Disney Slideshow

Here's a slideshow of the pictures that we took while in Disney. You can also view a slideshow that the pros took until mid Dec., by clicking here.  There are a ton, enjoy.

Apple Orchard Field Trip

Today was my first field trip of the year.  We went to an apple orchard.  I had so much fun!  We played mini golf, ate donuts, drank cider, played on a cattle and a ship, had a haunted hay ride and ate more donuts.  They even gave us an apple and a pumpkin to take home!  The weather was perfect and I had so much fun!  We also found our way through a labyrinth and walked through this weird tunnel that rolled and had weird lights...it made momma sick!  I fed goats and llamas and there were even bunnies for us to look at.  I wore myself out and fell asleep on the way home after all that fun.  Here are some of the million pictures Momma took of me with the specific purpose of annoying me...

 

This is a pony swing made out of a tire!  It was pretty cool!!

This is the closest Momma will get to tying me down!!

This is me and my class!  I'm on the far right end and my teacher is on the far left!  The girl in the pink in the middle is one of my closeset friends at the moment.  There are two kids missing from this photo, they couldn't come today.  My teacher told us to make funny faces!!

The cider and donuts were really good!!

 I like feeding the goats, they are gentle...

The llama on the other hand...  He freaked me out pretty good, and he knocked the food right out of my hand!!  RUDE!

Yup, bring me somewhere new and I still just want to go to the park.

I was pretty good at this.  I got the ball in the hole pretty quick most of the time.

Quality time

My Gramma came up for Gramma Ma's funeral this past weekend.  I was able to relax and spend some quality time with her before she went home today.  We did lots of things!  I covered get mouth with stickers, we put on make up, played games, watched movies, had a fire put and even played outside!  I got to show her how good I am at pumping when I swing, how well I can ride my bike now and also my class room at school.  I had a great time, even though I've managed to get a cold, and it helped me to keep my mind of off how much I miss my great grandma.

Gramma is a good sport!  She left those stickers on long enough to annoy Momma...which I loved, of course!!

Gramma brought a bat and ball this time, and I had a lot of fun playing baseball with her in the back yard!  I loved it when she ran around and chased me through the yard!!

After all that hard playing we had to chillax for a bit.

Doing homework

Today I got to do homework for the first time! 

Coloring, cutting out circles, glue and math!

Flowers

Daddy's coworkers sent me flowers today to honor my Gramma-Ma's death this past week.  I've been really sad, and these flowers brightened my day.

I love nature!

After school today momma and I went on a nature hike.  Momma bought me this handy dandy magnifying glass to check stuff out with.  We found some cool pods, walnuts, dragonflies and even a muskrat!  We also saw an osprey with a fish in its talons flying over our heads!

More Crazy Hats!

Momma and I made this crazy cowgirl hat for day 3 of crazy hat day!  I love it!

Crazy Hat #1

 

Today was day one of crazy hat week!  I wore this hat that momma crocheted me earlier this year, my teachers laughed!!  This week we are starting to learn site words, this will help me to read later this year.  This week's word is "the".  Momma and I are playing a game, every time I find the word "the" and show her, I get a jelly bean!  I've found two today!  Today was also the first time I got homework.  Two pages!!!  But they're easy enough and I don't mind doing them.

Dinner by fire!

I asked momma if we could have a firepit tonight...she got lazy and had me and daddy make our own dinner too!!!

My first day of school 2012!

So today is the day!!  It's my first day of young 5's (pre-K).

I've got my back pack and I'm ready to go...

Sort of...  I'm a bit nervous to be honest.

But, only a little bit.  I'm a whole lot of excited!  Here we are waiting in the car for my teacher to come and get me out.  That's how they do it.  Its sort of like a drive through.  Momma pulls up in the car, they open the door and get me out.  I guess its safer for me that way.

 

Momma thought a little pre-first day interview was in order!

 

And then of course it was my turn!!  That's my teacher!  I jumped out of the car with out even looking back.  So long mom!  I'm outta here!! 

Momma has to come into the building to get me from my class.  My teacher gave me hugs and even posed for this nice picture of leaving my first day of class!!  Do you see how excited and happy I am?  It was a great first day!

We learned about the letter "M" (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) today.  The shape cirlce (I already know my shapes mom!) and the color green!  I guess they are easing us into school with all of this easy learning stuff!  I cut out that M&M all by myself and even colored it rainbow color!

 

And then no first day of school would be complete with out a "post-first-day-of-school" interview!!

 

Yeah, I'm pretty psyched to go back again tomorrow!!

Meet & Greet

Today was my meet & greet for school.  I will be going to school every day of the week now.  My teacher from last year thought I was pretty smart, so they are putting me in the young 5's Pre-K class instead of 4 yr old preschool.  I'll be learning math and science and even how to read a little bit...and all before I'm in Kindergarten!  The greatest part is that I got to get a back pack this year, and a folder to keep all of my homework in!

 

So to celebrate, momma took me out to a nice lunch at Panera's!  I just love getting their Mac n' Cheese and yogurt pop!

The nice part was that momma and daddy got to come with me because I'm a bit nervous about starting in a new class where I won't know any of the other kids!

This is where I'll be hanging my back pack every day!

It didn't take me long to jump in and get acquainted.  I always introduce myself, and then I sit down and play.  These two girls were pretty friendly and I enjoyed getting to play a little while momma and daddy listened to my teacher talk.

In the end I was really excited for this new class.  We have a bunny named Harvey (they we can even bring home on the weekends to care for!), a hermit crab and a hamster.  Rumor has it there is also a fish, but we didn't get to see him yet.  My teacher seems very nice and out going, and the assistant does too.  I'm looking forward to being able to learn about science and to learn how to read.  There are ten other students in my class, including a boy that was in my class last year (guess I'm not all alone after all)! Next week I get  to wear a crazy hat all week!  That's exciting!

Momma's life just got easier!

This morning I learned how to vacuum! Momma had me vacuum up all of my chalk dust, and I loved it so much I vacuumed the entire room!  It was great fun, I don't know why she complains so much. ;)

Pads [check], Helmet [check], Peddles [check]

I got my pads on, I got my helmet on and Daddy put the peddles on my bike.  I am ready to give this bike riding thing a try, no training wheels needed!

Ok, Momma, I'm ready!

Yeah, you know it!  I was up and peddling lickety split!  I'm practically a pro!  Today was my first attempt, and I managed to peddle for several yards (before I panic and hit the breaks, or go in the grass and hit the breaks, or just generally feeling like I should hit the breaks...a lot!) and Daddy would get me started with a little shove and off I would go!

So you know Momma just HAD to get it on video!!

I'm awesome!  It can not be denied.  I'll be riding circles around Momma in no time flat, as soon as I can figure out how to get moving from a dead stop on my own...and as soon as I can convince myself that it is not necessary to hit the breaks every few feet.

Happy New Years!!!

Happy 2012!!

We had a small gathering with some friends for NYE this year.  We ate tons of food, and played and had a grand time.  Then we played with glow-in-dark bracelets and the Muffin got to try out Sparklers for the very first time! 

At first she was a bit apprehensive, but she quickly caught on to the fun and I think really enjoyed playing with them, and even lighting them in the big candle.

The Muffin had a great time ringing in the New Year with her pal, but at this point the two of them were about as blinded by a thousand camera flashes (trying to find them in the view finder since it was so dark!) as could be!

And then of course Momma and Daddy had to get in on the action and take their yearly photo together!

Christmas with the Muffin

The Christmas season around here is pretty chaotic.  So here is a slide show of Christmas highlights for the Muffin.  The newborn in the photos is the Muffin's newest cousin.  The photo's span from decorating the tree, to making (and then eating) Gingerbread Houses at our friends house, to the Lights Before Christmas at the Zoo, to Christmas Eve with Momma's family to Christmas day with Daddy's family to Christmas evening here at our home.  This has been a very busy few weeks!  Enjoy the slide show.

This video is of the Muffin on Christmas morning.  Daddy and I decided we had to wake her up (Hey, it was gonna be a full day!) so we thought it would be fun to video tape her reaction to the news that Santa visited our house last night while she was asleep.

The Muffin also got a fishing pole for Christmas, so Daddy took her outside to learn how to cast.  She is a natural!

She seemed so excited opening this present (a ballerina doll named Tess) that I thought I would share it.  The funny part was that she didn't really react to the doll, much to our surprise and dismay...but she sure had fun opening the gift!

A short snippet of her opening some really sparkly shoes!

 

 

Hope you enjoyed all of the fun Christmas moments brought to you by the Muffin!!

Official Preschool Photos

Well, its about time!  The Muffins official preschool pictures (taken back in October) have finally arrived.  Sheesh!  BUT, they were worth the wait because she is so doggone cute!!  Here she is at 3 years and 9 months old.

Digging for seeds

At first I was grossed out by the gook, but eventually I got into this whole pumpkin carving business. I picked out the funny face I wanted to have on my pumpkin, and then after momma cut the top off, I scooped out the seeds (that momma later cooked up). I even helped momma and daddy carve my pumpkin's face!

Momma had to switch off with daddy because she was getting a cramp in her hand.

Daddy still has to carve his pumpkin, but momma and I finished ours.  We put them out on the front porch and they look really cool!

Safari (We're having fun!)

We went to the drive through Safari in Ohio! How cool is that? We got to feed Bison (Momma's favorite) and Giraffes (Daddy's favorite) and alpacas and deer and some weird moose looking thing with out horns, zebras, some weird beastly looking thing, and my favorite; the longhorns! They were all so big, and so close (putting their mouths in the car to eat pellets and carrots out of a cup) and I freaked out a bit, but I loved it! We took along all of my friends too. It was some great fun! I even got to sit up front while we drove through, and shhh...don't tell anyone....Daddy let me drive the car!!! So here are some fun photos from our trip a couple of weekends ago.

The bison were nuts! This one is small, but there was a really big one who's head barely fit through the window, and at one point he tried to get to the carrots that were in the console when I was sitting on Momma's lap. Momma lost her cool and we were both practically laying down to get away from the bison and momma was hollering at daddy to go!!

This car has some of my friends in it!

Daddy LOVED feeding the giraffes. The second time we went through they weren't hungry anymore, so he was the lucky one, momma and I didn't get to feed them!

This longhorn was small compared to the other two we got to see! Momma and daddy were freaking out a little because his horns kept bumping the car!

The view up here was way better!

All three families rode in their own car so that we could all fit and get good views!

I sat in the middle, on the console. I didn't really want to feed any of the animals, but I did once or twice. The Alpacas were real gentle and not greedy like the Bison!

Daddy had a ball, don't let him fool ya! The bison, though large and eager, were surprisingly gentle and slow. But boy were their heads HUGE!!

There were a lot of small deer, and other deer like animals. Really they just got in the way and we had to throw food out the window off to the side to get them to move outta the way!

And like I said, Daddy let me drive!!