Joey Turned 4!

(Back at the end of July...) With all of the regular fanfare she has come to expect around her birthday. This year, I wanted to make sure that she knew she was special as her birthday was just 11 days after the birth of Anderson. On her actual birthday we celebrated with my family out at Grammie's house to a maxed out Strawberry Shortcake theme! The following weekend we rocked out at Romp N Roll with several of her friends for a groovin' rock star birthday bash! Both parties were a ton of fun and she acquired way more "stuff" than needed.
She is more sassy at 4 than ever before. She is also just as sweet as ever and cute and funny too! She can melt my heart and make me so mad all in the same minute, but I wouldn't trade her for anything.

I always enjoy putting the birthday movies together and reflecting back on the year. I like looking back on the things we did as a family, the milestones she hit as a little girl and growth and change that one short year can bring. It is always bittersweet. So here it is, Joey's 4th year in review...

Joey's 3rd Birthday Video

I realized that I posted this to facebook, but never to her blog...oh I am all over the place with this girl's history! For some reason I can't get it to show up in the YouTube feed on the right hand side, but it will at least be in the blog history.

Joey's BIG News!

That is right! Joey is finally going to be a Big Sister! Her little brother is due to arrive on her birthday! Yes, you heard that correctly too. Not only will we be having another baby, but our second baby is due on our first baby's birthday!

Joey vs. the Vaseline

I'm sure you know who won...

We have those nights, you know the ones where your child just does not want to go to bed and they come up with any excuse to stay up. Well about a month ago we had a long streak of those nights! One night in particular she tried everything and we were at the point of ignoring most of it. So while Steve and I were reading in bed we heard a lot of noise coming from Joey's room, but we chose to ignore it. BAD IDEA! Ten minutes later she came upstairs to tell us that she was lonely in her room, or in other words it was a ploy to get into our bed with us. Steve looked her up and down and said "Joey what have you been up to?" She was standing there in nothing but inside out, backwards underwear and she was shinny. She was covered in Vaseline! 

Steve took her into the bathroom to clean her up and he yells out "the water is beading up and rolling right off her, I can't get her clean!" It took a lot of scrubbing on Steve's part and I'm not sure if the underwear made it, they must have weighed 1 pound they were so covered in Vaseline.

Oh wow, it was so funny that we couldn't even be upset about the situation. If it had not happened at night there would have been photos! Needless to say all her bed linens had to be washed so she got to spend the night in Mommy & Daddy's room after all!

Teeth

Gap-toothed Grin! 2011-2012 School Photo

Joey says to me the other night, "I lost a really little tooth in the front of my mouth."
I chuckled, this is the second or third time that I have heard her say this statement or something similar. I think it is so cute. I reminded her that it is just the way that her teeth are coming in that she has the little gap between her two front teeth. Of course I'm sure that her thumb sucking is not helping things one bit.
She went on to explain to me that turtles have a little egg tooth that they use to get out of their eggs and then they lose it on the way to the ocean. She fully believes this is what has happened to her.
I also went on to explain that while she hasn't lost a tooth yet, she will probably lose her first one in the next 1-2 years. But that it would be okay, because the lose of a baby tooth is followed by an adult tooth coming in its place. "Oh", she said, "I have baby teeth in my mouth, well these must be the Mommy & the Daddy" as she points to her two front teeth.
I love the thought process!

Funny of the day...

At dinner last night Joey says to me, "I like this boy, Ellis. He's my boyfriend and he smells really good!"

I laughed of course because it was cute...but she is like me a sucker for a good smelling guy! It's not like 3 and 4 year olds were cologne though. Glad she is learning to appreciate the little things that make a good mate so early. However, I do think that 3 is a little early to already have these thoughts. Just another sign that she is going to be a handful in about 9-10 years!