1. Since we started her on solids, I say, "yummy, yummy" when she takes a bite. Now, she's started saying it back: "Nummy, Nummy"
2. She's saying "Mama" and "Baba" for me and Eric
3. Throwing tantrums...yes, they're adorable. Especially when she shakes her fists at us, or starts to pout, then cry, then scream when we've said, "No, no, Katie," particularly sternly.
4. She's smiling at strangers again- she stopped doing this for awhile. Last night while we were watching the Sooners, she kept peering over the booth at the tables next to us and making the people laugh.
5. She'll put stuff up exactly where we ask her to...and then proceed to pull at least one of those things back out.
6. She loves her breakfast. Every other meal, not so much.
7. She giggles when I tickle her face with the pompon on the top of her yellow knitted sweater.
8. She gets so incredibly happy when we hand her things, like stuffed toys.
9. As her teacher at school said, "Her expressions are priceless."
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The return of Katie's pumpkins
I went out to check my tomatoes this morning, because I have probably thirty growing right now. I peeked over at the accidental zucchini patch and noticed three HUMONGOUS zucchinis. HUGE. So I have lots of bread to make. But then, over to the left, I spotted this huge green thing that we can only assume is a pumpkin. It's a little bigger than a basketball. I think we planted some over there to see what would happen. It was a nice surprise, though, in addition to these HUGE zucchini. Seriously- like two feet long or something.
So look out for our now-annual Halloween pic, complete with a home-grown pumpkin!
Friday, September 12, 2008
A post-comp warning
I'm ABD- that means different things in different departments, but in mine, it means I'm all but dissertation- although I'm only post-comprehensive exams...that I passed today! Yippee! So all I have left now is my dissertation- get it?
But given the past three weeks (post-Palin, if you will), one thing has been made clear: I will focus my efforts largely on shredding McCain/Palin the next eight weeks until the general election. In other words, very little Katie. Very much politics.
I can't stand to watch my country descend into proto-fascism via McCain's impending police state. Group think does not a democracy make- I'm studying journalism for a reason- it makes a democracy, like it or not, and I WILL be a part of the Fourth Estate.
And, in the unlikely event that this country flakes out AGAIN in November a la 2004, I will proceed to light this place up. Watch me.
But given the past three weeks (post-Palin, if you will), one thing has been made clear: I will focus my efforts largely on shredding McCain/Palin the next eight weeks until the general election. In other words, very little Katie. Very much politics.
I can't stand to watch my country descend into proto-fascism via McCain's impending police state. Group think does not a democracy make- I'm studying journalism for a reason- it makes a democracy, like it or not, and I WILL be a part of the Fourth Estate.
And, in the unlikely event that this country flakes out AGAIN in November a la 2004, I will proceed to light this place up. Watch me.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
I'll say it again and again and again and again
IT IS NOT HONORABLE TO LIE ABOUT SOMEONE. IT IS NOT HONORABLE TO LIE. PERIOD.
Who cares if you were a POW-that does not give you the right to LIE. Any lie is disgraceful. This one regarding Obama's bill in the IL state legislature is particularly disgraceful.
McCain has no honor. He's cheated on two wives, maybe three. He's on his third marriage- which, I'm sorry, disqualifies him from any sort of "family values" righteousness. It might make him human, but certainly renders his pandering to the evangelicals more than hypocritical. His personal shortcomings aside- which, apparently, is only good for Republicans, because Democrats' personal lives seem to matter, but not the GOP- he hired Karl Rove- the most duplicitous, evil man in this country- to work on this campaign. You know- Karl Rove? The guy who started a whisper campaign about another military vet, Max Cleland, smearing his reputation by claiming Cleland had fathered a black child? Rove, who smeared McCain himself the last time he ran for president.
McCain JOKES about using nuclear weapons on a country. He puts his wife up for a glorified stripping contest in front of thousands of bikers at Sturgis. He thinks people making up to $5 million constitute the middle class. THIS IS ALL DOCUMENTED FACT!
What is good about this man? What is good enough to elect him president? Why do we need another misogynist, temperamental trigger-happy, right-wing pandering nutcase in charge of this country?
I say this sincerely- Lord, help us if McCain is elected. Please, please help us. Because we'll need it, more than we already do.
Who cares if you were a POW-that does not give you the right to LIE. Any lie is disgraceful. This one regarding Obama's bill in the IL state legislature is particularly disgraceful.
McCain has no honor. He's cheated on two wives, maybe three. He's on his third marriage- which, I'm sorry, disqualifies him from any sort of "family values" righteousness. It might make him human, but certainly renders his pandering to the evangelicals more than hypocritical. His personal shortcomings aside- which, apparently, is only good for Republicans, because Democrats' personal lives seem to matter, but not the GOP- he hired Karl Rove- the most duplicitous, evil man in this country- to work on this campaign. You know- Karl Rove? The guy who started a whisper campaign about another military vet, Max Cleland, smearing his reputation by claiming Cleland had fathered a black child? Rove, who smeared McCain himself the last time he ran for president.
McCain JOKES about using nuclear weapons on a country. He puts his wife up for a glorified stripping contest in front of thousands of bikers at Sturgis. He thinks people making up to $5 million constitute the middle class. THIS IS ALL DOCUMENTED FACT!
What is good about this man? What is good enough to elect him president? Why do we need another misogynist, temperamental trigger-happy, right-wing pandering nutcase in charge of this country?
I say this sincerely- Lord, help us if McCain is elected. Please, please help us. Because we'll need it, more than we already do.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Why John McCain is NOT fit to be president, or, the most dispicable 2008 campaign tactic YET
Senator John McCain has reached a new low. I have been consumed with his pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for two weeks now. Instead of studying for my oral exams this Friday, I've been researching her and why her nomination for VP is an insult to American women and to America at large. And now, instead of writing with updates about Katie, McCain's campaign has pulled a maneuver that makes it that much harder for me to disengage with the GOP's disgraceful run to maintain power the next eight years...or, put another way, potentially for the majority of my daughter's childhood.
Here it is: McCain's campaign has released an ad stating that Obama has no record on education, except for a bill in the Illinois state legislature that would, supposedly, give sex ed to kindergartners. See his ad below:
Now, the GOP attacks on sex ed/pregnancy and STD prevention aside, this is A COMPLETE AND TOTAL MISREPRESENTATION AND FABRICATION of the bill in question. Obama's bill in the state legislature would have, besides giving parents the ability to opt-out, TAUGHT KIDS TO RECOGNIZE INAPPROPRIATE TOUCHING BY STRANGERS. In other words, the bill that McCain claims (and remember, he "approves of this message") would teach little kids about sex would actually help prevent child molestation.
So, in keeping with this logic, I agree with other bloggers; I hope the Obama campaign twists McCain's ad to suggest that perhaps, just PERHAPS McCain is in fact pro-pedophile and pro-molestation, because he's clearly NOT in favor of legislation to protect children. In fact, it seems the only thing McCain is in favor of, as evidenced in this shameless misrepresentation of the facts and his pandering to the far, far, far right wing of the American populace, is winning the election. Without integrity.
What a joke. Or, as the Obama campaign responded, "It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls – a position that his friend Mitt Romney also holds."
"Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn’t define what honor was. Now we know why,” says Obama spokesman Bill Burton in an emailed statement."
Here it is: McCain's campaign has released an ad stating that Obama has no record on education, except for a bill in the Illinois state legislature that would, supposedly, give sex ed to kindergartners. See his ad below:
Now, the GOP attacks on sex ed/pregnancy and STD prevention aside, this is A COMPLETE AND TOTAL MISREPRESENTATION AND FABRICATION of the bill in question. Obama's bill in the state legislature would have, besides giving parents the ability to opt-out, TAUGHT KIDS TO RECOGNIZE INAPPROPRIATE TOUCHING BY STRANGERS. In other words, the bill that McCain claims (and remember, he "approves of this message") would teach little kids about sex would actually help prevent child molestation.
So, in keeping with this logic, I agree with other bloggers; I hope the Obama campaign twists McCain's ad to suggest that perhaps, just PERHAPS McCain is in fact pro-pedophile and pro-molestation, because he's clearly NOT in favor of legislation to protect children. In fact, it seems the only thing McCain is in favor of, as evidenced in this shameless misrepresentation of the facts and his pandering to the far, far, far right wing of the American populace, is winning the election. Without integrity.
What a joke. Or, as the Obama campaign responded, "It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls – a position that his friend Mitt Romney also holds."
"Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn’t define what honor was. Now we know why,” says Obama spokesman Bill Burton in an emailed statement."
VOTE!! It's more important now than ever!
We CANNOT buy into McCain's politics of fear anymore- Choose HOPE! Choose CHANGE!
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