Ella:
She starts preschool at the end of the month. I can't believe it. She is so excited to go to school where Ann works (although I do believe that she thinks Ann is a student as well)
She is getting to be such a big girl. She loves her sister and *nearly* always looks out for her. We went to the library to get some new books. Ella LOVES "The Pigeon" books and so do I. Our doctor actually recommended the series and we got one last time. It was really cute, but I wasn't sure if she liked them or not. We went back to the library and she wanted all of them! We both laugh when we read them. She wanted Daddy to read them to her so he could see how silly the Pigeon is. She also insisted that we get Kate a couple of books while we were there. She picked them out and "read" them to her when we got home.
Ella has such a great memory - she remembers logos for stores, places, restaurants, hotels, FedEx, anything. If we have ever been somewhere, she knows it. She apparently also remembers what people wear. Her new cousin, Lauren, is going to the same babysitter as they go to. Ella insisted that the babysitter change Lauren's clothes because she wore them when we went downtown a couple of weeks ago. Ann confirmed that she did. Apparently it was a fashion faux pa on Ann's part - come on Ann!!
She loves to sing, dance, and have fashion shows. She makes me or Daddy be the announcer and we have to introduce her and state what she is wearing and she struts her stuff across the living room and then she strikes a pose at the end. She could do this all day!
She is at such a fun age (when she isn't tired!) I asked her if she could stay 3 for me forever. She told me that she wanted to turn 4 and 5 and 6, but that maybe Kate would stay 1 for me instead!
Kate:
Oh Kate. Ella was/is a high energy, type A child. We thought that there was no way that we could get one with more energy than Ella. We thought wrong. They both make us laugh constantly, but they are definitely limit pusher...
I went to pick her up at the babysitters and I will shorten the story, but Barbara was making lunch and Kate was in the kitchen with her (like most days). She turned her back for a minute and turned back around to find Kate with a chair pulled out, table cloth on the floor, Kate standing in the middle of the table reaching for the chandelier. Barbara thought I might be upset that she wasn't doing her job - but this is just a day with Kate. You can't take your eyes off of her for a minute or she is going to be doing something. And my Grandma always tells me how easy girls are because they just sit in one spot and play with babies! Not my girls!
Kate loves and I mean LOVES Moose A. Moose on Nick Jr. When she wakes up in the morning I hear her saying "Mom-my" When I get to her room, she asks for "Dad-dy" and then "Moo". She knows the ending songs to most of the shows and can hear them from the other room so she knows when she needs to get moving and says "Moo, Moo" as she runs to the TV. (For those of you that don't know Moose, he is the MC of sorts of Nick Jr and is on every half hour between shows) She does this all day. Yesterday she started crying when she asks for him and we don't turn him on.
And Kate loves her big sister. She can't say Ella so she calls her Na Na. She likes Ella to help her get her babies in and out of the stroller and help her do puzzles. Mommy or Daddy can be sitting right there and she will yell for Na Na for help.
Here are some pictures from the weekend...
"Touch a Truck" event - lots of our community trucks come together and the kids get to sit in them and blow the horns...it was LOUD!!!
Ella getting her picture taken through a pipe with a camera and Kate wondering what she is doing...
Police officer Ella
This is generally what happens when we try to change Kate's clothes - she's gone!
Being a police officer at home. She was calling "Officer Kate" but she was slow to respond!
Officer Kate was busy with this buckle all day. She can snap it, but can't get it open again!
And finally our Sunday evening self photo shoot. Daddy, Mommy, and Ella were cracking up - Kate wasn't so interested. That darn buckle still had her attention!
This was the first one - I told Pete he had to hold the camera because he has long arms and I didn't want to have a double chin. We laughed when we saw the picture because he was so serious - trying to concentrate!
