Future Baker

Kate is very into helping out around the kitchen.  If I forget to bring her stool into the kitchen so that she can stand on it and see everything I do, she will stand by my feet screaming "watch mommy, watch mommy!"  She also likes to stand by the sink when I wash dishes or load the dishwasher.  She's quite the little helper.  This morning I had to bake a cake to take to church tonight.  While I was getting all of the ingredients out for the cake, I thought she might like to make a cake of her own, since she has her own kitchen and all.  I gave her some flour and water in one of her bowls because I remember my mom doing that for me when I was little and I loved it.  Well, apparently I was a little bit older when I did it because I always knew it was just for play.  This is what I saw when I turned around to see what Kate was doing

She had stirred her flour and water together, spilled most of it, eaten some of it, and was scooping it up off of the floor back into the bowl.  I went to check on her because I kept hearing her say, "yuck, yuck, yuck."  I think I would have the same reaction if I had just eaten flour mixed with water.  It was pretty hilarious and really hard to clean up, but I think that most of the best things in life are pretty hard to clean up!  I certainly did not clean it up right away, we played with it for about the next hour, making it into shapes and other fun things.  I did, however, put a stop to eating it, I had to draw the line somewhere!
Please ignore the fact that Kate's hair has not been brushed, she's still in her pajamas (despite it being almost lunch time), and she doesn't have on any pants (she thinks this is one of the best things about potty training).

~Molly

Word-full Wednesday

I have a fun story for my blog today.  I woke up this morning and noticed that when I brushed my teeth my water pressure was very low.  I called Brandon at work, and he said he hadn't noticed it being low when he took a shower earlier.  So I called our water supplier, and they sent a technician to our house to check things out.  He only looks at the meter for a few minutes, then inspects the area around it, and says that our pipe has busted.  This is lovely news to start my day.  Now I've been on the phone with countless plumbers, and hopefully someone will come to the house this afternoon to fix it (fingers crossed), and I hope it doesn't deplete our entire savings...yikes!

As if this weren't enough, Monday night when Brandon was on his way home from a Knights of Columbus meeting, he swerved in order to avoid hitting a dog.  We don't live in town, and our roads are really really dark, but I was still glad to hear that he missed the dog, of course.  The next day when he was driving to work, he noticed that his "low tire" warning came on in his car.  He stopped later in the afternoon, and had to get a new tire because he ran over a sharp metal object, and we think he did this on our road!  

It seems like since we've moved into this house we've had one bad thing after another happen!  I feel like we live in Amityville....except not quite as scary (most days).  

Well, now that I've bummed myself out with this post, I'll say that everything else is going really well.  Kate's growing and thriving.  She's become quite the puzzle expert.  She loves putting puzzles together, so I bought a few harder ones (jigsaw) at the store just to see if she liked them.  I figured if they frustrated her too much, I'd just put them away for later.  It turns out that she loves them!  I think every little kid is good at different things, and I have finally found a hidden talent.  Here's a picture of Kate and her new favorite hobby.