That is NOT a Giraffe!

To catch up - I started this post before *last* weekend. So this is all a bit old...but lucky for my readers (all 2 of you!) I journaled some stuff so you'd know what's been going on.

First, ALL the way back to 10/4: it was a Sunday and Daddy was running an errand. David didn't want to go, so Daddy was going to take Katherine. When we ask Katherine if she wants to go shopping, she lifts her hands over her head and says "SHOPPING!!" very enthusiastically. I don't know where she learned that.

Anyway, I let her pick what shoes she wanted to wear.

She needs shoes, huh?

She picked the pink glitter ones out of ALL the shoes in her arsenal. My girl has some taste. They are a bit small and hurt her feet, but she was determined to wear them. They got almost out the door and she whined a little bit and her Daddy made her change. I told her that sometimes beauty is painful. Daddy didn't think that was a good message for our 20 month old. Hmmm???Katherine is starting to like to watch videos. She absolutely wouldn't for a long time - David always liked the Baby Einstein videos, even when he was less than 6 months old, but Katherine was just never into it. Now she asks for her video ("b.b.o.") quite often.
Then the little monkey figured out if she moved her chair closer and climbed on it, she could push the buttons on the TV!! How exciting is THAT???
That evening, David was scheduled to have a t-ball game. Of course, it was threatening rain outside, so we knew they'd cancel. We kept checking the website and calling the rainout number, but everything made it sound like the games were still on. Weird, since the day before, they'd canceled because it sprinkled enough to make spots on the sidewalk that evaporated 3 minutes later. Hmmm, well, to teach David a lesson, I took him to the fields. He needs to learn that you follow through on commitments, even if they should have told you that your commitment was canceled!

We pulled up to the fields, and the parking lot is full! It's raining semi-hard by now, so I was totally confused. Seriously, these are nice fields. Our city treats them like tissue paper - no one allowed on them in case their 40 lb bodies and their mock-spikes could cause a pin-sized hole in the ground. Anyway, the games were on. Our team had 6 kids show up, but only one kid from the other team showed. The kids were BEGGING to play in the rain, so we gathered up enough of them to form 2 teams and let them play. It was HYSTERICAL.

All the boys were sliding into home plate and getting covered in mud, and David was last to bat. When he was running down the 3rd base line, the other 4 moms sitting there and I were yelling at him to slide and he hopped over the mud, touched the base, hopped to the other side on the grass and went to the dugout.

HUH?

I called him over to me, "David, why didn't you slide?"

David: "Because I saw there was mud."

HUH?

Anyway, here are the boys on our team (one went home, I guess his mom wasn't up for a muddy 6-year-old) after the game. David's the cleanest one, although there was one other boy that wouldn't slide either, much to the dismay of the onlooking moms (his dad was on the field helping).

After the game, David told me that he didn't really like playing in the rain.

HUH?

More pictures of the kids watching a video. No, this isn't what we do all the time. We also play Wii.

Katherine has named several animals on one of her Baby Einstein videos after only watching it two times. She names panda, owl, monkey, elephant, but she STILL calls the giraffe every other animal EXCEPT a giraffe! Cow, horse, zebra, whatever, but that is NOT a giraffe.
The following Thursday (10/8) Katherine was batting clean-up for David. (David didn't eat all his dinner, so Katherine wanted to finish it up for him.)


I don't know why I think it's funny that I'm sitting on the kitchen floor feeding her, but I do.

One more story...

Katherine got in trouble for hitting me. I picked her up and she was NOT happy about it, so she hit me right on the face! I put her in her crib and told her she was in Time-Out. When I came back to get her, she said, in her best sugar-sweet voice, "No hit Mommy." Isn't that just sweet? She repeated it several times.

Next up on the Ferguson Channel - the U2 Concert and Katherine counts to 10!!