December Update

We have been just a little bit busy the last few weeks. With moving into a new house, preparing for Christmas, taking care of Kate, being 36 weeks pregnant, and Brian being in the middle of Advent its been a bit overwhelming. We are actually doing really well. We are out of boxes besides the basement and even have a tree up. It feels great to be in our house and we really love it. Kate loves her house and her room and sleeping great. We even managed to do something Christmas spirited on Saturday and went to the park district breakfast with Santa. Kate was very wary of Santa, but did good. Her favorite things were the games and getting to try a sprinkle covered donut.
Kate has changed so much in the last few weeks. She is chatting up a storm, counts to 20, and is singing complete songs. We can do our entire abcs, twinkle twinkle, itsy bitsy spider, row row your boat, and her repertoire keeps expanding. Some of her baby talk is disappearing which I'm kind of sad about. She used to say "Come on Daddy, tick Kate." Now she says "Come on Daddy tickle me." A slight change, but still very cute though. Kate has learned how to jump and shouts it as she leaps around the house. She exclaims, "reach, reach" when she wants something we have put above her grasp. We still limit TV but when she wants to watch something she says, "Mote, Mote, Ere are you?" (Remote, Remote, Where are You) and looks around the living room. When we find it she says, "Gotch You." or "Dere you are." She insists on saying."Bye, see you later (yater)," to everything as we leave a room. That includes all 8 of her Disney princesses before bed. My favorite is Snow White (Stow Whi). Somewhere amidst this crazy month our little baby has grown up on us. She is truly a toddler and just in time, because I'm not sure how many more weeks until we have another little baby in our house.