3 3/4 Years Old...Lots to be Thankful for

This has been a great month for family!  I got to visit all of my family over Thanksgiving and it was wonderful!  I have gone to a couple of basketball games for my daddy's school and it was really cool cheering his team on!  We had our family pictures taken and I was a total ham for the camera!

I am really getting into the Christmas spirit.  I love to sing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Frosty the Snowman", and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town."  I also helped put up the Christmas tree and Christmas lights outside.  That was really neat!  I got to see Santa at an early Christmas gathering.  I was so surprised when he knocked on the door!  I told him that I wanted Shutterfly,Shining Armor, Princess Cadence, and Nightmare Moon.  I cried later when I realized I forgot to tell him that I want a My Little Pony castle!  Good thing I got another chance, because mommy and daddy brought me to Bass Pro to see him again!  I actually got Fluttershy already from St. Nicholas!  I said, "I knew I should quit sucking my thumb" when I got him because that's what I was supposed to do to get the My Little Pony's.

I have had a couple of play dates with Carrie too.  She is a lot of fun.  I went to the library a couple of times and really enjoyed playing with the doll house there.  Mommy left for a meeting one weekend and I got to hang out with daddy.  I've said some really funny things this month too.  I keep saying, "I'm not 3 and a half anymore.  I'm three and three quarters!"  I told daddy, "I don't like smelly trees.  I want a tree that smells like birthday cake!"  I whispered to mommy, "Don't tell anyone-it's a secret: I love you!"  I was also sent home from pre-school with a fever (which I didn't have-malfunctioning thermometer!)  Mommy said that I was eating like a horse, to which I replied, "Neigh, neigh, neigh!"

On December 14th, mommy came home and hugged me tighter than she usually does.  I could tell that something sad happened, but I also could tell how happy she is that I am in her life.  Daddy was glad to see me the next day too.

Play Doh with Carrie

Cousin love

 This many days until Christmas!

 Chase and me on Santa's lap

 Telling Santa what I want (I forgot to tell him something and was upset later!)

 Waiting in the cold before the parade

 Santa's lap #2 (I got a second chance to tell him!)

 Petting Santa's reindeer

 Mommy and me in the sleigh

 Daddy and me in the sleigh

 Enjoying hot chocolate with daddy

 Merry Christmas Baby Jesus!

 Ho ho ho!

 Riding on mommy's back

Cheese!

 I finally got Fluttershy-thanks St. Nicholas!



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!

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