My Little Helper....

Lately Kara has become a real copy cat. Or shall I say, she imitates everything her mommy does. I love watching her walk around with her baby dolls putting them in their high chairs, feeding them "nummies" and then asking them "all done?" just like I ask her. She'll then wrap them up in blankets and read them books and say "night night." Then she'll put her purse on and say "bye bye" (not really sure where she gets that from?? does she think I go out on the town every night when she goes to bed?)
My favorite is when she puts the dolls on her potty and tells them to go potty. Not only has she become a little mommy, but she wants to help do everything around the house, which sounds nice in theory.... but usually ends up like this.....

Kara's interpretation of folding laundry.....

Sunny Days

Yesterday was Sesame Street Live here in Des Moines. We took Kara to see her first "live performance" ever.
She did great and loved every second of it. If you remember, a couple months back we took her to her first movie , sort of as a practice for the "big day." And lets just say, she did much better yesterday, didn't make a peep the whole time. She was definitely "star struck!"
It was just another one of the moments where I looked at her and wondered where has the time gone? This is my little baby, growing up on me, becoming her own little free spirit. The baby I used to swaddle in my arms, who now can just jump into my arms when she feels the need to be hugged. I seriously don't know how I could love anyone or anything the way I love her.

Mothers Day Art

This is Kara's masterpiece that she created for her Nana for Mothers Day. I bought the plate and mug at Bed Bath and Beyond and "helped" her decorate some of it, then I gave her the markers and let her go to town. She had a blast scribbling all over them and didn't want to stop! This is the art that only a mother and grandmother could love!

Happy Mothers Day to all of you wonderful Mommies out there!

The Man's got Skillz....

The artwork at the top was created by my very talented, very professional, and oh so serious husband. He is going to kill me for spilling the beans, but I have to give him props when props are due! When I told him about my blogs big debut in the Des Moines Juice edition he told me I had to up my ante a little on my somewhat boring background. So it was his idea to bring a "kid oriented" drawing into the blog. Yes, he drew that all by himself. The other night after we put Kara to bed we got out the Crayola's and started playing. We were up to the wee hours drawing, taking pics of the drawings and cropping and pasting. I can only wonder what our nanny thought the next day with our artwork spread all over the living room floor! Ha!
As Curt informed me, this isn't his expertise, but I just thought it was so cute to see this serious business man on the floor drawing with crayons all for the love of his wife and her "not so serious" life!
Love you babe!