All about Kate

While in the car the other day, Kate recited The Night before Christmas, word for word. She also walks around the house reciting lines and songs from the movie Tangled, granted she watches it pretty much every night but still. Her teacher says that she does great in remembering words in both Spanish and Chinese. Not sure she will ever need Chinese but who knows.


Her eating habits have gotten better. She recently started eating string cheese, which she use to eat when she was younger. She will also eat a turkey and cheese sandwich, loves corn and will eat green beans and peas if they are in chicken pot pie. I decided, I'm not going to fight her on it, she will eventually start eating fruit and other veggies when she is ready. I didn't like tomatoes until I was 27.

Kate is doing great in swim lessons. We signed her up at Houston Swim Club in Katy in November and they make all new members take a 2 week maintenance course. By the end of the course they want them to be able to swim and then turn and float on their back by themselves. Kate was able to do it by day 6. She is now learning the breast stroke.

Conversation between Kate and I
Me- Was Chayse and Landry at school today?
Kate-Yes. Chayse and Landry are twins.
Me-Yes, I know. They are also sisters.
Kate-No, there twins.
Me-Yes, but they are also sisters.
Kate-No, there not.
Me-Ok.
We had the exact same conversation about Jacob and Jude, who are twins. The conversation ending the same way. :)

15 months

15 Months
I took Brody for his wellness checkup today and my poor baby has an ear infection and pink eye. He has had a fever for about 4 days and has been super cranky. Whenever Justin and I would hold him he would just lay his head on our shoulder or chest, it broke my heart that he felt so bad. In the last month 4 of his molars have come in which makes a total of 12 teeth now.
He loves looking at books, playing with whatever Kate has and being outside. Whenever you ask him "where's your tongue", he sticks it out like a lizard and then tries to lick you with it. Brody went through a phrase where the only fruit he would eat was bananas, thankfully that didn't last too long and he will now eat pears again. He says "thank you" but sounds more like "tank too", his other words are mama, dada, uh-oh, bye bye, hi, ni ni(night night), nana(banana), more, ball and dog.

Weight- 19lbs 13oz(he lost a little being sick)
Height-31 inches
Head circ.-18.5

Waiting for the Dr.


Looking and feeling miserable, I put a cooling patch on him, hoping it would make him feel better

Shoe lover

Brody has a thing for shoes. It doesn't matter whose shoes they are, he tries to put them. He spends more time playing with shoes than with his toys. His new "favorite pair" are Kate's red Jessie boots. He LOVES them and didn't want to take them off.

France

On the way home from school, Kate was looking outside the window and said "Look, it looks like France." I had no clue what she was talking about, so at the stop light, I turned around to see what she was looking at. She pointed to a metal power line tower and said, "It looks like the one in France." After seeing what she was pointing at, I realized she was comparing the metal power line to the Eiffel Tower. The metal tower looks very similar to the Eiffel Tower and I am so impressed that Kate was able to see the similarities between them.
After Justin got home from work, I told him what Kate had said and he said "What are we going to do, when she becomes smarter than us?" Hmmmm...I think she might already be :)

This kid...

is crazy!!! Brody is into everything, climbs everything and seems to constantly get hurt. Just last week, he was trying to get on Kate's scooter and fell and hit his head on a bolt that was on the scooter. He had a cut and a BIG bump on his forehead. He is seriously taking years off my life. No matter where he falls, it seems as if he is always hitting his head on something, its either the wall, door, base board, etc. Justin and I joke that we need to buy him a helmet and wrap him in bubble wrap to keep him safe. There is no way, Im letting him play sports :).

Top 10 in 2010

The top ten things I am thankful for in 2010.

1. My family. I cant imagine life without them. Justin took the kids to San Antonio several times to visit family while I stayed back and I didn't know what to do with myself, I was so bored. Justin kept saying "go do something, go shopping, have fun."

2. Moving back to the states. While I enjoyed our overseas experience, I was ecstatic to move back; friends, family, American food-aka Tex Mex.

3. Being able to be a stay at home mom. I will admit there are times when I wish I could go to work and have an adult conversation. But then I am reminded how lucky I am to stay home with the kids. Not too mention the house would never be cleaned and we would never have clean clothes to wear as that would be the last thing I wanted to do when I got home.

4. Our gorgeous new house. I loved our old house but LOVE our new house.

5. Our health. The worst that has happened is all of us getting the nasty stomach bug. I will take that any day over anything else.

6. Watching Kate learn and excel in school. She loves going to school and her friends. She just learned to sing Itsy Bitsy Spider in Spanish.

7. Watching Brody learn new things. Even though this is the second time around, it never gets old. Watching him crawl and walk for the first time is just as exciting as it was watching Kate.

8. My first 1/2 marathon. I'm glad I finished it at a better time(2:07)than I predicted and without walking.

9. My incredible husband who puts up with all my crazy ideas and projects. Justin is a great father and husband and we are extremely lucky to have him.

10. My friends. I have a great group of friends who are wonderful, fun, smart, funny, great listeners and who I consider my sisters. I can always count on them for anything.

Happy New Year!!!

Christmas

We decided early on that we wanted to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas at our house so that the kids could play with their gifts all day. We didn't want to open presents and then have to drive several hours especially on Christmas day. Justin's dad and step mom came up on Christmas Eve and spent several days with us. Santa was very generous with gifts this year. Kate got a Rapunzel and Belle doll, books, clothes and a new movie. Brody got some cars, a play phone, clothes and books. Justin's aunts got Kate a bath rob that has her name on, she liked it so much that she slept in it.
Putting cookies and milk out for Santa

Finding Santa's presents





Brody's favorite thing about Christmas-climbing on the presents



The day after Christmas we went to San Antonio to spend time with Justin's family. Justin's mom and step dad totally out did Santa by getting Kate a Princess car. Both kids loaded up with good presents, clothes, books, and toys.




Christmas was great and I cant wait to continue our traditions as the kids get older.