Stories to remember

Every so often I have to write down a few of these stories to remember years from now.  Here's a few select ones from our life recently.

One time I made up a story for Anna or Kate (I can't remember that part) that involved two sisters named Kat and Hannah.  Every so often Matt or I would tell one or both of the girls a story involving these imaginary girls.  Last winter Kat and Hannah had a baby brother named Wheat Thin and the stories have made a comeback recently.  The three siblings have lots of adventures (Matt's are usually better than mine) and the climax often involves. Wheat Thin pulling something out of his utility diaper or arriving just in the nick of time in his helicopter.  This may not be too funny to anyone else, but in our family telling these stories often ends up with someone giggling a lot (usually Kate).

Kate and Anna have never seem any Star Wars movies, but they know several of the characters (Jabba the Hut, Princess Leia) and some of the music.  They are quite certain that they'll never want to watch the movies, though, because they're convinced that they're too scary.  If you ask Kate, she may say that she'll not watch Star Wars until she's "grown up ... maybe 18 or 23 or something like that".

When we were eating peaches with practically every meal last week, Ethan would get SO excited as soon as a peach was in sight.  They were very tasty for all of us :)

Kate has been struggling lately with being afraid of being alone, especially at bedtime or if she has to go to the bathroom during a meal.  At bedtime, she gets pretty upset if she knows that Anna is going to bed later than her, just because she doesn't want to be alone.  We're working through this, but it's still sweet to see how much she loves and trusts her sister.

Ethan was fussy one evening before dinner while he was in the exersaucer.  Kate ended up entertaining him by jumping up and down in front of him, then he would bounce for awhile and laugh, then Kate would jump again, then he would bounce again.  Both kids were pretty tired by the time dinner was ready.

Ethan is still just army crawling, but he's getting really fast at it.  When the little guy is really fresh, it almost looks like he's gliding across the floor.  The girls like to play peek-a-boo with him around furniture, corners, doors, etc.

And here's my personal favorite, even if it needs some explanation.  I realized that the pick-up lane for Anna's school was going to be very frustrating for me this year, so she and I came up with a meeting spot about a half a block from school (right by a crossing guard).  Then I park somewhere else, walk to meet Anna, and we walk back to the van.  Kate will usually only be coming along on Thursdays since I'll first pick Anna up, and then pick Kate up on preschool days and a neighbor will bring Anna home on Fridays.  This week, however, Kate came along on Monday and Tuesday because of the different schedule.  Both days, as soon as we saw Anna coming down the sidewalk, Kate started running to meet her, and then Anna started running to meet Kate.  When they met up with one another, they hugged and proceeded to hold hands until they met up with me and Ethan.  Such sweet, sweet sisters they are :)