What can you say about a sweet new baby? The sight of her warms your heart. It's an amazing thing when bodies are created, and new little spirits inhabit them. She has these dark blue eyes that I look in and just wonder about what kind of personality is in there.
- She loves the sound of running water-she immediately stops crying when I turn the tub water on.
- She is just barely starting to smile and respond to others.
- She grows fast! (which is good since she was the smallest of all our girls at 6 lbs 15 ozs at birth.) Doctors have been amazed that she gained over 2 lbs in her first month-from 6 lbs 11 ozs to 8 lbs 15 ozs.
- Most likely to get into mischief--first girl of four to cut her own hair in February
- never passes on a chance to dance to good music--and doesn't forget to pose at the end
- often sings phrases from pop songs or Primary songs throughout the day
- happily plays on her own for quite a while
- very concerned that her baby monkey is "cold" each night and needs to have "her" own spot under the covers
- minimal tantrums-majority of the time when she doesn't get her own way she sulks and pouts with her eyes and lips, crosses her arms and then thinks for a minute. Then she sighs and says "FINE!" (only recently she has thrown a couple of tantrums with full out screaming and kicking)
- makes us laugh:
- the other day we went to Costco and I put Sarah's car seat in the cart. Camilla told me "We're going to buy Sarah!" with this coy smile to prove she was making a joke.
- I was cleaning a cut that one of the girl's friends got on the swing set and said to the friend, "does that hurt, honey?" Camilla says to me, "Mommy, you know she's not one of your daughters?!?" with a decided tone of disapproval and reprimanding glance for using an endearment.
- Academically: she has done well learning her sight words--she had learned all the kindergarten sight words by the end of March with 2 1/2 months to go in the year (only 4 other kids in her class beat her at that milestone). She has now memorized all but a couple sight words for 1st and 2nd grade. Writing is more of a struggle since she wants to know how to spell all the words instead of trying to sound them out so it takes her a long time.
- still having difficulty saying her "r" sounds--ex. Abri sounds like Ah-blee, though the speech therapist said she is still considered in the normal range of development
- Concerned about celebrating/remembering others' birthdays: For example, her Kindergarten teacher had her birthday on the 28th of April. Kayla told me about it when she came home that Friday. That Sunday, she spent lots of time making her a birthday card, and asked me to make cupcakes to go with the card. (All of these were done with no reminders on my part.) We had a similar situations with a few of her friends' birthdays-i.e. she was very excited to give them a card/gift to celebrate even when they weren't actually having a party that she needed to take something to.
- Loves to read but math "is not her friend." (Her grades in math are high A's but it isn't interesting for her.) She particularly likes books that combine drawing with paragraphs such as Bad Kitty, Dork Diaries, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Beach Mouse. If I had to pick her profession today it would be comic book artist. She wants to write a book someday.
- She had a space party this summer for her birthday. Not your typical princess party, right? She really gets into the planets and she made awesome hand colored planets on Styrofoam balls that we hung from the ceiling. She loves art and her painting was featured in the District Art Show this past spring.
- She loves all things rainbow. She dreams of a rainbow canopy, loves not just a single color but the full spectrum of the rainbow.
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