Christmas Memories 2015

The holiday season seems to get busier and busier each year, so I'm trying to start early. Here are things I want to remember about this Christmas:

1. When we talked about writing letters to santa you went to your paper and wrote out letters of the alphabet and cut them out to put in an envelope to mail to Santa.  It was the most precious thing!

We visited Santa in Florence with Grammy this year!

2. Grandmommy, Grandaddy, and Uncle Rob came to see you before Christmas to celebrate. We had great fun! You had your first dance recital  (Grammy and Grandpa Tom came over for that as well). You were the cutest Frosty around!

3. For Christmas Eve and Christmas day, Grammy and Grandpa Tom were here. We had a great time and Santa sure was good to you this year!

Dance, Dance, Dance!

After school began this year, you started taking your first dance class (ballet, jazz, and tumbling) You love it (although you don't love the shoes and pick at your leotard a lot!) You are definitely head strong when it comes to clothing that bothers you lately, but hopefully you will stay head strong to important things throughout your life.

You also got to ride on a float in the Okra Strut Parade with your dance troop!

F is for Fall!

We had a blast recently at the fair with Grandmommy and Grandaddy and then apple picking in North Carolina with Grandommy. Here are some pics and videos to remember the fun:

What you've been up to lately...

It's already October of 2015 and I am way behind in updating this blog. I'm about to do a major posting session, so please ignore that all of these posts have the same date!  We are pretty well settled into our new house in South Carolina and you are loving your new school and church! We are making friends slowly but surely and feel that this is the right place for us! It doesn't hurt that you get to see Uncle Mitch and Aunt Stacey and Grammy a lot more too! Here are some things I want to remember from recent days:

1. My road rage has apparently not gone unnoticed by you as you told me the following in the car the other day: "Mom- I'm not going to be your best friend any more if you say 'dude come on' any more at people in other cars!" Your message was received loud and clear, my love!

2. We always roll down the window and wave goodbye to Daddy as we pass his car in the morning. The other day you shouted out to him "You look perfect!"

3. You are still advancing at such a rapid pace and you amaze us all the time. You can count really high and at not quite 3.5 you can write your name and the alphabet and you are starting to sound out words from sight since you know the sounds each letter makes.  You can count by 10's and you can find "pattwerns" (patterns) like it's your job! Below is a video of you "reading" Pete the Cat when you were going to bed one night. You didn't know I was taping you and I will always cherish this sweet video:

4. you've become quite the artist lately and pay extreme detail to things like teeth and hair. I wonder if you'll get some of Grammy's artistic genes?!?

5. You also went to the dentist lately and did awesome! Everyone raved at how well-behaved and brave you were!

"Popsicles need to drink lots of water if they are going to walk on the sun"

It's almost the end of summer and we just sat outside to enjoy a popsicle on the back deck. We had a great chat about our day and you gave us the awesome quote that is the title of this post.  It made me want to post some of the other cute things you've said lately to remember, so here goes:

1. When I called you over to look at a bunny rabbit in the yard, you asked if you could show him your hiney and then turned around and shook it at him. You then turned back around and said, "awe...I'm gonna miss that little fella."

2. When talking to your cousins on Facetime about their dog, Sergio, you were asked if you had a dog and you said with all the confidence in the world " no, but I'll have one soon."  How can daddy argue with that?

3. When having the conversation about popsicles (the title of this post) you asked us if we heard that noise? We replied that it was an airplane and you said, "no. I heard something else. [insert crazy noise that you made here]. I think it was a cricket, a mommy cricket, with big teeth like a dinosaur."

4. You are into "girly" stuff right now and often want to put "poll nailish" on your finger nails.


You light up our lives with your daily doses of cuteness and intelligence. We love you so much!

In other news, it's been a great summer overall. We went to the beach with Cameron, Erin and the girls and then again with Shannon, Elizabeth, and Lily.  We hung out at the lake a lot with Uncle Mitch and Aunt Stacey, and took a college road trip with Taylor and Grandmommy. We then spent time at Grandmommy and Grandaddy's house and then Grammy stayed with us for a week.  I can't believe school starts for you on Monday, but I know you're going to love your new school and have a great year!

Here is a recap of the summer in pictures:

Noises in our new house.

Well we have officially moved in and are starting to get settled in South Carolina. I'm not going to lie to you; you have tested my patience so much in the last month! With us in transition and Dad already in South Carolina working, it was an interesting time. Let's just say that nap and bedtime have not been fun for a long time. However, we are slowly but surely getting back into our routine. You love your new house! You play in your playroom all the time and love having a yard and cul-de-sac to play in and ride your scooter and bike!  You've been making all kinds of good noises in our new house with cute sayings and songs. I'm putting three videos in this post. One is of you singing Uncle Mitch's "Blame it on the Parkinson's" song (well just the don't blame it on the whiskey part). The second is one of the many songs you make up and play the piano to lately. Lastly I'm posting some of your recent phrases. I had to prompt you to get you to say them, so they aren't quite as good as when you walk around the house saying them naturally, but they are still precious (I don't know to= I don't know how to; I'm just bartending= I'm just pretending; I'm not going to do that= same as it sounds, but so cute with your inflection; and let me tell you a question= let me ask you a question).

When I grow up...

For the last month or so, you've been saying that you want to be "an airplane driver" when you get big.  You set up airplanes wherever you are and drive them making the cutest sounds, including the best brake sound in the world! Dad and I know that you can do anything you put your mind to whether it's a pilot or artist or teacher or doctor or anything else! We wonder what you'll chose?!?