Elf Shopping

I had such a hard time finding my elf this morning! I was SO tired. But when I went into the dining room and started to walk through the living room, guess what I saw???

He must have been doing some online shopping!



Dad picked me up from school and told me that I could start decorating the tree if I ate a good dinner without fooling around and without it taking too long. We've been having some trouble with me taking FOREVER to eat. I played while mom got dinner ready.



Mom had some work to do, so she made me some mac and cheese (with peas)! That helped move the dinner process along. I ate that and said I was still hungry, so she gave me some blackberries and raspberries. I ate those, too! Then I had some applesauce. Who knows where I put it all - I'm still a tall, skinny girl!

Needless to say, I ate well, so got to decorate the tree. I told mom that I was hanging the "fragical" ornaments up high so kitty wouldn't break them. See how high I can reach?



G'night all!

Happy Cyber Monday

Happy Monday, everyone! As expected, I had a hard time getting up this morning. Thankfully, mom had a meeting and didn't have to leave till a bit later than normal, so she was able to get up and work a bit before I had to get up. I was still pretty tired, though.

When I finally got up and came downstairs, I discovered that Sly wasn't where he was yesterday! It took me a while to find him, but I finally saw him sitting on the mantle with Joe Pa as mom and I were cuddling.





I hope he'll tell Santa I've been good!

Can you tell how excited I am that daddy put up our tree??? I think we're going to work on decorating it the rest of this week.



Till later! Where will Sly be tomorrow???

Last Day of the Long Weekend

In order to celebrate the fun we've had the past four days, I slept LATE this morning! Mom went to bed early last night and I woke up at 2 crying that I didn't want to see my elf. Mom told me I didn't have to worry about the elf and we cuddled in my bed until I fell back asleep. Mom had the distinct pleasure of sleeping until 8am only to find that I was *still* asleep! She even came in to check on me to see if I was up and just playing quietly in my room. Nope - I was sound asleep and didn't wake up till 9:15! That's literally the only time I've ever slept that late in my life! Crazy, huh?

I was over my fear of the elf by the time I woke up and was delighted to find him in the new tree that I picked out. We were at Lowes the other day and I picked out this little planted evergreen tree. Sly must have liked my choice! I wouldn't get any closer than this to let mom take a picture because if you touch the elf, his magic goes away!



We had a fun day today and got to go the library to pick out new books and music. I got my usual 10 books (mom says that's so she always knows how many we have to return in case they get moved from my library bag). I also got a music CD to listen to and a book on CD that I'm very excited to listen to. Mom got a few books too, so it was a good trip.

We went grocery shopping for the week and I even got a cool snowman cookie to eat after dinner :) Not as good as the pumpkin pie cheese cake that daddy made for Thanksgiving, but I suppose it'll do.

I've had a lot of fun at home the past 4 days, but I think I'm ready to go back to school tomorrow. I really miss my friends and teachers!

Guess who came to visit???

Look what I woke up to! I woke mom up by SCREAMING this morning because I was so excited to find my elf :) Mom and dad read me the book last night and I decided to call him Sly this year, just like one of the penguins at the aquarium from this summer. And sure enough, when I woke up this morning, he was sitting on my dresser right beside my picture of Grandma Rebecca! I can't wait to see where he is tomorrow!

Pumpkin Patch!

A tad bit late, but here are the photos from the pumpkin patch from before Halloween! I had so much fun walking around trying to pick out my pumpkin!

Wagon ride to the pumpkin patch.



I liked this one.



This totally captures my personality, don't you think?



This is a good one too.



Heavy pumpkin! This is the one I want!



I had to stay home sick with dad yesterday because I had a fever and cough on Sunday night, but I was good to go by the time I got up yesterday morning. I slept late on Monday and got to rest a lot, so I think that helped. I was pretty good and let dad get some work done, too! Mom's been really busy at work and couldn't rearrange her schedule to be home, so it worked out really well.

Today we had my Thanksgiving Feast at school - it was so much fun! Each class got to prepare food for the feast - my class made the succotash! My teachers and the owners of the school made a lot too - there was turkey, mac and cheese, succotash, fresh fruit, corn bread, jello, pumpkin pudding, applesauce, and popcorn for dessert! Before we ate, each class performed the song that they had learned. My class did a song called "A Turkey Named Burt" and we all got to wear our Indian and Pilgrim costumes that we made. I'll have to ask mom to take a video of me singing the song because it's pretty cute. After each class performed, we all did the Thanksgiving song that I posted earlier. There were 3 pre-school classes (24 kids per class), so there were a lot of kids and parents in the room! After the kids got served their food, the parents got to eat too. After we ate, mom and dad had to go back to work, but I'm so glad they could come!

Mom and I went to Whole Foods after school and it surprisingly wasn't too bad for being two days before Thanksgiving! Dad's got a nice meal planned for the three of us and we're looking forward to some down time. It's been a pretty crazy schedule lately. Then I have swim class on Friday night - I started again last week and really enjoy it so far.

Hope everyone is well! Happy almost Thanksgiving!

The Thanksgiving Song

Check out this new song I learned in music class :)

Sleepy Girl

Guess I should have updated that we made it through Sandy and are perfectly safe! We lost power for about 2 hours, but it was no big deal. Dad was in my room helping me when it went out and I was sleeping when it came back on. Mom and dad sat in front of the fire (huzzah for the gas fireplace!) and read books while it was out. We had no tree or water damage, so we were really lucky. Seeing the news coverage of NY and NJ makes me so sad and I wish we could do more to help those people who have suffered so much. So sad :(

I was so thankful that we got to celebrate Halloween as normal on Wednesday this week. I dressed up as Cinderella (I'm just slightly obsessed with princesses these days). This was Tuesday night when I had to gather my costume to get ready for my school parade on Wednesday morning. We had to make sure it all fit and that we could find all of the pieces. The dress is really short, but it's a size 6!!! Crazy. The tiara is mom's that she bought for the Princess Half marathon in February. It even blinks :)



We went trick or treating with Ken, Marie, Arabelle, and Cole on Wednesday. How fun! We had pizza, then got in our costumes and headed out. Look how excited we were!



We walked all over Belle's neighborhood and got tons of candy. My bag got SO heavy and I could barely carry it anymore. Dad kept asking me if I was done trick or treating or if I thought I could carry the bag some more. Needless to say, I carried the heavy bag and got some more candy! It was late by the time we got done, so we came home and I went to bed. We sorted through my candy on Thursday night and I got to eat some Hershey's Kisses (from Marie's mom) while we watched Charlie Brown. Pretty cool. I even shared with mom and dad - I gave dad a Milky Way and Mom a 3 Musketeer's bar. Yum.

This morning I got to go to PT with mom. She had a really early appointment and she didn't have time to get me to school beforehand, so she took me with her. I got to play with her iPad and was really, really good the whole time. I counted for her while she was stretching and got to touch the ice pack and e-stim when she was done. That was fun. I got to school late because of PT, so it was snack time when we got there. It was also pizza Friday, so we didn't have to pack a lunch. I told mom that I ate two whole pieces (but not all of the crust) and a whole container of applesauce. Dad made pad thai for dinner and I totally devoured it :) Yummy shrimp!

I had a nice, long, warm bath tonight, then mom and I read a book. Then I laid my head down on mom's shoulder, and...



Out cold. Mom says she loves still being able to rock her "baby" to sleep :)