Kate to bed

Put Kate to bed tonight. Started with her bath, which she enjoys (except for the actual bathing part). She pretends to swim, she colors on the walls of the tub with bath markers, she says silly things. Today she was talking about my phone. "You can call Mommy with it, and you can take pictures with it, and you can read things with it, and EVERYTHING." And what else? I ask. And she gets a goofy look on her face and shakes her head back and forth and says "Ooga ooga booga booga!" She can be very silly.

After the bath, I'm helping her get dressed. Recently she became able to put her arms in her sleeves more successfully, and it's funny, because she talks about it all like it's the most easy thing in the world. "And I can put my arms in my sleeves MYSELF, of course. And of course I can put on my pants, too."

Then we head into the bathroom. She sometimes runs, high-stepping, happy. And once there, she talks about the things we have to do. "And we have to brush my teeth, and then you need to comb my hair, right, Daddy? Because it has ....nasarls in it." Snarls, I say? "Yes. Sanarls."

We finish up, run back to her room, and read a couple of stories. "I turn out the light, OK, Daddy?" Yes, Kate. And she does.