New words

This week, Katie's new words are "applepuss" and "arwen-wear". An applepuss has 8 legs and lives in the sea, and arwen-wear is what you wear "under" your clothes! "Muk" is that white liquid from a cow. I'm not sure what her accent sounds like, but it sure is cute!

We also went to Disneyland again this weekend since they've decorated for Christmas. Katie rode on Dumbo (a favorite). But the real test was the Christmas parade. When I asked her who will be in the parade, Katie said "Santa Claus"! I guess Mickey, Minnie and the ducks are in second place this year after Santa Claus.

She loved seeing Goofy and Donald Duck on their floats, but the Genie and Beast scared her enough to hide her face in her stroller. And the Princesses are always a favorite.

We stayed late enough to watch the fireworks display, and Katie handled the loud "booms" pretty well. She wasn't too impressed with the show, and was asleep in her carseat within minutes.

In Target this week, Katie saw the Christmas tree displays and said "I miss Christmas". I don't know how she even remembers it from last year!

Rock Star

Katie loves her guitar and her microphone! You can even hear her version of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star near the end".

Super Bunny!

Katie came up with the name herself. Her towel is actually a duck, but hey, who cares when she's so cute?

Cinderella

Katie was playing around in her Cinderella dress up outfit (with blinky shoes!), but the dress was too long. The solution? Chip clips!

Halloween

I was concerned that Katie wouldn't be into dressing up and Halloween this year. She was pretty upset and scared over all the black ghosts and goblins and decorations. We couldn't go near the party/costume store during the entire month of October.

Katie even had a few nightmares and bad dreams this month. First it was dreams about monsters eating her (when I asked her to describe the monster, she said "Cookie Monster"). Later it was about alligators eating her.

So we tried to keep this holiday a little more low key than past Halloweens. Katie said "no" whenever I asked her what she wanted to dress up as for Halloween, so we improvised this year. She has dress-up butterfly wings, "fluffy shoes", magic wand...all in pink. Problem solved! She was a butterfly-fairy-girl and loved it!

She even borrowed some of the pirate bling from our pumpkin and tried to wear it herself!

Daddy came home early from work to take Katie trick or treating. She didn't understand why it wasn't ok to walk into people's houses once they opened the door. She really loved it when she realized that every house gave her candy - CANDY! Her little goodie bag got pretty full...and she always said "thank you". She was very protective of her candy when she got back home and other children knocked on our door. "No give my candy away, Daddy!". She was well-adored by the entire neighborhood and had a great night!

After Halloween, Daddy took Katie to the Disney store for the mark-downs on costumes for next year, and Katie happily picked out a Cinderella dress and light up shoes.

She didn't understand that the next day wasn't Halloween too...or the next day... or the next day...

Long Beach Pumpkin Patch

Katie loved her local pumpkin patch...until she saw cousins' pumpkin patch in long beach. Imagine a traveling carnival that sells pumpkins and you're pretty close to the pumpkin patch in Long Beach. Katie rode a pony for the first time ever, she fed a goat, rode a train, flew in a elephant, and "bumped boats" with Antonio. I don't think that she ever wanted to leave!