Driving by the park with lights. Mikayla says: Look at all the sparklies. It's too much!

Mikaylism:

yourget=yogurt

This is the first year she has really been excited about Santa. She is starting to count down. On Dec 1, she wanted to make cookies so we could give them to Santa. She heard Dan in the garage and kept thinking it was Santa. She got into an argument with Sonny because Daddy was Santa. Sonny kept saying no but she insisted. HA!

scratch my squito==when she wants you to scratch her back--mostly

Mik loves playing hide and seek. She will often tell you where she is though.

Mikayla loves pretending. She is often mamma and I am Mikayla. Sometimes this makes it hard at bedtime because you tell Mikayla to go to bed and she looks at me to tell me to go to bed. She often pretends she is her teacher (Miss Kelly) also.

Music: Daddy was listening to a CD to practice for the band at church and one of the songs was My Savior Lives. All of a sudden Mikayla is singing along except the words are ' My Savior's Lips" In mommy's car, she likes Wiggles and Take a Chance on Me"--Abba.

She loves little things and collecting them in bowls---sometimes she pretends they are soups or other things

shopping cart=grandma and grandpa's rv (no idea where that came from)

handsome prince=daddy, but occassionally other men (Dan Soukup and Uncle Dave to name a few) but it is usually Daddy

she loves to be kissed on her whips

she has gine back to not being mitata, she is now Mikayla all the time (or at least Mikaywa)

Mikayla loves dancing--she calls it diarrea (ballerina) dancing. Once she got her ballet slippers she puts them on and dances around on her tip toes. On the first night Josh was home, she took off her pjs in the middle of the night and put her whole outfit on: ballet slippers, leotard, and tights!

She loves to play out the parts of Sleeping Beauty---she walks to the green light-touches the spindle and then passes out until the Prince comes and kisses her. The kiss must be on her 'whips'. She then dances with him (usually daddy)

SHe also is Cinderella-she runs off, drops a shoe, and exclaims that she is late. This is usually her sparkly shoes-silver Dorothy-like shoes. SHe has to show everyone she encounters that she is wearing her sparkly shoes.

Java-a good dog

Java died on 9/9/07. It was difficult because although she had a difficult week we were not prepared-but when are you? She had been fine the week before but on Tuesday I took her in to get her teeth cleaned. I had a weird feeling when I left then-maybe it was worth listening to. She had 20 teeth pulled. So, that night she lost a lot of blood.

Mikayla was so good with her that night. Java slept in the spare bathroom and Mikayla slept outside in the hallway so she could watch her. It was so touching!

By Saturday, she still hadn't eaten hardly anything and Leni took her to the vet. They thought she would need a blood transfusion because her hemoglobin was so low. By that night, she had taken her to the emergi-vet and they gave her the transfusion and and then she couldn't breathe and her heartrate was irregular.

Since we were at the hospital, Dan got the call in the morning and was able to go up and say goodbye. It was the worst and the best time for this to happen. The best because we were so occupied with Joshua but the best at the same time this also took away the joy of the day of bringing Josh home.

She was a good dog and she will be missed immensely. I feel so bad for Dan because she had been with him for 11 years through thick and thin.

New saying

EEEW! Dross! Usually this is used tin the appropriate context (diapers, etc.)

We were driving down the street and saw a camper emptying its' sewer into their yard.. SHe saw it and "eeew dross!' Yes, Mikyala it sure is!

started full blown interest in potty: end of May 2007

petted baby dear May 24, 2007 (very concerned where his mama was)

saw first movie: shrek 3 on may 27, 2007, talks about how she saw Big Shrek and had popcorn

starting to call herself mitata patten, her mommy is mommy patten and daddy is daddy patten, nicholas is nicolas patten?

talks to mommy's belly button: baby brother, how are you? i love you. kisses him.

mikaylaism's

mitata: mikayla
kitchen: anywhere but bedroom
sonny: simon
towel: blanket or towel
Bitamin: ONe a day-Because she only gets one vitamin aday
Bubbles-a bath;
Jewelry: don't wear to bead