I don’t know where the last four years went, but they sure went fast!

The birthday girl is a challenge.  Her teachers at daycare say they’ve never had someone as excited as she is to trace letters and numbers.  Give her a stack of colorbooks and workbooks and she’ll choose a workbook every time.  She’ll ask insistently how to complete each page.  In some cases, she’s doing first grade work.  She loves to help read books and recognizes a few words.

She loves to have cereal in the morning… either Froofy Petals (Fruity Pebbles, of course), or Wizard cereal (generic Lucky Charms).  Some days she gets ready for daycare at the speed of molasses, while other days she’s ready well before her brothers.

She loves both of her brothers dearly, although she still has her moments where she doesn’t want BJ anywhere near her.  She usually calls them Bran and Chrissin, even though she can say their names more clearly.  She usually insists that BJ is Brandon.  Not BJ.  She insists that she be addressed as Alyson Abella.  Or Alyson Butterfly Abella.  Sometimes I still get away with calling her Aly.

When asked where she’d like to have her birthday party this year, she thought for a minute before sharing that she thought, “We shouldn’t have it at Chuck E Cheese because the kids might get lost”.  I have no idea where that came from, but we ended up having it there.  Her best friend from church, her best friend from daycare, her best friend from Christian’s soccer games, and her best friend next door all came to celebrate her special day with her.

She loved every minute of her Chuck E Cheese party.  She was fascinated by the characters on stage.  She gave Chuck E a high five.  She enjoyed conspiring with Tristan to eat all of the candy in their goodie bags before going to play games.  She bopped to the music.  She made silly faces with her friends.  She even ate a little pizza and cake.  Over all it was a rousing success.

When we got home, she insisted on opening and playing with every new gift.  She adores her new Polly Pockets (complete with ponies), and her fairy dressup set, and her princess magnets, and her tea set.  Every gift received equal playing time.

She has a wonderful imagination.  She brought home a picture she drew this week of her and two of her friends running from a giant chicken.  I think the Thanksgiving turkey thing might be a little over done in her mind 🙂

That’s our four year old birthday girl in a nutshell.  Or a blog post.  Whatever.  🙂

No soccer pictures for Miss Alyson (well, except this one).

And I suppose this one qualifies – it was taken at a soccer game 🙂

Here is Dora Ballerina Alyson and her preschool teacher Tasha.

And Alyson with one of her other favorite teachers.

I don’t have the Halloween pictures up yet to post.  The daycare party was a week ago 🙂  Hopefully I’ll have pics of the three kids up later this week.