Not a baby anymore

This weekend it hit me, K goose is no longer a baby, but truly a little girl. She is very good at communicating needs, looks much taller and acts like a little girl. We have been taking her for coffee on Sunday mornings and she can sit for 40 minutes while she plays with toys and water and we chat. She has desires that are past eating, sleeping and playing. She has opinions on which way to walk, what book we should read and when to feed MoCa treats.

She also knows how to smile on demand. If you ask her to smile for the camera, she does which I will show you in a picture below. Funny that now getting a perfect shot is less of a challenge, but she still turns her head so fast.

K goose

We haven't seen much one another this week due to a crazy schedule on my end. We had a great morning reading books, which was great. One of the highlights of new books is picking the stickers off and putting them on our knees and walking around giggling. K requested I read books to her on the floor this morning instead of the bed. When I set the books on the bed she looked at me nodded her head no and plopped on the floor. We still had a great time with her nestled in my lap.

K is very interested in mimicking. As someone I chatted with today mentioned, this is the monkey do stage... She went for a walk with Tmobro yesterday and after he finished scratching her head she reached up to help. She did the same with my arm today. She is an expert scratcher.

We had a great time dancing this morning before I went off to work. She loves loves to dance. It is quite fun...

She has learned more about how to please MoCa and can scratch her under her chin and on her cheeks, which I am sure makes MoCa very very excited!

She is also very into my purse and yesterday didn't want me to take it out of the house, rather she preferred carrying it around and putting things in and out of the purse and lifting it up and saying heavy, as we often ask her if the purse she is carrying is heavy. What a girly girl!

Fantastic!!!!

We had an amazing weekend as a family. We had the opportunity to take advantage of our pool for the last four days running, enjoy yummy gelato and sip tasty coffees near air conditioning.

D,M,T & A came over yesterday for some pool fun, followed by light rail into town for gelato. The ice cream was yummy, but what was even better was getting drenched by the tap water that happened to fall out of the girls cups and on to their clothes. Accidents I am sure!

On Sat Tmobro was eating a popsicle and sharing with K. K demanded that MaMa hold the popsicle and DaDa just have bites. Apparently she felt I am the only one that can share ice cream with her as Tmobro never eats ice cream.

We met M&J for a coffee and the farmers market in the morning and had a great time enjoying a coffee. K even let us sit for 40 minutes while we drank our coffees. I am amazed that although she is non-stop she seems to stay rather close to us where ever we are. K insisted I sit in Twee Twee's Nemo chair and did her usual musical chairs starting at the corner and working her way to the middle to watch TT make balloons for the kids at the market.

The best part of the weekend was yesterday when we got home after a day in the sun and turned on the AC. We tried to avoid it as much as possible because of the spare the air, flex your power campaigns, but coming in to a cool house and lounging on the bed reading Goodnight Gorilla was amazing!

K has learned to smile on demand. If you ask her to give a smile, her face lights up. SO COOL! We have a drama kitty in the making. She is also quite funny about mimicking us. I said oh my early yesterday morning and heard a little oh my echo. I looked at T mobro because I couldn't believe she said it, but yes the oh my was coming from the goose.

The other funny thing is the way she cares for all her kitties and MoCa. We were out with SR last night talking about what a mini mommy she really is. K got up at 5:30 on Sat morning and demanded to go and find MoCa. We had to give her treats and K even took them outside to see if MoCa would eat the treats from the front door. She loves to tuck all her animals and MaMa in night-night throughout the day. We also always get offers for water and snacks.

Malcolm had his first bath this weekend. K didn't want to get into her drawn bath and so I asked if Malcolm would. She informed me he wanted to and so I suggested she take a bath with Malcolm. She agreed. Funny how I feel so empowered when I am able to get these sorts of things accomplished with no tears. It seems like the equivalent of a major workout, a project completion etc.

We took light rail and the train to Cafe Borrone and Keplers on spare the air day. K loved the train and when we were sitting waiting for it to come threw her hands in the air while saying choo choo to ask where was the choo choo. The where expression and hand gestures are hilarious.

We also got some lovely dinners out just the two of us and enjoyed being out in fantastic warm evening weather! The big plus for hot days. I even had a nice shopping adventure with Pmogi. VERY FUN to be out relaxing checking things out with no diaper bag and just a purse.

Excitement in the ordinary

K goose is amazing at enjoying the ordinary. Drinking water this morning with the various kitties caused numerous yummy and ahhhh sounds.

Figuring out how to turn the rain stick by herself - gigantic smiles!!!!

Jumping in the pool - squeals.

Tasty crackers from D & A.... YUMMY AGAIN!

Riding the train like a big girl. Life is good!!!!

She has a great personality and loves to smile, read and play. We are lucky to have her in our lives.

Malcolm

We have a new family member as of last Thursday! As many of you know K goose loves stuffed animals as well as dogs and cats. We have a pull bow wow toy that has been going on walks in the house, around the island and outside in the neighborhood. Last week K goose and the dog were on the way upstairs and the dog went from just a dog to Malcolm. Although K has a lot to say a lot of it is hard to understand and so when Tmobro and her were chatting somehow the bow wow ended up being called Malcolm. Now we all refer to the dog as Malcolm and K is especially excited! She loves to walk him and bring him on trips. Every time he falls which happens a lot, he gets butterfly kisses.

A few pics

Paper love

K loves to eat paper... loves it... loves it....

This morning I was picking up in her room and she ran off to our room. Very normal. A bit of noise - normal as well. After all she is getting ready for work as well...

I finish picking up and go into our room and say K goose. She jumps five feet... I quickly realize why. She is busy eating the cover of Golf Digest. K goose had a very different version. As soon as she looks up after landing from her jump she squeals meow meow. Sure enough there is one of her beloved kitties on the floor next to the magazine. She goes on to inform me that it was meow meow who was eating the paper. She shrieks meow meow about eight times when I decide to ask.... Let's check meow meow's mouth and K goose's mouth and we will know who has been eating paper. K goose runs over to open meow meow's mouth and of course being a stuffed kitty we find nothing in there. However K had enough time to swallow the magazine and could open her mouth to prove of course she didn't the paper. The things we do to eat paper...

A great week

We got most of last week together as a family. Quick highlights:

Oakland zoo - nice but not perfect for K goose. She needs to be older. Beautiful habitat for the animals.

One nap is now the name of the game. We are excited.

San Francisco day - Kmogi, Pmogi and Dmogi headed for a day of shopping ( Filmore, Chestnut and Union) K goose handled it like a pro, picked out many purses and sunglasses to consider buying at a later time and found a necklace she loved. Of course we had to get gelato to end the perfect K goose day. We had a great time. It was a perfect mogi day. Weather in the low 80s, no parallel parking, nice meal, fun shopping and ice cream.

Neighborhood 4th of July parade - fantastic! So tiring though that K goose fell asleep in her car at the end of the ride.

Met K and J at the mall for some mommy baby shopping. FYI - sorbet is not ice cream. Don't feed it to K goose.

Hike with family at Baylands. Very nice, dirt on the ground. YUMMY. When will this putting everything in mouth thing end?

Farmers market adventures with dancing and twee twee visits. Twee twee is the best clown ever! He calls K goose a "young woman"

MY VERY OWN CHAIR. We got K goose a pottery barn kids chair. She loves it, it is a chair, a climbing structure, a place for kitties to sleep and the best place to drink milk and read books.

Shopping in Los Gatos. Haircut at fancy hair salon for K, she took it as the style queen she is and let them trim her bangs with contemplation.

Visiting Dad and Grandma at work for yummy lunch. Immediately before was a horrible mama morning with K goose eating bird poop. YUCK!

Farmers market Los Altos where we got to dance and see beautiful bow wows.

So many more adventures, hard to write them all, but K goose loved her family week.