- Leah's favorite things to do: She loves books, and will usually have 4 or 5 spread around her room, plus 8 or 9 in her bed at any given time. She carries them around like security blankets, and she loves to play "librarian," where she'll sit & "read" the book out loud to whoever will listen.
Here's a video of how she "reads" out loud:
- She also loves to color and paint, especially Princess pictures (she doesn't usually like to color anything that's not a familiar character). Lately she has gotten into “free” drawing on blank paper. She is very creative, too, drawing what she tells me are airplanes, dinosaurs, etc.
- She loves puzzles and can usually do them pretty well on her own. We’ve even moved up from the small little kid ones to larger ones, like this 50pc. Princess one with really tiny pieces. It only took her about 20 minutes, with my help.
- We’re halfway through the ABC’s in our “Letter of the Week” program for pre-school. She' can recognize all the ABC’s, both uppercase and lowercase and is just beginning to understand the sounds the letters make, but is not really proficient in that yet. We’re going to start learning to read probably this summer, starting by learning beginning sounds. She can recognize and count to the numbers 1-9, and we’re working on 10 and up.
- She loves to watch cartoons (and still does so too much for my liking!). She loves stuffed animals (or "pets," as she calls them) and gives hers' names. She is also starting to enjoy playing games, like Candyland or Memory or paper dolls. Really I think she just enjoys anything that she gets to play with Mommy or Daddy.
- She has an uncanny ability to remember songs. And usually you can recognize the tune she's singing, too! She actually has a really great memory and has learned a few Bible verses from memory.
- She is always full of energy and rarely naps anymore. Her “nap” time usually involves her running around her room, putting stacks of books in her bed and coming out to go to the bathroom 5 times. She’s rarely ever just sitting to watch TV, as she’ll usually get up & jump off her bed or the couch or whatever else is nearby. She is very good at sitting and listening when necessary, though (like in church or at restaurants), and is really very cooperative.
- She’s been fully potty trained now since early December. I still usually put a Pull-Up on her at night, simply because it’s too cold for her to have to get up and go to the bathroom. However, she’s usually dry when she wakes up. Now we have even reached the point where she can go completely on her own, pulling her pants up and everything. It’s a huge relief from where we were just a few short months ago!
- She has a love/ hate relationship with her little brother. There are times when they’ll amaze me by playing together so nicely. He’ll follow her all around the house, doing whatever she’s doing, or she’ll read him a book or play blocks with him, and yet the next minute she’s screaming at him for taking her toy. She’s always concerned about his whereabouts, though, and does not like it when he gets hurt. She’s generally very motherly toward him, making sure he gets disciplined when he gets in trouble and looking out for all he does.
- She is her Daddy’s girl, and when Daddy’s home, she wants to be right there by his side. She loves for him to kiss her and tickle her and their new favorite is hide and seek. They recently got to go on a Daddy/ Daughter Date Night at Chick-fil-a. Leah was giddy! She even got flowers from her Daddy.
Can you even remember this baby?
