Christmas Montage

A little bit of everything from the last couple of weeks:

The snow princess girl Daddy and I made

Opening presents at Grandma Bonnie and Papa's house
Mommy doing my hair with the new salon stuff I had just opened...Kira, Geordan, and I gave everyone hairdos that weekend, even Papa and Great Grandpa

Jake and I getting ready to exchange gifts....I love my new Cabbage Patch Doll.....He and I had a LOT to talk about today (his first day here since Christmas)

Christmas morning....Checking to see if Santa ate his cookies and drank his milk

Santa brought the Barbie camper!!!! I was so excited!!!I played with this for over an hour, and Mom & Dad had to ask me if I wanted to open presents in order to break my concentration

THE Barbie camper....Can't get enough

Me in my new Princess Belle dress, another gift from Santa, giving Ella a hug...She is wearing some of the new baby clothes Santa left

WOOO HOOO! This was a lot of fun!

Daddy shoveled snow onto my slide again and again for me to plow through....We had a great snowball fight....Mom and I made a "club" (my idea) so we could team up on Dad

Hope everyone else had a great Christmas too! Have a safe New Year holiday, and blog to you soon.

A pictoral diary of the season so far:

Decorating our treeDaddy and I in front of the finished tree
Looking at the Angel on top of Grandma Bonnie's tree

Kira, Geordan, and me after decorating Grandma Bonnie's tree

Baking Christmas cookies with Mom... I put the cherries on them

Kira and I at Arends Awe with Santa. I gave him a letter and didn'tcry this year!

My Christmas dress

Opening presents at Grandma Pam's....I loved my doll clothes dresser and Moxie Girls airbrush studio the most......We had a great time!

Jaycie, Tucker, and me in our new Christmas pj's from Grandma and Grandpa.....Baby got new pj's to match mine!

Great Grandma and me at Knollwood's family Christmas open house...Can you tell I'm excited?

Grandma with lots of her "greats"....I had such a great time playing with everyone, and Santa spent a long time with us

I made Mom work for the Christmas card shot this year....She wanted to go with this picture, but wasn't sure everyone would appreciae the humor

I got a cool Dora book and CD set at my school gift exchange....the party was the morning after our Christmas program, but our class did not act at all tired. I love school! Mom wants to tell everyone how blessed she feels that I go to a school where I have a Christmas party and where we get to talk joyously and openly about Jesus' birth

Hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas festivities as much as I am. I'll post more pictures as they come. Merry Christmas!

Remember When I Used To Blog????

Iknow. I know. It has been a VERY long time since I updated. Everything has been going as planned for me. Mostly I have just been loving preschool and hanging out with the Jake. As you can see, Halloween was lots of fun. Other than that, I have just had little things going on lately...fun stuff that has kept me busy: spent the night at Grandma Bonnie's one night, helped Mom start on the winterfication (probably not a word) of the yard, worked at the church pumpkin patch, etc. Tomorrow will be my first day back to gymnastics. I have been back at tap for 3 weeks, but the doctor suggested we hold off for any tumbling. Also, tomorrow my "extended" cousin Livvy is coming over to play, yay! Sunday we have a roller skating party to go to. I am VERY excited about that. I promise not to have such a long time between posts next time. Have a good weekend everybody, and one more thing...

GO TROJANS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jake and me
Oh no! Shark attack!
Mom, "Just say cheese. Don't strain yourself."

Grandma Oscar and me

Circus

Grandma, Mommy, and I went to the circus last night. Mom and I just happened to see that it was close by yesterday when we were running errands, and of course as soon as I saw the tent, I asked to go. It was my first time. I enjoyed everything, but I liked the clowns the best. I even rode an elephant!!!

FORE!!!

Opening gifts on my birthday. This is a Dorothy costume.

Mom and Dad gave me roller skates. They were a little tricky at first. After practicing for a while in the kitchen, I tried it outside. Don't worry, I have knee and elbow pads and a helmet.

Here are Baby and me with my classes pet Guinea pig, Magic.

Grandma Pam and I coloring our shrinky dinks that we used to make bracelets at my party.

Ooooohhhh! The Prince from Barbie and the Three Musketeers. Mom and Dad gave me the movie on my b-day. It just came out, and I had been asking to see it for MONTHS!

What's a party without at least one costume change? I kept the ruby red slippers on though.

Making my wish.

So, last Wednesday I turned the big 4! That morning I opened presents from Mom and Dad. Mom let me pick where I wanted to go for my birthday lunch, and I chose the tea room. After that I had dance, then I had open house at my school that night. It was a busy, but very fun day. On Thursday I got to take a special birthday snack to school. I dediced on blueberries and fruit snacks. On Friday I spent the night at Grandma Bonnie's with Kira and Geordan. On Saturday I had a big Wizard of Oz birthday party at my house. I dressed up like Dorothy and had so much fun with my family. We made Wizard of Oz bracelets (well, mostly the grown ups did, we kids kind of got bored with it), had a supper of all of my favorites like cheese pizza, PB&J, and ants on a log, opened presents, and had cake and ice cream. On Sunday we went to the steam show where I had lots of fun with my grandpas. I am still a little tired this week from all of the goings on, but I was up and excited to go to school this morning. Have a good week everybody.

Such a Big Girl

I have had a very exciting couple of weeks. I am loving preschool, and asking Mom every morning if it is a school day. My class is currently working on a self concept unit where I am learning a lot about myself and all of my new classmates. The first thing I tell Mom everyday when she picks me up is what we had for a snack, first things first. I also started dance again last week. I am in the same class as last year taking tap and gym. I remembered a lot of my tap steps and was much more comfortable in the gym now that I am older. Here are a few pictures of me at dance. Mom was in the balcony so the picture quality isn't so great, but you get the idea.

PRESCHOOL!!!!!

Today was the big day. I am officially a big preschooler now. I am going to Salem Lutheran two mornings a week with a class of 17 other wonderful 3 year olds. I had a chocolate doughnut for breakfast (healthy, we know, but it was a treat for the first day), then Mom gave me a book about preschool. After that I put on the outfit that I have had picked out for a week and we headed to town. When we got to the classroom I saw lots of kids I knew, including Jake and Lakin, and my teacher, Mrs. Aring. I like my teacher. She showed me where my cubby was and showed me that my towel for quiet time and my "just in case" clothes were still there from when we brought them at orientation. After that I got right to playing with all of the toys. I was having so much fun that Mom just gave me a quick hug and kiss and left without incident. Mrs. Aring, the teacher, read Chica Chica Boom Boom. We played outside on the playground. I had chocolate milk and goldfish at snack time, and I played dress up. I aslo made lots of new friends, and even told Mom some of their names. When Mom came to pick Jake and me up, we were all smiles. I am looking forward to going back on Tuesday.

My new book

Jake and I going into the building
I found my name tag

There is princess stuff in my classroom!!!

My school bag....I made it last week at orientation

Our teacher put this in our bag