preparing to give thanks…

last week was a nice week for me to get back to my normal routine after being away in florida.  daddy had to leave for a trip though so i did miss seeing him, but he returned on his birthday so we could have dinner together.  i loved singing the birthday song and helped daddy eat his yummy chocolate/peanut butter cake with some vanilla ice cream! 

we are looking forward to spending thanksgiving together with friends and lots of yummy food.  we are thankful for all our family and friends who make us feel so loved everyday, even though many of you are so far away.  xoxo

back from vacation…time to sleep!

mommy and i are back from our beach vacation and we sure had a great time!  we went to visit aunt velda down in florida.  she lives right on the beach so the location was just about perfect!  mimaw, aunt karen and uncle joey also flew in for the week so we were quite busy!  i got up early every morning and only took two naps the whole week.  my bedtime was also extended most nights so i have been catching up on sleep since we returned home last night.

the weather was a little crazy a few days while we were down there, but i made the best of it by making a pretend beach in aunt velda’s living room.  i set up the beach chairs, towels and sand toys and her area rug was my pool, which is what i called the ocean.  

in reality, we got to the beach three times and the pool once (it poured rain on us for a little bit in the pool but we thought it was still fun).  i loved being in the ocean and watching the waves, which were really high the first few days we were there due to ida spinning around in the gulf.  i liked to build sand castles with my little molds, but my favorite part was smashing them!

     

  

 

 

 

we ate out at some nice restaurants and i also had some of my favorites at aunt velda’s place…can’t live without my oatmeal!  aunt velda also had some new toys and games for me at her place.  i learned how to play candy land and also enjoyed reading my books. 

 

we did a little shopping.  the ladies called around to find out which mall around there had a disney store.  that was a really cool place with lots of my faves and needless to say, i left with my very own mickey and minnie! 

busy week so far!

dance class on monday was a special one since my mommy got to come in the studio and watch!  i was really shy in the beginning of class and didn’t do much since there were so many parents watching, but after we changed from our tap shoes to our ballet shoes, i started to open up and participate more in class.  my teacher ms. cay told mommy that sometimes we do learn more by just watching at this age.  each of us dancers got to do an individual move that we had learned.  it was four commands in a row, which ms. cay said is really good for our age.  we are practicing for our performance of the nutcracker, which all the dancers at my studio will perform in next month.  my class will be the gumdrops! 

 

 

 

today mommy and i took a tour of the fire station in boone with some other kids and moms.  it was so cool!  i got to meet some firefighters and they showed me all about their firetrucks and we got to see where they cook, sleep and watch tv.  they have really tall ladders on the trucks and the horn and sirens are really loud!  we also got a firefighters hat to take home. 

 

 

i also learned a valuable lesson about keeping my eye on froggy since he got left behind in the bathroom at the station.  when we went back to get him, the firefighters had gone to lunch.  we went to lunch and drove back by the station and luckily the nice fireman let us look for froggy and he was right in the bathroom where i had left him…thank goodness!  leaving him behind stressed me out so much that i actually fell asleep right away during naptime!