Kate Quotes

Here is a post I started back on Oct. 4 and never finished. It is a list of some of Kate's regular quotes. I have added to the draft from last fall, so I would describe these as Kate quotes from 2.0 to 2.5. It's not organized the best way and could use some work, but I wanted to get this finished before I forgot and also so I could throw away all these little scraps of paper that contain some of these snippets. :o) After all ... "Done," as my sister Cindy has told me, "is better than perfect." :o)

"Pongoooooo!" This is the Korean word for ... well ... gas. She says it with such enthusiasm, too. LOL!

"Pretty colors!" Kate likes to see many colors all together, like in a rainbow. When she does, she will announce, "pretty colors!" She has a few items of clothing that are various stripes of "pretty colors."

"Carry you." Kate says this when she wants you to pick her up and carry her.

"This way ..." In the car, Kate likes to dictate which way we'll go next by pointing or motioning in a particular direction and saying "This way!"

"Ooooh, what's that?" Self-explanatory. LOL!

"Come on! Let's go!"

"Peek-a-boo! I can see you!"

"OH NO!" and "UH-OH!"

"Careful, Kate."

"Ah-Pah's at work!" Said all the time, especially during the work day. And occasionally at other times, too.

"It's OK; it's OK." Also: "It's OK; it's fine."

"Hiiiii!" and "Hi, Peoples!" She can be a friendly little girl and greet peoples she sees out in public. This is sometimes accompanied with a wave.

"Hey! What's going on?"

"No touchies!" What her mother says to her when she is not supposed to touch something.

"No scratch!" Also: "No scratchies!" She was prone to scratching some dry patches of skin, so she heard this instruction quite a bit and repeated it often.

"No squeezies!" Kate finally started to like apple juice. For the longest time, she didn't really care for it. We had a learning period--which, by the way, we are still in--when it came to drinking out of a juice box. I had to constantly remind her not to squeeze the box.

"No splash!" Said when she is given applesauce or also when we are out and we don't want her to splash in big ol' puddles. She has a thing for splashing her spoon in applesauce and making a mess. A biiiiiig mess. See next entry.

"It's a biiiiiig mess!"

"Excuse me." Tanna taught Kate the proper usage of "excuse me." She doesn't use it all the time without prompting, of course, but sometimes she does--and even with toys or other inanimate objects .... like raisins, for example. "Excuse me, raisins." You probably had to be there and it is probably only funny to her parents, but that's OK.

"OK? OK!"

"Try it?" This is said when she has found a piece of candy or other goodie that she wants to "try." Popular back around Halloween, etc.

"Anna-Claire's Party." Said in reference to her cousin's birthday party, which was at the end of November. She talked about Anna-Claire's party a lot.

"Miss Grace!" This is from her Miss PattyCake DVDs. On the show, Miss PattyCake and the kids will summon the Miss Grace character by putting their hands up around their mouths and yelling, "Miss Grace!"

"How big is baby? So big!" (Also just "so big!") With arm/hand motions. This is from one of her Baby Babble DVDs.

"I do it!"

"Sit down." ... "Mommy, sit down." ... "Ah-Pah, sit down."

"Mommy's Coke"

"I'm jumping!"

"Oh my goodness!"

"It's raining!"

"It's broken!"

"Piece of paper"

"Pretty music" "Singing" "Singing on"

"HIGH FIVE!" Kate likes to give high fives--and announce them, too!

"How about ...?"and "How about this one?" Said when she is coming up with different options (for eating, activities, etc.)

"Mmmmmmm ... meatballs? Mmmmmmmm ... nuggets? Mmmmmmm ... crackers?" Also said when coming up with various menu items.

"Waffle cookie" To get her to eat waffles, Tanna told her they were "waffle cookies."

"Bye-bye, angels!" "Bye-bye (anything)!" The angels Kate said good-bye to were at a live nativity we went to at Christmastime. She enjoys bidding farewell to people and various things, etc.

Also ...

• Kate has known her colors for quite some time and seems to really enjoy colors. Kate sometimes likes to name things by what color they are. (For example: "It's a green!" Or "Red one!") She also likes to point out the colors of things to describe them. It is (or used to be, at least) a regular occurrence to get a play-by-play as we drive around town: "red car ... blue car ... yellow car ... green trees ..."
• This is an oldie also--as Kate has done this for a while--but I don't know if I ever wrote it down ... She will put her milk sippy cup back in the fridge and also will go and get it all by herself when she gets up from nap, etc. What a big girl!
• She also likes to announce who is in the room and point and name the people. It's usually just "Ah-Pah! Mommy! Kate!" But there are sometimes others as well.
• If Kate sees an "I" in a sans-serif font, she calls it a "1."
  
• She likes to pray and prays before meals and at bedtime. She does her "praying hands" and gets a serious look on her face.
• Kate is starting to ask to wear dresses (and more often than not, a pink dress)--but doesn't seem to care if she wears pants or some other color of dress. She also likes to look in the mirror to see her outfit or her hair after it is fixed. ;o)
  
• It is the sweetest thing to see her run and greet Tanna and give him a hug and a kiss when he gets home. Or when she says good-bye to him in the morning, she is usually just getting up and will hug him and take out her paci to give him a kiss, still a little groggy. :o)
• Tanna taught Kate to play catch, which she usually does with a small beach ball or one of her little toy balls. She will request to do so by saying ... "play catch."
• She has known her animal sounds for quite some time, but it took a lot of asking and explaining before she would answer both ways. For example, she's been saying the sounds on her own for a while--like, when I say, "What's the cat say?" She will answer, "Meow." But it took a bit before she would answer correctly when I asked her, "What animal goes ssssssss?" or "Who says moooooooo?" (See what I mean?) Tanna thought I was pushing the subject a bit at one time. But I loved seeing the lightbulb go off when she finally understood what I was asking. :o) Anyway, I need to get a video of this because I think her dog sound is hilarious!
  
• She likes to "make coffee" or have tea parties with her bathtub watering can/cups toys (a gift from Jamie--thank you!) and also with her play kitchen dishes. Oh, and she also likes to "play kitchen."
• She loves playing with trains and cars and pulling/pushing things with wheels (buggies, strollers, suitcases, etc.). She finally started to show a little more interest in baby dolls. It's not a lot, but it's something! I was so excited! :o)
• LOVES books and looking at books. LOVES drawing and coloring, art-related activities. LOVES for you to draw different things with her.
  
• Loves stickers, too. She had a fun sticker book that her friend Sam gave her last fall. She enjoyed it so much that I bought another one. (Thanks, Sam!) Kate is actually holding the first (original) sticker book in the two photos included with this post--the first photo is from November, the second from December. I bought another sticker book prior to our post-Christmas trip to California and already need a new one. LOL! It is perfect for the car, for restaurants, for trips, etc. Kate requests it frequently.