She is obsessed with Frozen (we have Frozen everything!), and really loves her American Girl doll. She loves to dress her doll up and do her hair in the special salon chair. She even has a few of the matching outfits for herself, so that she and her doll can dress alike. K has named her American Girl, Elsa, of course. She has also re-named her fish, Elsa (from its former name, Dude), and a number of other stuffed animals, Elsa, as well. It seems to be very popular these days. K loves to pretend, and some of her favorite games are playing Store, House, Showtime! (the movie theatre), Restaurant, and Airplane. She also loves to play make-believe in her doll house, with trains, trucks, and princesses.
K recently started loving "big-girl Legos," the kind meant for 5-12 year-olds. She's really good! We already have a few princess masterpieces in the dining room from her meticulous and dedicated determination. She also loves art, drawing, painting, and crafts. She often asks me to draw or color with her, and can spend hours at the kitchen table with paper and markers or crayons. She sometimes even likes to take them outside.
We started reading chapter books a few months ago during our read aloud time before bed. Our favorites so far are those from The Magic Treehouse series with Jack and Annie. She begs to read just one more chapter every night!
She really loves music and dancing, especially to the top 40 hits, so we are still huge supporters of KidzBop (today's hits sung by kids with kid-friendly words...I love it!). She is loving Taylor Swift, e.g. "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space". She also really likes Meghan Trainor's "All About the Bass" and Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk." She often engages B in dance parties in the living room and wants to hold his hands and dance (which usually upsets him a little). But he loves to dance and sing along with her, and even knows some of the words to her favorite songs!
She only wears dresses and skirts (with leggings or shorts underneath) and lives for summer clothes. She prefers short sleeves or a tank top and flip-flops to anything else, and it's like pulling teeth to get her to wear a jacket (since we finally have some cooler weather and rain this year!). She picks out her clothes every single day. I definitely have to pick my battles and only try to initiate negotiations if we're going somewhere important where maybe a pink leopard dress and pink camo leggings aren't appropriate.
We have tried a few times to ride her bike without training wheels. She does great, but gets a little scared and frustrated, so we're still working on it. She still attends ballet, swimming, and soccer. She also goes to Saturday School for French and sees a French tutor once per week. She's really starting to enjoy French, and it's so amazing to see how much she is learning. Even B is learning some of the French songs! She goes to preschool 3 days per week, with Friday being a half-day. She really loves school, and is even starting to recognize some sight words for reading. Her teacher told me the other day that she recognized the word,"button," because our Aunt Pat and Uncle Steve's dog is named "Buttons". Crazy!!!
For her big day, we decorated her door with streamers, and had all of her presents waiting for her when she woke up.
I love this...
When we got home, it was dance party time! She put on her new dress, and put her new Frozen CD in her new Hello Kitty CD player and walked around the house, singing and dancing...
B jumped in, too.
Then she took a rest (while still listening to Frozen). She likes it super loud!
Her besties, Keaton and WyWy came over for a little play date, her birthday pizza dinner, and cake! She has been planning this for weeks...what they were going to eat, what they would do, and what she would wear. She asked me every five minutes all day, "How many more minutes until Keaton and WyWy come over for my birthday?"
B thought it was pretty interesting!
And I got a quick shot with my girl!
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