Working hard again....

In the theme of get Kacey to do all the household chores... here was a new task. I gave her a couple boxes of cat food and had her stack them in the cabinet. Overall it took her about 30 minutes but she did it all! When they were all in she asked me for more and when I told her there were no more, she took some out, put them back int he box and then restacked them in the cabinet.

Here is a little video, in it she gets distracted with wanting to actually feed the cat!

Big Girl Chair

We are starting to get all about Big Girl things now and I just got her a booster chair. We are going to start using it with dry meals like sandwiches and stuff and if that goes well move onto wet meals like bowls of cereal. At lunch today I asked Kacey if she wanted to sit in the Big Girl chair and she said "Yeah!" and climbed up into it. She seems pretty happy in it! This smile is a bit odd but it what's she gave me when I asked her for a big smile!

More about the talking.

Just a couple of things I want to jot down before I forget. She has started calling me Mom instead of Mama. I don't know if she is getting lazy or growing up! She has also started answering Yeah to questions. For example, Do you like the pasta? Yeah. Do you want to read a book? Yeah. Before she would either say NO! or repeat the last word like pasta or book.

What do you do with a toddler????

When it is pouring rain outside and you have 2.5 hours until naptime? You put the child to work of course!!!

First she vacuumed the couch. Shockingly this actually kept her occupied for about 30 minutes. At one point she walked away and I started and she flipped out screaming "Mine!!!!" and took the vacuum away and went back at it.



Kacey also helped me make lunch. She read off the recipe and put most of the ingredients into the food processor. Yummy pesto and pasta!

Pee Pee in the Potty!!!!

WOW!!! Kacey plays around with her potty all the time. Sometimes she will start grunting in the tub and if I ask her if she is going to poop she will point at the potty and say "Out". I'll take her out and dry her off and she will sit on the potty. She sits there a few seconds and then gets up for toilet paper. She then sits and wipes her butt. Then she gets up and throws the paper in the big toilet. This can go on for 10 minutes if you let it. Up and down, up and down.

Tonight was the same. She was playing with the tissue and pretending to poop. After a few minutes she was standing by the toilet paper and then said to me "Wet!" and she ran over to the potty and sat down. She then peed in the potty and said "Wet!" again! I got all excited and clapped and told her she was a good girl. She got all excited and clapped for herself and it was really fun. Don't know if this means potty training is near by but hey, I like seeing a light at the end of the tunnel even if it is a few hundred miles away!

Along these same lines, in the last week or so she has been really good about telling us when she has a "wet" or "poop" diaper. Sometimes she will even grab our hand and pull us into her room while saying "dipa, dipa, wet..., diapa" and then she will let us change her. This is all making me a bit hopeful I must admit!!!

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Couple cute ones from tonight. We were laying in her Big Girl bed reading and she would point to a new book when we finished one. She pointed and said "Meat, meat" Huh??? I finally figured out she meant the "Three Little Kittens" book, in it they lose their mittens aka meat. haha! Smart girl!

* When I had put her in the crib she stood up and gave me another hug and kiss. She then lifted my shirt, kissed my belly, waved to it and said "bye, bye!" She then laid down and I tucked her in. :)

* Belly pics!!

Here they are.... 24 weeks and 5 days. Can't believe it's been six weeks since i took some pics.




For comparison, here I am with Kacey at 25 weeks. Next time I need to wear the matching outfit for better comparison!

* Nesting has officially begun

Right after we found out Mini-monkey was a boy I happened to be out shopping with Alex. We meandered through the baby department and I had a gift card burning a hole in my wallet (Thanks Rie and Babu!) It was for ME for MY birthday but I had so much more pleasure in buying some boy clothes than I ever would have in buying myself more stuff. That was the start. Since then I have had one more shopping trip (yesterday) and my friend Stacie picked up 15ish items for $40 at the Old Navy sale. She also passed on a few gender neutral things from her closet. So we had a nice pile going stashed away in the top of Kacey's closet.

That pile has been calling me. I know... I have a little less than 4 months left so that means plenty of time to get organized. BUT! Anyone that knows me knows that I want it and I want it NOW! So I asked Jamie to get out the 0-6 month clothes box from the garage and I went through and pulled out all the clothes that would not make Mini-Monkey look like a Mini-Kacey (ie. head to toe pink), I then combined it with the big closet stash and assessed what I have. We are definitely all set in jammies and onesies. A few hats, socks and blankets. This child will not have to be passed around in just a pink cloth diaper. YAY!

It sounds so silly that this exercise makes me feel better but it really does. The 0-6 month stuff that will be his, is now neatly folded and put in drawers awaiting his arrival. (I will wash it all sometime in May and restuff it back in the drawers). I can open the drawers and admire anytime I need a reminder that there is a little boy coming into our lives soon. Because believe it or not, I do need reminders. I am so very excited but still in a constant state of disbelief. Sorting, folding and admiring the clothes brings me one step closer and that made it worth it.

The big flirt...

Last night we had dinner at Sean and Lea's house (baby Syana too!) Kacey had her own chair at dinner but moved over to daddy's lap and then mommy's. Little did we guess but she was just trying to get closer to Sean! After a few minutes on my lap she pointed at Sean and kept smiling at him. She then wanted down and just stood next to him. He asked if she wanted to be in his lap and she emphatically shook her head yes. He picked her up and she just beamed! She pretty much sat there the rest of dinner.

Towards the end of the night she kept wanting to sit next to him on the couch and look at photo albums with him. It was time to go and I asked if she wanted to give Sean a kiss on the cheek. She said yes and put her face up next to his and just started giggling. This went on for a while. I finally got my wits about me after calming down from laughing and got out the video camera.

DASH-EEEEEEEE!!!!!

- Yesterday I hosted a playdate and Gwynn and Dash were able to come. Kacey was of course very excited to see Dash and kept pointing at him and saying Dashee with a big huge smile. At one point Gwynn and I were chatting and Kacey was right next to us. Dash went around a corner and Kacey just looked and screamed out "DASH-EEEEEEE!!!!" in an incredibly sweet, calling her favorite person sort of way. Both Gwynn and I just looked at each other and melted... soo cute!

- Last night I was reading her this book (which I HIGHLY recommend!) In it, there is a ghost on a page and it says Peek a Boo! When I read her that page last night, she waved her hands in an "I'm scared" sort of way and said "Scawee!!" I have no idea where she learned that but she kept turning back to that page and saying that over again.

- At lunch Kacey kept purposefully putting her fork very close to her eye. I asked her not to do that and if she did it again I would take the fork away. She held the fork to her chest and smiled real big while saying "MINE! MINE!" She then proceeded to try to poke her eye out with the fork again. As I tried to take it away she continued to yell "MINE!" Mine is becoming a very common word around our house these days.

- Most of her words are one syllable and there is an occasional two syllable (See Dasheee example above) She does have one three syllable word that I can think of and it is surprisingly clear. "Stwa-beh-wee" She likes to point out strawberries everywhere she sees them and especially likes to eat them. :)

Dash...

is now Dasheeee in our house and it sounds way too cute. Can we just book the wedding location now?