Alice turned 5 yesterday! The past few years I do a list of favorites on the kids' birthday card. So Alice's 5 favorite things right now are. . . Unicorns, noodles, barbies, singing, and preschool. We often find Alice making up songs and singing away when she's doing her own pretend play or just sitting around. She picks up on songs fairly quickly and we love to hear her made up tunes.
Preschool is a definite favorite for her this school year. She is thriving in Waterford. She is reading simple books and doing math and other advanced things that are cool. She wishes everyday was a preschool day with her friends. She's loving learning and is growing in many ways there as well. Alice can read simple books. We know she's picked up a lot of words from preschool, so the other day I pulled out a stack of pre readers and she read them all! She blew me away with her reading skills!
Alice has such a fun personality. She is so funny. The things she says, or does make us laugh often! She now recognizes when she's getting a laugh and will ham it up extra for us. She's got such a light and sweet personality it's easy to fall into her spell and truly in last kid fashion she gets away with quite a bit.
Alice is our go with the flow kid. Her opinionated side is coming out strong this year, but generally she works with what she's given and deals with busy family life. While having her in day care this year isn't my ideal, I think it's made her grow and learn in many ways. She'll go into kindergarten later this year doing better at working with others, and following rules set by others.
Alice's independence is also growing this year. She knows what she wants and works to get it. She wants to do things on her own more without help or interference. When others are gone or to busy to play she'll play on her own and is in her own beautiful world of imagination for a time.
Alice at age 5!
favorite color: Pink
Favorite activity: "play with my birthday stuff"
Favorite food: Macaroni
Favorite animal: Unicorn
Favorite song: I am a child of God
Favorite holiday: my birthday
Favorite book: Piggie and Elephant
When I grow up: "a teacher"
Nicknames: "noodles", short cake, fluffy, Ali
Alice: our little caboose - we love you so very much; Happy Birthday!
At 5 Alice is 44 in. Tall (90%) and 40 lbs (50%)
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