Kates Bedtime Routine

Kate goes 100% all day up until she goes to bed. She will be jumping in her bed as I leave her room at night. Before I can get downstairs she’s out. To prove it I taped Kates typical bedtime routine. You can see for yourself how she turns it off like a switch:

A Little Too Helpful

I realize this makes me sound like a serious complainer but it’s been annoying me for awhile now. I grocery shop mainly at Kroger and sometimes Publix. I love them both.  When I go to check out I put my items on the conveyer belt in a certain order.  Cold items together, pantry items together, squashable items together, bath items together…. This way they’re bagged in that order too.  However, lately every time I walk up to the line an associate hurries over to unload my groceries. Nice right? Well they never do it right! They put eggs next to bread and milk next to toothpaste…  I’ll even try to shoo them away by saying “Oh I can get it.” It doesn’t work, they insist. And then I feel bad and can’t start rearranging their hard work while they’re still standing there. I’m afraid it would insult them, so I’m stuck with a bunch of groceries that are all bagged incorrectly.  Thank you Kroger/Publix for being so helpful but please lay off a little!

Trick-or-Treat

We really drug Halloween out this year. It started with our ward Trunk-or-Treat.  There was food, candy, games, and tons of cute kids. I didn’t know how Kate would do with trunk-or-treating but by the third car she was holding her bucket out saying “trick-or-trick.” It was probably the cutest thing I ever saw. Jenny came with us so while Jason manned our trunk we took Kate around to all the cars.

Dalmatian Dog

Katherine is still obsessed with dogs so I had to dress her as one!

Jason and I went to a Halloween party which meant we used an actual babysitter for the first time! When Kate was little we just toted her around with us and put her to sleep in a spare room/BR/closet, or we left her with my parents.  Kate’s older now and I knew my parents would be busy so we asked a girl from church that we really trust and everything seemed to go fine. 

Jason was a Cobra Kai and I was his Pregnant High School Girlfriend

Actual Halloween was kind of a nasty day but we still had to take Kate trick-or-treating.  We went to my parents then went around to a couple of homes in their neighborhood. Kate really has the hang of the whole trick or treating process.  After awhile though she was over it and became kind of scared to go up to the doors, so we went home and handed out candy to the kids in our neighborhood.  We were left with a ton of candy and I have been eating HANDFULS every day!

Too Cute!

“Trick-or-Treat”

Kate with chocolate all over her mouth – she definitely had a sugar high!

About a week ago my sister came home to visit and Kate went straight to her and even tries to say “JenJen”