things to remember

okay, I just found a little piece of paper with funny things cate has said scribbled on it (in both my handwriting and nate's). I'm just going to type them up real quick so I don't lose them. these really are for me more than anything. if you're a grandma or grandpa, you will probably like them too. a lot of them are things I just want to remember that I know I will not one day. I sure wish our brains worked better...

- cate loves "mickey mouse clubhouse" on disney. the main song says "hot dog hot dog hot diggity dog." cate always says, "hot dog, hot dog, hot jiggity joe." and I honestly think she has no idea that she's singing it differently. love it.
- I may have already written this on here, but in case not...cate wants a boy. no, not a brother, no not a dad. her own boy. nate is my boy, we've been told. she also recently started talking about getting married. where is she getting this stuff?!?!
- she heard a justin timberlake song recently (early summer, I think) and said, "Oh! Good songs!" I just think that's funny.
- a little exchange b/t nate and cate. nate: "hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog." cate: "why are you singing that?" nate: "Because it's stuck in my head." cate: "maybe we should go to the doctor and get that out!"
- on cate being respectful of her elders... "daddy, you have an old man belly. it looks like you're going to have a baby soon." in nate's defense, he does not look like he's going to have a baby soon. cate now tells him all the time that he has an old man belly, I think mostly because she gets such a good reaction out of us. kids.
- there is a little boy at church a few years older than cate that she is in love with. one sunday she spotted him in church and kept talking about him all through the service. "mommy, jeron's looking at me!" and the like. one day she told me these exact words: "I love Jeron. Jeron's the best. I just love him." scary.

I am SO LAME...I need to post!!!

Okay, I know I'm totally lame for not posting ANYTHING for AGES. I have a zillion pictures to share and I've started getting them ready. Until then...

Tonight we went to a BBQ with everyone from Nate's lab. Markus (our friend and Nate's boss) was feeding Cate and Peter (Markus' son) watermelon. They looked like little birds...crazy frantic little birds who obviously have not learned the term "personal space." It was really funny and Markus was a good sport. So, Cate points at a huge piece of watermelon in the bowl and says, "Markus, I want that piece." Markus says, "Cate that one is REALLY big." To which Cate replies, "I have a big mouth."