Tuesday evening was a quiet celebration at home where she requested her favorite breakfast for dinner. She got to open a few things from Hadley and us and also presents Grandpa Joel left behind from his visit the weekend before. The finale was her Frozen themed party on Saturday for some friends, mostly just the neighbor kids she has become close with and a few of our good friends with kids she likes to play with. Ally and Hadley both helped with the party prep and made some fun Frozen themed snacks like snowman mix and blue party punch. It was a small party but she had a great time. I was very proud of my theme skills with this one, all the snacks fit the color scheme!
By now, everyone that knows Ally knows her personality. She is a lot of fun but also has a independent/bossy side to her. She says and does the craziest things, sometimes surprising us in a good way and sometimes not so good. Her attitude is getting a little defiant lately (lots of back talk)and we are working on concepts that are tough even for adults to understand- patience and gratitude.
About Ally at 5:
- Can count as high as she feels like but sometimes forgets a few once she gets into the higher double digits- 80s are tough to remember. Working on identifying double digit numbers more consistently.
- Can recognize all upper and lower case letters. Working on using sounds to read simple words but prefers to say the letter rather than its sound.
- Writing has improved and can do basic proper nouns from memory.
- Can navigate the monkey bars at school and hang on just about anything.
- Likes riding her bike around the neighborhood and wants to try without training wheels next summer.
- Getting too big for a bath and has started to take more showers but her thick and long hair makes it tough to manage on her own.
- Cannot wear enough dresses and skirts- does not like jeans at all. Needs more shoes since she is so picky about what she thinks looks good. Wants to only wear heels!
- Still loves the same blanket she has had her whole life. She never uses a pillow but has the have the blanket under her head.
- Same bed routine which includes 2 books. Favorites are LadyBug Girl, Fancy Nancy and Pinkalicious.
- Moved away from cartoon shows and movies and is now on to the teenie-bopper dramas on Disney Channel. Her favorites are Jessie and Austin & Ally. We usually only let her watch one show before bed but weekend morning ritual includes watching on Netflix.
- Still loves to watch movies. Also moved away from the cartoons but has a regular rotation of Pitch Perfect, Mary Poppins, Rio and Muppets. Mostly just on the drives to Wisconsin but she loves movie nights at home with popcorn.
- Barbies, barbies and more barbies! Fashion is her thing and she cant leave a Barbie in the same outfit for more than 3 seconds. The shoes are her favorite part.
- Can color extremely well. Over the last year she has really excelled with her abilities to stay in the lines and color all of one picture instead of just the main thing on the page. She loves to draw too.
- Seldom takes a nap but we try to enforce rest/reading quiet time at home.
- Loves to dance and sing- anything that has music is her favorite thing. Always wants to listen to the radio and sing along or make up her own songs. We have a "no singing at the table" rule because she doesn't stop!
- Gymnastics, baton and dancing are her favorite activities she has participated in. Also wants to play volleyball if she can.
- Loves being a big sister and having someone to boss around at home.
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