Marlee

Marlee is now 4. A month later and here is her birthday picture...

She requested a snowman party. Thankfully we had enough snow to go sledding. I didn't take my camera sledding, so I have no pictures of that. I also have my hat on, because after sledding for a few hours, I wasn't about to take it off since everyone came straight to our house afterwards for cake. :)

At 4, she is smarter than ever. :) She loves soccer. She tried volleyball, but wasn't super into it. She says she likes it now, but a couple times during practice she wanted to go home, and we didn't end up going back after one practice where we left early because I was fighting her to get onto the court. She loves to be outdoors. She is really into "exercising" with me. I started going to running club, and while we are out running, the kids are playing and they were having "races". It cracks me up! She knows all of her upper case letters, and their sounds. And most of her lower case letters (with the exception of d, b, q, p) which are pretty standard to get mixed up. We are working on number recognition, and we count all the time. She still skips a few in the teens, but she enjoys it. She is really into Daniel tigers neighborhood right now, and syd the science kid, so sometimes we "do school" and do different things. We also have done a science experiment...what dissolves and what does not with things around my house. She really enjoyed it. We will have to do it a few more times since that was the first time she has ever heard the word dissolve. She made predictions, and then we tested it. Afterwards she really enjoyed dumping all the water into different jars.

She is such a good big sister! She always wants to help Brekken (well almost always!). And she loves to show him new things, and play with him. She also loves to pull him around and try to make him do whatever she wants him to do. lol

All in all, we love her lots and lots!