Unbridled joy...crushing dissapointment!

I L.O.V.E.D. riding in the tea cups at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom!  I laughed my butt off!  But when the ride ended, well, lets just say I was a wee bit disappointed!  It was over all too soon...and Momma was too dizzy to try that ride again!

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!!

More swimming videos

I love swim class!  I live for swim class!  Today it even rained the entire time, and I had a ball!  Momma shamelessly took more video to force on all of you!

So here I am floating like a pro!  In no time flat I'll be doing this with out the help of my teacher!

And in this video I am learning how to do the back stroke.  They tell me "Chicken!" and I put my arms into chicken wings and I pull my legs up (or at least I am supposed to).  Then they tell "Airplane!" and I spread out my arms and my legs.  Then they tell me "Soldier!" and I put my arms and legs straight like an arrow.  Whew!  Its a lot to remember, but I do ok.

Alas!  I got an opportunity to do a cannon ball!  I have been so excited to get to do a cannon ball, and today was my day!  I was nervous.  But I did my best and I jumped in with full gusto.  Before you know it, I'll be emptying the water from the pool!

Mastering the take off!

Today, on day two of my peddle bike riding (minus trainers), I learned how to take off on my own!  Look out!  Its just a matter of time until I am riding around the block!!

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.

Its raining, its pouring, but my life ain't boring!

I'm really starting to dig this rain running...

Dancing a jig

I just wanna dance!

Passing my swim class test

Momma and daddy signed me up for swim class this summer.  This video is of my testing to advance to the next level.  I did so well that my teacher said I could skip a level!  My favorite part of swim class was bobbing up and down!  I loved putting my head under the water.  During my testing my teacher put a ring on the bottom of the pool and I had to go down and get it!  I was the only kid they had do that, and Momma and Daddy (who was so lucky to be able to come to my class) were so proud!!

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!!

The Muffin and Santa Claus

The Muffin gets to sit on Santa's lap...And then of course I left in a little shameless plug of my wee new nephew...

The Muffins Christmas Play - Our little star!!

The Muffin's preschool class put on a small Christmas Play for the parents on their last day of school.  The Muffin had the honor of playing the Star of Bethlehem (although begrudgingly because she wanted to sit down, lol).

The Muffin's First Program

Don't forget to pause the music in the player at the bottom of the blog before you try to watch the video.

Otherwise you'll hear music and the video.

Oh what a day!  The Muffin had her very first Christmas program just before Christmas.  Momma, proud as ever, video taped every movement the Muffin made!  You'll be able to see her in the bottom left hand of the screen during the program, and she is also the last one in line as they are entering the auditorium.  The Muffin was so happy to have her grandparents and even her Great Aunt M at her program with Momma and Daddy.  She was proud as a peacock and did a fantastic job singing, we were all so proud!

Driving them crazy!!

So here I am driving. We were in the safari, so it was safe, don't panic! I did a pretty good job keeping us on the road...until I got distracted looking at the animals!

Look at me go!

The muffin has been practicing riding her bike this fall. We took the peddles off so that her bike became a balance bike. This way she learns to balance and then when she's got that down she'll be able to ride her bike with out training wheels. She loves it. She's gotten very good at pushing her self and then gliding for several feet! She's pretty fast too. This is a video I took on my phone earlier this month, so the quality isn't real good, but you'll get the idea!

The Muffin Singing "Toes" and playing her Ukulele!

First; scroll to the bottom of the screen and pause or mute the music player so that you can actually hear her play and sing.


The Muffin is a big fan of The Zach Brown Band! Her favorite song is "Toes". This video is of her playing the Ukulele and singing "Toes". Its about 5 minutes long, but so worth the watch! She's hilarious! She looks like she's singing the blues or something. It has to be the best video EVER!! The words you can actually hear her say are "sand in a toes", the actual words are "toes in the sand". If you'd like to see it on YouTube click here.

What's Yours is Mine and What's Mine is Mine!

I made chili the other night and the Muffin ate hers, said she was done, got down for a little bit then proceeded to want to sit on Daddy's lap and eat his chili too! Then, she didn't want him to eat his own chili.

Tongs! The next Tickle Me Elmo!

My first Blog video!

This is a short snippet of me using a fork to eat my pork chops for the first time. I did this today during dinner, much to my parents delight and surprise! Daddy had to help me stab the meat, because though I was on target, I didn't have the strength to get it to stay on my fork! I was so delighted and chuckled down to my toes!