Lifetime Fun Facts:
States you have visited: 13
Foreign Countries you have been in: 4
Airline Miles Flown: 51,433
Number of Zoos you have visited: 5 (Oregon, Denver x3, Bangkok,National x3 and Hilo)
The animal you still love the most: Monkeys (technically the Gorilla this last visit)
Times you have moved: 4 - Loveland to Pullman to Kona to Glenwood Springs. This doesn't include stents of extended travel.
Different locations you have slept: 54
Development:
Motor things you can now do:
- Ride a Tricycle
- Run as fast as your pregnant mom (-:
- Jump off 3+ foot platform/stairs and land on your feet
- Climb rocks and play structures far too high for safety
- Almost swim - you are so close, you can come up for breaths but can't really go where you want to consistently
- Latch our own car seat buckles
- Pull clothes out of your closest while standing on your toy box
- Gather and put on all clothing (80% the correct way) - you come up with some pretty fun outfits, the other day you chose black polka dot pants, a white sweater under a slip and red, white and blue tank top with butterfly wings and reindeer ears to boot! Pretty awesome! Your are very good at getting your own swim suit on too.
- Button shirts with medium sized buttons
- Brush your own teeth pretty well
- Starting to learn to use safety scissors
- Color with in a few inches of the lines
- Use glue sticks to make paper projects
- Went down a 2 story pool slide on your own with a life jacket on
Language:
You speak mostly in complete sentences, are very easy for me to understand and fairly easy for others to understand. You pick up new words instantly and put them to use - like the other day you learned phenomenal and have used it several times on your own. You continue to be very good at remembering people's names and who they belong with and where you saw them. You saw a picture at the Maui Aquarium and said, "Ms. Eden works there." You ask a lot of questions and went through a 'why' to everything stage a few weeks ago. Luckily it seems to have passed and you are back to asking a variety of good questions. Often times you will ask questions just to check your knowledge and make sure what we say matches what you think. If you ask too many questions, we turn them back on you and you usually have the right answers. You enjoy making up words and will say, "that means _____" or :that means _______ in Spanish." The past couple of weeks since watching sesame streets "Kids favorite songs," you sing and sing and sing. Sometimes it is the real words to Twinkle, ABC, Baa Baa, Row Row... and sometimes you just make up your own words and tunes. You learn your books easily and quickly and can tell the story back to us after only a couple of times reading it. In the past couple of months your clarity on the phone has greatly improved and sometimes you enjoy talking at length on the phone. You pretty much have the words to describe anything in your world and are fun to have conversations with.
PreSchool Learning:
Most of the time you know your shapes - circle, oval, triangle, square, rectangle, star, heart
Can count to 10, but most of the time jump around everywhere - 1,2,3,12,11,45,78...
You occasionally have one to one correspondence to 5, but always to 3
You are starting to learn the numbers, but only recognize the number 1 every time
Match and name colors well
You do familiar (been done 2-3 times before) 24 piece puzzles independently
Match foam shapes onto a design boards
Sort by color, shape, type...
Make forms similar to model - you built a pretty good turtle out of Play Doh today
Sing your ABC's and recognize many of the letters
Safety Police: You know the rules you have been taught and enjoy letting others know about them - especially locking the trash can lid and buckling up.
Social Emotional:
Your friends you talk about the most are those we left in Kona - Jackson, Tosh, Carson, Taylor, Brookie, Jayel, Rayel, Mahina and Baby Corenza. When we got to Colorado you and we'd talk about your friends (Jackson, Carson and Tosh) to others, you'd say "He's my best boy!"
You had a wonderful time with Eric in Maryland and Mara a few weeks ago in Washington
You still have a strong sense of mine and have a hard time sharing things that you have or others have that you want.
With adult help you will compromise most of the time and accept turn taking or other solutions to share toys
You do really well in a preschool, Sunday school or daycare situations
Your sense of independence is very strong and you insist on trying for a very long time before requesting help.
You are pretty good at labeling general emotions of yourself and others
Personality:
- Adaptability: You are highly adaptable - we have drug you all over creation, you have slept in so many different places, you have flown over 50,000 miles without a single serious in airplane melt down. One stretch we went 6 weeks not sleeping in the same place for more than 3 nights and flying from Hawaii to Asia and back to the east coast. You have a highly variable bedtime depending on what is going on and you can sleep anywhere if you need to. You are very adventurous and want to check everything out, enjoying new foods, experiences, games, toys... "something I haven't had before." Although you are highly adaptable, you tend to be fairly inflexible with some personal need requests where ever we are. If you decide you really need something like juice, you persist even if it is not an option and it takes a lot of convincing to make life okay without it.
- Disposition: You are a pretty happy girl and keep yourself entertained with or without us. You tend to be compassionate and like to comfort others. I lost our B&B key a few weeks ago in the car after the wedding we went to and you kept telling me, "It's okay mama, don't worry we will find it. I will help you." It was so sweet. When you learn of a friend that is hurt you ask about them and pray for them for weeks, even after it has resolved. Unassisted you will often times ask us and others how our day was.
- Sensitivity: You are not very sensitive: sensory, emotionally or physically. For pain it usually takes a lot to make you cry - a serious fall or bonk. Like tonight I accidentally bumped your head into a wall and it made a horrible noise - I quickly said sorry and you were fine. Most things like loud noises, speed, pressure... don't bother you. You like the swing as fast as it will go, you jump off of everything, and you like to spin (even though you get quite dizzy)! For the first time in the pool the other day you got scared when I didn't help you as soon as you would like and you will stay under for like 6-10 seconds. You are crazy brave and have no problem jumping off a diving board, holding a tarantula, going out on a surf board and getting nailed in the face by waves. Emotionally you typically need intense emotion to react - you will quickly and firmly tell us no if we ask you to do something you don't want to do. You do not back down easily and usually need reminded of what consequence will come if you do not listen and obey our requests. Firm and consistent boundaries have been very important through this last year. In the last 2 months you have had far fewer fits and think about the consequences of your actions more clearly. Although you are highly opinionated and strong willed, you still really enjoy pleasing and helping us and others.
Biggest events of this year: Aulani with the Browns, Kauai and Christmas with Nana and Papa, Finding out you will be a sister, Vacation to Uncle Chad, Aunt Christie and Eric's in Maryland, Moving in with Nana and Papa, our road trip to Oregon and Washington
You are such an amazing young girl! We are so proud of you and excited to see all the things you are able to do and enjoy doing! We love watching your understanding of God grow and can't wait for your faith to take course and deepen and strengthen! We love you to the moon and back and back and forth over and over!!!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
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