Someone fancies herself a fashionista.

Just your regular, hanging out at the house, ballgown with accessories.

She wears sunglasses at night. While eating carrots and corndogs.

Taking a casual trip to Target with her purse, Snow White shoes, navy leggings and denim jacket. The purse was a must. Why, you ask? Her nightlight was in it, "in case the store got dark."

"I'm Alice." (in Wonderland, the Tim Burton version)



Happenings

Drew and "Baby" Lauren at the SuperBowl watch party, not watching anything but the Black-Eyed Peas

Snuggle time with Daddy.

 Happy Valentine's Day Papa!

We've started a Chore Chart for Drew and she is fully embracing it. She unloads the silverware, feeds Nikki, helps put clothes away, sets the table, helps make her bed (rarely) and other miscellaneous helpful items.

Hidden talent? Probably not.

I've been noticing lately that when Drew dances, she glides backward along the wood floor and jumps like she's been doing double axels all her life. So we decided to test out that theory and go to the Ice Palace in Aliso Viejo. The bad news is that she has no one to emulate in our family. None of us can skate. The good news is that it seems 95% of the population at Ice Palace cannot skate either. However I would like a small amount of credit for "skating" backwards while handling the Flip.

Singing is probably a better matchup:

"Where are you Christmas" by Faith Hill

The Dan Band in Danaheim

For our Valentine's Day date we saw The Dan Band at The Grove in Anaheim. If you've ever seen The Hangover, Old School or Starsky and Hutch, you've seen The Dan Band. We had a great time, laughed through the whole concert and highly recommend it to anyone who liked their appearances in those movies. The highlights are below, from other performances via YouTube: Beyonce and Wilson Phillips.

Parent-Teacher Conference

We met with Miss Ursula Monday to talk about Drew's progress and we had a fun time swapping stories about our little lady.

Miss Ursula told us about one day when Drew's friend, Kate, was crying and crying and none of the teachers could find out what was wrong. Seeing her friend upset, from across the playground no less, Drew came over to see what the fuss was all about. Realizing there was a communication disconnect, Drew looked over to Kate and said, in a slightly louder voice, "KATE, MISS URSIE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT IS WRONG. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND MOVE YOUR LIPS AND THE WORDS WILL COME OUT."

Last week during circle time, Miss Ursula told the class the reason she was absent for a day was because her grandmother was sick (and had passed) and she was feeling a little sad. Drew raised her hand and said "Miss Ursie, be strong and never give up." Jeremy and I chuckled (with a tear in my eye) and joked how the message may have been a little mixed up but how her heart was in the right place. And Miss Ursula said it was exactly what she needed to hear that day.

She is known to her teachers as The Assistant. She will repeat any commands the teachers have given if she thinks other students are not listening. Miss Ursula put a nice spin on it but The Assistant also could be a short leap to Miss Bossy. She has been known to reinforce the rules physically on the playground, if necessary.

Miss Ursula said she has a very strong Christian character, stands up for her friends and herself when she thinks she is being wronged, and is always very concerned about her friends. We're so proud of our little girl.

Drew-isms

Looking at a picture from her baptism: "Mom, that's a picture from when I got appetized."

Giving kisses at bedtime: "Mommy, I wish I could be inside your cheeks because I love them so much."

"I love to listen to Justin Beaver."

"Wouldn't it be cool if......."(insert anything she's thinking next)

After going back and forth with "I love you more than all the stars in the sky. I love you more than all the sand at the beach" etc...she gives me: "I love you more than all of Grammy's breakable things." That's a lot of love.
And the next time you see her, ask her to tell you a knock-knock joke, she's got a doozie.

Here are some of Drew's current favorites:

Food: tie between pizza and pancakes
Song: Baby by Justin Bieber
Movie: Alice in Wonderland (the Tim Burton version)
Sport: "gynnastics"
Activity: setting up her stuffed animals in a seated position so she can either read to them or have a picnic
Color: pink
Book: Sesame Street Look and Find book

And she seems to be night potty training herself. She has been nap potty trained for a few months, which has been great, even if she only naps once or twice a week. But she has been asking to wear panties at night and I had to explain to her that she had to wake up with dry pull-ups before we could do that. So, usually once before Jeremy and I go to bed and once in the middle of the night she'll either get up and go potty herself or wake us up to let us know she has to go potty. Could we be sidestepping a huge landmine by her taking the initiative on this??

New Year's Eve follow-up

Mini Martha offering freshly-baked cupcakes from her kitchen.

Jeremy did all of the cooking for make it yourself tacos. I contributed by baking a pie and setting a paper plate on fire.

The Bollywood song looks difficult, at least they are having fun.

We're all in synch! One of the two times, I believe.

The mysterious bicep picture...where the heck did that come from??

Taking a break from all the hard work.

The funky chicken?

We start her early. She did not enjoy the sparkling cider.

Teenage Dream

Drew's favorite song. Quite inappropriate for a 3-year-old to be singing about skin-tight jeans, but she loves Katy Perry and this is too cute for me to discourage.

Belated videos

Playing with new toys:

Welcome 2011!

Since Christmas, we've.....

tried out our new Princess scooter (and become quite good at it),  

had friends over for an East Coast New Year's Eve celebration (we celebrate at 9pm), 

rocked out with a little Just Dance (Drew's favorite songs are Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne and Tik Tok by Kesha) 

 we walked down to the Regional Park and crunched some leaves and picked up sticks,

 and tested out a new gymnastics class with our friend, Meghan.

2011 promises a lot of firsts!