Happy Birthday Katherine!Katherine requested a purple cake and many other colors with stripes and poke-a-dots and hearts. Thankfully, I was able to show her some ideas that swayed her in the direction seen above. She said it was my most beautiful cake ever. What a relief and complement after all her previous specific desires.
One of her gifts was a tea set. She and the boys immediately had a tea party following her birthday party. Jeffrey was trying to find out how one has a tea party. The boys seemed to get it and were wondering why they never received a tea set! The next day I poured peppermint tea into the tea pot, cream in the cream pitcher, and sugar in the sugar jar. The cups were emptied faster than Katherine could keep up the refills. She finally said with exasperation, "I would like to drink my tea, but no one will stop asking me for more!" I think she was allowed a little empathy for my daily routine. It was rather humorous to listen to them at play because Katherine is quite a linguist. She attaches narration to all of her play activity. You often hear her place the tag "she said" on the end of her made up conversations. During the tea party, part of her narration went like this "although they kept asking for more tea she was patient but stern." I almost laughed out loud.
Everyday we try to allow time for reading to the kids. It amazes us the vocabulary Katherine picks up from these times. Jeffrey reads in the evenings and I read at nap time. We have to keep two different books going so Jeffrey doesn't miss out on what happens while he is at work. Some of our favorites in the last couple of months have been The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, and Sadie and Angus. I hope we can keep up these reading times for many years to come.
Katherine loves skirts and dresses with tights. She would wear them everyday if I could keep them clean. Above you can see how delighted she was to receive this new outfit from Grandma and Grandpa.
