Today was a first for Katy in a couple of different ways. She wore her new glasses we just bought yesterday, and kept them on while she was in the church nursery…without our supervision. We are so proud of her! When I put them on her face she says, “Glasses help Kiki see better” because we’ve been drilling that into her pretty little head. I don’t think she knows how to use the bifocals in the bottom half of her lenses, but she does seem to use the upper part of the glasses. At 50% off we still paid over $200 for them, so let’s hope they last for a while. They are also going to be a pain for picture time because they definitely put off a glare. DANG!

The other “first” for Katy today is that she gave the blessing on the food during the nursery snack time. How proud are we?! Lately she’s been doing much better at prayers and still needs prompting, but she’s so excited to be doing it. Instead of repeating me when I close each prayer with “In the name of Jesus Christ” she just goes for the gusto and shouts, “AMEN!” After we finished up her bedtime prayer the other night, Katy added to it that she wanted to say thank you for riding the horse. We went on a huge carousel at the mall that day. This was her first spontaneous addition and it was great to know she understands what we’re doing, if not why we’re doing it. It must put her in a good mood because she put her head down on her pillow, touched my face and said, “Good Mommy.” Break out the Kleenex.

In honor of Katy’s accomplishments, here are some more vocabs:
*almost or not yet = means to Katy that she doesn’t have to stop doing what she’s doing
*Hey a minute! = derivative of hey, just a minute
*Lebra = zebra (all z’s are pronounced as l’s and she asks me to “lip up” her jacket now
*Allen too little = Allen is too little to do whatever it is that Katy is doing and she won’t let him
*Me free = after she learned to say, “Me, too!” she has since added “Me, free” as in the number three
*Horsen = plural for horse
*Dat’s cool, huh? = That’s cool, huh? And Mom is my witness that she points out cool things like this because we were in Target together when she said this.

The bad news is that potty training has ground to a halt. I decided not to push the issue, but now she doesn’t even want to try to potty in her chair before bath time. That used to be part of our routine. Katy would let me undress her and then she wanted to undo her diaper by herself. She would undo one side and then jump up and down until the soggy diaper fell to the floor. Then she carefully stepped out of it while I died laughing. To try to motivate Katy a bit more in this department, we picked out some pink panties from The Children’s Place in the mall. Both kids actually got a lot of cute stuff from there. I love that store!

Allen is doing so great with his crawling! He loves being able to go after the cats now, or chase down a wayward toy. Today was his first time to move from one room to another. He crawled from the living room to the computer room where Katy was. She just draws him to her like a pied piper. He is starting to try to pull up on things, too. I can’t believe what a happy baby boy he is. Katy pats his head and says, “Juicy Boy”. We left him at Mom’s house while we picked out glasses yesterday, and Katy asked for him the entire time. Allen definitely had more fun playing on the floor with Mookie, but he did miss out on the mini-safari that vendors were doing at the mall. Katy brought back a Baby Jaguar from the Build A Bear place. It’s just a small one with no clothing…nothing fancy, but she loves it! Since her j’s sound like d’s it’s fun to hear her say his name. Allen has been eyeing it lately so Katy better be on guard!

In “I Can’t Believe I’m Just Not Posting This” news, I finally am putting up some pics from Katy’s eye surgery and the trip to the zoo.