Reese started out 2010 by moving to the three year old room with Miss Jaybee. She did well in the adjustment and stayed there until June when she left for the summer. She made some friends, Taylor and Will. Will is now her best friend, and she talks about Will all the time. Miss Jeanie (Will's mom) has also moved to the three year old room, and Reese loves her also. Because Reese has trouble adjusting to change, we decided to keep Reese at her school for another year rather than transition her this year and then again next year for kindergarten. She is excited about going to Riley's school next year for kindergarten.
Reese continues to love and look after her brother. One day, she was at the flower shop and YaiYai asked her if she wanted some chicken wings. Her response was where is Riley? When YaiYai told her she bought two orders, Reese said, okay. This school year, PaPa picks Reese up from school and brings her home to meet Riley's bus, and they wait at home until I get home. Reese has her PaPa twisted around her little finger. She has figured out how to get him to stop at the gas station on the way home and buy her snacks. Sometimes, she gets Icees, one for her and one for her brother, sometimes candy. Recently, PaPa had to stop for gas, and she asked PaPa if she could go and get a treat. PaPa told her no, because YaiYai had bought a pizza and he did not want a snack to ruin her appetite. She told PaPa, "Next time, can YaiYai not buy pizza?".
I have found that Reese really enjoys going to PaPa and YaiYai's house and will go every chance she gets. Her grandparents' house is a novelty to her because she has gone to school since she was one. She did not get to spend the time with them that her brother did. Sometimes, she stays the night and her brother will come home.
She still likes my hair. She will ask me all the time, "Can I touch your hair?", especially if I am putting her to bed in her own bed. She needs to be able to touch my hair to go to sleep at night at home. We inherited a set of bunk beds this year, and Reese and Riley share a sleeping room and a toy room now. We repainted the sleeping room, two walls blue and two walls green, their favorite colors. Riley is suppose to sleep on the top and Reese on the bottom, but it does not always work out that way. Sometimes, they trade and sometimes, they sleep in the same bed.
We started our summer by going on vacation to Las Vegas. We went to Hoover Dam and Red Rock Canyon as well as the pirate show at Caesars and swimming in the pool! Although our trip was delayed by a day, we all ended up having a great time. In July we went with the grandparents to Chicago. It was a short trip, but we got the chance to see the Legoland Discovery Center, and it was worth it! On the way home from Chicago, Reese was playing with her brother and his new handcuffs and she kept saying what I though was "I'm not on the wist (list), but, three days later, it became clear that she was saying, "I'm not under arrest." We finished up our summer attending library programs, going swimming at the Tuttle pool, completing the summer reading program at the public library, and hanging out with friends. By the end of the summer Reese could swim with a life jacket or noodle. Hopefully, she will be ready for swimming lessons next year!
Over the summer Reese also had her first dentist appointment. After watching her brother go first, she climbed up into the chair, let the hygienist do her job, and then went off with her by herself to have her x-rays done. She left with no cavities!
Reese "read" her first book this summer, Wonder Pets Save Little Red Riding Hood, after I read it to her. She, like her brother, takes books wherever she goes, and looks at the pictures and acts like she is reading, but when asked what she is reading, she says, "I don't know how to read". By the end of the summer Reese could tell a story in sequence with and then. She was also able to put her own Toy Story III LEGO set together by using the picture.
On the first day of school as I was trying to rush her out the door, she told me, "You're making me grumpy". She is not a morning person on the best of days. Thankfully, her dad gets her ready in the morning and takes her to school!
In September Reese completed her first 5K with the family. I pulled her along in the wagon and walked COMAPC's 5K Race for a Pro-State of Mind. Afterward, we celebrated Reese's fourth birthday with our extended family that were in town for the race. Even with a Diego cake, she did not like the attention and grumbled as we sang Happy Birthday to her. She did not blow out candles or open presents in front of her guests. On her actual birth date we tried again. I went out and bought an ice cream cake, and she was upset that it was not a Super Why cake. I stopped by Toys R Us on the way home for Super Why figurines to put on the cake. She was very pleased with that solution and at home with just her dad, mom, and brother, she blew out her candles twice and happily opened presents. Being the musical child that she is, we bought her an MP3 player for her birthday. One of her nicknames has always been Sister, and this summer, we started calling her Soul Sister after the song by Train. In an attempt to get my cell phone back, I downloaded the same songs onto her MP3 player. She has since figured out that number 18 is "her" song! She also got a Toy Story III comforter and sheet set as well as a Super Why costume.
For Halloween Reese wanted to be Super Why until she got the stuff for her birthday. Then, she changed her mind and wanted to be Spiderman. Since you are only young once, I let her be what she wanted to be. It was very cold for Trick or Treat this year, so even in the wagon, we did not end up going to many houses. We got plenty of candy though.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday we went to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Reese has really warmed up to her Auntie Marie and now spend time conversing with her. It is very sweet.
Throughout December Reese has been really excited for Christmas. She kept pointing out that everyone was decorating for Christmas, CVS, the library, etc. She was so excited to put the tree up and put ornaments on it. Riley had more ornaments that Reese did because he is older and he has taken as his own the Star Wars ornaments. Reese felt left out until I found some of the character ornaments that I use to put on the tree before she was born. The year is her fifth Christmas so we put up her last cat; it was bittersweet! We still have the angel collection that I started the year she was born to finish. Once the tree was up and the lights and ornaments were on the tree, she kept talking about how the tree did not have a Christmas star. So, one morning when I was at Walmart, I bought her a star for the top of the tree. She was thrilled with it. She kept telling me that she wanted Santa to bring her Toy Story toys for Christmas. Well, Santa, her auntie and uncle, and her grandparents followed her wishes, but did not get her the Toy Story Dolls that she wanted most. Thank goodness, Grandpa came through, and we were able to go out and buy Woody and Jessie after Christmas! By early Christmas afternoon Reese had opened every Christmas present that she got and played with it!
As the year ends, she has gone from being a baby to a big baby (going potty by herself) to being a girl. She has slowly adapted to wearing some girl colors and actually settled on a red winter coat this year! Her best friends are still boys, but that is okay!
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