Happy belated birthday to our beautiful, charismatic, outgoing, energetic daughter, Taylor! Her birthday was on November 24th. We enjoyed a family dinner out that evening, and then she had fun with her friends at Ball Factory last Friday!
It's hard to believe that Taylor will be in kindergarten next year! She is ready. She loves to read and practice her handwriting. We have a word wall and have practiced some phonetic blending to try to get her ready for kindergarten. We've also started doing some math games to help prepare her for simple addition and subtraction (can you tell I'm a primary teacher?!).
She loves going to gymnastics at GymQuest, which she does every Saturday morning. She also loves doing art projects, singing, dancing, and listening to music. We are enrolling her in an acting class in January, which will be right up her alley. She has matured so much in the last few months. She is easy to take out places now, and really appreciates going to new places. We love taking her on "dates" with us to museums, plays, restaurants, and even just to the store.
With her newfound maturity has come some more sassiness. We are not looking forward to dealing with that as she gets older. She is one strong-willed girl!
Here are her current stats:
Height: 43 inches (66%)
Weight: 46 lbs (82%)
Shoe Size: 11
Clothing Size: 6
Taylor likes...
Singing, reading, dancing, gymnastics, art, drawing, writing stories, running around, playing outside (but not if it's too hot or too cold), imaginative play, playing with her friends, Hannah Montana (yep...
sigh), Super Why, Frozen, family movie night, board games, painting her nails, dressing up, cooking, decorating (see pictures below), and being the center of attention!
Taylor dislikes...
Sharing a room with her sister (temporarily), being told "no", scary noises, being in the dark, being bored, playing by herself, going to bed when there's something fun going on (like mom and dad wanting to watch TV!), Maddy invading her space when she's trying to do something, getting her hair brushed.
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| Preschool Halloween Parade! |
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| Taylor stole the show at our family photo shoot. |
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| Love this picture. |
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| This is her personality in a nutshell. |
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| My little Anna and Elsa. This was the best picture I could get of Maddy on Halloween. |
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| Very upset that she lost to another Elsa in a game of "Hot Potato" |
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| Preschool Buddies |
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| Posing in her new room! |
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| Celebrating her birthday at Ball Factory |
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| Just an example of her "decorating" |
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| Elsa |
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| Putting on a magic show... in a very eclectic outfit |
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| My favorite picture- making mud pies in her "wedding dress". I will be saving this for her real wedding some day |
