Visiting Santa at Bass Pro.  "Why are we at the fish place?"

Hugging our new Christmas tree.

Thanksgiving 2012

Zoo Time!

1st Time on this carousel

Penguins Stink!

Alia's favorite part!  The prairie dog.

Alia was not afraid of hippos this year.

She doesn't know what a King Cobra is.

My sweet girl!

 This past weekend, Wilson's Garden Center had an open house.  If I had had some money, I might have bought some mums.  They had many activities for kids though, which is kind of why we went.  :)

Alia in the bounce house

They had markers set out so kids could color pumpkins.  Alia wanted to color the whole pumpkin, but Daddy talked her out of it.

Awesome Face Painting

This is the straw maze and Alia's friend Avery.

Today we went to the MU Southfarm Showcase.  Last year we didn't get to see that many animals.  This year we did!

Some other animals that Alia got to encounter were a tortoise, a bunny, a water buffalo, a goat, a calf, a donkey, a turtle, and more snakes. 

 Alia is 4.  She had 8 friends over for a party this past Saturday.  They decorated goodie bags, played in her room, demolished a pinata, and played on the swing set. 

I love this girl!  Can't wait to see what this next year brings.

Alia: "Mommy, record me doing crazy stuff!"
Me: "What is crazy stuff?"
Alia: "Clapping and swimming."

So we see 6 or 7 geese walking down the sidewalk the other day on Rangeline. 

Becca: “Alia, look at the geese walking down the sidewalk.”

Alia: “Maybe they need some exercise.”

If you want to hear Alia's vocal stylings, click over here.  :)

Little Mate's Cove for a birthday party

Spending time with Amy

Playing at the playground with Marcus

This past Saturday, we took Alia to the Safety Kids Discovery Days (or something like that) at the Women's and Children's hospital.  She played some games, enjoyed some sweet treats, and climbed in emergency vehicles. 

With the remote control fire dog. 

Alia was so excited to see TJ, then covered her face in the picture.  Silly girl!!

Looking inside the helicopter.

Happy to be in the cop SUV.

Driver's Seat of the Ambulance

We spent last Wed night through Sunday morning in Illinois with my family.  Alia got to be a flower girl for the first time at my mom's wedding.  Alia did a fairly good job.  Once up there, she dropped all of the petals out of her basket, then picked them up, then started to drop them again. 

All dressed up!

 

 

Flower Girl Alia

Alia and all her 1st cousins.

 

Alia has gone "running" with me twice.  The first time we went out to a trail and she complained, a lot.  

 

Resting on a bench and at the halfway point (no worries, we started at the 1.5)

 Tonight we went around our neighborhood and she was great!  Although she kept trying to run out in the middle of road.  Cars only had to stop twice.  :)

These were her "running" socks.

 Mommy and Alia (rockin' her new mermaid shirt)

 Daddy and Alia

Mommy and Daddy (Alia took this picture)

Tons of Trucks 2012!

Inside the Fire Truck
Meeting TJ, Truman Jr (thanks Amy)
Monster School Bus
Monster Tire
Uh...some truck thing...