nice outside the past few days, so Grama and I have spent most our time outside...and I just love it! We had a picnic today!
• Unlike my mommy, I LOVE bananas!! I take big bites of them! Mom said banana's are a food Grama and Daddy have to feed me!
• I love mac and cheese...the best food ever invented! It is a carb (my favorite) with a really fun bright orange sauce on it! Mmmmm!!!
• I love playing with my Little People
• I still love Baby Bella and Glow (my glow worm)
• When I go to bed I like to go down with one paci in my mouth, one paci in my right hand and one paci in my left hand! So cool!
• I love it when mom and dad turn the interior lights on and off in the car
• I still love the song "the wheels on the bus"
• I love to throw things behind the dresser and say "uh oh" every time I do it. Poor mom has to pull the entire dresser away from the wall to pick up what I dropped. It is so amusing!
• I have to point to my big pictures of me in the hall on the way to my bedroom and mom says "Kate", "Kate", "Kate", "Kate", "Kate"....I love to do the same things over and over. Routine in neat!
• Every morning when mom and dad drop me off at Grama and Grandpa's I do the same thing....I tell Grama her coffee is "hot", I point to the pictures on the refridgerator, I stop and see what is on Sesame Street, I say "bye-Bye" to mom and dad (and they try to get me to give them kisses) and then must go by the front window to wave bye to them and blow them kisses. Oh, I also point out everything that is messy to Grama by telling her "uh oh" and "uck"
• I sometimes blow kisses from my ear, not my mouth

I should have mentioned....I had my first birthday pictures taken last Friday. Grama and mom took me. The place was running about 30 minutes behind. I did not mind because I was entertained with trying to play with the Leggo table (which mom freaked out a bit over since there are so many GERMS) and trying to play with the big kids. Those big kid boys did not scare me! I would walk right up to them and try to steal their leggo's and tried to get them to let me play with their ball. I love balls! When it was our turn for pictures I tried to cooperate, but the photographer made everything so messy by sprinkling rose petals all over the floor. I kinda panicked since it was so messy....I tried to tell him to clean up fast by telling him "uh oh" and "uck!", but her did not clean up fast enough!!! I decided I was done with my 1st birthday pictures and cried the rest of the appointment. I think I stressed out Mom. There were not many pictures to choose from! Oh well...now she and Grama have a story to tell! heehee!

Love,

Kate

xoxo

My BIG 1st Birthday!

It is official...I am 1 year old!!! I had such a fun birthday long weekend and party! On my actual birthday mom, dad, and both my Grama's and Pa's all went to Pizza Shoppe for dinner and a little party! Dad reserved us our very own room so I could run around as much as I wanted! It was so much fun...I especially love their ground beef pizza!

My MONKEY party was Saturday at 1pm! All my friends and family came to visit me! We played fun games, ate lots of yummy food...I even got to eat my very own birthday cake!!! I got so many wonderful presents from everyone...thank you! I can't wait until my 2nd birthday party...I will have to start thinking about what kind of party I want then!!!!

Love,

Kate
xoxo