We recently took Mary Catherine and Ella to see the Clydesdale Horses at Redbone Ally. What a huge horse! Mary Catherine wanted to ride him.
Mary Catherine is really growing up. She is a very smart girl with a delightful personality. She is afraid of silly things like bandaids, shadows, loud noises, frogs,worms, lizards and the dark. She isn't afraid of things that normal people are afraid of like heights, big animals and rides at carowinds. She is learning to use good manners. We require her to say, yes mam, no mam, thank you mam, please and excuse me. She is doing well with these things but still sometimes has to be reminded. We also are working on the correct way to ask for things and using correct grammer this Summer.
At our house we use a reward system for good behavior. At the end of each day we evaluate her behavior for the day and discuss ways we could change our behavior and do better tommorrow. She really seems to want to do her best and earn her reward at the end of the week. She is eager to please. We struggle with some sassing but we also know there are absolutely no warnings at our house for sassing, spitting, hitting, kicking, biting or ridding on the dog. Those are immediate No! No's! She is very careful not to cross the No No line. We also struggle with clean up time. We often hear...but I can't put it up by myself. We only give in if she didn't take it out by herself. I think that is a stage they all go through. My mother seems to think my sibblings and I are still in this stage...I know my husband is. Mary Catherine doesn't like and has never liked bath time. It has always been a nightmare. She has a thing about getting her face wet. We are starting to put she and Ella in at the same time and it seems to be helping.
Mary Catherine has a bubble gum pink bedroom with white wicker furnishings and green and pink accessories. She also has lots of disney princess stuff in her room. She loves the princesses. Her favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White. Her favorite movie is Snow White. Her room is a sweet but she has out grown it. We will make changes in the next house.
Mary Catherine is learning to read small words and loves her books. Her favorite book continues to be Ariel and her favorite color is light blue. She loves to wear her disney princess pj's. Her favorite food is Fetticini Alfredo. She loves white noodles. For now Mary Catherine's favorite toys are... her swing set, outdoor bouncy castle, her barbies, Big Baby, Big Boy, Flo Bunny, Boop Boop (the pillow), blankie and pink blankie. She also enjoys her keyboard and her ariel castle for the polly pocket size princesses. Her best friend continues to be RJ Lee.
Currently, Mary Catherine has an obcession with cutting paper and things up into tiny little shreds. They get all over everything and it drives us nutz. She makes list for everything. She also likes to keep junk. This includes tags off of new clothes, ribbons off of packages, paper that she has made list on months ago and anything broken. She thinks GAGA can fix anything. Any thing that is broken is taken or given to Gaga to fix. A number of items given to her later have to just disappear from her house as they can't be fixed.
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