Happy Halloween!!!!

My girl is Mulan this year. Grandma made her amazing costume. Originally Izzy wanted to wear a long black wig but after she wore it to her preschool party and it was always in her face we decided (i did) that she looks much cuter without it. Her hair right now matches Mulan's perfectly after she cuts it. Here she is enjoying some halloween festivites on Saturday night.

Izzy is pretty phobic to trick or treat tonight so we will see if she does it or not.

Happy Halloween everyone!!!

4 going on 14

I swear we are in big trouble with this girl! She is growing up way too fast and i want to make it stop!!! Izzy has done great at school, she loves it! yesterday i dropped her off and she didn't hesitate...said "bye mommy" and went and sat on the circle carpet. She already made friend at school that sent a note home to me that she wanted to have a play date. I love it! what a change from last year!! I really hope it continues!

Izzy's favorite thing lately is music...my girl is obsessed! She has my old ipod..(and orignial ipod that is super thick and black and white) I put all of her favorite music on it and she will put on her headphones in the car and jam to her tunes while singing at the top of her lungs. I wish i could say she loves only kid music but i have created a bit of a pop star...she loves Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and pretty much any popular pop song that is up beat....Her newest obsession (thanks to the 10 year old next store) Justin Beiber! The girl is obessed...says she wants to marry justin and she even suckered me into a singing justin toothbrush!!! (hey whatever gets her to brush her teeth!)

She has an incredible memory for music...she can her i swear 2 bars of a song and know what it is...it is crazy! I guess she isn't all pop music...my mom has her listening to John Denver, Il Divo and some tenor group...she came home the other day singing halliluigh...

This morning i was on my own to get izzy up and both of us out of the house because dh had to go to work early. On tuesday's i drop her at my moms for the day while i am at work...so i was getting ready, putting on make up so of course izzy had to do the same....she loves eye shadow. then we get in teh car, she puts on her ipod and entertains herself all the way there...i had to take a picture...here is my diva!

I love you big girl. Please slow down a little!!!!

Izzy's first day of 4yr old preschool

(noticably nervous waiting to go in for her first day)

Izzy started 4 year old preschool on Monday at a new school with different teachers than last year. She was at the Y last year and this year she is at a school that is part of the public school system.

She was very nervous but luckily the first day the mom's attend as well for the whole time and it is a shortened day of only 2 hours. The goal of the day was to meet the teachers and other kids and to get an idea of how their days will go. I was suprised to find there are only 9 kids in her class....4 girls, 5 boys. It is much smaller than I expected but I think it will be great for her. She has two teachers, Mrs Walker and Mrs Robyn who have been teaching preschool together for 20 years. I am very impressed so far. You can tell the teachers have everything down to a well oiled machine! They are very organized and very good with the kids.

(coming back to circle time after snack)

I was happy to see Izzy interacting with the other girls right away...last year it took her several months before she really attached with any of the other kids. I think it helps that none of the girls knew each other previously where last year at teh Y a couple of the girls were already good friends going into class having grown up at the Y together....which i think made Izzy feel a bit left out with some of the girls.

Today was her first real day...and the drop off went better than i expected. There were no real tears just a whiney "I am going to miss you"...Grandma is picking her up so I will be anxious to hear how izzy said her first day went. The teachers gave all of the adults a white paper bag labeled "survival kit" and inside was a pack of Kleenex and some hershey's hugs and kisses! Too cute.

Izzy was "child of the day" today since it was her turn to bring in snack so she gets to hold the flag during pledge of allegience (suprised they still do this :) ) and gets to put the date up on the calendar.

She will go Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9:15 to 1:15 and eat lunch at school every day. I really think it is going to be a good year for her and should do an excellent job of preparing her for kindergarden in the fall. (i still can't believe next year she will be a full day kindergardner!)

I hope you have a great year my special girl!!!!

Birthday Suprise

My amazing husband suprised me last night with such a magical birthday dinner! Our friends came over (and i didn't know they were going to) then chris gets a phone call and then tells me our ride is here and to go to the front door. I opened the door and found a horse drawn carriage!!!! Duke the Horse, Russell the driver and chewy the dog.

They have been doing carriage rides in milford since the winter time, and if you life about a mile from town they will pick you up and take you to dinner and then bring you home. I had mentioned how cool that would be to do and chris delivered!!!! I was shocked! I still can't believe there was a horse in my front yard!

It was FABULOUS! We had an awesome dinner at my favorite resturant, then went to drinks at our favorite local joint and then took our ride home under the stars. It was a night I will never forget!

My birthday isn't until tomorrow but it has already been one for the record books. Totally amazing!

Summer Boating Fun

fishing with Mr A.

away they go!

(getting ready to go tubing)

We are fortunate that we have really close friends that live close by and happen to have a pool along with a pontoon boat. We spend lots of time with them in the summer months. Last weekend we went over there for some boating fun and ran into our other friends The P's that also live on the same lake. They have a speed boat and do lots of skiing and tubing with their almost 6 and 9 year old boys. Well Izzy decided that she wanted to go for a ride on their boat to go pick up the boys and left us on the pontoon.(shocking because normally izzy is pretty clingy espeically around people she doesn't see often like our friends the P's) So away she went. When we came up by them they shouted that izzy wanted to go tubing!!! This made me very nervous and DH a little nervous and he offered to go with her...to which Izzy said NOPE, she wanted to go with Will the P's 9 year old. So my brave little girl hopped right on the tube and away they went! I was shocked!!! She had a blast and said she wants to do it all the time. DH grew up on a lake and said that he didn't even tube at 4! We also had some fun fishing, which izzy seems to like as well this summer.

I really am enjoying Izzy at this age. She is so funny and a joy to be around...i just wish i could slow it all down! She is almost 4.5....how did this happen????

I love Michigan summers!!! If only they lasted a bit longer.

End of the Year Preschool Picnic

(chilling for a few with her buddy Hannah)

fun at the spray park

(Mrs Sian)

(Mrs Molly)

walking with her buddies Hannah and Ava

I can't believe Izzy's preschool year is already over (well almost, she has one more funday friday on friday but her M/W preschool is over). She has done really well at our local Y preschool..they started the year with about 7 kids and by the end of the year I think there were 15. Before going to school izzy did not know most of her letters and couldn't write her name. Now she knows most of her letters and can write Izzy fairly well...sometimes she still has trouble with the Y. She has learned tons of songs, went swimming every week and the last session intead of just free swim she did swimming lessons. I am totally kicking myself for not taking advantage of that all year. She has met couple of good friends. Her two favorite little girls Ashlyn and Hannah are both just about a year older than she is. Towards the end of the year she has gotten to get along well with Ava as well who along who is Hannah's bff since they have basically grown up at the Y.

Today was the end of the year picnic at the petting farm and it was so sweet to see Izzy play with her little friends, some of the girls fight a bit over each other but all in all they were very sweet. It was also sweet to see izzy run up and give her teacher a hug considering lately they have had to pull her off of me. For what ever reason she has been in a very clingy stage lately and cries at drop off...for a whole 2 mins until i am gone. Oh well. We had great picnic and i got to know some of hte moms even better than I had. Some of them were planning to go to the spray park right after the farm (hannah and ava's mom along with another little girl and her mom)..so after the school function izzy and i ran home to change and headed back to the park to join her friends. She had an absolute blast! It was such a change over last year, when she was pretty hesitate. This year she ran all through everything and didnt' stop. Hannah, Ava and Izzy are all only children...which is so rare! I exchanged phone numbers with them today so hopefully we can continue to get the girls together this summer.

Izzy will go to a different preschool, through our school system next year, and her little friends will be moving on to kindergarten. I can only imagine how much Izzy will change over the next year. I really wish most days i could slow her down. My baby is growing up too fast!!!!

Confused

Well i am posting this just to vent about it. I feel so blessed to have our beautiful daughter, i can't believe she is already 4...i really do feel complete about our family....so why is it lately i find myself day dreaming about getting pregnant....which i know is not going to happen..i mean if i can't get pregnant after 5 iui's and ivf, and no birth control after 7 years of marriage the likelyhood of it happening is so slim...and honestly even if i did miraculously get pg...i think i would feel conflicted. I am in a really good place now, izzy is so easy and my job is going really well and i have huge plans for the future...we are also planning some big vacations in hte next two years...hawaii in december, Disney in March and Austrailia in march 2013...so why in the world would i want a baby???? but at the same time i find myself thinking about it and paying more attention to my cycle than i have in years....wtf? I think maybe it is because it seems i know a lot of pg people right now so it makes me think about it. Who knows...i know that 80% of me really doesn't want another child..i just wish i could get the other 20% on board. the other thing i have been considering which maybe a factor is i am considering having a IUD put in because my periods have been aweful lately..bad cramps etc...so i think that makes me think that then there will be no miracles and it will be certain that it won't happen...who knows! I hope this phase passes!!!