Still Growing...

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Look at how small she was in the above picture! Can't believe it.

Here is one more from today. Look how much she has grown!!
This year we had to tell her to go get Oso for the picture...and she had to go look for him to find him. No OJ in sight. Hasn't had any to drink in a long time. Her juice of choice now is apple.

Grandpas

Karla had a great weekend! She had tons of Grandpa time! Saturday Jason was away for the day and my mom and I went to the mall. Karla got to stay home with Grandpa. When discussing plans earlier this week, Grandpa had told Karla on the phone that there was only one condition to staying with her for the day...she had to hug him once every hour. I didn't think much of this until Mom and I got home and my timer went off. He had set the timer and they had hugged every hour!!! Dad said he even got an extra hug at one point because Karla said they didn't have to wait until the timer every time. Aww!!

They played Polly Pockets, Barbies, watched TV, had a rest time, and made a gingerbread man cake! They waited to eat the cake until Mom and I got home...that was Karla's idea. Here they are eating the cake.


Mom and I were gone for quite a while and I had a lot of fun! I haven't gone shopping (other than for Christmases) like that in way too long!


Then today I got to go shopping with Kathy and my Mom-in-law for bridesmaids dresses! Jason was under the weather so Pap-pap got the job of "watching over" Karla. She prefers "watching over" to "babysitting" - probably because of the word "baby" in babysitting. Pap-pap got to play Polly Pockets and Barbies and Hi Ho Cherry-O!

I had another great day of shopping! The dresses are narrowed down and I am excited about getting to dress up! Plus it was fun to talk to Kathy and Mom all afternoon about all the exciting things coming up this year!

I didn't take any pics today of Pap-pap with Karla...sorry, don't know what was wrong with me. Maybe I should dig out the one of him getting a manicure from Karla last year.... :)

Catching Up

So much has happened in the past month and I haven't kept up with my blog. A few random things:


Funny things Karla says right now:

*"ridic-lee-us" for ridiculous

*"imaginating" for imagine/imagination

*the other day she said "pep-si-tute" for substitute (teacher)...she knew that was wrong and started laughing and asked me what the correct word was. Now we say pepsitute instead of substitute

*we talk about how much we love each other, for example, we say "I love you to the moon and around the stars and back." After tucking Karla in one night and telling her how much I love her she said "Mommy, I love you to hell and back." I was able to make it out of the room before laughing.

*one day when Karla was particularly anxious to get to go to preschool she said to me, "Mommy, I sure have a lot of you this morning. Is it almost time for school?"

*around Christmas time we encountered the Salvation Army people outside of our grocery store. On the way to the car I was explaining why they were ringing a bell and collecting money. Then she excitedly said "I have a great idea. We should stand outside and ring a bell so we can have more money!"

*When we went to the circus in November Karla's favorite part was the "Egyptian" dancers. She still can NOT understand why we didn't see Moses or Pharoah though. She still asks me about this occasionally. She thought they should have been there since there were Egyptian "princesses" at the circus.

*When we went to the Children's Museum after Christmas Karla said something pretty funny. I did not witness this but heard about it from both of my parents. Karla, Audra, and my parents were walking around looking at some of the animal dioramas. Karla and Audra were talking about each one as they walked. They came to the deer diorama and there was a buck and a doe. Audra asked Karla where the baby one was (probably b/c most dioramas were animal families) and Karla very seriously and matter-of-factly answered "Oh, the parents have filled out a bunch of paperwork and they are going to be adopting a baby soon." And she kept on walking. Audra seemed to accept this answer. My parents had to try very hard not to laugh out loud.


Karla is still loving preschool, playing the violin (plays two songs now!), and dance class. She continues to be the light of my days. :)

Here is a link to pictures from the past month. Today Karla and Jason played out in the snow with our friends Joe, Josiah, and Nate. I got to stay inside and hold baby Abbi and talk to Kim. Enjoy!

Flower Girl

Big news! Karla is going to get to be a flower girl this coming summer! She is very excited! Her Tio Kevin is getting married to Kathy! They have asked her to be in the wedding and gave her two pink roses. We are going to let the petals dry out and then practice with them for the wedding.

Jason and I are also going to be in the wedding party! I am pretty excited too! It will be an exciting year! Did I mention that Kathy and I have been friends since high school...and now we get to be related!? Yep, pretty exciting!