Caroline is Four!

Caroline is living her best life right now. She is in school three days a week and is always happy and excited to go, and disappointed if there are holidays when she doesn't get to go. 

She also got the best early birthday gift in her new sister, the real-life baby doll, Rory. Lately, she has been sighing big sighs and I think I even caught an eye roll the other day when asked to do various chores. BUT, if a request is made involving her sister, or helping me with her sister, there are no complaints, and she even skips off to complete the task given. She is truly a great big sister, and she loves to hear it ;-)

• At her yearly doctor's visit we found out she is in the 80th% for height at 41.5 in (I think she is taller but she was slouching) and the 60th% for weight at 36.5 lbs
• She is still very picky with foods. Some of her favorites to eat are cheese quesadillas, chicken nuggets, turkey sandwiches, strawberries and all forms of bread, cereal and granola bars. Rather than try a new food at dinner she will just wait til breakfast the next morning, even if the last thing she ate was at lunch, stubborn girl. 
• She goes to bed around 8 and wakes up about 6:45 or 7. She takes about a 45 min- 1 hour nap each day but those days, I think, will soon be over. 
• Caroline loves to have someone play with her (and by play I mean to watch her play or for her to tell you what your character should do/say) but when she does play by herself she could do so for a long time. 
• She is forever asking if we can make cookies, I think she enjoys the eating more than the baking but loves to help in the kitchen when she can. 
• Maybe because I was pregnant and couldn't hold or carry her for so long but all of a sudden she seems to have grown a foot and gained ten pounds
• The BEST thing we could have done for Caroline this year was to put her in preschool. She has LOVED it. Her confidence has grown so much, especially in social situations these few short months. She will go up to other kids and ask them to play, she is more willing to have conversations with adults, even those she isn't as familiar with. 
• She is still unbelievably silly almost to a fault but she makes up for all of it with her incredible sweetness. She really helped me this year and was beyond understanding throughout my pregnancy with Rory. She is always thinking of ways of surprising us and others whether it be with a handmade card, a hug, a necklace she made, or cookies

Even though we did one of these before she started school I wanted to see if anything had changed:
1. What is your name?  Caroline

2. How old are you? Four

3. What is your favorite color? Dark Blue

4. What is your favorite animal? Cat

5. Who is your best friend? Ava, Miguel and Elisa

6. What is your favorite food? Quesadillas 

7. What is your favorite drink? Water

8. What do you like to do outside? Play with Chalk

9. What is your favorite toy? Baby Dolls

10. What is your favorite movie? The Grinch

11. What is your favorite tv show? Vamperina

12. What is your favorite song? Johnny Song (from Sing)

13. What is your favorite book? Curlie Girlie

14. What are you scared of? I don't know

15.  Where is your favorite place to go? Nan's House

16. What do you want to be when you grow up? Doctor

Halloween 2017- Snow White

This year for her birthday, we told Caroline we weren't going to do a party because we thought things might be a little crazy since we had just added Rory to the mix. We told her we would have a Caroline Day. She wanted to go to the mall to ride the escalators and the carousel. She also wanted to get a cookie from the cookie place and pick out a present at the Disney Store. Done Done and Done. She told us it was the BEST birthday ever.