So, what has K-Rae been up to lately?

Let’s see…..she started ballet again, after the class took a break for a couple of months…..She is SO excited to be back in dance class.  Watching three-year-olds do ballet is quite entertaining---you would just have to experience it to understand! 

She has also been creating “people” with her jump rope and popsicle sticks….she loves to create!

And she has discovered scissors….and she has discovered they cut more than just snowflakes, which was the original reason she was introduced to scissors in the first place….I found a good size clump of hair lying on the carpet last week….. “K-Rae……where did this hair come from?”  “Kozy decided to cut his hair….”  (Uh-huh: Kozy is our dog.)  “K-Rae…..” “OK----I wacked my ponytail off.”  So I see…..fortunately, it was just her little top ponytail, creating a rather choppy look around her face…. it really doesn’t look half bad.  Come to think of it, I pay pretty good money to get a similar look every other month or so.  I don’t tell her this…. “K-Rae, scissors are only for cutting paper!”  “I know….”

Later I also found a good size clump of Kozy hair lying on the carpet too….probably he did that himself……And later still, a nice little whack taken out of her nightgown.  I’m assuming that all happened in the same whacking extravaganza, as the scissors were put up after that initial discovery.   A week goes by, I hear a shriek from Little Miss Mae’s room---not a good sign.  I head in there to find K-Rae “cutting threads off” Little Miss Mae’s outfit that she was currently wearing….and in the process pretty well shredding up her pants and shirt.  Apparently she had managed to reach her scissors with the step ladder.  Obviously the punishment the first cutting extravaganza wasn’t overly effective.  This time, we emptied K-Rae’s piggy bank into a ziplock bag, and went to the mall while Little Miss Mae was at school to buy a new outfit for her.  The lady at The Children’s Place was so patient with us as I explained the situation to her…she helped us find a pink shirt with butterflies for Little Miss Mae and a matching pair of pants, waited as K-Rae first emptied her ziplock baggie full of coins onto the floor and then picked them up one-by-one and laid them up on the counter saying, “Mama-I’m really not pleased you made me get all of my money out of my piggy bank for this!” Hopefully, lesson learned this time…….

Other interesting moments…..I pretty much have to set a timer for everything K-Rae does in order to get anything whatsoever accomplished….her latest comment about that tactic, “Do you think we should buy a new timer???......because I think this one is too fast!” 

And we had some good friends over for Sunday afternoon lunch a couple of weeks ago. They have a little boy.  After they left, K-Rae announced, “Did you know Michael can squirt pee-pee out of his belly button!”  (Apparently she had joined Michael in the bathroom at some point that day and gotten her first male anatomy lesson…) Never a dull moment here.