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A day in the Life: Sabine at 4.5

typing on her kitty computer

Here is a snapshot of Sabine's Day/Life at 4.5

Blue tongue from her first ring pop

7:30 she wakes up and comes into our room to cuddle and have a story.  Usually Eli is nursing and she likes to say "Hey, Man" and drape herself over me to get him to see her.  

Then getting ready for school and she's out the door around 8:30 - 8:40 for preschool.

She stays at preschool until 12 when we pick her up.

When she gets home we have lunch.

then from 1 until 3 she asks us repeatedly if it is 3 o'clock yet, and what time it is.  But really that is playtime.  On Fridays she goes home with a friend and goes to dance class, and on some other days she will have a playdate after school at a friend's house or we will have friends come here. Or sometimes Max will take her out to lunch after school and to a playground.  This time also usually includes many many wardrobe changes into just the right dress or shoes or costume.  

3pm she can watch a TV show and she usually has a snack.

After the show is more playtime until dinner which is around 5:30 or 6.  Then after that she has dessert often on a "dessert walk" where we all get out of the house together.  

Bedtime routine starts around 7 with the hope that she'll be in bed by 7:30.  That routine includes bath some nights and other nights just some cleaning up and then reading books and into PJs then bed.

Starts again the next morning at 7:30ish.  (and now my Eli's crying so I'm off to hang with him)  

Silly face and a pretty dress

In the forest at school with some of her friends

New for Sabine

What's new for Sabine this week is: Scooby Doo

She discovered the new Scooby Doo cartoons on Netflix and has been really enjoying them.  They're the new versions so check them out, it's funny how they've taken the characteristics from the old characters and bumped them up.  (There is now no doubt that Shaggy is a stoner, and Velma is a whole new kind of girl!)

The way we know something is really sinking in is that she starts to become those characters.

So here she is as Velma.  Or, more accurately, she is: "Scooby Doo dressed as Velma pretending to be a fish"

Just because it may be hard for you to actually see the Velma-ness of this outfit I'll explain it to you as she told it to me: "Velma always wears a pink skirt, but I couldn't find mine so I put on this bathing suit skirt instead, it's still very twirly.  Velma wears a turtleneck and hers is always orange but mine is white and that's ok.  Velma wears glasses and she also has two little bows in her hair, one on this side and one on this side, see that?"

and there you have it.  

Just for reference here are the old and the new Velmas too.