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| June 24, 2008 |
*Is obsessed with the color pink and anything to do with a princess. We gave her three more princess costumes today!
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| December 25, 2008 |
*Over the past year she hasn't taken many naps, although she's had about one a week lately. She usually plays with princesses while listening to books on CD (she's currently listening to The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis) or plays her Leapster game in her room while her brothers nap. Her most favorite Leapster games are Learn to Draw and Pet Pals. She's in bed from 8pm to 7am most days, although if she takes a nap it takes her more than an hour to fall asleep. She MUST have her dragon pillow in order to sleep. The last couple of months we got her to downsize to sleeping with only ONE doll or stuffed animal. She used to have a bed full of them. Lately she's either been sleeping with Zoe (Sesame Street character) that was one of her birthday presents last year or a Barbie doll she's named Allie (after a girl in her gymnastics class).
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| July 6, 2009 |
*Loves to play games and do puzzles. She can do up to 100 piece puzzles by herself, and she has done up to 300 piece puzzles with help. Her favorite games include Candyland, Memory, and hide and seek.
*She shows no fear at amusement parks. She rides everything she's tall enough to ride!
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| December 24, 2009 |
*Can write all of the letters of the alphabet (uppercase and lowercase) as well as the numerals 0-9. She prefers to write in uppercase. Her coloring and drawing skills greatly improved over the last year. She enjoys drawing stick figures now. She's pretty good at sounding words out to guess how to spell them.
*Loves to have books read to her. Some of her current favorites include Bernenstain Bear books, Little Critter books, Froggy books, Pinkalicious books, fairy tales, Little House books, Amelia Bedelia books, Seven Silly Eaters (by Mary Hoberman), Mama and Me (by Beverly Lewis), Thank you, Mr. Falker (by Patrician Poloacco), Fritz and the Beautiful Horses (by Jan Brett) and Henry's Freedom Box. She loves it when a book is based on a true story. She can sound words out and read about 15 BOB books.
*Some of her favorite songs are from the Annie musical, from Mary Poppins, and from the Little Mermaid. I gave her the Annie cd earlier this month, and Grandma and Pop Pop gave her a Mary Poppins cd today. Aunt Yvonne gave her a Disney CD today that incldues a nice selection of 25 different songs. She's enjoying going to The Ultimate Question musical rehearsals on Wednesday nights. They will have two performances in August.
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| June 2010 |
*The past six months I've been reading chapter books to Nadia and Ian. Her most favorites were the books about Ramona. She also enjoyed Pippi Longstocking, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and Little House in the Big Woods. We're in the middle of the Boxcar Children right now.
*Loves to be tickled, hugged, and kissed.
*Would wear a dress every single day, if I let her. Her favorite dress (for every day wear not counting the ones she wears to church) is green. I won't let her wear it more than twice a week. At night she prefers to sleep in a princess nightgown, and her favorite swimsuit has princesses on it also. She also loves jewelry, purses, and shoes. She does NOT like to have anything in her hair or to have her hair brushed. I've found that if I have her brush her hair a little before I finish it off, there is less crying involved.
*Misses Cubbies. Of all the things she does outside the house (gymanstics, ballet/tap, storytime at the library, Sunday School, Cubbies, musical, soccer, and Wee Worship), AWANA is definitely her favorite. She's so excited that she'll be in Sparks in three months! She's going to be taking swimming lessons next month and participating in a fairy tale drama camp the end of July.
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| December 24, 2010 |
*Loves to drink skim milk or apple juice. Her favorite foods include pizza, spaghetti, garlic bread, bagels, English muffins, crackers, pretzels, chips, yogurt, ham and cheese hot pockets, grilled cheese sandwiches, various kinds of cold cereal, chicken nuggets, cheese burgers, french fries, hot dogs, pancakes, applesauce, bananas, peaches, grapes, cherries, fish sticks, macaroni and cheese, cranberry sauce, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, fruit snacks, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, chocolate frosted donuts, chocolate covered pretzel rods, and almost every kind of ice cream. She will eat vegetables as long as I also give her raisins to eat with the veggies.
*Walks beside me when we go to the playground so her brothers can ride in the stroller
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| August 2011 |
*Easily learns her Bible verses. She also recently recited the first 5 books of both the OT and NT to Sarah (her Sunday School teacher). I've started having her memorize the references.
*Loves to jump off the diving board at the swimming pool! She's also getting much better at swimming (without arm floats) in the section of the pool that's only 2 feet deep.
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| December 2011 |
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| June 24, 2012 |
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| December 2012 |
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| June 24, 2013 |
1 comment:
Wow! Nadia is already five! Our kids are growing up too fast!
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