The little Evie-Lou-Who turns four! What a year to celebrate. We love our not-so-terribly little girl! Happiest day to you sweet one.
Accomplishments:
- We are so proud of Evie’s excitement for learning. If I can brag a bit… She knows all her letters and their sounds (much ado goes to Jamie on that one!), she can count to 100 easily, and she is actually sounding out words on her own! She is able to recognize around fifteen words automatically, I think. She loves typing on the laptop to spell things out too! She loves to know what temperature it is outside, what time it is, and what direction (NSWE) we are going. She hears rhymes (she calls them matching words). Oh man, she is going to love school.
- Evie makes her bed, puts on her shoes, buckles herself in the carseat (slooowwwwlyyy), takes her dishes to the sink after meals, helps with laundry, opens locked doors… what else?
- She sleeps for around two hours during the afternoon and goes to bed at 8:00pm, waking up at 6:30am. And she lets us know when it’s time to get up, let me tell ya.
- Writing “letters” to people has been one of her favorite activities this year. She tells me what to print in traceable words, I print it, she traces the words and delivers them to the lucky recipient. She’s even gotten into “making envelopes” for each one, which includes folding it and putting a sticker on it to close it. Cute.
- Lots of fit throwing still going on, but so much progress has been made since this time last year. Thank you for the grace of God. We would not be alive right now without it, people.
- Evie loves to count flags and listen to music “on the top” (speaker) when we are driving around.
- This girl also loves being surprised. She is always asking, “Do you have a surprise for me, mom?”
- We did swimming lessons this summer… I can’t say Evie is a water bug. But she likes to float in very shallow water.. aka baths are a hit. HA.
- Evie’s a bit of a ‘fraidy cat. She’s very protective. And man, a band-aid will make gray skies into rainbows immediately.
- She’s 42 pounds o’ love and ___ inches high.
- I have been so impressed by Evie’s go-with-the-flowness during our move this summer. She has been so normal. Again, grace has been lavished upon my head, folks.
- Evie has a fierce love for Olan. She knows when he’s in danger and flops her body out in front of him to rescue him frequently. She knows how to lay down her life for her brother, that’s for sure!
- She loves eating. Mini human vacuum.
- She is often in her own world. She’s very distractible. Many times we have to get her attention before saying anything or giving instructions because she is literally in la-la land.
- Her phrase lately is, “What should we do, mom?” She is a go-getter, loves making friends, and is a loud, [ahem, strong-willed], extroverted individual.
Favorites:
- Color: Purple, pink, and black
- Animal: Ducks and Chicks
- Food: Applesauce and Blueberries
- Drink: Chocolate Milk
- Song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- TV Show: Cat in the Hat
- Game: Metamorphabet and Dominoes
- Bible Story: David and Goliath
- Season: Winter because I like eating snow
- Toy: Momma-doo and Star
- Outfit: The sparkly heart shirt
- Book: The Cat in the Hat
- Friend: Silas
- Thing to do outside: play with the pink ball
- Future Career: a baseball thrower, a paper and pen delivery girl, and a teacher
