Millie's Family: May 2009

Soccer

On Saturday we took Millie to her first organized sport soccer. Listening to directions with 20 other kids and balls moving everywhere was a challenge but she had a wonderful time. She did well dribbling the ball, but lost interest when there was only 1 ball and everyone had to chase it during the "game." Overall, she had a blast and that is all that matters. I didn't tell her ahead of time that she would have shin guards and the large socks to wear. She kept touching her legs at the beginning. I bet it felt really strange to have the shin guards on. She eventually got used to it. She wanted to go near the goal the second half of the practice, so we let her pose by the goal before we left. She liked that.

Beer and Mud

Millie has been saying the funniest things lately.

Tonight at dinner she saw Shannon drinking iced tea and she blurted out, "I want to drink beer!" On occasion Shannon will have a beer with dinner and we have told her what he is drinking. So, then we had to tell her that she could not drink beer until she is 21 years old and that it is not for kids to drink.

Millie got a scrape on her knee a number of days ago and it is starting to heal now. I made a comment to Millie tonight that her knee was healing. I told her that is the name when her boo boo is getting better. Then she says, "I want to put mud on it." Well, about 18 months ago Millie had a lesson in bible class about the blind man that Jesus healed by putting mud on his eyes. So, she wanted mud on her knee.

Just a few of the funny things that she says in a day. :)

Timeout and a Tutu

This past week when Millie was at ABA therapy with Ms. Kim, she got her first timeout there. Millie did not like it. Her exact words were, "“I wish my mommy was coming to Miss Kim’s house right now.” She also said, "I made a wish." This is amazing language for her. We didn't know that she really knew what a wish was.

We just discovered that Millie can read numbers "one to nineteen" and most of the color words, "red, green, yellow, etc." She seems pretty ready now, so we will be introducing a few more words. I have already been teaching her a couple of words when we are reading stories at night. So far she knows "to, said, and, the," and a couple others.

I have been on an exercise kick the past two weeks. I took Millie out in her wagon one night last week to take a walk after dinner. Now she is asking me every night to go for a wagon ride. Tonight she started asking before dinner. The past two nights she has sang the entire way. She sings her "Little Red Wagon" song from school every time for sure. Tonight she was making up funny lyrics to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell." Instead, she sang, "The stick picks the berry." and whatever else she saw along the way.

Thank you to Gram Crackers for the awesome princess PJ's that are featured in the picture above. Of course, Millie loves them. We will see if she wants to sleep with the skirt on or not tonight!

Zoo Trip #1

Well the warm weather is finally here and that means just one thing for Millie. The zoo is open. This year we decided to just get a zoo pass. Millie visited 3 zoo's last summer. I am planning to take her to the Pittsburgh Zoo and hopefully the Columbus Zoo this summer along with many trips to the Akron and Cleveland Zoos. We may even get back to the Philadelphia Zoo again like last summer. On this day we just had a quick trip to the Akron Zoo. It is super close to home. The display of jellyfish are really neat. Millie got to see the Snow Leopard up really close. She has been remembering it and mentioning to me over the past two weeks. More Zoo posts to come!

Snow Leopard

Smiles with Papa

The cool jellyfish

Gotta sit on that big tree stump

Pink. That's the appeal. They smell really bad, but Millie doesn't notice.

Easter Morning

On Easter morning Millie had to search for all the eggs we colored the day before because that silly Easter bunny had hidden them all along with her basket. She had some fun finding all the eggs, but an even better time opening the plastic eggs in her basket. Since Millie is on a gluten free, casein free and sugar free diet, Easter candy was out. She got a bunch of little animal shaped erasers in her plastic eggs. She enjoyed opening each of them and telling us what was inside. At church she got even more eggs in Bible class. "Resurrection eggs" with 12 different things surrounding the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. She really liked those eggs as well. After church we headed down to visit Pon Pon for the afternoon.

Easter Preparations

Millie had lots of fun with preparing for Easter this year. She made some great Easter cards and helped color eggs. She did all the cutting and drawing for the cards all by herself. She liked dunking the eggs and talking about needing to add more vinegar. Here are a few pictures of all of our creations. Millie had a blast!

Easter Bunny Visit

We went to the mall for a visit with the Easter Bunny. There are no pictures of Millie with the Easter Bunny though because they won't let you take any, but want you to buy theirs for $25 or more. So these are some pictures of Millie at a little play area in the food court. Millie loves to go to the mall. She has all of her favorite things to do. #1 is ALWAYS to visit the pet store followed by #2 A ride on the carousel. #3 Visit the bookstore and #4 Visit the toy store. #5 Playing on the bumblebee at the play area. This day we added a visit with the Easter Bunny. Total fun cost $1 for the carousel. We love it, and so does Millie!

Gram Crackers Turns 60

The end of March we headed out east to Gram Crackers and Pop's house for a surprise 60th Birthday party for my mom. I got to see my childhood best friend Jessica and her daughter Cassandra. We stayed the night with them to keep the surprise. The party was a success. Mom was certainly surprised. Millie loved the airplane rides. She didn't even mind the 1.5 hour delay on the way home. (Probably because I had plenty of snacks and books. Two of her favorite things.) It seems like almost every time we go to visit we end up eating brunch at the Cock n Bull Restaurant where Shannon and I had our wedding reception. Here are a few pictures from the weekend.