My sweet oldest girl is already halfway to 5 years old. It seems like just yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital with no idea what we were doing! And now we’ve already applied for her to get into a Homeschool Kindergarten program in the fall. She is quickly becoming so mature and so smart. She can completely dress herself down to shoes & coat (although she needs work on buttons & snaps), she sits at the table with no booster seat, and she can almost buckle herself into her own car seat.
Leah is 100% girly girl. She is definitely all about princesses—if there is anything with a princess on it, she immediately notices and has to have it! Probably about half her day is spent in a Princess dress, crown, or jewels. The other half she’s playing with her Barbie “dollies”, drawing or coloring (probably a picture of a Princess), or “reading” a book.
This is a girl with extreme emotions. One minute she could be sad in tears because she can’t find a toy or can’t do something she desperately wants to do on he own, and then the next she could be doubled over in laughter. Her anxiety about some situations sometimes worries me—she asks so many questions about new places, and though she’s not fearful about trying new things, she has to know exactly what’s going to happen. She is in NO WAY shy—she will tell perfect strangers in the store about what she got for Christmas, her baby sister’s name, anything!
She is very dependent upon her “blankie” (one she’s had since she was born) and has been known to stand by the dryer in tears waiting for it to be clean, although she doesn’t really carry it out of the house so much anymore.
Leah loves to play “Mommy” to her little brother and sister and always asks me if she’ll get to be a mommy when she grows up. She get very concerned if we are going someplace and Andrew is getting into things he’s not supposed to or if I threaten to leave him someplace. She hates when one of them gets hurt, and is so tenderhearted she’ll even cry for them. She always smothers the baby with kisses and hugs and does everything in her being to get Abigail to laugh or roll over or whatever other milestone she’s trying to get to.
Leah is learning a lot in our preschool “adventures,” and is even doing some beginning reading, making 3-letter words. She seems to be better in math than she is in reading or writing at this point. She tends to get easily frustrated when she can’t do something on her own, even if it’s something I haven’t even taught her how to do yet. Every morning she wakes up she asks “What day is today, Mommy?” “And what do we do on ___ (that day)?” She is eager to face the day and whatever adventures it may bring.
This is a picture she drew recently of our family (the black is my hair). It is so interesting to see her drawing develop more and more.
She loves to sing & dance, as proven by this blackmail video:
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