My 4th birthday Party at Chucky E Cheese

Today was my birthday party and my friends in my class came to it as well as my cousin Abbey. ihad so much fun and even Chuck E came and said Happy Birthday to me. Mommy and Daddy had Pizza and cake. Yummy! I also got to play and use my tokens. Even Mommy's friend Stephanie was there too. I went home and open some more presents. What a fun morning!!!

Celebrating my birthday with Pops and Gams

Today Pops and Gams took me to a toy store and I got to pick out my birthday presents. Then they took me to a mexican restaurant for lunch. Then I opened some birthday presents at home. Mommy even gave me a small birthday cake. I t was a fun day.

Talking up a storm

Now that I've been back at school a week, I've picked up some new phrases:
'But mommy and daddy, come on!",
"I have to drink milk so I get strong bones.",
"Bears live in holes in the earth halfway up the mountain.",
"It is winter because it is cold.",
"God loves you and Baby Jesus loves you too.",
"God loves us very much."

Happy New Year!

I enjoyed going to see my cousin Abbey the day after New Year's. I had told mommy and daddy I wanted to take an airplane ride to see her; I must have been thinking of my South Dakota cousins!

New Year's Eve fun

During the day, we drove up to Adventure Park, USA outside of Frederick, MD. They have a lot of outdoor activities to do that we'll try out next summer, but they also had this cool inside playground that I enjoyed running through. There was also a kid's arcade, and some neat rides.

Road Trip to see my Fosko cousins

Two days after Christmas, we went to see my Fosko cousins. We had dinner with Daddy's friend Fr. Bob, who daddy went to St. Charles Seminary with. I enjoyed having dinner with Fr. Bob, he kept me entertained the whole time, and I think showed mommy and daddy a few tricks too. He has many nieces and nephews, and even some grandnieces and grandnephews.

I got this neat Lego set from my cousins, and we gave them books, which daddy had bought at the Scholastic Book Fair at St. Ann's Academy. Here's mommy playing Jenga with Kensie

Christmas Dinner

What about me? Thai, our cat, seemed to want to go to Christmas Dinner too, since he kept playing with one of the bags of presents. Later on, we went to Pops and Gams for Christmas Dinner. I got a Leapster Zippity, some clothes, puzzles, and a car with play tools. I had lots of fun, especially running around with my cousin Abbey. I also heard that my uncle Anthony had the same kindergarten teacher that I might have in two years at St. Ann's, Mrs. Leftwich.

Santa Came!!

Christmas morning I kept looking out the front door to see if Santa came. I guess I was expecting to see him at the front door. Then daddy directed me to look under the tree, where I saw all these presents!

I got this book from my teacher, Mrs. Kernan. I better have mommy and daddy read it to me and add it to the list of books I had read to me over Christmas Break. The librarian at St. Ann's (where I go to school), a.k.a. daddy, is hosting a pizza party for the class that reads the most number of pages!

Mommy's friend Dawn gave me these neat Bible story DVD's and a Bible story coloring book.

Santa gave me this neat car plate wall switch, which I helped daddy put up. He put the cat one that was in my room in mommy and daddy's room. Abbey got a wall plate from Santa too.

When I was in South Dakota my cousin Reagan had this cool game called Hungry Hungry Hippo so I was glad to get this for Christmas!

Here I am modelling the alligator towel I got from Nona. I had fun later on using it.

When mommy and her friend went to West Virginia Wesleyan College a few weeks ago, they went shopping for me for Christmas! Now daddy needs to get me some things from his alma mater, Drexel University. You know, daddy, I do have a birthday next month....

Here I am with some more books from Santa. They curiously look like books from the Scholastic Book Fair that St. Ann's had in November. I don't remember seeing Santa at the Book Fair!

I like salad, crab, and veal

Mommy and daddy have to record this for future reference. Tonight at Mamma Lucia's I had some salad, cucumbers, tomatoes, veal and crab, as well as my ravioli and chocolate cake. This morning we first went to the mall to do some last minute shopping. I enjoyed seeing the decorations at the mall. Then we went to the Rockville Library and I got to read some books while daddy did some genealogy. At church we had a Christmas Pageant with the reading of the Gospel.

Being in someone else's shoes

Yesterday I tried on daddy's slippers and walked around the house.
We then went to mommy's physical therapist's office, and I found a nice comfortable spot to sit and wait.

No pictures of today, though. Daddy and I tried to build a snowman, but the snow was too powdery. The same with toboganning, I just sank in the snow. We'll have to wait for the next snowfall to try snowmen and sledding again.

I also talked with and saw Rafaela, one of my favorite babysitters. She moved back to her native Brazil, but we were able to do a video phone chat using Skype. I kept asking her to come here, but didn't understand the concept of where Brazil was. I also got to see her mom and sister. It was fun, I got to learn how to say hello, Merry Christmas, and goodbye in Portuguese.

Snowed in

Here are a few pictures from the Blizzard of 2009.


Our deck and cars are well covered, and snow is piled high after shoveling the sidewalks. Daddy took the SUV out and pushed down the snow to make it easier to shovel. Then he decided to do the same with mommy's car and ended up getting it stuck, providing for some neighborhood entertainment.


We were helping our next door neighbor plow out too. She is leaving on Wednesday to visit her parents in Ghana. She'll have stories to tell them! Mommy also took me toboganning on the sidewalk. I'm not sure I'm ready to tackle the hill on the side of our house.

Talking with my foster family

Last night mommy woke me up and had a suprise for me. I was able to see my foster mother and family that I lived with in Guatemala. I saw Mama Rosa, Marlon, Marisol, and another grandchild. It was fun sharing pictures through the webcam, and I enjoyed seeing my foster mother, Mamma Rosa. I know she enjoyed seeing me. Daddy shoveled snow this morning so we can get out the front door and to the car.

My gingerbread house

Mommy put the gingerbread house together and put the icing on so I could help mommy and daddy put the candy on. Then I had a few candies, yum, yum! Now I am getting ready for bed, and looking forward to going sledding tomorrow with mommy and daddy. It's still snowing here!

Blizzard of 2009

Well, you'll have to look at Abbey's blog for some more pictures of today. This is as close as we got to going outside. Maybe tomorrow once it stops snowing we'll venture outside. Now daddy and I are just waiting for Montgomery County to make their decision about school on Monday and Tuesday. Loudon, Stafford and Morgan County school districts have already made their decision....

Abbey

Abbey came over to visit today, and I had so much fun! We played with Thai, made some shapes with Play-Doh, and played with my toys.

Playseum

This morning I woke up and put my sandals on. I said I wanted to go to the beach. Daddy even let me talk with Pops to tell him so. We decided it would be too cold, and Aunt Amy had told mommy of this new place that opened in Bethesda called the Playseum. It had a miniature Safeway, room with balls, art room, and plenty of other things to see and do.

Even better, mommy and daddy said that tomorrow Aunt Amy and my cousin Abbey are coming over for a visit. I can't wait to see them, and to play with Abbey and show her my cat, Thai.

Breakfast with Santa and running track

Yesterday, I went down to St. Ann's with mommy and daddy to help set up for Breakfast with Santa, and had fun running around with the other kids whose parents were also there setting up. I told mommy and daddy I didn't want to go to church. They didn't listen to me, so I showed them! I decided to have a track meet during church. I thought it was fun. Mommy and daddy were not pleased.

When we came this morning, Monsignor came over to me with a smile on his face, and said he wanted to make sure I survived the night. It was neat eating with a pre-K4 friend of mine, Tommy, and seeing even more kids, and having my picture taken with Santa.

Go Notre Dame!

Mommy and Aunt Amy are here holding the twins. Before the adults watched the Notre Dame-USC game, we saw a parade of Christmas lights and floats in Gettysburg. It was cold, but us kids had fun anyway. We watched movies downstairs, much more fun than watching Notre Dame lose!

Baptism and my first sleepover

Today my two new cousins were baptized. Us four older kids had a front-row seat, but could hardly keep quiet or still. I think the babies were quieter than we were!



After the baptism I had my very first sleepover with my cousins! While we were watched by my Uncle Corey's cousin Jenna, mommy and daddy and the rest of the adults went to Pierre to see the Christmas lights in the State Capitol building, and where my Uncle Corey sits in the state Senate chambers.

We're leaving on a jet plane!

Today we left for our much anticipated trip to South Dakota to see my two new cousins, Madison and Kennedy! What I enjoyed most about the plane trip out was seeing my cousin Abbey, and Pops and Gams. We only live 25 minutes from my cousin, but we hadn't seen her since daddy started working at St. Ann's. On the trip out I kept fighting with Abbey over what video we were going to watch, and constantly wanted to sit in Pop's and Gam's laps, even when Pops was trying to read the newspaper!

We got to see my new cousins after an hour ride from Pierre to Gettysburg. Pops and Gams certainly look proud holding their two newest grandchildren!

While the adults enjoyed talking, drinking, and eating Thanksgiving dinner, us kids enjoyed racing these cars in this humungous shed! My cousin Reagan even decided to play bumper cars once, which didn't go over too well with her mommy. Oh yeah, we did manage to eat in the midst of all the fun things to do: cars, moonbounce, pass the pickle, and just running around. We wore ourselves out!