Cassee at the Pumpkin Patch

Here's Cassee at the Sutherland Farms pumpkin patch.
They have a big sign, so you can see how much you grow from year to year.
(sorry it's sideways)

Cassee took a while to warm up (as usual). She didn't actually play in the corn pit. But at least I got her to sit on the edge and smile!

She also wouldn't go out into the pumpkin patch to get her little pumpkin. Mommy had to find her one. She did hold it though.

This is the little "train" ride. She loved it. Of course this was towards the end of our time there and she had finally warmed up.

She liked the chickens and actually let me take a picture of her standing near them. She refused to go remotely close to the goats. The bigger, the more intimidating I guess!

Cassee Finds the Costumes!

We put the Halloween decor/costume tubs in the living room. Cassee had to try on ALL the costumes.

Cassidee the Pirate: Aarrgg, give me your candy!


The Cute Little Ladybug: (They don't say anything!)


The Fuzzy Yellow Chick: Cheep Cheep


The Pretty Pink Princess: Can I have all your candy since I'm a princess?


The Ugly Mean Witch: Heeheehee, I'll get you!

Any opinions of what she should be??

The Speech Impediment

As with many three year olds, not all consonant sounds come out as intended.
One that we constantly notice that Cassee has trouble saying is the F sound. Words like Father comes out 'Hodder', and funny (which she says a lot) comes out 'hunny'.
Today we ate a plum for lunch. When Cassee said the word plum, it came out fum or flum. I laughed. Here comes the F sound on the wrong word.
She says H sounds for the F's, and F sounds for the P's.
This is going to take some work!!

The Bookworm

I was unpacking all the boxes of books (Thanks to Julia for packing most of them!) and trying to organize them so I could figure out which bookshelf to put them on. I took a small break (for my legs!) and this is what I found when I got back.

Cassee loves books and can entertain herself "reading" books for up to a whole hour sometimes. Here she found a stack of Arthur books.

I didn't even might the mess she made!
Hopefully this is a sign that she will love to read as she gets older and goes to school!

Cassee Flying on (and off) the Treadmill

A treadmill you say? I didn't know Dan and Leesa had a treadmill?

Well, we got it with the house. It was left in the garage. Now that we own the house, we figured we also own the treadmill too.

We put it in our master bedroom. It runs great too!

Mentally imagine this:
I'm in the shower (in the bathroom off the master bedroom, with the door open). I'm almost done. I hear Cassee screaming and a quick repeated thump, thump, thump.
It takes a minute to register to the brain what I'm actually hearing.
I run out of the shower, through the bathroom and across the bedroom (completely naked and dripping wet!)
Cassee has turned on the treadmill and pushed 7 (which is equivalent to a 8 1/2 minute mile). She is desperately hanging onto the bar across the top and running as fast as her little legs can possibly go. (and screaming her head off in a panicked terrified voice.) She slips and falls off the side just before I reach the STOP button.

She got two nasty rug burns, or should I say belt-from-a-treadmill burn. One on her elbow and one on her foot.
Here is one of her battle wounds:
The picture doesn't do justice.


The funny thing is that the same thing happened yesterday. She and Emmalynn were on the treadmill and she pushed the 7. They were both running as fast as they could, hanging onto the bar, and screaming. I was next to them on the bed and immediately hit the stop button. Neither of them fell, but it shook them up a little. I gave them a little lecture and assumed they wouldn't do that again. (As usual I now think of Dan's favorite saying, "Never ASSUME anything, it only makes an a-- out of U and Me." Yeah, yeah, what was I thinking?

The Hip Swinger

Cassee found a little key chain that plays a song. She was shaking her hips all day as she played it over and over again. She's got quite the hip action.