Category: Alice

Cece had her 5th birthday in early December. Cade was away – so we had a special “going out for dinner” with Naa and Poppa, Aunty Kate and Uncle Luke to the Kinny.

She then finished off her pre school year with a concert where they sang songs and we watched a slide show of all their photos from throughout the year.

Alice is halfway thru her pre school year. She goes on Tuesday and Thursdays and has lots of little friends there. She does ballet on a Wednesday afternoon and loves it! Still our most fired up personality of the household – she knows what she wants and how she wants it done. Her blond hair is straight and slowly going a darker shade. She keeps up with her big sisters and has mastered being able to stick up for herself. She loves to scooter and has started riding her bike with training wheels a bit more now. If she doesnt like something she will call it “Stinky”. Usual dress code is tights/leggings with a skirt or a dress. We are starting to prepare her for school next year – whilst talking to a teacher at the school about it she told them that “I already know everything – 5 + 5 is 10”. She loves to have a night time story in her bed and is usually the last to sleep most nights.

She wanted spaghetti bologna for dinner and a number 4 cake with pink icing and lollies…. here she is after enjoying dinner…

Are you for real?

Dont. Even. Talk. To. Me

My name is Alice Joy Whibbbourn

Im going to get home and slam my door.

Alice Joy is growing up so fast! She is very different to her big sisters, a lot more feisty (and sometimes more festy) and copies there behavior which makes for interesting tantys and conversations. She is a very funny little lady – very emotional as well. Her blond straight hair is always hanging in her face and she now wants to dress herself, which ends up with her always looking a bit odd!

She says almost everything that her sisters say, sometimes she will parrot a whole conversation that they are having with someone else just quietly in the background. She has learnt the words to songs and rhymes very quickly by using this skill of hers!

She loves playing on her own – she will quite happily play a game for almost an hour with no one else annoying her. One of her favorite games at the moment is the Tinkerbell game, in which she closes a door and knocks, you have to ask who it is, she replies “Tinkerbell”, then you say “oh, come in Tinkerbell”, she comes in and the game continues. She often comes in asking if we can play the Tinkerbell game, even when we are in the bathroom!

Cece loves her parents – or her “best friendies” as she calls us. Very much still a Mummas girl, she often gets sooky and if someone speaks to her or asks her a question she will reply “Mumma” and point at me or grab onto me. Its quite amusing, but very annoying at the same time.

She loves her baby sister and always needs to know where Pippy is or what Pippy is doing. I often find Alice in Pippas cot with her after she has woken up from a nap. She tries very hard to include Pippa into the games that she is playing – but only if it suits her mood. Now that Pippa is crawling, I often hear “NO PIPPY” from Alices direction.

She is looking forward to pre school next year – ready for “my turn at pre school”. She likes to compete with her older sisters in any way that she can – getting in the bath, getting dressed, getting in the car, if you turn it into a competition – Alice will get involved!

She loves the wiggles, her “I Spy” book and playing with her sisters and also playing little people duplo. When she finishes a book or a song she says “Amen”. She loves to cook (pretend or real – doesnt matter which) and still loves her morning “happle” before breakfast.

Stacey came over to drop Alices 2nd birthday present off – far out – I have one very clever friend!! She made this in a couple of nights, and the girls think its fantastical!

Our crazy monkey turned two yesterday! Here she is celebrating with the cake that she made with Great Grandma Mary and Tally.

Just figuring that I wont have the time or energy to do this as Alices birthday comes nearer, I thought I should do a quick update of our beautiful 3rd daughter.

Alice Joy is just that – she really is a Joy to be around. She is funny and very social. She calls herself Cece and is always asking for “up, huggies”. She likes to look at things on the computer and will walk into the study asking for “Ouch Charlie”. She knows she has to fight for position, she will will always ask “me turn”. She likes to have her turn praying at night and also saying grace.

Her favorite game to play is Mummy and Babies, she will drag a number of dolls around the house putting them to bed and making us hold them for her. She is happy to role play in her big sisters games as well, as usually the baby and knows that she then has to call either one of them Mamma.

She has toilet trained herself both day and night and the first thing that she asks for in the morning when she wakes up is “apple please dadda”. She is a really good eater – usually going back for seconds for breakfast and when you ask her what she had she will answer “weetbix, cornflakes, pop (rice bubbles), yogurt and milk”.

She will repeat anything anyone says, which at dinner time can turn into a funny game where she is trying to keep up in the conversation by just repeating the last words of every ones sentence. She likes to sing and dance and run around crazy. She enjoys being around little kids and we think she will just love being a big sister.

Alice has just reached 18 months in this past week. She is much different to her sisters in a number of different ways.
She is a climber, which has been something new to get used to, she copies everything her sisters do, she walks and talks and dances and sings and throws MASSIVE tantys – its hard to understand how something that small can produce noise like she does. She is a very active little lady – into everything and anything. Likes to unpack the dishwasher, even before the things have been washed. Books, books and even more books – to the point at Church she needs to read every Bible and Hymn book in the pew before she is satisfied. She eats a lot of dirt – hoping that this is a passing phase… Loves to talk on the phone!
She usually wakes sometime around 6am and then has a lunch time nap and then goes to bed in the evening around 7:30pm. The nicest thing by far is that she is a very cuddly little girl – she loves having huggles on the couch, at the table or anywhere she can – she wraps her little arms right around your neck and pats your back before usually leaning in for a smoochy kiss. She truly is a “Joy” to be around!

Alice enjoying a bike ride with Cade

Alice 18 months

Alice

Aunty Nat arrived yesterday and Cece woke up from her nap and enjoyed an afternoon huggle with her.

Today was Alice’s Baptism. We had a wonderful church service this morning and then an afternoon of cousins and fun.

Cade, Alice and Lisa

Whitbourn Family October 2009

Cousins catching up

Tim in the baby chair

Steph & Becca
Our thoughts on getting our girls baptised.