She lasted two minutes before she insisted that we get the sidewalk chalk out and began to write. You will hear her singing a medley of the alphabet song and "Do As I'm Doing." You think it's an indicator that our girl is going to be more artistically inclined than an athlete?? I'm guessing so. I'd put money down that this romantic will be writing love sonnets and short stories by the time she's five.
This stuffed animal is a gift from Grammy and Grandpa Howard. It is duly named "Cocoa" because Grandma keeps a real guinea pig named Cocoa safely in Michigan whom Katherine loves... probably too much...
Our stake started a tradition to hold a Daddy-Daughter Princess Ball for all girls 18 mos-12 yrs old and they go all out!
Katherine is wearing a dress I received at her baby shower that she had never worn or seen because I was saving it for a special occasion - mother's intuition??
My friend, Preeti, put together a pre-ball dinner for all the girls and their escorts. I got to be the lucky one escort since Geoff had to work (he had taken off the day before so he could take the youth to the temple), but we'll try to work out his schedule better next year.
We danced for an hour and a half. She did not want to be put down. She was not interested in making a tiara or posing for a formal picture. She just wanted to dance and dance... My kind of girl!
She did stop, however, to meet the King and Queen of the ball (a counselor in the stake presidency and his wife). They were announced by royal procession and everyone had to bow and courtsey as they passed. Katherine was IN AWE. She talked to them for at least 10 minutes straight, all the while they kept looking at me for translation and I just shrugged, "Your guess is as good as mine!"
All tuckered out!
In this video Katherine is talking with some sisters who are part of a family of 5 girls in our ward, the Bentzes. They babysit her a lot and she thinks she should be one of them. It's darling. She always says "Hi Girls!! Hi Girls!!"I had to post this because it's a good moment with Nana & Papa and you can understand Katherine's words pretty well as she recites "This Little Piggy went to market..."
Note the very special princess dress that Nana gave her. She wears it several times a week and I even let her wear it while I ran errands yesterday. Is it laziness on my part? I just didn't want the argument. Who wants to deprive a 2 yr old of her jewels anyway??
Life has been busy and good. Katherine remains the focus of our joy and daily laughs. I am losing the battle of making Katherine's hair look nice. It's so soft and fine and growing at different layers, it just falls right out.
This is what her hair looks like most of the time. She is sporting my apron which we have transformed into a kimono.
She loves winter jacket and insists on wearing "jack" even though it's 108 outside. It's hard to say no when she flashes everyone in just a diaper...
I enrolled Katherine in a gymnastics class, just to get her interacting with other kids, comfortable with listening to directions... I spend most of the time chasing her, but she is so excited to have those trampolines at her disposal, she can't contain herself. talk about a giddy girl! She has showed the most progress on walking the balance beam and being able to climb a horizontal ladder. But most of the time she's yelling at the instructor, Miss Robyn, to "watch this!" It's good for her to experience limited attention and to be part of a group. Our last class for this session is Tuesday and we'll take a break till the new year.
