1) Clothes: This girl is getting funny about her clothes, shoes, etc. She's gone through several favorite shirts/outfits the last couple of weeks: the penguin pajamas, the tie dye shirt, the pink shirt with the dog applique. She has also been ALL about the shoes the last couple of months - changing them like a zillion times a day. This weekend she's been all about the tap shoes. She even wore them to church this morning (we changed to church shoes before actually going IN the church).
2) Counting: She's started a little bit of counting finally this week. It started out like this, "2, 3, 2, 3. I counted!" Then it became "2, 3, 4, 2, 3. I counted!" Now it's usually "3, 4, 3, 4." We'll get there :)
3) Frosty story: This week we found out that she gets to be in a Christmas recital! Her dance teacher does several Christmas shows. There's an actual Christmas show/recital that's a fundraiser to off-set costumes and also several shows at nursing homes. I have to figure out an elf costume (maybe that will be a post later). But anyway, her Christmas dance is to "Frosty the Snowman." She is just now finally starting to almost sing parts of songs here and there. I was singing "Frosty" to her in the car and before I had gotten very far into the song, she said "Bye! Don't cry!" Stephen and I were like "Wow, she actually recognizes the song!"
This is the note from her dance teacher: "She is such a little doll...I don't know how much she will do but she does start doing the footwork when the dance part starts....the singing...not so much. But she is so cute, I am sure the residents would enjoy her even if she did nothing other than stand there and look cute."
4) Daddy going to church: Wednesday nights Stephen has started going to a men's Bible study at church. When he left this past week, we told her he was going to church. After he left, she looked at me and said "Daddy going trick or treating." Stephen and I laughed so hard about that. Ever since we went trunk-or-treating at church for Halloween, Little Miss always mentions it when we're in that part of the parking lot, so it was hilarious that she was associating that with Stephen going! (Speaking of Halloween, the candy is ALMOST gone and she has been less anxious about "my basket" as it disappears, so that's a GOOD thing.
5) Reading: Little Miss has loved books from almost the very beginning. There was even a month or so last year when she carried around a book almost ALL day at school! Right now, she especially into reading before bedtime. It used to be with Daddy and then Mommy. Then she changed to only wanting Mommy to read. Now we're piling books, Mommy, Daddy, and Little Miss on our bed to read before putting her to bed!
The funniest part is the way she names her books. Sometimes she'll ask us for a book and we're so confused until we figure out what she's talking about! One of the main ones she has named right now is Sandra Boynton's Fifteen Animals, which Little Miss simply calls "Bob"! Yesterday, she found a copy of If You Give a Pig a Pancake and a random Winnie the Pooh book. Then in the afternoon and the evening, she kept searching for "Pig and Pooh"! At first, I was very confused and then I figured it out!
6) The Gym: We have been doing Open Gym at Lexington Gymnastic Academy two Fridays a month. The other two Fridays she's in a cheerleading/tumbling class at daycare. She LOVES open gym - jumping on the trampolines, running around, swinging, etc. She is also doing well in the class. Her favorite thing, according to her teacher, is the forward roll. She has been trying to do it at home on her home for a while now, and last night she finally started doing it! She rolled over and over again on our bed and on the floor. We were so proud! The funny part: she started saying "Mommy do it. Daddy do it." She was very insistent that we should roll too. I'm proud to report that Stephen managed to do it. Me? I have zero idea how I used to do somersaults because I could NOT figure it out! She just kept showing me and showing me. Then she would look at me like "See how easy it is?" Yeah, not at age 32!
Finally a picture to share. I told her she was stylin', so then she kept saying "I stylin'!" :)
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