Mia's 3 year old pics, I can't believe she's

almost 3. She was hilarious today.After a few

poses,sheasked thelady, "So now what do you

want me to do?" She was cracking us up!

Then we went to the park and took our new camera. Do

you see the perfect curl coming down? Why didn't I let

it look like that in all her pictures? I hate when you wish you

would have done things differently, oh well. Anyway, we

love our new camera...

It was 70 degrees on Saturday so we headed to Redrock

to have a picnic on the rocks and hike. My dad used to take

us here a lot when we were little, so it brings back lots of fun memories.

Mia was especially enjoying nature dancing with her eyes

closed. It was cute.

We heard some croaking from down below us while we

were eating lunch so we went to look and found some frogs

in a pond.

A very small pond :)

Mia wanted to throw rocks in the pond

At one point, she almost went in. Look at my reaction!

Dad and Mia sitting on a rock

Mia wanted to surprise her sitter Morgan because it

was her birthday, so she made the cake all by herself

and even decorated it. Then when Morgan came inside,

Mia started singing Happy Birthday and had cards

and a gift card for a pedicure waiting for her. It

 was really cute!

Morgan ( she calls her Mo) and Mia - she LOVES her!

Our little dancer! We started Mia in dance a

few weeks ago at the same place I went to for dance when

I was little. She is really nervous about it still

but her teacher says she's a natural. Rick takes her because

they pretty much only have classes in the morning so it's only

really convenient for stay at home mom's. Lucky for us,

Rick's schedule makes it possible for him to take her.

I told him he had to take pics so I don't feel

like I'm totally missing out ( I still feel that way)

She has been so proud of herself and shows

me everything she learns, today it was okay mom

point your toes to the mirror arms up

She's still having a hard time letting Rick leave the

room so we are working on that, but I think this will

be a great thing for her to do before preschool next year!!

Here is Mia saying her shapes, if you didn't catch the first one,

it's a trapezoid. She knows the pentagon, octogon, and hexagon too.

I can't even get my 3rd graders to learn these shapes, I wish more parents would

show their toddlers new things, they would be so much better off once they are in school.

I showed her a few times and she remembers it, they are such little sponges, it's amazing!

My camera card got full right at the end of course :(

We had a 50s dance at church and luckily
I had an outfit that I bought awhile back for
Halloween next year. I didn't even realize it

had glasses until I opened it. She really did

look so cute!

and the little scarf to match..

Here she is on the dance floor, she LOVED dancing with her grandpa.

I forgot to put a pic of her dancing, it's on my cell phone :)

I had to put a long sleeve under since it was "itchy"

sound familiar Bre???

They even had the 50s diner with rootbeer floats. Fun!

Mia had a blast with Grandpa.

I thought she made a pretty cute 50's girl!

I did the leather jacket/ converse theme. No poodle skirt for me!

Mia has been cracking me up with her little vocabulary.

The other day she said, "mom you are definitely interupting me right now,

I'm doing my project." She is so independent and strong minded.

Rick started taking her to dance this week, so more pictures to come.

He also takes her to the library every week to pick out books, he definitely

does a lot with Mia in those few hours before work and I know she loves it,

he's the best dad :)

Mia was playing fashion show in my closet

the other night, she would pick out the clothes

and my shoes of course and then I had to use

a microphone to introduce her and play the music

while she came out. It was fun!

Grandma B did her hair up in braided buns

and she was very excited about it.

The classic picture- getting mom's shoes

hmm which ones should I pick?

fun stuff to do when it's too cold to go outside,

have a snowball fight with waded paper, you make

different sides and start throwing at eachother,

the side with the fewest snowballs wins. Even

pets enjoy it- note Spock in the background

another fun thing to do is pretend to cook. Mia LOVES

my lower oven.

she likes to pretend to make things in it. Funny story but

I forgot she made playdo shapes and put them on a cookie

sheet and in the oven, so one day when I was preheating,

I luckily realized they were there before they burnt to a crisp

playing in cabinets

I thought this was so cute, she put all her gabba friends

in their own beds in my tub

Grandpa B's birthday!

We HAD to put hats on

Mia enjoying helping him blow the candles out

very into the present thing :)

We went to Roosnmore and took Brooke

and my mom this time- here Mia is holding a

baby kangaroo

Rick with a baby armadillo

we got to feed baby monkeys

and hold them

Aunt Brooke and monkey

this monkey was hilarious

Mia, Aunt Brooke and the monkey who

was pouting

then he took Brooke's hairclip and wouldn't

give it back.

Dad and Mia at the zoo

Mia is obsessed with tortoises

All the girls

Mia petting a kangaroo

Mia pretending to jump like a kangaroo,

this zoo is seriously so amazing...