Things I don't want to forget about K

Her favorite month is July... she was sad when it ended and likes it well just because.

Her favorite direction is east and keeps an eye out on the car's compass for when we are heading east. She wishes in fact all we did was head east when driving.

One of her new friends at school is her friend because the first letter in their names is K.

She loves her new school and whenever we drive by it screams that it is her school.

Her superheroes are our neighbors across the street because gasp they are seven!

She told her sister the other day that she wanted to spend her life making her happy. She looks at pics of C or things C does and says that C looks so cute in that pic or can you believe C can do that? "I AM SO AMAZED"!

The start of conversation

C started to talk a bit more on Sat...

After she got up from her nap I asked how she slept? she responded with a good? Next q.. Do you want to eat? Yes, with a head nod... I was so amazed I asked her how she slept about 20 times... she decided that she didn't want to deal with the question yesterday and skipped her nap alltogether... Not so good!

This morning I asked her how she was? response... good. I told her I loved her, she came over and kissed me.

We also worked on identifying body parts this morning. She was able to show me where all her facial features were with some excessive ear pulling. Last week something was too loud and so she covered her ears with her hands unlike K. When we tried to warn her of sirens in London she would put her hands over her cheeks instead of her ears.

Just five days left...

Five days left of summer break left... until hurrah the last quarter of business school. I am so excited. The summer was a very nice preview of just how nice having entire weekends as a family can be. It was great to spend so much time on the coast or in the city and just being together. It was so strange to wonder what to do every once in a while as we had a free day on a weekend where I didn't have to head off to school...  It was nice to hang with so many awesome friends and celebrate with weddings, happy hours and wine. And do a lot of window shopping... I think I considered purchasing about 200 purses this summer... I think I bought two... thank goodness I had some restraint.

Spending all the extra time with my wonderful husband and the kids was very very nice... however the kids were a lot of work!! We had both kids home a lot more during the days whenever possible which was lots of fun and just plain exhausting.

Our house is a lot more organized as we cleaned every closet and every drawer in every room. Even the garage will be looking good after a few more runs to Goodwill. This level of organization is challenged on a daily basis with the little ones.

C's baby book will be done by the time school starts. Still trying to keep everything equal for the kids... So that is almost impossible, but still trying.

The kindergarten transition went well although we are still on the wait list for our first choice school which could result in another transition... not looking forward to it as K is madly in love with her school and her teacher.

Somehow the what am I going to do after the MBA question remains unanswered and still really overwhelming, but luckily I have a few months to figure this out... The other goal, that last little baby weight still remains, but hey 2010 isn't over yet so there is still time to get this worked out as well!

I am sure the biggest highlight of summer for K was Disneyland, C's biggest highlight was learning to play with her sister and mine was spending time with my beautiful family and husband... Yes, still think I am as lucky as I was at the start of the summer despite all the summer adventures!

We are now going to begin our countdown to the celebration of the end of business school, two weeks in the Caribbean. Although this is just us and the kids the real celebration will be when we return and thank both of our mom's for always being willing to help out and be our support system so that I could finish school even with two monkeys.

I do it myself stage...

C is entering a new stage of life... the I can do it myself stage... cereal, she can eat it on her own... even if the spoon is upside down just after she is freshly dressed. K tried to share pushing the cart at Whole Foods yesterday. Definitely a no go manuever, C started to shriek... It appears that the I do it myself stage for C also includes learning how to shriek and stamp her feet....

Goodbye babyhood, hello toddler! And what a cute toddler she is... blowing kisses, saying ba bye, disappointed when her sister leaves her for school, taking our hands and guiding us to where she wants to explore and still loving to eat!

Becoming sisters

For the last year C has been the baby/toddler and K has been the big sister... for the most part a very adoring big sis... unless C starts touching her things... well all bets are off if this occurs.This past weekend something changed and we watched the two of them really try to play together... For the most part the games were simple for K, but she was really sweet and kind in playing... They spent almost an hour collecting rocks and sitting in the water in HMB... that might be more of a miracle, that the weather was just that good! They have continued having moments where they play together all week, from playing with play doh, to little games it is nice to see them have sisterly moments...