Happy Valentine's Day

My Love Bandit

Birthday Questions

Kate – 3 years old

1. What is your favourite colour?

            PURPLE

2. What is your favourite toy?

            OWL

3. What is your favourite fruit?

            APPLE

4. What is your favourite tv show?

            DORA

5. What is your favourite thing to eat for lunch?

            MACARONI AND CHEESE

 6. What is your favourite outfit?

            (This week) DORA BALLET PRINCESS

7. What is your favourite game?

            PUZZLES

8. What is your favourite snack?

            BREAD and BUTTER and HONEY

9. What is your favourite animal?

            GIRAFFE

10. What is your favourite song?

            I AM A CHILD OF GOD

11. What is your favourite book?

            TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

12. Who is your best friend?

            MARISOL

13. What is your favourite cereal?

            RICE KRISPIES

14. What is your favourite thing to do outside?

            BLOW BUBBLES

15. What is your favourite drink?

            WATER

16. What is your favourite holiday?

            CHRISTMAS

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night?

            TEDDY BEAR

18. What is your favourite thing to eat for breakfast?

            PANCAKES

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?

            BROCCOLI

20. What do you want to be when you grow up?

            PRINCESS

(The idea for this came from Pinterest.  I think it's a cute idea.  The follow-up is to ask every year and make a book out of the answers.  This book is now officially started... it will be a while before it goes to print though!)

To accompany the post, a few more pictures of my princess in training...

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

Day Five

Sick Days

I'm glad that sick days don't come too often to our house... more frequently now that there are two little people licking things, but still not very often.  Days like today are long and hard.  Poor little red-cheeked feverish Alice.  Get better soon my sweet baby, I miss your smile.

(And I just have to add this... The first time Kate was really sick was two weeks before she turned one which happened to be her first Christmas and my last two weeks home with her.  Sometimes it's ridiculous how much Alice wants to do everything that Kate does, this illness two weeks before she turns one is no exception.  I'm just so thankful that I have more than two weeks left of my maternity leave.)

Alice being Alice

She is seriously the funniest kid!  I love my little stinker!

Christmas in February

I've always loved it when a holiday keeps going and so when we met my Mom and Dad at the mall today and they brought the Christmas presents from Jon and Michelle we had a little bit of Christmas in February - in the mall parking lot no less! 

As soon as we got home Kate asked to wear her new Dora Ballet Princess Dress and Slippers.

What a happy girl she was... until I told her she couldn't sleep in her new Dora Ballet Princess Dress and Slippers.  There were many tears (and screams) tonight before bed.  I think this might be the beginning of a new phase in Kate's life. (Princess stuff... not tantrums - the latter are not new.)  Thank you Auntie Michelle (and Uncle Jon and all the cousins) for the most perfect Christmas present EVER! 

An Early Birthday Present

I've wanted one of these for a long time now.

Alice (and Kate) loves it just as much as I thought she would.  (Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!)

The Alice Way

This might be why I can't get Alice to go down the stairs yet?