Hibernation

Meg ate like a little pig tonight. She just kept eating and eating. When I asked her why she was so hungry, here was her response. "Well Mommy, I'm getting ready to hibernate like a bear, so I have to eat a bunch of food. I'll sleep and sleep and when I wake up I"ll be really hungry." HA! It is really cold out today and going to bed for a couple of months sounds like a pretty good idea! I'd like to wake up just in time for Spring Break. :)

American Idol

Meg loves singing. We now carry around a microphone in the car with us so she can sing along into her microphone. It doesn't really do anything, except make her feel more famous. HA! Taylor Swift is probably her favorite CD and I must admit that I am relieved at the fact that she will now listen to some "real" music. We still listen to kid's songs, her Jesus music CD and the one that is fairy tale stories occasionally, but at least there is some variety with adult music now. :) We had to wait on Greg the other night for few minutes, so I recorded her with my phone. Not the best images, but you get the idea! Here she is singing her heart out along with Taylor.....

Fit for a Princess!

Tonight was the night of all nights for Miss Meghan....we attended a Princess Tea Party. It was marvelous. As soon as Halloween was over, we began counting down for this big event. It's been a big debate all week as to what she was going to wear, but we finally came to an agreement. It's rainy and cold so that was a bit of a factor. She did go wearing her crown so she was satisfied. :)

When we first got there we were greeted with a few beautiful princesses, Jasmine (who she was really hoping would be there), Aurora, and Belle. We had a chance to visit with some friends, watch a magician make a bunny out of a balloon, and then get a picture with a very pretty Cinderella, otherwise known as our friend Michelle. Then we ate (pigs in a blanket, chips, carrots, celery, grapes, pineapple, some finger sandwiches and cupcakes for dessert). Meg was the first to finish her plate at our table and probably would have gone back for seconds had we not been distracted for the next activity.....hair, makeup and nail time! She got all made up and just LOVED that part. She also got to listen to a story told by the fairy godmother. Since she just loves stories and listened so intently and answered all the fairy godmother's questioned, she received a pink feather boa as a prize. (Gee thanks fairy godmother, are you coming tomorrow to sweep up all the pink feathers littering my house!?!?!? **wink, wink**)

This night was the ultimate for her. She kept telling me on the way home that she "definitely looked like a girly, girl now, didn't she?" HA! I told her she definitely did. When asked what her favorite part was, it was definitely getting her hair and makeup done! It was fun watching her have such a good time tonight, even if I'm not the girliest girl there ever was. How I ended up with such a girly-girl, I still don't know??? :)

Getting reading to go....

With Cinderella at the castle
Here's Jasmine!

Check out the balloon bunny!

Ta-Da!

Enjoying the princess food!

Picking out lip gloss, decisions! decisions!!

Making me up!

Striking some poses, princess style!

Not quite ready to go home, so one more pic with them all bundled up with coat on!

Can You See Me

This is the first title of the first book Meg officially read tonight all by herself. Gotta admit I'm a proud mommy! :) I picked it up a few days ago at school off of the leveled reader shelf in our library. It's a level "B." We've advanced from level "AA" (pics only) and level "A" (just one word on the page that matched the picture) to level "B." It has a couple of repetitive sentences on each page and some picture clues. It's been laying around, but when she first looked at it she told me it was too hard and that she couldn't read it. I didn't mention it again, because there is no way to talk Meg into doing something. She has to decide when SHE is ready! Tonight before bed though, she "just wanted to try to do it by herself." I knew it was a stall tactic for bed, but I was up for the challenge! She figured out all the words on the cover and was pretty excited so she just kept going, she got a little tripped up by the word "under" but figured it out.

When she finished, she looked up at me with those big brown eyes and said, "Wow Mommy! I did that all by myself!" like she couldn't believe it. That just about made my heart melt to see her being so proud of herself for such a big accomplishment. It's amazing to think what a tremendous step this is for her and how much she has grown up in just four short years. Time really does fly!

The cold is here, but Meg is warm!

Check it out! My girl is NOT gonna be cold this winter. We are on day #3 or so of it being cold and she was insistent today on getting all bundled up like this:

The babysitter told me that her preschool teacher even said that she was insistent on gettting everything back on just a certain way before she left to go back outside for pick up.

Tanner the Pooping Dog

Meghan received some money (along with the gobs and gobs of candy) for Halloween. We went to Wal-Mart the other night and I let her take her $11 that she received with her to purchase a toy. She found a Barbie toy that she just had to have and it was actually within her budget. It's Tanner, the Pooping Dog. The Barbie doll, which she's also now infatuated with, came with a dog that you can shove "food" (little brown tic-tac like things) into his mouth, then when you raise his tail, he poops them out. It even came with poop-picker-upper. It's a magnetic stick them that picks them up. A perfect pet for our house! :) I find it hard to believe that Mattel makes a toy like this that they actually leave on the shelf, but I guess parents like me that let their kid buy it and actually think it's kinda funny are what keep them in business. Now, back to helping her pick up magnetic, non-stinky dog poo!

The Muffin Man

according to Meghan, he lives on "Dirty Lane" HA! She was watching a video last night and singing along with this song. When I told her the correct words, I was, as usual, wrong. It is "Dirty Lane" that the Muffin Man lives on. Whatever!?!? :)