River's Rovings

River is totes a preschooler now...not a toddler anymore. I mean, she's not attending a preschool, she's like a small human. Lol.

Her achievements amaze us every single day. She's funny and smart and so wonderful...also, she back-talks and doesn't listen and gets really hyper right before bedtime. :) And I think she's the cat's meow.

These days she's:

Sounding out every word she says like this: "Mommy, can I have a po-po-popcicle?" and "Hey, look at this d-d-dog." It's pretty awesome. A lot of the time she will add what letter the word starts with. I'd say it's about 50/50 whether she gets it right or not, but what a start! And it's cute to boot.

Not that long ago, maybe a month, there was a time that River could trace letters, but not initiate writing letters by herself. In the last couple of weeks I've watched her write several I's (both upper and lower case and usually made out of upper case T's), T's, and H's (sometimes made out of her T/I's. lol).

She has been actively (and sometimes literally) jumping into acro-yoga. Sometimes I get hurt...sometimes while saving her. :) Her dancing is pretty phenomenal too. She's fun.

She's actually been practicing and making real progress on her cartwheel. I suspect that her process will be very similar to her learning to jump.

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Ain't she beautiful?

Obviously I'm very behind in my updates
 as these are from River's 3rd year photos done by the talented Olivia Jean, who I highly recommend.

I'm so in love with my River and I'm so in love with these sweet photos of her doing what she loves...dressing up and using her imagination. Every day she amazes me with her intelligence, beauty, strength, athleticism, thoughtfulness, humor...I could go on and on.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.