So Disgusting!

A few days ago the kids and I were playing outside. Charles found a ladybug and was letting it crawl on him while Katie investigated him/her. It soon flew away to their dismay. Katie loved it and since then every bug she sees is a ladybug. Here comes the unfortunate and disgusting part of this story. A day or so later Katie woke up screaming and crying. When Dean went to check on her (he's the only one who can get the kids back to sleep when they wake in the night) she kept saying, "ladybug pillow, ladybug pillow, on hand". We think that this was not a cute ladybug crawling on her pillow and hand but a nasty spider (this is where I cringe and shudder). In the morning when I went to get her out of bed she kept telling me about the "ladybug" in her bed. I'm so sorry baby!

This just happened today. It's a nice day so I left the sliding glass door open for fresh air and so Charles could come in and out without making too much noise. Motor, our cat, had come in earlier to eat and went back out. No big deal. Charles came in to play with his moon sand when I heard him tell Motor to go outside to eat. I went to see what was going on and there was Motor in the kitchen eating a poor, little, baby bird. I tried shooing him out hoping he would take his trophy with him but he wouldn't go. I had to put a plastic bad on my hand to pick up the bird and throw it outside, along with the cat.

Charles-isms

Charles says some pretty cute things. I'm trying to remember them so I'm going to write them.

One day he was coloring with scented markers. He opened the lemon scented one and started drawing. Soon he was rubbing his eyes. "Oh, man my eyes are sweating because of this marker". When I cut onions and my eyes start to water, I think of them as sweating and so does he.

"Mom, are witches real?"
No, they are not
"Yeah, they're just moms fooling around, right?"
That's right honey

We take Eric to school in the morning and Charles likes to roll the window down to yell goodbye to him.
"Dude, I just downloaded my window to talk to Eric."

He says these things so matter of factly, no humor intended. I love it.

Easter Traditions

For the last few years I have fallen off the family Easter traditions wagon. When I was a kid we always, always dyed eggs and my mom made this cute bunny cake. I think I've made the cake once or twice since my kids were born and we've only dyed eggs once. Dean's mom made Easter story cookies with Joe and Rusty when they were little. This year I thought it was time to get back on the wagon and do the things I did when I was a kid and to incorporate the Easter story cookies. I found the recipe online and it included scriptures to go along. We've already made the cake (and eaten all but one ear too) and we are going to make the cookies on Friday and dye eggs on Saturday. Here's the website with the recipe and instructions. http://www.allhomemadecookies.com/recipes/drop/easterstorycookies.htm

Katie's First Haircut

So, Katie will turn two May 9th and she's never had a haircut. Her hair was long, but really uneven and always in her eyes so we decided it was time she got a haircut. Unfortunately I forgot my camera and did not have my phone to take picutres. The salon was supposed to take a picture but they ran out of Polaroid film. She was really cute sitting in a firetruck watching Scooby Doo while the lady cut her hair. I was excited to get home to take her picture with her hair fixed cute but she fell asleep and had to have a nap. Here are some pics of her before and after.

Stuck Up

Katie's latest fascination is putting things up her nose. Eric and Charles never did this so I don't quite understand it. It all started last week during dinner. She was eating green beans just fine until she saw Charles opening them up to take out the seeds. She gathered a few seeds and started putting them up her nose. Last time I checked foreign objects in your nose is not pleasant, but Katie seems okay with it. I finally had to throw her food away and make her leave the table. Over the next few days any small object she found she tried to put up her nose. One morning she was eating and I went in the other room for a few minutes. When I came back she was sneezing repeatedly. She had soggy cereal stuffed up her nose. The next day she got into her little rubber hair bands. I thought I had them all picked up until I saw her eyes watering like crazy and she was sneezing. I pulled out two rubber bands from each nostril. Again this morning she pulled out her ponytail and put the rubber band way, way up her nose. A few goods sucks from the bulb syringe allowed me to pull it out. I'll cross my fingers and hope we don't have to see the doctor any time soon.