Pictures from June

In June, we made a trip up to No. California. Little One at Happy Hollow in San Jose.....

At City Hall, in San Francisco.....

Easter Sunday

Transportation

....small horse....
...old-school fire truck....

...old-school racing car....

....Nissan 350Z......

Little One update

The Little One is quite a sassafras these days. She is always trying to negotiate to get things her way and is always saying, "I do it myself!". Here are some other things she says....

situation: when you ask her to do something she doesn't want to do....
Little One: "I'm busy right now."

situation: when shopping at the supermarket....

Little One: ...picks up random item from the aisle, drops it into the shopping cart, and says, "I need this one!"

situation: whenever daddy starts to sing....

Little One: "No singing, daddy!"

situation: when she gets mad...

Little One: "I don't like you...you go on timeout!"

4 years old

Little One is now 4 years old. In this last year, she grew about 3" and tacked on 6 lbs and now hits the scales at 39" tall and 38 lbs. Here are a few recent pictures......

Snapshot of 2010

Pictures

....a few pictures of Little One.....

Smile, Please

"Smile for the camera, please"........

"uh, let's try that again....smile, please".....

"uh, let's try again.....smile"......

"ok, nevermind".......

Pictures

...Here are some recent pictures of Little One.... ...playing around before it's off to school.....

...Little One asked to be Cinderella for Halloween.....

She went out trick-or-treating and then had even more fun passing out candy to other kids.....

The Big Kid

Little One says that she is now a "big kid". She seemed to be outgrowing her toddler bed, so this weekend, we changed her toddler bed to a full-sized bed.

Jumping for joy!?

...Little One having fun at a birthday party last week. The next day she said, "my back hurts."

Signs

Some signs indicating that Little One is growing up....
1.) In the morning, she is now getting out of bed by herself .
2.) She can go up and down the stairs by herself.
3.) She has started to call us "mom & dad" instead of "mommy and daddy", and she sometimes refers to us as "you guys".
4.) She is starting to pay attention to the words in her books instead of just the pictures.

..here are a few pictures of Little One from August.....

Preschool Update

Little One seems to be doing okay at preschool. She still complains in the mornings about having to go to school but, she usually enjoys the classes and activities once she gets there. She has been eating well at lunch time but has had some problems napping afterwards. She has picked up some new terms at school such as "so awesome", "so cool", and "volcano goes boom". Here are a few recent pictures...

Time Goes By

Miscellaneous Musings

It feels like Little One is growing up. She is set to start preschool next week, and hopefully, she is ready to take on this new challenge. ....All ready for school?

She is now completely "pull-up free" as we have stopped using them at bed time. After we had the tub reglazed, we have been giving her baths in the big tub instead of the small plastic one.

Little One seems to have developed a fondness for baseball. She likes to play catch and tosses the ball fairly well. However, in this picture she has the mitt on the wrong hand.

...improvising so that we can play "tee ball" indoors....

In the month of May...

Little One will make the transition from daycare to preschool later this summer. She seems excited about going to school, but for now, she is just relaxing and enjoying the nice spring time weather:

....ready to go to work with Daddy.....

April Update

After her birthday, Little One went to the dentist for the first time. The dentist suggested that we try to get her to stop sucking her thumb. We tried this "ThumbGuard" on her which she doesn't like very much.However, she was all smiles after going to Disneyland for the first time. At home, she sometimes studies the Disneyland map and reflects on those "good times".

Little One gets all excited whenever we mention going to a "park". Sometimes, she will stop in the middle of what she is doing and head towards the front door to look for her shoes.

3 years old

Little One is now 3 years old. Here is a picture from her birthday..... 36" tall and 31.6 lbs at 3 years old.....
Little One continues to talk more and more and is now willing to answer us (somewhat), if we ask her questions such as “what did you do today at daycare?” However, it also means that she has started talking back to us. If I warn her about putting her on timeout for misbehaving, she comes back with “Daddy …..timeout….two minutes” in the same stern tone that I usually use on her.

Little One has also made progress with potty training and is now accident-free on most days. Sometimes, it feels like the kid is growing up right before our eyes......she should be driving in no time.