Mid-week review

We are having such a busy and fun week. I forgot to mention the other night I was eating some potstickers with a sauce of soy sauce and rice vinegar. AK asked what the sauce was so I told her it was soy sauce. She said "I like soy sauce" and I didn't believe her so let her taste it. She loved it! She's the princess of condiments.

Today when I picked AK up from daycare, I noticed that her milk cup was still pretty full. I asked her if her milk had gone off and she said "No, Mommy, it's on!". Smarty-pants!

AK was looking at a Christmas decoration at Christie and Chris's place tonight of a Santa sleigh and three reindeer. I asked her if she knew the names of the reindeer. She let me know that their names were "Tinkerbell, Rudolph and Christmas". Who knows where she came up with that??? AK also looked at the Christmas tree there and said "I like it!" She is not shy about voicing her opinion.

We are having a bit of a cold front here. It's sunny but cool. When we came home from our supper out tonight, the car registered only 22C. Brrr. The office is so cold, as I guess the regular AC is still on, but it is nearly impossible to concentrate on work as I'm busy trying to keep warm! I will send AK to daycare in pants tomorrow... we don't get much call for that here! May even dig up some socks :)

AK is eating really well these days. We had supper at the Babbs last night - chicken, veg and rice stirfry. AK didn't care much for the broccoli but ate everything else. Tonight we had chicken, mashed potatos and gravy, carrots and buns. AK ate up the chicken and the carrots. We had cherry pie for supper and AK said "I like pie!" so I gave her a bite of cherry. She told me she liked it but the face she made said otherwise! So I just gave her pieces of the crust with cherry filling on it. She liked that better than the cherries.

She knows where we're going, and when we have to turn. She notices when we don't turn towards home as we leave daycare, or if we drive past our road. She knows which was the grocery store is, or where her friends live. We were talking about Santa Claus and I asked her if she wanted to see Santa Claus this year and sit on his lap for a picture. She nodded yes and said "Molly too!", which surprised me. She then said that she would give Santa "a high five" and it reminded me that on the weekend, we had walked around Cindy and Brent's complex to look at the lights there. There was a blow-up Santa which AK and the other kids high-fived. I asked her who else should go to see Santa with her and she said "Jake and Hunter". AK managed to recount our adventure on Saturday in connection with our chat about Santa Claus. How amazing and fun it is to see her memory start to come together in such a way that she can tell me a story!

I should get to bed... it's been hard for me to get myself to bed early this week!!! I have some catching up on sleep to do this weekend. Can't wait. But of course I'll likely keep myself way too busy! xo