Cover page:  Not sure why she picked a picture where she is not smiling but she picked it!

Page #1:  Katie wrote her name with very little guidance from Pish.

Page #2:  On this page we decided to let her write by herself.  We told her to write a 2 but she drew a rectangle and started to color it in.  So I wrote a 2 on a piece of paper and then she wrote it here in the book by herself.  Next we asked her favorite color and she said blue.  Again, I wrote it on a piece of paper for her to look at it and she wrote it in the book.  Favorite food was Mac N Cheese.  Favorite Song was ABC.  Favorite toy was Hello Kitty.

Last week, her toddler class teachers were very sad to see Katie go.  I was surprised at how much they were affected by kids leaving their room and made us promise to visit them.  They also made this for Katie as a good bye gift.  The blue and pink dots are Katie’s finger prints.

Here’s a conversation I had with Katie after Emily left:

Me:  Auntie Emily says you have a lot of energy.  Do you know what that means?
Katie:  Yeah.  Means I talk a lot

I’m 12 weeks along now and it seems like it is going to be a long pregnancy.  I know it is supposed to go fast but it just hasn’t yet.  See below for the week 12 update.

Week 12
The most dramatic development this weekReflexes. Your baby’s fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won’t be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over two inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.

Happy Birthday little Olivia!

I stil have a lot of pics on my camera I need to download but here are a couple from my phone.

Katie had a day off school for President’s day so we headed down to San Diego to spend some time with her cousins.  We ended up going to Sea World (since we all had annual passes).  Lucky there were not Shamu attacks that day!

I volunteered to help at a Chinese new year party at Katie’s school last week.  They read stories, learned about traditional clothing, and everyone received a red envelope with stickers inside.  They also had chinese snack time with dumplings, rice balls and tangerines.  The kids had lots of fun but Katie got sad when I had to leave.  She just kept saying, “I want to go home with you!!”  She was screaming when I left but the teacher said she didn’t cry for long.  She was perfectly fine when I picked her up in the afternoon.

Ever since Katie was a baby, it is common that she does not poop every day.  We were worried at first but it seems normal for her.  Out of a seven day week, she will poop 5-6 of the days.  We used to give her prune baby food and that usually worked.  But now that she’s older, we’ve just accepted it. 

Since Katie seemed to like Catelyn’s snack, I bought our own box and the first two days Katie ate it, she pooped twice each day.  It really does work!  Thanks Christine. 

My belly is starting to show more this week.  I’m not sure if it’s fat from the carbs or if is really is the baby but there is definitely a bump.  I didn’t think I’d show this early but my excuse is that my skin was already stretched out from the first time around.