Noodles and Sauce

For Family Home Evening we start by everyone picking a song for all of us to sing. When it was Kate's turn she picked the song, "Noodles and Sauce". What? You've never heard of that song before, well neither had I. However, Spencer played along that he knew what song she was talking about and so they both started singing their own versions of Noodles and Sauce. It was quite funny and put everyone in a silly mood for the rest of the evening. From what I could gather from Kate's song was how much she loved noodles and sauce and could eat it for every meal of the day.

CountDown

I'm 30 weeks along and that means we're in count down mode. It's so nice because now when people ask, "So how far along are you?" I get to respond with, "I have __ weeks left." which just re-enforces that I'm almost there! To pass the time I've made a list of things to do to keep me busy and my mind off how incredibly uncomfortable I am. I have already made her baby announcements. All I need now is a cute picture to glue on and her information to print out. I've also made a car sear cover. I'm so excited to have her with us and making all these cute girlie things just ups the anticipation.

Update - the yard

Kate and I noticed we had a little friend the other day busy at work. When we went out there to get a picture, we realized that he was a professional and already had 4 other of these lovely holes dug. Needless to say every evening his holes get covered up and every morning around 9 he's out there re-digging his holes. It's gonna be sad when he leaves us but he's got to go... don't worry I won't post that event.

Here's Spencer and Logan trenching for the sprinkler pipe to be laid down. I hope they know what they're doing.

Spencer building our raised garden beds. We are both really excited for our own garden. Nothing like fresh veggies and fruit from the garden.

Laying the pipe for the sprinklers - each steps gets us closer and closer to a grassed yard!

St. Patricks Day

Kate and I made cinnamon rolls with green frosting for breakfast on St. Patrick's Day. They were really yummy and I personally ate about 5 or 6 of them. We all dressed in green but I forgot to get a picture. She really liked it that we all matched and kept calling us "twiners". She then proceeded to tell me that,"today was green day and tomorrow is red and then pink and then black. " I think she liked the whole color theme.

A New Car...

Grandpa brought down the ISU softball team in a bus and then let Kate see inside. She loved it!

What a Shiner

The other evening Kate and the couch got into it and this time the couch won. Poor thing got a swollen eye and a couch burn. She cried the rest of the night but the next morning told me it was almost better. What a tuff girl!

Kate Lately

I've really been a slacker on posting things that Kate has done and said and with this child there is never a dull moment so here is a post dedicated to Kate.

Things she's said...

Kate has taken after her Grandpa Dibo and has come up with a nick name for Chase and herself. She calls Chase, "Chaser-Racer" and then nicknamed herself "Kater-Rader"

She calls everyone chicken and when she sees Austin and Brooke she calls them "Chicken Nuggets"

Kate turned off the TV and told Spencer to go to work when he was standing there watching ESPN

I know there's more but I can't seem to remember anything lately. So stay tuned because my goal is keep up on things that she says.

Here are some Pictures

Kate all dressed up as a princess

Hiding under the table while playing one of her favorite game hide and go seek

Spencer was supposed to be watching her while a basketball game was on and low and behold Kate was gluing her blocks to a piece of paper and then called it a city. I found Kate coloring like this - looks comfy, right?

Here's a video link of Kate making a person out of rocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhEuPXmY7MQ

Some New Favorites
Kate loves all shapes and is always asking me to draw them or she is pointing them out to me whenever she sees one. Her favorite one now is an Octagon.

She is now in the phase of asking why after everything. Any parent knows how annoying this can get. However, Spencer found a way to end the constant "why" question by answering "nothing" back to her. Yes it makes no sense but I think it confuses her enough to where she moves on and stops asking why - at least for a few minutes.

Kate can now read digital clocks. This comes in very handy when I need to know what time it is and can't see a clock. She can't quite say it properly but she'll read off the numbers then it's easy to guess the time.

We just celebrated Austin's 5th birthday and now Kate can't stop talking about her birthday. She keeps telling me she wants a tea party birthday with rainbow cupcakes. She's so excited - too bad its 2 1/2 months away.

Kate found her old newborn baby clothes and is now constantly pulling them out and showing me what the baby is going to where followed by "it's so little and so prettitiful" (pretty and beautiful combined)

A long time coming...

Most times that I haven't posted things for awhile it's because there hasn't been much going on... that's not the case this time. There's a lot to show and tell about so this will be a very long post.

1. Kate's Room
First things first, we have been in the process of re-doing Kate's room. She's out of her crib - which almost brought a tear to my eye when we took it down - and now in a big girl bed. She got new paint on the wall, new bookshelves, new curtains (which were homemade by me) and a new dresser. At first Kate was a little hesitant about all the changes and when I asked her if she liked her "new room" she replied with a simple, "No." It's been a month since all the changes and I think her room has finally grown on her because every time I go in there while she's in there she tells me, "Mom, I really do love my room". Those few words made it all worth it. P.S. All the big stuff is in and now I just need to add a few decorations and some pictures on the wall. It's on my list and as soon as it's done I'll be sure to post a picture.

Before

A new bed - bunk beds for Kate and her little sister one day - until then the top is her club house Kate and Chase taking a breather after watching us put things together. Getting ready to paint

Kate got to help Dad paint her room

The product so far
2. Take Time to Smell... the DIRT

Our goal is to have our yard in this summer. It's been on our minds since we moved in back in July. Well, it's going to be quite the process and you have to start somewhere so this past week we've brought in top soil and have leveled out the yard. I've caught Spencer a few times going outside to smell the dirt. Next on the list is planning out the yard and putting in the sprinkler system and then the grass. Spencer's plan is to have it all done by April 1st - I'm a little more realistic and giving him until the baby is due. We are so pumped to have a yard this summer!!! 3. 3rd Trimester
So I'm finally in the 3rd Trimester and feeling very pregnant. I just went to my OB check up and it looks as though this baby is right on schedule. I created my 3 month check list to try and prepare me and my family for the new addition, but mostly because I'm way excited and want to pass the time away.
Kate and Spencer wanted to show off their bellys too. The question is... what cookin' in their tummies?

4. Cousins
The last weekend in February Adam and his family came down to visit and celebrate Ashley's birthday. We went to a nickel arcade (Spencer's idea) Spencer felt right at home and taught Kate the way of the Arcade.

The boys played a game of hoops Spencer was so proud when Kate won the jackpot of 9 tickets at one of the games all by herself.

Kate showing off what she got with 110 tickets.

Saturday night we celebrated Ashley's Birthday with cupcakes and presents. She got a cute hat and purse and a new kite.

Here's the birthday girl really enjoying her cupcake.

We had a great time with them and hope Ashley had a wonderful birthday!

5. Mom & Me Gymnastics
I signed Kate up for a Mom & Tots gymnastic class at our local gym. She loved it but as I'm only getting bigger we only did a trail month. Kate loved all the running, jumping, somersaults, balancing and such that she got to do each week. There were about 5 other kids her age in her class and Kate was by far the most coordinated (that my bias opinion). As soon as this baby comes, and I can see my toes again we're signing her back up. Sorry no pictures - the day I was planning to bring the camera, Kate got sick and we didn't make it to the class. Next time, right.