Inside the House of Baldwin

I will officially be 3 1/2 years old in less than two weeks. Mom is hoping that this milestone will officially push us into the four-year-old disposition stage. I think that I have run her ragged for the past six months. Everyday she awakes hoping that I will stop making insane demands on her.

Daddy is trying his hardest to turn me into a Daddy’s Girl. He cheerfully gets me chocolate milk when I demand it, he buys me new shoes, he paints my fingernails. Unfortunately, as soon as Mom arrives on the scene, he is, once again, instantly forgotten. Daddy sighs, with a glimmer of hope inside that one day my eyes will be opened.

My days are slowing becoming more busy. I have dance once a week (hence the Nutcracker performance), and I go to pre-school twice a week. I’m assured at least two days a month playing at a friend’s house while Mom attends the elementary and junior high PTA Board Meetings. Add to that errands, chauffeuring siblings, and other play dates, and my life is pretty busy for a little 3-year-old. Mom is still patiently awaiting 1st Grade. City-wide celebration.

I am still the apple of everybody’s eye and have mastered the techniques that will get me what I want and need. If one says “No,” there are still four others to wear down. But I am a funny girl and provide much humor to the family throughout the day. Life would definitely be boring without me.

Well, the time has come once again to write up my lengthy report of what I have done this year! Whoopee for you guys! To make this easier for myself I am going to just go month by month and if I forget something, then just let me know in a comment — then everyone can remember it as well.

January, I can’t remember much about January other than just going snowboarding all the time and Mom’s birthday… I would still be a little eighth grader… and I would be halfway through the year so.

February! Yay for February! This is the month of my birth which makes it special. I turned the tender age of 14 which alowed me to go to stake dances! The problem was that our stake likes to do dances every — maybe if we are lucky — three months…so I was in for a while so I went to the Cedar Hills stake dances instead, which are much better than ours. On my real birthday I went up to Brighton with my father to go and shred some sickly, powder.

March…I have no idea what happened in March…

April! Yes, April was the fun month for me! Spring break was coming up and I was going to go to San Fransisco with the family. And, the night before I was going to Wolfmother at the Venue in SLC. So my Spring Break was going to be pretty tight if you ask me. Wolfmother was almost a let-down, but the opening bands were cool…San Fransisco was amayzing!!! I would go back in a heart-beat!

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This year has been great! Going to San Fran was a Blast! Summer was fun because I was in Alice in Wonderland, and I got to see and have my cousins, Kendra and Pax, stay with us. In August we went to Park City and had so much fun. Then I went (alone) with Grandma Baldwin to Idaho and stayed and played!

Also, I got my ears pierced. Hooray! In September I turned eleven! Also, I went back to school. Boring! December was Nutcracker. This year was fun. Hope next year is just as good!

Abby is in The Timpanogos School of Dance Nutcracker performance this year, along with her big sister, Bridget. She is a Gumdrop in Cast A.

We had dress rehearsal on Thursday night. She was to arrive at 5:45 pm at the high school. We put her make-up on, we curled her hair, we got her costume ready. As we were getting to leave, the snowstorm decided to make it’s debut. It was snowing heavily and the roads were slick.

We made it to the high school without sliding into another car or off the road, endured gale-force winds as we tried to make our way indoors, and changed Abby out of her street clothes and into her Gumdrop costume.

For all of that we got what you see above. Maybe a minute of rehearsal. We were then told that they were finished and we could take them home. I completely understand that the production is big with lots of dancers, but for a mother it was a bit of an exasperating moment. I wasn’t even given any time to sit back and relax.

By the way, Abby is front row, furthest left. It took me a while to figure out which one she was since all the little girls look virtually alike, except for Abby’s friend, Magan, who is three Gumdrops to the right of her. Dark hair does have it’s advantages.