Muffins

So I know its a lot of posting for one day but honestly this one is more for me than for you.  I jsut had the most amazing time with my daughter and I want to chronicle it so that I can remember what a blast she is, especially when she's having one of those...you know perfect days :).

So, "What is all this fun i'm talking about?" you ask. Well I just baked with my little girl for, well probably the first "successful" time. She stood on a chair in teh kitchen and helped me measure shortening, break eggs, dump flour (oh and tried it too...it wasn't her fav) and lick the spoon & bowl.  I think what amazes me the most is that it just reminds me of what a little fun person she is becoming!  I mean as a mother of course I am totally in love with her, but its totally different when you start to REALLY enjoy your little girl.  I loved talking to her about what we were doing, sharing tastes with her, adn even looking expectantly into the oven window to see if our muffins we put in 2 mins ago were done yet.  And then, while waiting for the muffins to bake (which was a very hard part!), we sat and drank tea together!  I have to admit i'm a little on cloud nine at the moment (maybe a combination of an awesome time and some happy preggy hormones! :) ) .

Anyway, I didn't take any pics of the flour all over her, or her struggling valiantly to stir the bowl of dough (rather unsuccessfuly), or of her little butt and backside(which is all i could see) as she continued to peek in the oven window to "check") but i did get a few of us enjoying the delicious muffins :)

"Mmm those look good!"

"What did we make Katey?"

"Mussins!"

The next sequence is directly after the invitation to eat...

Very serious

"I'll try his one..."

"Ohh I think I should just take one bite out of each!"

"Because if one is good...Two is much better!"

Oh I love my girl!

Hurt nose on a Daddy's girl

A few nights ago Katey was playing hard and had a fall against a friends brick that resulted from some minor scrapes and a lot of pitty. I had to tell you that upfront so you knew but these pics are really intended to snapshot my little darling in all of her 21 months of age...and as you can see...I definitly got a few of her her most common and endearing faces :).

"Mom, I really dont want photos!" (right after this she tried to put the lens cap back on the camera)

When that didn't work the drama queen came out

Isn't' she a horribly misused child!

So she went to hide in the corner and this glare is one of her trade marks right now, she's very good at it and uses it often to show her displeasure. (hehe and being the kind, caring, photog mom I am, I took pics :) )

Finally I got her to come out a little bit and play a game with me from one of our fav elmo books:)
"Wiggle your toes."

"Wiggle your fingers."

"Now reach them toward your toes."

"Touch your toes."

And then she remembered I was taking pics...and ran away screaming "I not, I not!" :)

But I caught her, and we went outside to wait for Daddy to come home for lunch.
 (Doesn't she look so happy with me?"

Her beautiful nose :)

Watching very expectantly for Daddy to come home for lunch...

*Yawn* "Its taking so long."

If this isn't a mischievous look then you show me one that is! I am pretty sure its when she realized I was getting the pictures that I wanted...

And she was done with that!

She can really run fast when she wants to!

But she's cute so we forgive her :)

So finally Daddy came home, and instead of saying "Hi daddy", or anything else, can you guess what she asked for?

"Pops" (aka-Otter Pops, which she only got after she finished her lunch fyi .)

She loves them, but her hands get cold, so her and Daddy have an arrangement. She warms her hands on his belly...

And HE holds and feeds her the cold otter pops!
(haha you tell me she doesn't' have him wrapped around her finger!)

But don't worry, like any good daddy...he gets her back :)

I love that she is her Daddy's girl, and every bit of that affection has been earned by an exceptionally amazing Daddy. 

23 Weeks Preggy

Still trucking along! Anna is sooo active and constantly reminding me of her wonderful presence.  I've felt hiccups quite a few times and am definitely starting to loose sleep more so because of my constant need for the "powder room" or her kicking at the bed insisting that I "GET OFF OF HER" than a discomfort on my part.  But although this pregnancy is going SOOO much faster than Katey's did, it is a joy to have life inside of me...I just can't wait for her to come out! :)

Card game

She just gets more and more fun! I wanted to share this video of our most recent fun together, her (and our) discovery of playing games together.  This game was given to us by some dear friends who enjoyed it, and now you can see our joy in it too. I know every parent thinks their child is brilliant, but seriously, she's just so smart!