Jessica plays mini golf

On Friday night, we decided to try mini golf with Jessica. We told her were were going and her comment was, "We are going to play the mini golf." It actually went better than expected. Jessica "tried" to hit the ball, although she wouldn't take any direction from us. We're in the "I can do it myself" stage. She seemed to enjoy herself.

Jessica carves pumpkins for Halloween

Tonight, Jessica carved her first pumpkins for Halloween. Well, we carved them for her, but she picked out which pumpkins got which stencil. We went with MIckey Mouse, Snow White, and then a regular jack-o-lantern.

This is Jessica scooping her first pumpkin. Jim helped her and she only did one scoop (if you could even call it that). I can't blame her. I don't scoop pumpkins either.



The MIckey Mouse and Snow White carvings seemed much more time consuming than we had originally anticipated. Jim eventually broke out a power tool and Jessica went to investigate his progress with the Mickey Mouse pumpkin. She seemed happy as she declared, "Mickey Mouse".



Jessica wanted to pose with her three pumpkins -- Snow White, Mickey Mouse, and the normal jack-o-lantern.



And here is a close-up of the pumpkins.

Jessica wants to thank Susan for the princess dress

Jessica's new room has a dress-up closet. She loves going through the clothes, shoes, and accessories and picking outfits each night. Tonight, she wore a princess dress that Susan gave her. Jessica's comments on the dress:

- It's pretty.
- It's my Cinderelly dress.

She was really happy with the dress (she even wanted to wear it to bed).

Jessica is ready for Halloween

Jessica is enjoying Halloween. She likes to point out pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns, witches, ghosts, and scarecrows wherever we go. Her favorite seems to be witches. She wants to wear her witch outfits all the time and declares that she is a witch. Recently, she posed for some photos with "her" pumpkin outside.

bedtime

This is what bedtime looks like in Jessica's new room. First, she gets dressed in her favorite princess skirt. Let me rephrase that. She gets dressed in all of her princess skirts as they are all her favorites. This means that she wears four at once. Then, she plays with various tiaras and princess tops. Once dressed appropriately, she reclines in her new bean bag chair and looks through book after book. Used books are simply discarded on the floor (hence the large heap of books scattered around her). Tonight, Jim asked me why Jessica was 30 minutes late going to bed? Well, we had to clean-up the mess she made.

Jessica moves to a new room and a new big girl bed

Jessica moved to her new big girl bedroom (aka the Sleeping Beauty bedroom) this weekend. It didn't seem like too big of a deal for her to get sleeping in her big girl bed. She won't yet sleep under the covers really. And, she still spins in circles / travels over the entire length of the bed.

Jessica builds an airplane

Jessica likes to play with her legos. She spent a good amount of time building an airplane this weekend.

I'll clean it

Today was clean-up day in the backyard. We cleaned and covered the backyard furniture in preparation for the rainy season. I had planned to clean while Jessica played in the backyard, but Jessica had other ideas. She wanted to do clean-up too. We got her her own towel and she helped with dusting off the furniture.

cheerios (with milk in it)

For the past week, Jessica has asked for cheerios with milk in it for every meal and snack. She really enjoys eating her cheerios and has about 2-3 bowls per meal.

my blankie

All of a sudden, Jessica has become super attached to one of her blankies and a bear. She wants them all the time. Unfortunately, we only have one of the each of them (a parent's nightmare) and neither can be found easily since they were bought 2+ years ago now. There was a recent accident with Jessica's blankie (pasta sauce all over it) and we had to put it in the wash right before bed time. Jessica watched it being washed. We tried to make it fun for her, but she wasn't happy going to bed without her blankie.