It must be hard to be 5 and in school all day. This is the Princess right after school on the way to drop the boys off at Art School. 
My kiddos
Princess and I went to a near by park because it was unseasonably beautiful out. She loved playing in the leaves. 
Then we found a park to play at while we waited.
My beautiful girl.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
We started out the day at Build A Bear ( a tradition for us) and she picked out...who guessed it Hello Kitty!
So Princess comes home today from Preschool. Same as any other day. Run in. Hug Mommy. Pull her folder out of her bag. Got it.
Today she brought home an adorable little Turkey project. Only something was missing (I guess).
So she starts pulling everything out of her backpack.
Snow boot (check) - flys across the room
Other snow boot (check) - follows other one
Scarf (check) - outta here
Gloves (check....and check) - buh bye
Hat (check) - Man that got some air
"It's not HERE!" says Princess
"UGH" as she throws her bag down.
"Where is it?" she exclaims
"Oh no!" slaps her head with her hands
"I don't have it." (gasp - really?) As she throws herself on the couch in dispair
Chef walks in...."What's wrong?" Me...."She is missing something I guess." (trying not to laugh - not very well mind you)
Chef says "Why is your folder on the dining room table?"
Princess says "I don't knnnnnnnooooooow."
So I pick it up and pull out her regular papers...oh wait here's a baggie????
"Is this what you're looking for?" I ask
"YES!" says Princess "Oh good" as she goes about her business.
Um really seriously AT four yrs old I have to deal with the mood swings....oh boy. I am so glad I had 2 boys first. (Sorry Sara! and Stacy)
"Okay everyone you better behave today. Thank goodness you have school. Hey get over here. Are you listening? Stop picking on your sister. No acting up while we have guests. No I don't know if they will still be here when you get home. Just plan on being good. Where's my straightening iron??? Oh there it is. Okay hurry everyone. They are on thier way! Remember what I said. Do I look okay?"
"Hey SITSta's! Welcome to my little corner of bloggy land. I hope you find everything to your liking. I'm headed out to go camping with the family tomorrow (That's good blog fodder) So if I don't get over to your place to say Thank You just remember I will as soon as possible. I hope you all enjoy your visit and your long weekend! Be safe and have fun. *MUAH* Help yourself to anything you find....just no long distance calls please."
Okay so I made brief mention that The Princess was born overseas in Turkey. Which wouldn't be "that" blog worthy expcept for the fact that she almost didn't get a birth certificate or passport issued. You're probably thinking those *darn* Turksih people but no no it was our wonderful US Embassy who refused to give her one.
Why???? It's a baby. The father is in the Air Force. The mother is American. Why????
Okay so to get these handy dandy documents we have to submit our marriage certificate, passports and birth certificates. No problem.
Problem. Mine. YEP ME. MOM. My Birth Certificate was in my "bio"maiden name and my marriage certificate was in my maiden name. See there was this little issue of my mother making me use my step fathers name (no biggie but she never made it LEGAL) while growing up.
So when I joined the AF they said I needed to go back to my bio-maiden name or change it to the other one. I decided I like to use my Maiden name instead of my Bio one (I had been using it since I was 5 soooo I was kind of use to it) So my recruiter took me to the SSN office and they just changed it. (come to find out later they weren't suppose to do this without a COURT ORDER saying I could change my name - UGH)
So why would the Embassy have issues with this? Well since they didn't know who *I* was they couldn't issue papers for my daughter to go to the US.
Want to know what their plan was? To send ME to the US to get it all straightened out. I'd need a Judge to issue a Court Order stating I was who I say I was and blah blah blah. (NEWS FLASH here - if you don't have any clue who a person is and you THINK they might be a terrorist you DO NOT I repeat DO NOT put them on a plane to the US!)
So in order to do this I would of had get into the Court (which could take 2-3mths mind you) meanwhile my daughter had to stay in Turkey....oh and Chef was due to PCS in less then 1 month.
THANKFULLY my mother (for once) came through and went to a local small town judge she knew and asked him to write a letter stating that all 3 of my names (bio-maiden, maiden and married) belonged to the same SSN therefore were in fact the same person. The judge accepted this based on the fact that my mother had a print out from the SSN office showing all 3 names with the same SSN. (which btw - the SSN office just GAVE it to her without any documentation saying she could have it!)
So she overnighted it to us. We rushed it to a LOVELY US Embassy and they rushed her Passport and Birth Certificates so we could all LEAVE Turkey as a family.
Key points:
1. The Princess was considered a terrorist at 3mths old.
2. I in fact was NOT considered one. (Although according to them they didn't know who I was)
3. The New York State Social Security Office just HANDS out name changes and SSN info to whoever asks them.
We so wanted to get her a ski mask for the trip through customs but alas we couldn't find one. Got to love Photo shop though. LOL Here is the Original picture on her flight (FINALLY) to the United States.
She was born while we were stationed in Turkey. She was my little terrorist (another blog).
She is truly a gift for our family. We almost lost her at birth. It was very scary there for a while but she proved right away how stubborn she is. She will do anything you tell her she can't do and she shocked those Turkish doctors. They had never seen a baby meet every expectation for recovery so fast. That's my girl.
Her brothers dote on her. Here Little Man is helping put her down for a nap. Isn't he the sweetest.
They adore her. She knows it too. She is so rotten at times. I wouldn't trade her for the world though.
So my Princess is four. For those that don't know it I have a HomeDaycare. Yes I am one of "those' people. You know you wish you were like me. Anyways I digress.
Princess is starting preschool next month. Why can't YOU just teach her you ask. Well I am and have been. See Pincess has this issue. She is so attached to me that I am a nervous wreck about how she'd handle K. So this year is a test run. Her confindence has been building so we're taking the plung. *drum roll please* She is going to the ABC Acedemy. Which is run by another AWESOME Family Provider. Only she caters her program to PrK only (I wanna BE her). Princess will learn so much. She already loves it too. We stopped by last Sunday to pick up the paperwork and chat with *A* about what the Princess would learn. She didn't want to leave. *YES!*
So while there Ms A has a wonderful system where the children are assigned a color. This color will be on all of their items to be used in PrK all year long. That way there is no second guessing as to who's is who's. Ms A had already hinted to me that another child was eyeing the pink color. So to avoid having Princess start off on the wrong foot and snatching something away from a potential BFF we guided her in choosing a non selected color. There were 3, red, purple and orange. I thought for SURE purple was a shoe in. fo reals man. The Princess stood there thinking about it for awhile (looking at all the colored bins). We hint that Ms A's fav color is purple. Mommy's fav color is purple. The Princess looks at us, looks at the bins......"Orange!" she says.
"Orange?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I want orange."
Alrighty then. So my pink loving baby picked orange. My little gender specific rebal. It's going to be an interesting year in PrK. I will be sad. Come back on August 18th to check on me okay. I'll be a wreck.
$35.00 - Price for 2 Adults into the Ren Fair on Kids free weekend.
$16.00 - Price for kids and mom to ride the Elephant.
Priceless - The Princess blushing when Aiden the Knight says hello.
The Princess was holding the Ltr Q and O magnets.
Princess says:
This is a flat tire (holding up the ltr Q)
This is a new tire (holding up the ltr O)
Well my Princess turned 4 today. Amazing how fast the time has gone by. I feel like it was just yesterday that we were in Turkey and she was born. It was such a crazy and hetic time then. She spent 5 days in the hospital and then we had issues getting her Birth Certificate issued. I almost couldn't bring her home to the US. SO crazy. Thankfully it all got worked out. Now....well now she a Princess. One of our hearts - she is a part of us and she makes us who we are.
We had a Princess party on Saturday. All the little girls wore Princess dresses and all the older boys ran away upstairs to hide from the pink and pretty. LOL It was great.
I made the cake (thats another post...lol) and The Princess took almost 2hours to open gifts and really there were not THAT many. She was just very SLOW about it. We had to take breaks and do other things so the guests wouldn't be bored. LOL
I'm still tired form it but thats cause Chef wasn't much help. He had knee surgury a couple weeks ago and couldn't be around all those kids. Lucky him!
