Special Baby

All kids are funny, but my youngest just cracks me up lately.  She is in that stage, and we are loving it.  I never seem to catch her doing the funny things on camera, but I got a few last night.

She is OBSESSED with my husband's phone.  She probably would be with mine, too, but I'm not nearly as nice.  She doesn't get my phone.  Is it just me or does she look a little too grown up scrolling through screens in this pic?

 

After dinner, she likes to use her rag to "clean" the house.  For some reason, her head must have been extra dirty last night.  She walked around like this for at least 30 minutes!

This is her this morning.  Since she was "kind" enough to wake me up early on my day off, she and I cuddled while watching tv.  She had three paci's, a baby doll, her rag, and her juice.  She was so not going to let go of any of them, either.  Trust me, I tried.  She's definitely my little hoarder!

Her older sister woke up early too and I got snuggles from both of them AT THE SAME TIME.  Can I tell you how rare that is?  It was definitely worth the hour of sleep I would have gotten in it's place!  Happy Friday!

Carie

Kayt is 6 years (and 2 weeks) old!

Yep, behind as usual.  I've given up being on time...I'm just happy when I actually get stuff done these days.  I posted the pics from Kayt's birthday party here.  She turned 6 four days after that party.  We took cupcakes to her school and her daddy and I took off half a day, checked her out, and let her pick what we did (without little sister in tow).  She picked the Children's Museum and lunch at Chick-fil-a.  Have we got this girl trained right, or what?

Here's what my 6-year-old is up to:

*  You are the BEST big sister ever!  You get very frustrated with Kennedy, but you want her to learn and grow.  When she's upset, you try to comfort her.  You are working very hard to teach her words so she can tell you what she wants.  You told me the other day that "teaching babies is easy".  If only it was that way all the time!

* You love Jesus and church and learning about Him.  You are compassionate and thoughtful of others.  I love that you don't think twice about giving your allowance money to others' who need it more.  And I really love listening to you sing about Jesus in the car.  Melts my heart every time. 

* You are so smart.  You are reading over 2 years above your grade level.  You amaze me at the words you can read.  When I'm sure you're going to need help with one, you pass it by without a problem.

*  You are extremely tender-hearted.  I hate getting on to you because you cry.  Doesn't matter how I do it.  And it makes me want to just let things go.  I know I can't because then I would be a really bad mommy, but oh, how you tear my heart when you cry!

* You are loving school.  You really seem to be enjoying your first grade teacher, and I can tell that you are learning a lot.  Especially in math....that seems to be a big focus this year.

* You still enjoy gymnastics.  You have a lot of the fear that your mom has about trying new things, but you are becoming more and more brave.

* You love soccer!  I was worried that you wouldn't like it when you started, but even after being hit in the face with a ball, you're all in.

* You still love to snuggle.  I hope you never outgrow that.  I can always use my bug-hugs.  And your laugh is still my one of my favorite sounds in the world!  You get so tickled when your daddy is being silly....I just LOVE it!

* You are awful to sleep with.  You are ALL OVER THE PLACE.  You wake up sideways every morning.  You've had to sleep with us when we've had company lately and we're so happy you're such a good sleeper in your own bed!

* You have moved into size 8 clothes and some of them are just too grown up for you.  I have to remember that as big as you are, you're only 6.  You get to be my "little" girl forever, don't you know?

Momma and Daddy are SO proud of the girl you are and the one you continue to become.  We love you with all our hearts and are thankful that we get to spend every day with you!  Love you Bug!

Momma