AJ bo-bo, bo-do-bo-do-bo. This is what we like to call you sometimes. Iddy sometimes says, "Abby Hon-ez!" Your hair is getting longer and just as curly as ever. Sometimes I pull it into a tiny little fountain of a ponytail, and sometimes two little tiny fountain pigtails. You still love to hold my hand, and that is what you "wrote" to me in my birthday card. You are so independent and feisty, but you love holding mama's hand. I eat that up! Last weekend we took Ruth-Michael to a ballet class for the first time. She was very anxious and stuck close to me the whole time. I could not get her to even go out with the others to do the stretches. It was just for 4 and up, so I didn't expect you to do anything, but you strode right on out there, and when I got up to come with you, you put your hand up to me and said, "no, no, no, no!" You wanted me to sit and watch you. Of course, later I talked RM into getting out there only if I went with her, and you didn't mind me sitting next to her. You like to talk A LOT and you always have stories to tell. You love to wear fancy dresses with sparkles and pink and flowers, but you just want to wear tennis shoes with them. You are in repeat mode... the Peppa Pig book, over, and over, and over, and over. Then it was "I'll love you forever", which, of course, I still have not made it through without crying. You'll say, "I want the book with the old sick woman!" You are so particular about your feet. I have to spend hours and hours (at least that's what it feels like) adjusting your shoes and socks until they feel just right or you have a break down. The tongue has to be pulled right and the socks without any wrinkles and the seam of the socks not rubbing your foot. I finally just bought you a pair of Crocs, and that has made our life much easier. You are so petite, but you are FAST. When you run, your little legs move so fast and you zip around to keep up with the big kids. You and Cooper are best friends. He is in class with you, and you love to go and play with him after school. If you had it your way, you would ride home with him and eat lunch with him and, basically, just be with him constantly. You love "neighbor tiger hood" but you always want the same episode over and over: the baby Margaret episode. You did an adorable performance at school for Mother's Day where you sang a song called "Hugs and Kisses." You stood next to Cooper and you hugged each other at the chorus and everyone oohed and ahed. It was pretty adorable. You are getting really good at puzzles. You have a Peppa Pig puzzle that is just 3 or 4 pieces for each character, and you can put them all together. There is a "Frozen" puzzle that is 100 pieces and you love for someone to put it together, then you take a few pieces of the outside off and then put them back together. Lately you like telling people "mama says, if you don't take your vitamin you don't get any vitamin, and if you don't chew your vitamin you will choke." You are a WHIZ at the memory game. Auntie Jen and I were playing with you, and we could not believe how you remembered where all the matches were. You did better than either of us! You have a spunky little attitude that is hard to control sometimes, but at the end of the day, you love your mama and papa and can't stand for us to be upset with you. After I spank you or get on to you really hard, I have to spend time cuddling with you and comforting you.
