Kate is 22 months old, and if you asked her, she doesn't need us anymore. The evidence:
- She puts her sneakers on herself, we just fasten the velcro.
- She can flip her jacket over her head and then tells us to "zip"
- For the last two days, she is climbing into her booster seat at the table herself. And tonight, she made me stand there until she did the buckle herself...felt like 5 minutes to Mom standing there waiting.
- Chris picked her up at daycare today, and he went to open the gate to her classroom. To which Kate said, "No, by myself."
- Kate's note from her teacher yesterday said that Kate refused any help going to sleep at naptime, saying "no, self."
Yup, pretty soon we'll just be here to hand her some money as she walks out the door to hang out with friends.
Speaking of which, Chris was able to trick Kate the other day into eating some carrots. He told her that one of her friends at daycare loved them. Well, she wanted to be like her friend, and she ate them. Hope that trick lasts for a while:).
New words are coming each day, so much so that it would be hard to list them all. Today she suprised me by realizing that a bottle was "shampoo" - it was a kind she hadn't seen before - and then telling me she was going to put it in the "bathroom." And that's a whole different blog post...our girl Kate loves to put things away. Yup, I think she has my disease:).
She makes us laugh every day. Today's new example - they do yoga at school. We don't exactly know what that means except that her notes say they did yoga. Tonight, Chris asked Kate to show us some yoga. Proud as anything, she lifted her hands up over her head and said, "Big as the sky." And then she touched her toes. I don't know if that's the extent of yoga, but it sure made us laugh. Then she kept saying "more yoga" and showed us again and again.
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