Time Out for Women

As part of our Christmas gifts this year, my sweet Mom got us tickets to Time Out for Women.  I wish I would've taken a picture when my Grandma was with us, but she could only come to the evening session, due to a hurt back.  It was really fun hanging out together, shopping and being spiritually uplifted.  My very favorite part was when Jericho Road performed a boy band medley and all the ladies went bezerck! 

Meet the Draculas!

This year Chloe chose our costumes, based on one of her favorite movies, Hotel Transylvania! She wanted to be Mavis, so Ronnie and I were Drac and Martha and Avery was Mavis as well.  Chloe had a great time dressing up for pre-school, we helped Ronnie with a carnival for GlitchBusters and went trick or treating around my parents neighborhood!  We had a blast and wore the girls right out!

Pumpkin Carving 2013

This year we enjoyed pumpkin carving with just our little family!  We had a blast and the girls even touched the pumpkin guts, a first for them (Chloe usually dry heaves)!

Chloe Turns 4!!!

I can hardly believe that my baby girl is already 4 years old!  She has grown into such a loving, caring, sensitive, helpful, intelligent, fun-loving girl!  She loves to give snuggles, especially every night with Daddy before going to bed and is always ready to give hugs.  Chloe usually has a pretty good attitude, but is DEFINITELY not a morning person (inherited from yours truly)!  Every morning that she has to be woken up early, she moans and groans, stretches, grunts and says "Can I have 5 more minutes Mom?!"  She has a killer memory and often recalls things out of the blue from a year or two ago with perfect clarity.  It's very easy for her to memorize songs and she has already performed her first solo in the primary program, and I'm totally gonna brag, she did it perfectly!  She was on key, on rhythm and knew every word!  We were so proud!

Chloe is an awesome big sister and was totally meant to be the first child in our family!  She is almost always willing to help me with her sister, with housework, and cooking.  She loves going shopping with me, especially for clothes and shoes.  Her jobs are the silverware in the dishwasher, dusting, taking out poopy diapers, cleaning her bathroom toilet, and the odd job here or there.  Right now she loves cleaning and being helpful, so hopefully we can keep it that way!  If ever she is being mean or whiny to her sister or anyone really, I kindly remind her that she is the big sister and needs to be an example, and she'll usually reply "Oh, ya...I need to take care of my sister.  Sorry Mom!".  She's very logical and intelligent, so if you explain something to her that she didn't understand she'll say "Oh, got it Mom!", and integrate that into her life, no joke!

My girl is ALWAYS talking and her mind never stops!  This is most evident when we are driving, and since we've moved to Ivins, everything is a good distance away and gives her ample time to ask me question after question!  "Green means go, right Mom?"  "Mom, when is Jesus coming back?"  "How many minutes until we get there?" "How many days until my birthday?"  "How did the clouds get up there?"  "Why do we have trees?"  "Mom where does Taylor Swift live?"  "Can we listen to Ever Ever (We Are Never Getting Back Together)?"  "When can we go to Disneyland?"  "Will you pray to Heavenly Father to see when we get a baby brother?" She also makes up her own songs in the car with whatever she sees or is thinking about, usually mixed with church song words and tunes.

She is also a big feeler....she can be completely delighted and happy one minute, and burst into hysterics the next.  Like gut wrenching, face contorting, screaming hysteria.  She is a great conversationalist and asks very insightful questions.  She always asks Ronnie how his day was and if he just says good she'll say "So it wasn't very crazy?".  The other day she was talking to her Nana on the phone and asked her how her day was and followed with "My Dad's day is always crazy!".

Chloe LOVES preschool and is learning so much!  Everyday she comes home having learned a new letter and it's sound and can recognize it.  She can recognize all of her numbers now too.  She loves learning new songs and nursery rhymes and playing with her best friend Parlee.

Favorite Color:  Pink
Favorite food:  Mac and Cheese
Favorite Movie:  Hotel Transylvannia
Favorite thing to do:  Play with toys with Avery
Best Friend:  Lucie and Hannah and Mimi and Avery and Parlee
Favorite Place:  Disneyland (she's never been there..)
Favorite Book:  Mulan
Favorite Song:  I Came to Earth