Felicity on her 4th Birthday

Felicity turned 4 on 9/22. We had a big party, which is exactly what she wanted. Her exact requests for her birthday party this year were
1. A LONG party at home
2. "Chocolate Donut Cake"
3. Attendance of two family friends R&R
We were able to accommodate all of the above, and ended up with about about 13 kids and just as many adults eating donuts - the adults having good conversation, the kids running all over playing. Felicity's gift was a fancy dollhouse. I fretted so long trying to decide what kind to get, worried about the compatibility with her current toys and whether the house would be worth the money and have the accessories she wanted. It turned out my worries were in vain - while the Calico Critters are not technically compatible with Disney "little people", she has mixed them seamlessly and installed the calico critters staircase on the balcony of her beauty and the beast castle.

Felicity at four years old.
On her fourth birthday she thought she would suddenly be able to read (she couldn't, and that little pout of sadness when she discovered this was too adorable).
She is fiercely independent and fiercely snugly at the same time. She wants to do so many things herself- pour milk, clean serve food. Other moments she acts like a total baby (goo goo gah gah and everything) and insists she cannot dress herself or stand up.  She always wants more hugs from mom, regardless of how many I already gave her. Her and dad have a whole routine of all the different types of hugs they must do before he can drop her off at school (upside down. backwards, frog, leg, etc).
Felicity is a little monkey. I think if you let her grab your pinky she would find a way to use it to hang off of you. She is always lifting her feet off the ground.

Her vocab is constantly growing, but she still puts Fs infront of most 3-syllables, and also many 2-syllable words. Like Adult is fuh-dalt. Disaster is Fi-Saster. It does not matter whether she can say the correct starting sound, she just adds an F. Pajamas are Fa-jamas. She also has a bad habit (that is more related to inability to make the starting S sound) to say Sucker with an F... 1

(That is where I stopped typing, and I never went back! Want to publish this so it stays part of my records).