Favorites:Cereal - corn chex
Vegetable - red pepper
Fruit - apple
Drink - Evan's milk (almond)
Toy - Lucy
Show - Phineas & Ferb
Game - Sorry
Book - books I can read myself
Restaurant - Subway
Holiday - Christmas!
Animal - baby giraffe (fourth year in a row!)
Way to spend time - playing games
Friend - Declan
If you could change your name, what would you choose?
Evan
What do you love about each person in our family?
Daddy - He's so cute
Mommy - Her hair is pretty
Evan - We have lots of fun
Mason - He plays with me
Where would you like to go on vacation this year?
Grammy and Papaw's
What was your favorite thing we did last year?
went to the beach
Noelle turned 6 this year, and started Kindergarten which she is loving. She is learning so much, and reading incredibly well. She picked it up and ran with it, and it's fun seeing her discover the world through reading. Often she'll tell me something she learned at school, and be surprised that I knew it, too. I tell her that I went to Kindergarten also! She thinks she knows everything, and gets upset when she finds out she doesn't. As a perfectionist myself, I know all about wishing I just knew everything and had all skills necessary in life without even trying. We have a big job teaching her that not knowing, and therefore learning, is actually a fun part of life.
Noelle still likes her little things, she often has at least a dozen random objects in her school bag that she has found on the playground. She does a good job keeping them away from her brothers, but I have finally realized after washing chapstick twice that I need to start checking her pockets before I do her laundry. Almost every time I open the dryer I find at least one little thing.
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So I promised some updates after Noelle's check ups, and I'm finally getting around to it. Last Thursday she went to the dentist for the second time, and she did great. She went back all by herself, and the Dentist told me she was so well behaved. She got to pick out a toy, and was thrilled with her new toothbrush and floss. So far, she has no fear of the Dentist, and hopefully it stays that way! Our Dentist names all her tools, like "Mr. Thirsty" for the saliva sucker and "Mr. Counter" for the pointy thing they use to check your gums.
1. She makes up her own songs. Sometimes she will be singing something and I'll ask where she heard it, because it sounds like a real song. Many of them have lots of dramatic flair, others are silly. Often she asks me to sing along, when I have to remind her she made it up and I don't yet know it. She also changes out words to known songs on the fly, and her changes totally fit. This summer she was singing the ABC's and I joined in. At the end she sang "Next time let me SING IT BY MYSELF!" and started laughing. Today I was singing Patty Cake to Evan, and on the part where it says "and mark it with a B" she sang "and STAB IT IN THE NECK." That's a hilarious family inside joke, Papa. Which leads me to...
39 months old, and Noelle has finally had a haircut! She has grown increasingly more resistant to me doing anything to her hair, sometimes even refusing to let me put one single solitary hairclip in to hold her hair out of her face. Even while eating cereal and having to hold it back with her hand so as not to coat her hair in milk, she says no thanks to a hairclip. She often starts to cry at the mere sight of a brush (and my mom is thinking "haha! you got one just like you!). I told her again last night that unless she started allowing me to at least brush her hair regularly, I was going to have to cut it. So, she said "cut it right now." I gave her a bath first, then got out our haircutting scissors and chopped off about 2 inches. Easier said than done to cut a straight line on a moving target, but I think I did a pretty good job!
