3 3/4 years old...Parties, parties, and more parties!

I will be the first to tell you that I am not 3 1/2 anymore...I am 3 and...something!  This has been a really fun month for me.  I had a lot of play dates with Carrie and I went to Brynn and Trey's birthday parties.  Daddy took me to Brynn's because Mommy was out of town for a while.  I had a lot of fun with Daddy.  He is really good to me.  We also went to a pumpkin patch with Auntie Heather, Uncle Sean, Ashley and Ian.  I got to go on a hayride and took everyone through a corn maze.  Ashley and I kept saying, "dead end!"  I also playing in a huge tub of corn kernels and they got everywhere, even in my underwear!
Halloween was this month too!  I chose to be Cheer Bear!  I loved my costume.  Mommy left it at school for them to change me into before our party, but my teachers left it downstairs.  Everyone was dressed up but me and I was really sad for a long time.  Mommy brought it up just in time.  I enjoyed the parade after the party and went through the haunted house they made.  Daddy had to go back to work after the party, but Mommy took me trick-or-treating.  We went to Nana Arden's, Miss Annie and Mr. Kenny's, and around the neighborhood. 
I get really tired at pre-school.  One night, Mommy found me asleep in my room at 6:45 with the lights on!  I was really bossy and crabby one weekend and into the next week.  Mommy picked me up one day and I was sobbing.  I said, "I just can't stop crying!"  The teachers thought I was being overly dramatic, but I had a fever!  I spent the next day snuggling with Nana Arden.  We also went over to Nana Arden's a couple nights because Aunt Michelle was in town.  She is so much fun!  We played Play Doh together.

I've said some funny things too.  I asked Mommy, "What do you have to say for yourself?"  I told Daddy, "I don't like smelly (Christmas) trees.  I want one that smells like birthday cake!"  I also asked, "Will we move when I am Star of the Week?"  (Some kids had left pre-school, so they got to be Star of the Week before they moved.)

See, I'm 3 3/4!

 Our BOO pumpkin

 Cheer Bear with Mommy

 Cheer Bear with Daddy

 Cheer Bear and Friends

 In the Pre-School Parade

 See, I really did like my costume!

 Visiting Miss Annie and Mr. Kenny

 Halloween teeth

 Painting pumpkin parts

 Cousins (don't we look alike?)

 Playing with Mommy's Lion King toys

 Climbing at Brynn's birthday party with Carrie's mom at Bonkers

 Happy girl

 Waiting patiently during gift opening

 Playing with Trey at his birthday party at Flipz

 Daddy throwing me in the foam

 With the birthday boy

 The Pre-School friends

 Visiting Lillian's baby Grayson

 Big jump!

 Playing at the library

 Reading my library books

Pre-School Halloween Parade

3 Years, 8 Months...Loving pre-school again!

I have really started to love pre-school again.  I always ask when I can go back to play with my friends.  I've grown up a lot this month-I can pump my legs when swinging, I try to cut my own food with my fork, I try to solve problems with friends.  However, after complaining about my friend being bossy and running away from me, I bit her.  Now, I try to tell friends how I feel, play with other friends, and get adult help.  I even said, "I think Brynn is angry and a play date would cheer her up."  I have changed who my friends are a little.  Other things we have done this month: got doughnuts for breakfast after reading a Donut book, went to Family Fun Night at mommy's school, went to the park and ran around a high school track, went to the pot luck dinner at my pre-school, went to a softball game for daddy's school (and watched daddy change mommy's flat tire),went to a couple birthday parties and a baby shower, went to the corn maze (and kept wanting to turn right), and went to my first movie in a theater!  I loved The Lorax and was very quiet and patient and ate all the popcorn.  Nana Arden picked me up one day and helped me start a "co-weck-shun" (collection of rocks and marbles).  I wanted mommy to spell "hippomapatamus" for me.  I have been obsessed with "crocodiles" on the tile and I want everyone to walk on the rugs.  Daddy has been gone a lot with work and that is hard.  I really miss him.  He did take me to get my flu shot and I did great, with only one tear.  I'm glad I got stickers and ice cream after.  He took me on another daddy-daughter date to McDonald's this week when mommy was gone. 

I adore my cousin Jacob!

 Eating my first doughnut

 Swinging at pre-school

 Walking on a play date with my friend Carrie

 In McDonald's playhouse (before the tears)

Painting my first pumpkin

 Reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

 I LOVE Lillian!  (At her baby shower)

 At the corn maze

 Two scarecrows

 Going to my first movie in the theater (The Lorax)

 Passed out with the puppies

 Mommy joined me for a snuggle

 She just can't get enough of me!

 Acrobats with daddy

 Rare daredevil moment

Top of the Kingman!

Last page of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

3 Years, 7 Months...Back to pre-school!

I am now back at pre-school full time!  We are learning a letter each week and so far have learned A, B, C, and D.  I can't wait until E!  I even had my first homework assignment (that mommy learned later was only because I asked for homework!)  We did a tie dye t-shirt at school one day too.  It has been really fun lately with my friends there.  One weekend, I had 3 birthday parties to attend.  One in St. Louis at 1:00 on Saturday at an ice cream shop, the next at 5:00 in Columbia that same day at Flips (gymnastics), and the last at 3:00 the next day at Flips again!  That was a busy weekend!  The first two were hard because I didn't know a lot of people, but the third one was a classmate friend of mine (Carrie) and I had a blast!

I have said some cute things this month too: "You got it, girl!", "One hug and kiss, coming right up!", "Is that sky lander (sign language)?"  I also started calling mommy "Glory", my 7 year old cousin.  I have quite an imagination!  I like to talk to Siri on the phone too.  I got a splinter in my hand at pre-school one day, and threw a fit the entire night because I did not want it to hurt when daddy removed it.  It really wasn't a big deal once he did!  I also got a cough this month and even coughed so much I threw up in my bed!

I went to a Mud Run to watch mommy and her friend run while I played with her daughter, my friend Corinne.  We really had fun!  I visited all my grandparents and really loved that.  I went to Family Fun Night at mommy's school and I had so much fun playing the games and seeing all the kids.  Finally, I went out for breakfast to eat my first donut after reading a book about them and then had a fun play date in the park with my friend Carrie.  What will next month bring?

Hangin with mommy

 So happy!

 With the birthday girl, Ashley

 Flipping at Flipz

 Reading on the way home from the library

 Before Mommy's Mud Run

 Chillin with Corinne at the Mud Run

 Cheering for our mommies!

Drinking our mommy's Gatorade

 "Shuffling" corn

 "Driving" at 3 1/2

 Yoga with Daddy

 Like mother, like daughter

 Showing Nana Arden and Papa Rodney some pictures

 Jumping in the "puddles"

 Mommy wanted to join in the fun

 Drowned rats

 Pretty, pretty princesses?

 Pretty princess!

 Teaching daddy a few things on his phone

 Flower and rainbow face paintings after the Family Fun Night

 Three clean kids!

 Storytime with Auntie Heather

 Loving on my neighbor Stan!

 First homework assignment

Playing in the puddles again

 First donut, brought on after reading a book called Donut Chef (about 80 thousand times!)