Bella update - 3 years and a quarter

Our little gal is just growing up!  She continues to amaze us with how stinkin' smart she is - and how witty she is - and tenacious - and spirited - and tenacious...

You get the picture.  She is so full of personality right now and I have a feeling that will just continue to increase as she gets older.

She still loves pink and purple. She says those are her "favorites".  Speaking of "favorites", she likes to let us know what those are lately.  Her favorite princess is Cinderella, her favorite thing to eat is peanut butter/jelly "samwich", her favorite cartoon is Dinosaur Train, and last but certainly not least she called me her favorite yesterday AND today.  Score!!! That's a big deal because she's always been a huge Daddy's gal.

She still enjoys singing and will get a rag to sing while she cleans. It's not just any singing though. She pretends like she's singing opera or something - she's seen Snow White so she's singing like her - vibrato and all!

She likes school again. We went through a little rough patch where she did not like school at all.  She moved up in her class so it was the transition that got her upset.  But now she knows her teacher and classmates and is A-ok with going again. Phew, that makes me happy.

She knows all of her letters - capitalized and smaller case. She knows most of the sounds they make.  And, she knows a little arithmetic.  She can count 2+4 or 2+3 or 3+5. 

She knows what a gigantosauras and a microrapter are. 

She can make her "Brudder" smile more than anyone.  She likes to say "tickle tickle" to him and watch him crack up laughing.

This is right before we went to see "Beauty and the Beast" in 3D. I may or may not have gotten all choked up a couple of times during the movie.  It was my favorite growing up so it was special to be able to take her. She did so great too and say in my lap the whole time. Again, score!

Here we are having a tea party in the living room.  We made strawberry cake over and over and over...i'm glad it wasn't real though. We would have consumed way too much sugar that day.  Notice her outfit? That's what she wants every.single.day - pink dress, glass slippers, crown,  jewelry.  And then she'll dance.

She'll also ask for things by saying, "Mommy, wanna dance to me?", "Mommy, wanna play to me?", "Mommy, wanna hold my hand?"  Well of course I want to hold you hand!  Housework and/or homework can wait if i'm being asked by a certain 3 year old to hold her hand and dance.  We have lots of family dance parties lately.  Or today we played "Follow the leader" while we sang the song from Peter Pan.  She loved it and told her Daddy a couple of times, "this is fun!".  Awww, the joy of childhood.