Good bye Three, Hello FOUR

Happy, happy birthday!

I can’t believe my girl is four. FOUR! It sounds extremely grown up, like she is about to skip out the door on her way too college. Lately her obsession with all things fish related has increased tenfold. She has completely worn out her magnadoodle pad (shhh, Grandma is buying her a new one!) with her fish drawings. I try to capture them before the swoosh of the slider erases them forever, but only catch maybe 10 % of what she has drawn.  Last week her preschool teacher pulled me aside and said, “A. made the most amazing fish out of play dough! They had different colored fins and there was a whole family!” She showed me the photo-it was super cool.

Along with drawing she is learning too read full speed ahead, today she wrote out the word, coco and said, “Look! I spelled something that rhymes with moko” I don’t know what either word really means, but I am happy she is having fun learning sounds and how to actually physically write letters. She can spell and type about 100 words now and likes to spell talk to us-“t-h-e   d-o-g   i-s   g-o-o-d.” I like to throw in random words sometimes to see if she’ll sound them out and mostly she will.

Today she said-“Do you mind if I tell you a joke?” I said no, and she said, “What are you eating? DOG FOOD?” oh the hilaritiy. She thought that was sooo funny.

She has also started calling us Honey. As in; “Honey, come look at my drawing.” Or

“Honey mama can you play with me?” She also calls the dog “Honey dog”

Its all very, very cute-and also, with all these big dose of adorableness there is a new and very LOUD fit throwing person emerging! She can, and will suddenly yell and scream like a little monster, mostly I look at her like, Whaaaaat? And she changes tactics, but phew…I can see some battles ahead, but I am also excited by the changes I see happening with her-learning, growing, being a wacky, funny little girl.

 

 

<------someone is about to be eaten

  <-------big scary fish eating lots of little fish

 <------BlowFish <-----TURTLES! Not fish!

<--------Jellyfish eating a fish

 <-----spelling HI with crayons