Learning to Ride

Millie is finally learning to ride her bicycle without me having to push her. She adores her new bike helmet. It has princesses on it of course! Inclines are still a major challenge but riding on flat surfaces has shown great improvement from last summer. Her current bike is pretty small, we are going to have to think about a larger one soon. She keeps growing so fast! Here are a few pictures and a short video.

Jeptober

That's right... Jeptober. Millie has been asking me the months a lot this week. She really wants to know every single one. The fascination started because Tuesday was St. Patrick's Day and they really celebrated it at school. She made a super cool shamrock neclace and brought home a black plastic pot with pieces of "gold" inside. This was super cool for her. Then she wanted to talk about what the next holiday was and what month it was in. This started the interest in knowing the names of all the months. She has January through May down really well, but wanted me to show her the calendar this afternoon. I showed it to her and she wanted to go through all the months. On the second time through she was trying to remember the sixth month. She knew it started with the letter J and she got confused with September and October. So the result was Jeptober. We thought it was really cute!

Finally an Update

I know, it has been 2 months since the last post. We have been super busy and never even posted about Millie's birthday party. Millie had a great party at home with a bunch of friends, Auntie Sarah and both sets of grandparents. She was so excited for the games. She wanted to play pin-the-tail on the donkey, hot potato and London Bridge. She talked about the games for a good month before hand. It was a great day. She even got to eat cake. We ordered a special banana cake made from Almond flour. She was happy. The photo above is from this past weekend. It's her 4 year old picture.

Millie's current interests include #1 Care Bears #2 Strawberry Shortcake dolls #3 My Little Ponies #4 Dollhouse #5 Playing vet or doctor with animals or babies. The weather was beautiful today and Millie got to ride her bicycle. She did a great job. Last summer she could not peddle at all. Now she is doing it all except on inclines. She has come a long way. Today she came home from school with a shamrock necklace that she laced and a little pot filled with plastic gold coins. She thought this was cool. She is very interested in talking about the days of the week. She has recently started asking the names of the different months and the holidays that fall in each month. You can just see her little mind trying to memorize it all like she does with everything. At ABA therapy last week Millie was getting ready to practice writing her name and she started to write the word animal all by herself. She wrote ANMNL. We were impressed.

Hopefully it won't be another 2 months before the next update!