Stone Soup lunch

Kendall's class had a Stone Soup lunch today. Each student had to bring in one item for the soup - Kendall brought the bowls. Last week they cut up all the ingredients which Kendall loved doing. We got to come early to pick them up and eat some of the soup with them. As we got there, each student said to their parent "thank you for joining us for our lunch" and they took us by the hand to get in line for soup. It was fun, but I must say it's hard for a pregnant girl to sit in those little seats at those little tables!!! The girl Kendall is sitting by is Anna - that is who she mostly plays with when she's at school and they both just HAVE to hug each other before they leave each day. Kendall has been wanting to pick out her own pajamas at night. She normally chooses regular clothes - but oh well. So these pictures below are one of the "pajammies" that she chose. She calls them pajammies and her request for what she wanted to pick was "a blue shirt, blue pants and blue socks".....at least she picked all the same color! I found her some really cute pajammies for this year - hopefully she eventually wants to pick the ACTUAL pajamas!

Kendall and Boo

No matter how much Kendall terrorizes the cat, he still really likes her. If she goes in her room to play - he stalks her and finds her and lays there and acts like he's playing with her. Every now and again he does get sick of her mauling him to death and he'll kind of bite her - but it never leaves a mark. If she had her way she'd love it if he could sleep with her at night - but we shut her door all the way and I don't want him waking her up if he really wants out!

Happy Halloween!

Kendall chose to be Aurora (aka sleeping beauty) for Halloween. She didn't want me to curl her hair - "just a ponytail mom" - so that is what we did. It was super cold so she wore leggings underneath her outfit and eventually let me put a sweatshirt on her. We were smart this year and took her wagon with Rob's "Michigan Snuggie" so she was pretty warm most of the time. She was really good at yelling Trick or Treat again this year. When we got home, she had a GREAT time passing out candy to the trick or treaters that came - not sure which she enjoyed better, getting her own candy or passing it out. She kept trying to get grandpa and Rob to eat her candy (which is nice that she shares) but Rob said she gave them like 20 pieces each!!

of all the toys.....

She enjoys pulling a chair up to the sink and playing in the water with her toys. I fill one side up with soap and water so she has bubbles and then we use the ice cube tray as the rinse off bin so there is just warm water in there. Each toy gets its own towel (washcloth) and she just goes to town. She was occupied with this for over an hour the other day. Needed no help or anybody by her - she just kept asking for more towels. The cat kept trying to join her, but he just played with the bubbles so she kicked him off the chair. Totally off the subject, but we couldn't have asked for a better cat. He likes water. He likes Kendall - let's her do anything she wants to him and he will NOT bite her! I caught her trying to put him in a drawer to play hide n seek with him the other day - when I told her to set him down he couldn't go in a drawer he didn't high tail it out of the room - he just sat there and looked at her like "what are we gonna play next". Grandma, Grandpa and Breanna came over on Friday and the children aka grandpa breanna and kendall played hide n seek, which involves the girls hiding and grandpa finding them.....well the girls hid under our bed and the cat hid with them - when grandpa found them and they ran, the cat ran right along with him. Sometimes I kind of WISH he'd bite her because then she wouldn't constantly be picking him up or hugging him or OCK licking him like she does sometimes - but I guess if it doesn't bother him it shouldn't bother me!

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Scene:
Kendall and Mommy in the shower

Kendall: (while kinda flicking her hands at moms boobs) mom, those are getting kinda short

Mom: (holding back laughter) what do you mean?

Kendall: (while patting the top of my belly) they're kinda short because they are touching this now

Mom to self - geez I'm glad my daughter is oh so observant and I certainly hope she does not repeat this conversation at school!!!!

funny stuff

Kendall and I met Dani for lunch on Tuesday......and Kendall was at her best as usual.....first off we met for Chinese. I told Kendall we were going for Chinese food at First Wok and Kendall said "are we walking there?" How do you explain to a kid that doesn't spell, the difference between Wok and walk?!?!?! And a little back story to her next funny comment......so Dani got a puppy awhile back and we went to visit and see the puppy and Dani's boys climbed in the dog's cage and invited Kendall in there. So when Kendall saw Dani walking toward us she said "hey, where are your cage boys?" Then while eating Kendall was telling one of her wonderful stories of when we went to the movies a few weeks ago and she was trying to tell Dani that the movie scared the crap out of her (which were words of another kid we went with....)but instead she told her "the movie crapped on me." Now this morning our cat was really interested in what we were eating for breakfast so he kept trying to inch his way onto the table and when he got his front paws up there I said "well excuse you" and Kendall said "mommy, did the kitty burp?" never a dull moment I tell you. Oh yes what did she ask the other day about Brenym....oh yes she asked if he was going to pop out of my stomach - if that were only the case.........

Kendall has adjusted WONDERFULLY to our new house!! We found a little park around the corner and she loves it - it's within walking distance so that is great and so far nobody is EVER there! She still calls our old apartment "our new place" (she called it that the whole time we lived there) and she calls our new house by the street name.

She is doing GREAT in dance class. There are just 5 girls in there and they all get along great. Last week the parents could watch - and Kendall asked her friend Lily who her mom was and Lily told her the one with the camera and Kendall said my mom is the one with the baby in her tummy.

I wanna go where everybody knows your name

We went to McDonald's for lunch today at Kendall's request - and when you order a happy meal they ask if it's for a boy or girl - well, I said girl and Kendall yelled "it's for kendall barr".....just struck me as funny!!!!
She is still loving dance class - and still talking the teacher's arm off. I've told her to just keep going with the class b/c otherwise Kendall will never stop talking.
Yesterday I was the parent helper in her classroom and halfway to school I told her I was staying with her at school and she cried and said "no I wanna be there by myself". I told her all the parents take turn helping in the classroom and she said "well I don't want it to be your turn today." Nothing like crushing me! Once we got to school and she realized that she could help me with the "helper duties" - she was okay with me staying. Since I was the helper - Kendall was the special person - so she got to bring a friend from home (she wanted the cat) but I talked her into something not alive...she chose the teddy bear that daddy got her. She got to sit in a chair next to the teacher and talk about her friend. This talking eventually turned into our cat's poop and then another kid started telling the class about his new Spiderman underwear. Her teacher is great at diverting them from "off topics" - but I had a great time with eight 3 year olds - surprisingly!!