Miss Vocab Herself

First of all, I will as always apologize for not updating sooner, but if you lived in this household, the only free time I get is when I sit on the toilet and usually that isn't always alone either.

I have an amazing, intelligent 14 month old who is beyond a doubt the littliest SHIT there is. Currently I am yelling at her every 15 minutes (most times less) for hitting, pinching or tormentering her 3 year old brother who cries because she is hurting him. She looks at me and laughs and that just makes Tyler cry harder while inside I am snickering. I used to get so frustrated at Tyler when he was her age (I was pregnant also) and say "Kara will NOT act this way" Tim would respond with "Nope, I'm betting she's worse" I always ignored his comment but just the other day I looked at him laughing and crying all in the same sentance and said "Damnit, you were right and I hate you for it" I spent all last week on vacation, yelling at my DAUGHTER, not the 2 boys, KARA...little sweet KARA MICHELETTE, who has grown quite the vocabulary of "get", "go", "no" "dog" "kaka" "paci" "baba" and any other word you say to her and say "Kara say...." and she will repeat it, believe you me. I know I haven't updated in a while, but I will go back to last week on vacation.

I spent Friday at my parents with just Kara and Brandon, we went for a walk to "show her off" to all of Grammy's friends. Two of the friends worked in the big grocery store in Croghan we stopped there to say hello when all of a sudden Kara spotted the banana's...a.k.a "bonnas" well didn't she freak so mommy bought her one. We traveled along to Big Grammy's house and on the way we finished our "bonna" and wanted more so she proceeded to eat the skin, all while saying KaKa, Big Grammy was on her way to church so we turned around and started to head back home to eat a snack, but only Miss Thang wanted another bonna...so back to the grocery store we went a bought another bonna! You would think by seeing her that we never feed her, I keep telling her "skinny baby, this WILL catch up to you"

On Saturday...well, Saturday....long story short, Grammy and Grampie came over to watch Kara while Daddy and Mommy went out to celebrate Mommy's bday. Sadly Mommy and Daddy went out to eat and went grocery shopping...sad...I know!

On Sunday we got all pretty and went to church, then ventured a highway to Syracuse (Central Square, ((West Monroe)) ) to have dinner with my family. The kids did well, but thanks to mother nature is was decent enough outside for the kids to play outside. Kara was into everything, included my bday cake, but with a little prevocation.

Monday and Tuesday were a blur when along came Wednesay...we started packing for our trip and getting stuff around. Let me just note that while on vacation it didn't matter what time Kara went to bed the night before or what time she woke up (one morning 10:00) at 11:30 she was ready for a nap...God love her routine.

**side note, Tyler and Kara are actually getting along, in Tyler's exact words, "Mom, look at your daughter, mom look, your daughter hugging me."**

We set out on Wednesday at 7p.m. (after daddy went to school for a couple hours) for Lake George to the Great Escape Indoor Water Park/Lodge. Lets just say from Watertown to Port Leyden Kara did nothing but vocalize that she was there, we would give her her paci...she would throw it. I finally got so mad I made Tim yell at her, it was at that point a game that I wasn't playing. Not a good start to vacation. She eventually fell asleep but as soon as we got off the exit in Lake George, she was singing like she was wide awake. We got to our hotel room and got settled at 10:30...surprisingly after claiming her room and scoping out her territory she went to bed without a problem.

Now the next three days entailed this...and really other than we had a great time all you need to know is "KARA....NO" Kara loved the water and was completely fearless...which scared the hell out of me...she figured out how to climb in her stroller and used it as a toy, she figured out how to climb into the bathtub and she figured out how to climb on top of the air conditioning/heating unit in the room and look out the window at doggies...there were no dogs just birds. She managed to tell her father the first morning we were there..."shhh, dada...shhhh shhhh" she managed to tell everyone and their brother "HI and BYE" but she hated all the looney toons characters.

Currently, the kids are still playing but I thought I would quickly (my blogs never seem to be quick) tell you how my baby is growing up to be quite the big girl. And now as I close, they aren't playing Tyler is showing her (like she needs to be shown, she can do it alone) how to take every DVD out of the cabinet and empty it to the floor.

Goodnight ALL xxoo