A special post just for her…

Happy Birthday to you.  I hope that you have a great day!!!!  Love you lots and miss you every day!

Here’s a picture  Katelyn drew you  for your special day!  Isn’t it lovely! :)

Kate,you’re a funny girl!

We’re in a bad phase.  So Katelyn the last week or two has been pretty…..challenging.  Actually I think that would be an understatement.  It’s as if all the sudden the drama hit with full force.  She doesn’t like being told what to do and when she gets in trouble or I ask her to do something she just screams and usually resorts to throwing anything in close range.  Holy cow!  It’s a mess right now.  Nothing works as punishment.  She doesn’t care if she has to sit in time out or she doesn’t care if you take away her toys or her favorite kids show.  Katelyn is always doing something pretty cute sometime during the day and I keep telling myself it’s a good thing she’s so cute.  Those moments are what are  keeping me sane.  So I thought I’d share some recent and maybe some old (since I haven’t blogged forever) moments that have made me laugh or just go…awwwwwe.

The other day we were writing on Katelyn’s chalkboard and she would tell me a name and I would write it down for her.  We of course started with all her best friends and buddies and then we finally got to the family.  I was helping her out a little bit with her aunt’s and uncles (there’s a lot).  So I started saying “Dani.” and she was like Dani.  Then I said “Sydney.” and she was like nodding her head again saying “Sydney.”   Then I was like “Sam.” and she said again “Sam.” and then I paused for a minute not even really noticing and then she got this really concerned look on her face and she tilted her head a bit and then said “Zachy????”  I was like oh YES.  Don’t forget Zach.  I was surprised that she would remember something like that.  Remember who was missing.  I think she just really likes Zach!!! :)  Super cute!

Katelyn is really into pretending now which I love to play along with.  Her favorite right now is pretending she’s leaving with her babies (shopping, errands, etc) or she’s leaving to school.  And she’ll always come running into a room and yell “HOME!!!”  and I love to ask her “Where did you go?”  She’ll always respond with one of three places…Amy’s house, church, or school.  :)  Then after she’s told me where she’s been she’ll say “Missed you!”  That’s when my heart melts. :)

Back in January Katelyn decided to lock herself in the bathroom.  I tried explaining to her how to get out but she wasn’t getting it.  She didn’t care.  She was just sitting on the floor playing with all her Barbie’s.  We finally got the “OLD” door open with a screwdriver.

One Saturday morning Craig and I were lying in bed and we hear that Katelyn is up and so Craig yells out to her “Katelyn come here.” and she responds with “Not coming dad! Love you bye!” :)  hehe

I was tickling Katelyn for something funny she was doing.  She likes being tickled.  So she kept on doing what she was doing.  Well one time she did her thing and I laughed but no tickling.  She then says “tickle me!”  I couldn’t stop laughing.

Katelyn has recently started to say a lot lately “Me do it, K!”  She’s very independent and wants to do everything herself.  It’s now becoming a fight between us.  I’ll say “No mommy needs to pour your milk.”  Kate will yell back with lots of anger “NO me do it, K!”

Katelyn Phrases

No me do it, K

Tickle me

In a minute

Hold on

Missed you

Come on mom

 

FHE from Lindsay Fryer on Vimeo.

Easter egg hunt

Saturday was our ward’s annual Easter egg hunt.  Kate understood the process more this year so I think she had more fun.  She was running all over the place trying to find the eggs.  Here are some cute pictures from the morning….

 

egg hunt from Lindsay Fryer on Vimeo.

February

....and here are some cute ones from February.

January

Here are just some cute pics of Kate from January.

Family Pictures

Our very nice friend took some pictures of us down by the lake and she did such a wonderful job. We have never had family pictures done before (I know...LAME) and so I was so excited to finally get some done.

Christmas

So our Christmas this year was very low key. We were on our own this year. I know sad huh! Well we survived :) We started off by having dinner with some friends on Christmas Eve. That was really fun. I always love those.

Then Christmas morning was here. We luckily are not at the age yet were Katelyn is up at the break of dawn. So as soon as she woke up we started to open presents. I think we might have gone a little over board this year. Katelyn was bored opening presents 1/2 hour into it. We tried to force her to open some more but she wouldn't have it. It took about a week to open the rest of them. I took some back cause I just realized she had too much and didn't need it. After we were all done with breakfast and getting ready for the day we decided to go to the movies. We wanted to go and see The Princess and the Frog movie which had just come out but of course we get there and it's sold out. We figured that could happen (it was Christmas after all) so we had to see Alvin and the chipmunks. It was the only kid movie playing. That was okay. I think Kate loved going to the movie. It was her first. Then we just were lazy bums the rest of the day enjoying Craig at home with us. We missed our family a lot this year. I'm glad we get to go home for Christmas this year.

Santa

I LOVE going to see Santa....so it's only my second year taking Kate but I can't get enough of this stuff.