Mia- 4.75 Years

 Dear Mia,

You have grown up a lot!  You are such a good helper with your sisters and you love helping me one on one with my own projects too.  You're getting so independent, which is awesome, but it also makes me miss my sweet little Mia Bear.  You're growing up so fast!

Skiing has been our new focus lately.  You have loved it!  I'm so glad that I have been able to work on teaching you how.  The first time we took you, it was hard for you to hike all of the way to the bunny hill from the car and you were pretty whiny.  Once you got to ski down that hill the first time though, your entire face lit up!  You are doing awesome!  We've only been 3 times now, but you are able to stop with a wedge and take turns.  Now we need to focus a little more on controlling your speed.  You love to tell everyone that you know how to ski.  You're overconfidence must come from your excitement for it.  I can't wait to have you and your sisters be my little ski buddies, as you get older!

Every morning you like to join me when I work out.  I use weights along with a workout video and you always find a couple of Callie's toys to use, like weights.  It's funny watching you try to figure out what the moves are.  Sometimes you have it right on and sometimes you get your body all twisted.  You're never afraid to try though!

You definitely adore Callie.  Every chance you get, you want to hold her or help feed her or play with her.  Whenever you walk in the room and see that she's awake, you say, "Hi Smiley!" in a high, loud voice and immediately get big smiles from her.

You like to do things more and more by yourself now.  The newest thing has been taking showers, instead of baths.  I've been teaching you how to shampoo your own hair and rinse it out and now you are obsessed with taking showers!   You also are always building things with your legos, k'nex or magformers by yourself.  It was only a month ago that you always said you needed me or Daddy to help you, but now you have it all figured out!  It's fun watching your imagination take off and seeing what creations you come up with.

We love you lots and lots!  It's fun watching you grow up, but you have to slow down!  I'm always amazed looking back at your photos how much bigger you have gotten.  You're beautiful, inside and out.

I love you!

Love,
Mommy

Mia-isms

Feb 14, 2016

Mia has been asking a lot of "why" questions lately, trying to understand things better. She also has been thinking about how Callie came out of my tummy and asking who's tummy other people came out of.
M: Whose tummy did you come out of, Mommy?
K: Grandma JJ's
M: Whose tummy did Grandma JJ come out of?
K: My Grandma Evelyn's
M pauses: Like our doll, Baby Evelyn? (A few months ago, we suggested that the girls name their dolls, instead of calling them things like, the white dolly. We suggested Dolly and Evelyn, after their Great Grandma's and the names stuck.)
K: Sort of. Baby Evelyn is named after my Grandma Evelyn.
M: Hmmm. Ok.

Feb 10, 2016

Eric has been trying to teach the girls words in Spanish every now and then.  The other day Mia asked, “Daddy, What’s Spanish in car?” 

Feb 5, 2016

I gave Mia her envelopes for her Valentines and she started writing names on them.  She spelled them by sounding them out all by herself.  Here is what she came up with: Grandma JJ= GramoLaLa (The L’s were backwards J’s); Grandpa Paul= Grampol; Grandpa Peyton= Grampatin; Paula= Polu; Grandma LuLu= GramoLooLoo.

Feb 1, 2016

Mia and I have been working on a reading book together. She recently learned about quotation marks. When we opened up the next lesson, she pointed to the quotation marks and said, I'm going to count the headphones."

Jan 9, 2016

According to a friend: In Primary Sharing time, they had some random letters (GOMPF) written on a chalkboard. They had started the lesson and all of the sudden Mia yelled out, "GOMPF! That spells GOMPF!" You got a lot of chuckles for that one.  :)

Dec 24, 2015

We had a funny conversation the other night at dinner....We said something about when Steven and Heather came to visit us and Eric referred to Steven as Steve-O. Mia asked, "What's a Steve-O?" Eric responds, "You know, a brother of a Dave-O." Mia responds: "What's a Dave-O?" Eric says, "Uncle Dave-O and Kelcey." Mia, "Oh, I know them!!" Then she recalled more specific things about when they came to visit us this summer. 

Dec 23, 2015

We were driving through the Christmas light display and came to a green dinosaur. We asked the girls what they saw and Mia yelled, "A Christmas Giraffe!" It was a green dinosaur with a red hat, so it kinda made sense. :)

Nov 12, 2015

Mia likes to do my Zumba DVD workouts with me in the mornings.  One morning she noticed that the Zumba instructor had pulled his hood over his head.  She asked, "Why does he have his hood on?  It's not raining."  Haha!  We had to explain that sometimes people wear hoods, like hats, even if it's not raining, just for looks.