Too Cute For School

We just received Kate's pre-school pictures in her cubby at school, and they adorably scream school pictures. Kate has been too cute lately. She loves pretending to be Miss Julie her teacher. She reads us books facing out and mimics everything her teacher says. Like:

"Scoot back a little."

"Nuh, ah Megan. Don't touch Miss Julie's stuff." (referring to herself as Miss Julie in the 3rd person.)

"Oops I missed a page."

If we get up too soon she says, "No, not yet, I not call you name yet."

She tells Megan, "Meggie, if you're a good listener, you'll get a sticker."

It is all an adorable window into her life as a two year old preschooler.

At home Kate has been equally as cute. I think it is safe to say we have officially passed any degree of the terrible twos and dare I say my little girl is becoming a rational member of the family. She is such a good listener and turning out to be a really really good kid. She loves and shares with her sister, and warms our hearts every day. Kate has two babies she has named Little One and Cute One and needs to take all around the house. At night she very carefully tucks them into the baby crib she insists goes right next to her bed. She makes sure that both her and her babies' blankets are spread out all the way. Kate is proving to be a little particular.

Pretty much everything she says or does right now is overwhelmingly adorable. Some of the extra cute things she has said lately at home;

"This is my Pal Meggie and we're animal rescuers."
"Oh, This is Perfect (puhfect)."
"That sounds like a great idea!"
"You're the best in the whole giant world."

and my favorite, one I'm sure I'll hear repeatedly over the years especially as she enters her teen years;

"Mommy, you're my best friend."

She has begun to negotiate with us a little and the other night as Brian was leaving her room she said, "But, but, but Daddy, I can't snuggle myself." Needless to say she won that negotiation.

One night she had a bad dream, Brian went in to comfort her, and she told him, "Swiper swiped the refrigerator." Brian assured her that he got it back and it was downstairs and she asked him," You got it back, and all the pieces." So what does a two-year old dream of? Obviously being in a Dora episode.

At pre-school Brian is out and about as Pastor and it has been interesting watching how Kate handles that. She seems to recognize Brian's different roles already. The other day Brian peeked into their classroom for something and Kate said, "Daddy, Brian (Bwian), I mean Pastor Brian (Bwian)."

Kate is very polite and says please and thank you almost every time. If we for some reason forget to acknowledge this politeness she says quite indignantly, "I said, thank you." Prompting us to respond our usual, "You're welcome."

Another other too cute thing she does is confuse a couple close sounding nouns.

She replaces:

elbow - elmo
fork - pork
bagel - bengal
hood- hook
elevator - elli-gator

She is also super into Christmas, Baby Jesus, Santa, Frosty, lights, and everything Holiday. She is starting to connect the dots as yesterday she said, "Mommy, I shared with Meggie. Santa will be so happy."

Generally everything our girls do is incredibly cute, and it is fun to take a minute, in the few extra I can find, to write them down for a future trip down memory lane.