"I HAPPY!!!"

Last Friday we drove down to MB for the weekend. Our plan had been to call and order pizza as we got closer to the condo so that we could pick it up on the way there. Best laid plans… The wait for pizza was 90 minutes for pick-up. So, we decided to eat in. Apparently the wait for sitting there wasn’t much better. No one told us this however. So, we ordered some garlic knots while we waited for our pizza. We didn’t realize that our pizza was going to take more than 90 minutes to come out of the oven. (The garlic knots, by the way, are the BEST I’ve ever eaten in my life! For real! I could eat a whole dozen by myself… Stephen and K know you better get it fast or I’m going to eat them all. I have NO self control.)

K and I muddled through but *someone* (no names) was er, um, not happy. K on the other hand, for the first time in her little life expressed a positive feeling through words: “I HAPPY!!!!” Neither of us had ever heard her say this before and I really do believe she meant it. She was smiling ear to ear, playing with a piece of pizza dough. We did “magic” (I hid the dough in one hand and had her guess where it was – very popular game) and sang songs. After waiting 80 minutes we decided we’d get the pizza to go as it was getting very late. K had eaten enough (pre-pizza) to be okay and the not-happy one needed to get out of there.

Little did we know that would start a week-long request for “I want pizza.” Tonight we finally fulfilled little miss’s wishes. She was QUITE happy. Of course as soon as she finished that she said “I want ice cream!!!” Girl knows what she wants.

Over the weekend we took Katherine to the SC Children’s Museum which she enjoyed although there were a lot of rude children and parents there. One little girl insisted on taking everything Katherine was playing with. We kept moving, she kept following us. We finally went to another part of the museum to get away from the little bully.

Sunday we took Katherine to the beach. It was our first time at the beach with rain. Off and on for the 3 hours we were there. It worked out just fine and Katherine had a great time. She LOVES the water and “jumping” the waves. I got a good arm work out!!

We had planned on staying till Monday but our stay was extended when Katherine and Stephen started to get sick on Sunday evening. Katherine started running a fever and Stephen wasn’t feeling well either so we ended up staying till Tuesday.

On our way home we stopped at a Mexican restaurant (i.e. location for a margarita). Stephen needed a little help in order to manage through the ride home. (Note: I was driving.) Margarita’s were $1.75 and they had fried ice cream. It doesn’t get much better than that.

While we were there I tried to teach Katherine some Spanish. I taught her “que pasa”. Two little words had an entire restaurant of servers eating out of her two year old hands. They thought she was the funniest thing! She LOVED yelling QUE PASA any time a server walked past. They’d yell QUE PASA back and she’d get into a fit of laughing. She even taught the southern hostess how to say it. (The servers believed Katherine said it better than she did.)

It was Katherine’s first time having fried ice cream. To be honest, I’m not sure how much she got of it because I was all over it. Stephen and Katherine had a discussion after dinner that the next time we got it for the family they needed to form an alliance against me. Apparently Survivor: Fried Ice Cream is ON! Whatever familia. Bring it on!!! =)

I’m still working on K’s 50’s poodle skirt/dress. Tonight I was able to find the finishing pieces. Tomorrow or Sunday I will work on the goods. The Sock Hop is on Tuesday. Clock is ticking so I need to get to work!!!

Some other miscellaneous Katherine facts:
- Her favorite color is purple.

- She’s still in love with the yellow boat that she went in while we were at the Wildwood boardwalk. Last weekend she asked if she could go on them and I said they were far away. She said, “we go in the car”. So wonderfully logical.

- She loves turtles. The school had someone come that brought small animals with them for the kids to see/touch. Katherine (shockingly) touched every animal, including a snake, hissing cockroach, bunny and turtle. The turtle continues to be a hit. She will repeatedly tell you “I touched a turtle.” Sometimes this will be the first thing she says when she wakes up. And I mean from snore, to stand up in her bed saying “Mommy, I touched a turtle.” There are turtles in the pond in our condo complex. Last weekend she played peek-a-boo with them. Quite cute. And she was totally in love with them.

- She can count to 10 well. 11-20 is iffy. 21-30 we’re good again. She loves 30.

- She can say her ABCs. Last week she sang her ABCs in an opera voice. Quite entertaining.

- She LOVES to race. We race often. Down sidewalks, through the house, to her daycare classroom. Amazing how this one thing can stop a total melt-down from happening. Last weekend I had her “racing” herself for about 15-20 minutes. She didn’t tire. I did, just watching her.

- If allowed her menu would consist only of pizza, hot dogs, cheese, chips, ice cream and cake.

- She loves water. Regardless of where it is. One night I took her outside to play in the rain. We had SO much fun running through the rain, jumping in puddles etc. Now when she sees puddles she wants to jump in them. If there’s water – Katherine wants to play in it. Fortunately she doesn’t equate the toilet to playing water. The sick, bathtub, puddles, pools, ocean, etc. are all fair game though. When she “swims” she says, “look!!! Shamuuuuuu!!!!”

- She’s still terrified by dogs. The girl has Dog-dar. She can see a dog from a half a mile away. If she says MOMMY, DOG – I have NO doubt there is a dog. Somewhere. Even if I don’t see it. She’s fine with them until they come into her cone of safety (which is about 5ft around her). We’re trying to work on it little by little with our neighbors’ little dogs.

It’s amazing how much she’s changed in just a couple of months. I think Stephen and I are both enjoying seeing things through the eyes of a two year old!

Pictures for the week:

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