The Elves Antics from 2018:

Day 1, 11/25, Special Delivery

Day 2, 11/26, Eating Dog Cookies

11-25, 18 Months old

Katherine,

What a busy couple of months it has been.  On Saturday you were 18 months old! You are a busy little thing always on the go.  Rarely still, you run and walk and have now learned to climb on all sorts of furniture.  You have made a real habit of climbing up Grumps's legs into his lap in the last few weeks.  With lots of grunting and effort, it is increasingly hard to keep you off or out of anything.  I worry that you will figure out how to climb out of the pack and play or the crib soon.  Daddy doesn't want to move you out of the crib yet.















Around a year you just completely quit talking, other than using the word no.  I did hear mama twice this week for the first time in months and months.  We've started trying to teach you some signs since you seem to have no interest in talking.  You will wave bye, and you will run to the kitchen for a cup, and pat the fridge.  I've shown you please and hungry, but you aren't really using them yet.  It's obvious that you understand a lot though.  We thought we might have heard the word bye once this week.

11-26, Decorating the tree with Ahna.

11-18, Sitting with Ahna and Neela

You have learned to ham it up for the camera and always want to see the picture you took.  You have had fun discovering Christmas things again this year.  You have climbed on and off Grumps's sled, while refusing to take any pictures on it for me.  You have also had a lot of fun putting ornaments on or under the tree, and then removing them again.  You weren't much help when we decorated Ahna's tree for her, though you seemed to have fun.  You haven't messed with it too much since, though.

10-25, Happy Halloween

9-25, In bed for the night.

You are cutting the last of your teeth for a while now.  Your eye teeth.  You got your two-year molars already, but have 4 gaps where you have no canines.  You have finally started eating a little meat.  It's still very, very sporadic, but it's a start.  You've had a growth spurt in the last month or two, and I'm going to bump you up to the 24-month clothes when we get home.  You are long waisted like me.  So most of the pants are ok, it's the shirts that get too short.  And that curly hair just gets curlier and prettier.  Unfortunately, you haven't grown out of your fussing in the car seat.  We are going to try to break up the trip home doing part of it tomorrow and part of it on Sunday after Church.  It might prove to be two long days instead of one, but I'm hoping maybe you'll fuss less.

11-25, Grumps and Katherine

11-20, Locked herself in the dog pen with Neela.

You have been really good in Alabama with all the family.  You will have been here for 3 weeks, 10 days without me, and 10 with me.  You finally warmed up to Grandmother, and have gotten super attached to Grumps.  You have had days where you needed to be held all day, and Mother has asked me how I get anything done.  You are still much more reserved than the other kids, almost suspicious of other people until you get to know them.  It takes time for you to warm up to others, and it's a real work out to win you over.  But you have been better this trip about not needing only me for everything.  In fact, I think you missed Britt more than me.  You really lit up when you saw him for the first time.  I'm sure you'll be excited to see Daddy when we get home.

9-10, First Day of School

9-20, Breakfast with Brother

You love the game of in and out.  Put everything in, take everything back out.  For Christmas from Grandmother and Granddaddy, you got a little purse with keys and a phone and things.  You have played with it a ton this week.  You also like to play PeekaBoo and love to offer to give something to someone only to fake them out, while you laugh and run away.  You are still super attached to your little puppy, but you also really love a River Otter that we got at the Florida Aquarium on the field trip.  You also are very much into demanding any toy that anyone else has.  In the car, I just tell them to hand it over, the high pitched shrieking is bad enough, but it's something that I'm working on with you at home.

10-15, At the Florida Aquarium

You continue to bring us great joy, and spice up this parenting gig.
We love you, very much, Little Love.
Love,
Momma

11-23, Kate's first time playing in the leaves.