4 Years Old!!!! (December 2018)

Vivien is all in for Christmas at this point.  She mostly got the idea last year, but she really has the idea this year.  We have been doing Christmas activities all month long and she loves it. She loves decorating still, but now she leaves the decorations alone more.  Gone are the days where the decorations move a couple of times every day, which is nice because I can have all the decorations out without worrying about them getting broken.

She also wanted to look for items online for her Christmas list, as Ryder did, but she was less intense about it than him.  I added most of her items, and then she picked a few other Peppa Pig related items and some Disney princess stuff.  More than work on an online list, Vivi was into taking present photos.  One time, she wanted something while we were out that I wasn't going to get her, so I suggested that we take a picture for her list.  She really went with it full bore.  I would say that every time we went to a store she picked out a few items to take photos with.  It worked out for her; Santa brought her the little green penguin that she really liked!

Even though it has been Winter and quite cold, it is not at all uncommon to find that one of Vivi's many outfits of the day was a Summer outfit, or even her bathing suit.  She spent many a day walking around in her bathing suit pushing her shopping cart full of friends and treasures!  She even asked to go to the beach and then she wanted to know how long it would be until she could go to the beach when we explained to her that she couldn't.

In December, the day we decorated the tree, Vivi got sick with the stomach bug, her first time ever throwing up.  The poor kid was sick for a couple of days (then of course we all got some version of it that week) and then she got a nasty cold later too.  Early December was a very sick month around here!

After Christmas, we took a trip to Mount Snow, VT because the kids wanted to play in the snow.  We went tubing at the base of their ski mountain.  It was really fun and even a little faster than I expected, if a little shorter.  Vivi seemed to like it, but we got there in the early afternoon, which is often her nap time, so she didn't have the stamina to tube the whole time.  Janda and I took turns holding her near the fire pit and while I was holding her she fell asleep.  She probably made it about 45 minutes before losing steam, but part of it was being tired and I bet that the other part was the windyness.  Either way, Vivi was very excited to get out of the cold and go to the hotel, which had a pool.  The pool was undoubtedly the highlight of the trip for her!