Funny Catherine stories, part 3

Funny things that Catherine has been up to lately:

She'll find one of our sets of keys, will carefully pull out one key pointing out, and will go up to the front door and try to reach the doorknob to put the key in. Never mind that the key only opens it from the outside, but it's so cute!

She loves playing with this cute kecklace (actually a party favor) and will carry it around with her everywhere. The cutest thing - there's been a couple of times getting ready that we'll both have jacket and shoes on, and I say "ready to go?" and she will get the necklace, put it around her neck, and then follow me to the door!

When we're playing out in the living room, she'll pick up one of her books and bring it over to me. When I take it from her and ask "would you like mommy to read to you?", she'll climb in my lap (if she didn't automatically do so in the first place), and will sit with me reading the book. She points to pictures and turns the pages as I read. And when the book is done, she'll find another one and we do it all over again!

Catherine went into our room and brought back one of my shirts and handed it to me. I asked "do you want to wear mommy's shirt?" and she put her hands up just like she does when we're changing her clothes. It was so adorable that Stephen wouldn't let me take it off of her until he found the camera!

This is her most recent favorite sign, which generally means "want". Naturally, we usually see her do it when there's food around. She also learned how to sign "please" recently!

I love going to the mall with her and letting her play in this giant play area they have. It's so fun watching her interact with the other kids and have so much fun! This time really made for some adorable pictures!

One of the MOST adorable things she's been doing recently is she'll just lay down and rest her head in the middle of the floor. Her favorite thing is to pull out a pillow and lay down on it. She was cuddling with Elly this time, and there's that adorable necklace!