Weight: 37 lbs
Favorite show: Sophia the First
She loves: cooking, baking, cleaning, gymnastics, ballet, singing, skiing, painting, eating, playing in water, being outside, trying to play with insects and animals, hanging out with other girls, princesses, Frozen, getting her nails painted, wearing dresses, playing with baby dolls, playing with real babies, talking to strangers
Things she says:
scara= mascara
whipgwoss/whipstick = lipgloss/lipstick
frozebee= frizbee
It's gusta = Me gusta
fangs = things
cool = pool
cousit = cousin
tipsy roll = Tootsie Roll
Pugwix = Publix
barefeeted = barefoot
foursty = thirsty
Disuney Weorld = Disney World
mashed potatoes = the game Hot Potato
The Crackernut = The Nutcracker
Christmas Before the Night = The Nightmare Before Christmas
howey mowies = she thinks roly polies are called holy molies
Monser Inkers = Monsters Inc.
I need a question! = I have a question
Oh my gosh, Paul. (I guess I say that too much...)
On your march, get set, go!
I can count all the way to Spanish!
She is still overly friendly and goes up to anyone and everyone in public and starts random conversations. One of her latest ones included telling some lady she was going to be five, then six, and so on until twenty-five, at which point she would become a giant and have new parents. Almost everyone is really nice to her and will engage her in conversation. I always apologize because I'm afraid she's bothering them, but almost everyone tells me they don't mind. The only people who do mind are the ones already talking to someone or on the phone, she still doesn't understand that she shouldn't butt into people's conversations. She also loves to hop on one foot and show strangers how she does it.
Sometimes living with Mika feels like being in a horror movie. I'll be working downstairs, start to walk upstairs, look up, and she's just standing in the hallway staring down at me. Sometimes I'll wake up and she'll standing next to the bed staring at me. I'll be downstairs while she's sleeping, hear her scream for me, I'll run upstairs- and then she's asleep. And then my mind plays tricks on me sometimes and I'll be in bed trying to sleep, and I'll swear I hear her footsteps walking up to my bed, open my eyes- no one is there.
She goes to bed with Jackson (he has a full size bed) and sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night needing to see me. Sometimes she talks in her sleep.
She can't wait to grow up. She's always talking about how she's going to grow up and chew gum and wear mascara. She also wants to "scrape her legs" (shave her legs).
She keeps telling me we need to move to a brand new house because her friend Natalie is moving into a brand new house.
She still doesn't understand that Paul is living with us again. She keeps asking him if he's going to spend the night here.
She clicks her tongue a lot when she's thinking.
She uses the big kid swings and she can pump her legs the right way most of the time.
She loves drawing people and rainbows.
She loves trying to be independent. She likes to order and pay for her food by herself when we go to fast food restaurants. When we go to a sit-down restaurant, she can order her food and make extra requests for more to drink and such when the waiter comes back. She is very polite to strangers.
She doesn't understand that you have to pay for things before you leave stores. We went to Michael's and I looked back and she was just bopping along, happily swinging a lunchbox she stole. I tried to explain to her that we didn't give anyone money for that and I made her put it back. I don't know if I put this in a previous post, but I remember going to DSW with her and she put a purse in the bottom basket of the stroller and I didn't know it was there...until I left the store and the alarm went off.
I had Jackson write his birthday party invitations, and I had Mika write her name on hers. So now she "writes invitations" almost everyday and "mails" them to our next door neighbor (she hand delivers pictures she draws).
Sometimes I feel bad for the kids because they really want a pet, but I'm too cheap and lazy for that. (And we're out of town a lot, not dealing with that issue.) She tries to trap ants in her insect house and keep them as pets.
She is still very sensitive and cries at the smallest things. Sometimes she is annoying to be around because of that, but most of the time it is so nice to have her around because she's generally a happy person.
First dance recital
She LOVES ballet and gymnastics. It's pretty funny to watch a room full of three-year-olds try to do ballet. They did some little dance thing where they pretended to be princesses dancing for a prince. They were supposed to curtsy and say, "Your Highness." But she says "Your Highmess." And at first I couldn't figure out where she got that from and I thought she was calling me a mess.
Jackson has a poster of the presidents in his room. Mika likes to point at each president and say, "He's not happy, and he's not happy, and he's not happy, etc."
She loves to play "Gwirl" (Girl). She pretends to be my mom and I pretend to be her daughter. She also loves playing hide-and-seek.
She is so sweet. She is always telling me that she loves me and that I'm a great mom. It's nice to get that recognition from at least one child. She was making me cry one night when she talked for a while about how she picked me to be her mom because she thought I was perfect.
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