Can you believe this little itsy bitsy thing…
Is now this big girl!?!
I LOVE her so much! I have a hard time finally posting updates around birthdays ( I have yet to post my one year olds..oops sorry second child) because I have so much I would love to say about them. How could a proud Mama post everything her heart would like to say in one post? She cannot. So I will just write a list of a few favorite things 4 year old does to make me smile each day.
*She is CONSTANTLY singing. in her bed. on the potty. while she is playing with toys. watching shows. in the car. playing games. eating food. even playing her new little leap pad she hums the background music. This girl will hear a song once or twice and almost know it all. I need to get her in music lessons. I have a hard time listing her favorites, because she loves almost anything. Her favorite bedtime song is the primary song, “if you don’t walk,” which is one of my favorites!
*She has the BEST memory. Seriously. She had to get her shots (yes child life specialists, we call them shots, sorry) last week and she said, “remember last time I got my shots and I had to sit on the couch in California and I couldn’t walk?” Hello people that was a year ago when she was just barely 3. she also just says random things (that I wish I wrote down) that she’ll remember. She relates to things well because she associates them with something she knows or remembers. It’s amazing. Truly. I cannot wait to see what she does with this brain of hers!
*She loves anything girly. Princesses are of course number one, but she also loves dance, sparkly things, dolls, babies, playing kitchen, and wearing pretty things. Though she isn’t one to insist on wearing bows or putting on dress ups.She loves littlest pet shop, ponies, and stuffed animals.
*She is very CREATIVE. All her stuffed animals and friends have names. I had her list a whole bunch so I could write them down. This is more for my memory, but it is fun to see the names she comes up with.
Brown Baby, Big baby, Talky baby, Sweetie bear (heart bear), Bear, Lolli –short for Lollipop (dog), Pinkie (MJ’s valentine bear) Whitey(my anniversary bear),Duckie, Bunny, Dress bunny, Dress Bear, Furry (barking dog), Sally, Ali, and Baby Sally (pillow pets), Scamp & Layda & Clara (purple) &Princess Light Swirl, (those four are her ponies), Swami and Omi (her snakes), Pinkie (another pink toy-her elephant), Bruno (musical dog), Fluffy( white one), Kissing bear, Budha, Jumper, Starty, (bath toys), Eli (one day when she forgot her name she named her Jenna) the elephant. Basically if it isn’t a princess with it’s own name, it will get a new one and will be cherished for that name.
*She loves preschool. It has been a good thing for her. She already knows all her letters and numbers, but she has learned things I would never think to do. Last week out of the blue she started saying the Pledge of Allegiance. She sings the safety kids, she talked about Christopher Columbus, had “Cinder Claus” (I think that was the name) come in December, she talked about dinosaurs and learned about carnivores, loves to draw teeth, colors more in the lines, is pretty good with a glue stick now and can cut pretty well! She loves to learn and tell me about different students in the class. One day she came home and said, “Mom, guess what? I was the ONLY person who listened to my teachers today.” I replied, “really?” yeah, everyone else was not good listeners, but I listened.” I said “what did you listen to"?'” She said, “to everything my teachers told me! There is a timeout wall and there were a LOT of kids on it today!” ha. She is so funny. Whether or not she REALLY was the ONLY listener, I don’t know, but I am glad she listens.
*She loves Primary. She knows a lot of the songs, but I find her learning new ones and verses that I haven’t heard before. (: Like “Choose the right, Let the Spirit of Digression over come you in the evil spell.” She always has a story about her classmates. She tells me what she learned in the “big Primary” and in her “little classroom.” I am amazed at what she soaks in. She told me the other day there was going to be a pajama party and she would get to wear her pjs! “Isn’t that silly that we would wear our pjs to church.” I got the story straight and found out it was a brief announcement for the relief society sisters not the primary kids (even stranger I know). But she listened.
*She is VERY distracted. I think it is her overactive imagination. I have to remind her A LOT to finish what she started or eat her food, or do as I ask. (perhaps she is more like me than I thought.)
*She loves people as is very intuitive about their emotions. She is usually shy at first when meeting new people, but she observes a lot and notices things. She will hear me say, “oh no” on the phone and HAVE to know right away what is wrong. She has a big heart!
*She loves her Daddy, but teases him a lot. She cannot have him leave for work without saying goodbye. She screams and runs to the back door when he comes home. Though after that she tries to make him earn her love (such a girl) even though she really wants it. (:
*She is a goof ball! She will make up silly words and silly parts to songs. She can cross her eyes and loves to show people.
*She can write almost all her letters. She loves to sound out words and try to spell them. Lately she has actually sounded them out, minus the vowels. She was very proud of herself when she “read a book” by associating the word with the picture and seeing the first letter.
*She hates doing chores, unless it is on her own terms. She will all the sudden get this drive to clean the whole playroom and it will be organized and beautiful. This is VERY rarely.
* Her favorite shows are Jake and the Never land pirates, Dora, Team Umizoomi, and movies like Tarzan, Annie, Barbie, Tangled, and fun Library finds. She loves to play computer games with these characters as well.
*She has never been much of a climber and is hesitant when doing so, but recently has taken to jumping off High things. good grief.
*She loves to Dance. She feels the music and interprets it in many different ways. Sometimes she makes me copy her, which for a “trained” dancer is sometimes difficult. She loved learning new moves from her teacher, Miss Nanette. Her Shuffle step is my favorite. I don’t know if it is the direction she will go in the future, but it is fun for now.
*She loves her cousins and her friends dearly. The other day she started crying, “I miss my friends and cousins!” it had only been a week or so since we were with them.
*She loves to tell me her Dreams when she wakes up. They are quite hilarious.
*She is a morning girl and we often wake up to her singing or playing the voices of her dolls. (which is sometimes very high pitched).
*She is a little spit fire and definitely knows what she does and doesn’t want. Sometimes she is more defiant than I know how to deal with, but we get through it and love one another.
*She still loves her “little white blankie” and sleeps with at least two stuffed animals. She only sleeps in nightgowns and doesn’t like having blankets on her.
*She’ll fight getting INTO the bath, but once she is in, she’ll play for hours. She hates getting splashed in the face and constantly asks for a dry towel. Please swim lessons come soon!
*She is a puzzle master. A skill or enjoyment passed down from generation to generation by both sides of our family.
*She loves being a big sister. She tries to teach Maddie how to play. She tries to Mother her. She tries to comfort her. And she loves to hug her and hold her hand (much to Maddie’s dismay most of the time).
I could go on and on. I love this girl!! I am so proud of who she is, a beautiful, energetic, little ball of energy!
Cinderella, you naughty girl. (:
