You only turn 3 once We had a great couple of days!
Skye first woke to a room FULL of balloons with 3’s all over them.
She had a few presents and cards to open.
She choose breakfast and we sang to her. After some time to play with her new things, we found her a very pretty, very big purple dress to wear to church. On the way we listened to all the birthday songs we owned. Skye was so pleased with this At church her Kazoo Grandma’s where there waiting in surprise! There was even cake at church on her birthday!
Then off to the mall, where there were MORE presents and we had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen. Skye was a hot fudge ice cream for dessert.
Build a Bear was next. Skye choose a Hello Kitty and a few goodies to go with it.
After we said our goodbye’s to all the Grandma’s and Aunt Monique and Brain, we went home for some rest time. It was a great day!
You’d think the birthday celebrations would be over right? The next day we met her friends at Jungle Java, we played for a bit, then headed home for lunch and birthday cupcakes with our friends!
Happy birthday sweet girl! I hope the day was very special for you!!
(I’m pre-releasing this. Skye’s birthday is the 15th)
Looking back at the last year it amazes me just how much Skye has changed and also, how much she hasn’t. She still wears her shoes on the wrong feet, but has recently started to say that hurts. I think she’s figuring it out. Skye still hates her hair ’styled’. Well she likes getting it styled, but won’t keep it that way for long. I’m sure she is just like me. Not a tom-boy, but also not a girly-girl. She has started to seriously love her baby’s. She nurses them, let’s Grandma babysit (um, that’s me.), wheels them around in the stroller, rocks them in their bed, wearing them in a sling… she’s a wonderful mama!
She loves real babies too, maybe too much….
She’s stubborn, which I’m sure she comes by via me. But I recently discovered though her stubborn behavior that you never get what you want when your stubborn
She just learned to wink. She can wink with her left eye. Her finger has to hold down the right eye. Another, just like mama.
She adores Carter and everything he can do. Including the stuff she can’t do….which is difficult but expected.
She’s slightly shy till she gets to know you. She loves her friends, which could be people her age or people my age.
She’s potty trained. Much earlier than Carter was. She does still wear a diaper at night, but most nights it’s dry.
She loves her church class. Most days there are hardly any other kids in there. So it’s almost one on one play time for her!
She’s a great little girl, who knows she’s not a baby, but not a big girl yet.
She’s a snuggler, a bed hog, and a joy to have around!!
Happy 3rd birthday Skye!!
Unmotivated to do any homeschooling. I think we are turning into unschoolers. It really feels like we are doing double when I plan something. Last week unplanned we did, science, math, phys ed, literature, and more. We truly are learning all the time. I guess I’m in a transition time. Trying to figure out just what we are doing….
Unmotivated to take pictures. I think my pictures look like crap. Seriously. I need a class or something.
Unmotivated to blog. Just feel like we are so busy, but nothing worth note worthy.
Plus, facebooks is eating my time and energy.
I put my flickr photos back public. I think my blog will be password free again soon.
Skye dresses herself one day. Leggings, dress and fluffly tutu
Carter set the dollhouse up by himself. Love the family bed and the unique way he thought about the space.
Carter wants to be an egg eating vegetarian who is also Christian when he grows up.
Both Carter and Skye asked Santa for a book for Christmas. I guess thats from what we do for Christmas, Something we want, something we need, something to play with, something to read.
We’ve been enjoying making homemade gift for our family again this year.
Sorry for the pause, hopefully I will be back to full time blogging again soon. Thank you to those who cared to ask why and for the log in.
We did this trick with Carter too. Sadly, I don’t even remember when it stopped it must have been a gentle weaning off the flip Now it’s Skye’s new favorite way to be independent!
well it’s been two weeks since I took the kids on pony rides at Maybury. I had no idea what an effect it would have on the kids! I do a lot of things, we go a lot of places, but you never know what will really sink in. What they will really remember.
Skye has not stopped talking about it. She tells everyone about it. The horse that looked like a cow (she had spots). Me go around and around and around. Me wear helmet. Me big girl.
Carter too. Yesterday he decided he held the ‘horn’ of the saddle. And if you push it it beeps, you want to know what sound it makes? Neigh. I love doing things with these kids. I love that we can!
Now I just need to find out where to get this girl some pony riding lessons oh, that’s right. No classes for Skye till she’s 3. Next summer….
This was a Before Five in a Row title, so a bit on the younger side for Carter but perfect for Skye. We had lots of fun with it! The idea is that you read the book everyday for 5 days and take a different lesson from it everyday. This book is about Sal and her mother who are picking blueberries to can for the winter, of course Sal is eating more than she’s saving. On the other side of Blueberry Hill Little Bear and his mother are eating blueberries to store up for the winter. Sal and Little Bear get a bit turned around and mix themselves up with each other moms! It’s a very cute book!
I’m not going to tell what exactly we did everyday. I’m sure the FIAR folks wouldn’t like that. They would rather you buy the book Here is a basic run down of what we did and extra curricular as well.
Monday
Stamping blueberries (with wine cork and ink pad)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday (Daddy homeschools for Mommy on her birthday!)
coloring in shades of blue
Classification
Matching lower and uppercase letters
Friday
Found Maine!
Greenfield Village (Macy’s 2nd Monday Theme School days)
Le Leche meeting Picnic following
Open Gym
Surviving in the Wild (Belle Isle HS program where we learn how to gather water and food. Carter and Skye ate bugs!)
Library
Carter eats a bug
we went up north for the long weekend and said good bye to summer. It FELT like good bye. Our last swim in the lake, Carter caught his first fish, jumped off the dock for the first time, but it was good bye. All his friends return to school tomorrow. We will celebrate in ‘not back to school’ ways. Including his first ever sleep over at a friends. They do grow up so fast.
We had a great couple of days!
At church her Kazoo Grandma’s where there waiting in surprise! There was even cake at church on her birthday!
it must have been a gentle weaning off the flip 
