My FAVORITE part of summer...4TH OF JULY!!

 We started the day out with our annual trip to the stone bank parade!  SO what if it was 110 degrees out. lol

 OK, maybe O cared a little if u can't tell from the picture above.  She actually at one point sat down in her chair and said she was just too hot to get candy from the parade, but mama, can u please get me some.  poor girl.  But after a popsicle and some water she was back to herself.

 After the parade we had naps and then swimming and all was good in the world!

 Later in the month we ended up going to a local pool that is just awesome for the toddler age group!  Any kind of water is awesome for O these days.  She spends the majority of the time pretending to be a mermaid anyway water or not.

 I love the above picture, really she has got her daddy wrapped around her little finger

Heres to jumping in with both feet!  LOVIN LIFE!

sumer fun!

 These past few months have been so busy!  I love this pic of O here she is so happy getting ready for her 'cital!

 Yup!  The one with NO poms, b/c she refused them! Ya thats my girl :)

 I think that she truely believed this was a REAL BIG fairy!  She just stared it was great!

 We went to the fairy walk at botanical gardens and I think that O had a blast!

MAN I love this girl!

the past year

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princess!

 I hope that from this post you will understand the reason of the title!  O is completly in LOVE with anything princess and your typical 3 y/o!  I am LOVEING this age and it really is great!  The above picture is of her opening her 'Punzel wig Christmas morning!  The below is her as 'Punzel of course! (her current fav princess)

 Below is a picture of her dressed up as a random princess at a pretty cool play place by us called kidz in motion!  The first room she went to play in was the dramatic play room (you know the one with princess costumes) I didn't even direct her that way she found it on her own. (I'm pretty sure that she has some sort of princess magnet insider her ;)

 Here she found the queen costume, sorry I can't turn it on here for some reason

 Queens always do archiology digs.....right

 She also is pretty fascinated by Eeyore and his removable tail.

 She BEGGED me to sign her up for "ballaleena lessons"  I even tried to talk her into gymnastics, but no go, girl had her mind set and man is she obsessed with it!  It is so cute to see her actually listening very hard to the teacher and trying to learn the positions.  Some days they do tap with the ballet and let me tell you sister gets pretty upset on those days as she want ballet every day!  Her new fav movie is Barbie and the 12 ballalinas!

 Second annual date with Daddy to Disney on Ice was a HUGE hit, I swear she went to bed with a smile on her face!  Def the year for her to really enjoy it!

 Of course our season's only snow....girl....yes O is a total girlie girl and made a snow princess, blinged out and all!

Sorry for the brief update and improper sentence structure, but this blog is to preserve memories....right :)

DECEMBER!

O is just turning into a little person right in front of our eyes!  It is a bittersweet thing.  The benefit is she is gradually learning to reason with us, the negative is the gradual part ;) she doesn't quite get it all.  For example, if I say pretty please I should get what I want RIGHT NOW!  She can pretty much say all words now but once and a while some cute "toddler/preschooler" quote will come out, a few as of late are candy cane=candy can, thumb=slum, finger=finner, ornaments=ornamens, theater=shheeador.  I kinda love it so when I repeat the proper way to say it I secretly hope that she is not really listening.

O's likes as of lately: cutting/ripping paper and leaving it all over the floor ;) gluing, which really means spreading glue all over the paper and not putting anything on top of it.  PRINCESS, dancing/ballarina (ballaleana), swimming lessons (she is getting so good at swimming and I am no longer in the pool with her!) riding her bike even though it is SO cold out but she doesn't seem to care, throwing fits (a lot, but we are working on that) dressing herself or shall I say undressing herself ;)

She has also just been so much fun to have around, we do a lot of fun things together and she is starting to really appriciate them!  I LOVE this age!

                                                                  The many faces of O!

                                                                              silly

                                                                       Surprised!

                                                                       sparkly teeth

                                                                      HAPPY

                                                                decorating the tree

                                                       lol notice all the orniments at O's level, except the One she let me put on!

                           too cute!  Maybe daddy and I fixed the orniments when she was not looking ;)

                                                               A girl and her best friend!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

Happy Birthday my little monkey!

Dear baby girl! (You would correct me on this one, I know, I know your a BIG girl.)

You have been talking about this day for weeks now and it is finally here and past!  You have been telling us all the time, hey mama!  I have somephing to tell u!  I b shree at my birsday!

We celebrated your birthday with a fall theme this year and wow was it a PERFECT day for it!!!! I'm so very happy with how it turned out!  The best part is your little smile was all over your face all day long!  We had boppy make his ATV and trailer into a hay ride!  This was by far the biggest hit of the party!  We had pumpkin painting, face painting, a bean bag toss, a big paraschute to play with, art activities, the park, and so much more!

Here are some pictures of your very special day!