Katie is growing up so fast. Every age and stage so far has been "my favorite" and that still continues. She's learning and doing new things every day.
I love that we can have conversations with her now. She doesn't just repeat what we say now but she tells us what she's thinking or what she wants. We give her choices when we can and let her choose what she wants to drink with her meal, or what she wants for snack, etc. I love picking her up from school and asking about her day. She tells me "I played with friends" and lists some of the friends she played with. She tells me "I ate lunch." "I played with toys." "I did books." It's so much fun to hear about her day the way she remembers it.
We're not really trying to potty train yet, but occasionally put her on the potty when she wakes up from her nap and she sometimes goes in the potty. She likes to tell us she's a big girl and when she goes "tee tee in the potty".
We moved her into her new big girl room and big girl bed a couple of weeks ago and she loves her new room and bed. She's slept in there great every night and even for her naps. Her bed is much taller than we expected it to be so we got her a little step stool to get in and out. She climbs in all by herself but hasn't tried to get out of her bed yet. When she wakes up she either plays with her baby doll, plays with her taggie, or grabs books from her bedside table and looks at them until we come get her out of bed. She'll do this for an hour and be perfectly content.
She loves looking at books. When I got her up from her nap yesterday she started "reading" one of her books. It's an easy book for her to "read" and is the 1st one I've heard her go through the whole thing so I had to get her to "read her whole book" for the video camera. Check her out...
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She enjoys playing with her baby dolls more now and gives them hugs and kisses all the time. I can't wait to see her with her little sister. Only 11 more weeks until my due date. It's getting so close. I think Katie will have some jealousy issues. When Andy gets home or when her friends at school talk to me when I pick her up, she runs over to me, grabs me, and says "MY Mommy!" So I'm sure she'll have some adjusting to do when baby girl gets here but I know she will LOVE being a big sister and helping out! It will be so much fun to see her love on baby girl.
Next on the agenda... potty training and getting rid of her paci. She only uses her paci when she sleeps but for sure by 3 years old I'm hoping to have broken her of that habit. When the baby comes we will be able to tell her the paci is for babies and she's a big girl. Hopefully that will help.
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