Monday, January 24, 2011

Four

This sweet, sweet, happy girl turned FOUR today! I just really can't believe it. Four breaks my heart a little bit, because in my mind is the end of "toddler." And Amelia really did got from a toddler to a little girl this past year. She is so good at expressing herself verbally now, she is funny and has this great new intuition and empathy and ability to relate to people. That girl doesn't miss a thing! She is so, so GOOD right now. She just wants to please everyone, which is HARD when you're three four years old and in the middle of a crazy family like ours ha!

She's still wonderfully quirky and herself. She did NOT want to turn four years old (just like she didn't want to turn three last year!) She just doesn't like change, but once she gets over it, she is fully on board with the new thing. For example, she was extremely upset that she would not have her teacher Miss Susan again at the beginning of this year, but literally 5 minutes after meeting Miss Martha, she was fiercely devoted to her (and now does not ever want to leave her). And so it was with three - she was adamant that she did not want to turn four years old, but now that she is four, this is the age she wants to stay. You won't hear this girl talking about "four and a half" (unlike her sister, who turned "five and a half" two weeks after her fifth birthday!) What's funny, is that she finally decided four was okay when she realized that she would now get TWO gummy vitamins instead of one. Silly girl!

I went to her school this morning and brought cookies to her class. I had the best time. I just LOVE her school, and I love that they just let us pesky parents hang out as much as we want to! I spent about an hour just watching her on the playground and sitting on the floor during story time (with the cutest little twins in my lap!) It's fun seeing Amelia with her friends. The best part was when the kids practiced their letters, they would each say which letter their name started with. Well, because I was there, Miss Martha asked Amelia what letter her mommy's name "Vera" started with. Then the other kids wanted to say what name their mommy's name started with. Guess what? ALL their mommy's names started with...M! Ha ha ha! "Mom" or "Mommy." I loved it!

After Little Red Riding Hood, Amelia was terrified of wolves. I mean, like she had to sleep in our bed for a week and refused to go anywhere alone - even the bathroom! It was bad. And we tried everything to convince her there were no wolves in our house, or in the city, and that real wolves didn't eat grandmothers and dress up to trick little girls. But nothing helped. I was desperate. Then she overheard Sophia and I talking about wolves from Little House in the Big Woods, which takes place in Wisconsin, and Amelia knows that we have family there, so she was freaked out even more. Finally, I just told her that there are no more wolves in Wisconsin, and that actually the only place now that there are wolves is Canada, and that we are NEVER going to Canada because it is too far away. I was kind of shocked that I just totally lied to her, because I really don't usually do that, but... it worked! She's totally fine now that all the wolves are in Canada.

Amelia is the best sister to Henry, she just adores him so much. She helps him if he gets stuck or needs something, and she is still the person who can make him smile easier than anyone else.

She loves to dress up and to color. In fact, she spends probably 90% of her waking hours coloring or playing with play doh while wearing a princess or butterfly costume. Oh man, I love this girl!

I have all these fabulous pictures that my fabulous friend Gretchan took with her fabulous camera of Amelia's fabulous birthday party on Saturday. BUT it is after 11pm and I am still working on the slides for a conference I'm speaking at in April, which I need to get done TODAY, so I will have to do the party post another day (and tomorrow is out because I have church meetings both BEFORE and two AFTER work!) But soon, I promise!

2 comments:

affectioknit said...

Sweet! Happy Birthday!

Bonnie said...

Thank you for sharing a birthday cookie with me. I had it with a cup of tea and it was delicious! I can't wait to see the pictures.

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