Current Alice-ism's

Shobel = shovel
Fercause = because
Bampire = vampire
Flork = fork
Oakmeal = oatmeal

Baby doll name - ding dong

I don't want to go to sleep ...

Alice says "mommy, I don't want to go to sleep.
I say "I love to go to sleep! Why don't you?"
Alice says "fercause I'm a kid!"

Year of the Princess

For a few months now, Alice has been consumed by Princesses.  As seen in previous posts, she was Aurora for Halloween, and she has slowly added each princess story to her DVD collection.  For Christmas she recieved princess EVERYTHING.  She got the Princess Collection barbie(type) dolls, including a Prince to be whichever prince is called for in the story.  She got 2 mini-princess playsets (Belle and Sleeping Beauty). She got at 18" Belle and a toddler Aurora.  She got a Disney Princess game for her new leap pad, princess skates, helmet and pads, princess books, princess puzzles and princess socks, stickers and magnets. I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but you get the gist :-)
She enjoys acting out the scenes in the story and singing the songs in her endearing slightly off key voice.  Everyday we hear "who wants to play princess?" and if you don't respond "I DO!" she keeps repeating it until she gets a taker.  Princess clothes come on and off, on and off, on and off.  Lots of hair to brush, many adventures to relive. When we go out to eat Alice wants to take ALL the princesses, but usually we can contain the retenue to two princesses and a prince with a single change of clothes.

Alice's birthday is in a few days, and the obvious choice for a theme would be Princess, but mom and dad are quite literally sick of princesses.  We are supporting her princess habit in other ways however.  I'm sure we will get her more princess accessories for her birthday, but the cake for her party will be rainbows, flowers and butterflys...all things girly and loosely associated with being a Princess.

First trip to six flags

The Thursday after Christmas, mom and Didi took Alice to Holiday in the Park at Six Flags. I could not believe how expensive the tickets were, but we were there to have a good time. We started out at. Looney Toon land where Alice rode all the kids rides. Her favorite was the Tea Cups, however we did go on the kiddie sized roller coaster twice. Other fun rides were the snow hill - where Didi fell over at the bottom of the hill, and the old fashion cars that Alice drove (with mom pushing the pedal). We stayed for 5 hours and Alice fell asleep in the car on the way home. An exhausting fun filled day with memories to last :-)

Prince Dangles' Visit

Princess Alice welcomed Prince Dangles into her kingdom for the weekend.  He was to accompany her to a Halloween Ball the following evening but before he could go they needed to get him fitted with his Princely attire to chaperone the princess. 
Prince Dangles was provided with a fine winter suit and a shining crown adorned with precious gems from Princess Alice’s treasury. 

While they were waiting on his attire to be prepared they dined at a local eating establishment favored by the common folk.

As they were finishing up the last of the punishingly hot local fare, Princess Alice received a call that Prince Dangles’ royal clothing and crown were ready.

At the Halloween Ball, Prince Dangles was introduced to local notables and members of the court.

 [Dr. Frankenstein – Professor of life sciences]

[Sir Skeleton –  Protector of the Relm]

After a hearty breakfast, which is customary among her people, Princess Alice showed Prince Dangles around both a terrestrial and a heavenly construction project in an effort to encourage an exchange of cultures and mutual esteem.

Above is a photo from the Kingdoms lego project to house orphan exotic animals

Photo of inspection of orbiting Netflix satellite broadcasting all Princess Alice’s favorite shows

These appearances with Princess Alice brought Prince Dangles great fame within the kingdom and even among her neighbors.  Soon he was playing with the local NBA basketball team.

Prince Dangles was so enamored with the Princess that he asked her to run away with him to his castle.  Princess Alice was flattered but told the Prince that her education must come first and that they should just remain friends until she received her doctorate.

Prince Dangles was do distraught, he got into a little trouble

Nothing was heard from Prince Dangles for some months.  The tabloids suspected foul play, but with no firm evidence the story went cold, until video footage from a convenience store security camera revealed the shocking truth.

After finding out what had happened to Prince Dangles, President Obama was able to negotiate his release.  Prince Dangles was returned unharmed and happy to be home.  He looks forward to more adventures in Room 12.

The end.......or is it??????

Star of the Week

Alice's class pick a "Star of the Week" each Friday.  This past week, Alice was the "Star".  She came home that Friday and couldn't wait to tell me she as she jumped around shouting "Mommy...I'm Star of the Week, I'm Star of the Week, I'm Star of the Week!!!!!"

As proud as I am of my Alice being the Star of the Week, this also entailed work for me....
On Monday, the Star is to bring a poster about all the things she likes and include pictures of Family and Friends.  On Saturday I visited Michaels and picked up poster board, stickers and jeweled dots. I also printed out pictures of Alice with family and friends from this past year.  If I don't say so myself...the poster turned out fabulous.  It had fun pictures, stickers of princesses, cupcakes, hearts, stars, Dora, Hello Kitty and flowers - all the things Alice loves.  I then laminated the entire poster to keep all grubby fingers from messing up the pictures ;-)  Lastly, I added jeweled dots for "treasure" around the entire perimeter, since Alice adores finding treasure.

So what happens Monday morning??? Alice wakes up with a 102 fever!  The poor Star had to stay home for 2 days and get over a cold before returning to school on Wednesday to finish up the week as the Star.
For the weekend, the Star takes home Dangles, the classroom stuffed monkey.  Dangles is to go on adventures with the Star and write in his journal about his visit.  Dangles' visit happened to fall on the weekend before Halloween.  We had already made plans to take Alice to a costume party at Sammie's house on Saturday.  Since Alice was going as Sleeping beauty, it was only natural for Dangles to go as Prince Phillip.  My next assignment included a trip to Michaels (again) to buy felt, ribbon and glue to create a costume for Dangles!

Dangles goes back to the classroom tomorrow, but I still have to create a scrapbook page and journal about Dangles' visit and his adventures at Alice's house.  We have pictures of all the places we ate at, pictures from the Halloween party, and pictures of Alice and Dangles at the house, but (as with the poster) I have the need to go above and beyond most parent's expectations.  Larry helped me post Dangles on Reddit and ask for some Photoshop help.  So, in addition to the normal adventures he had with Alice this weekend, we will be journaling about some additional adventures he had playing NBA Basketball, Climbing the San Francisco bridge, being abducted by aliens and taking a space walk.

Well....I'm off to print all the pictures :-)

Sunday

Alice and Cristy chilling out on a lazy Sunday, resting up after a serious bout of silly.