- She LOVES hats. She specifically loves a hat that I got from a fellow mom that she wears practically all the time. Its a super cute hat, but it has certainly seen better days.
- I found her winter coat at a garage sale (super cute...for $5!) and it came with a hat with a bill...well, for the past week, she's been wearing THAT hat all the time. Seriously...100+* outside, she's wearing a winter hat. Its hilarious!
- Speaking of winter hat...in the past month or so, she's gotten into having to wear a mitten. Not just any mitten, but these very specific mittens that she had when she was about 2 that went with an old coat. They are too small, but for whatever reason, she LOVES these mittens. I can't tell you the number of times I've let her wear a mitten to the grocery store. I'm sure people think, oh, my goodness, look that little girl, how funny...she's wearing a mitten! It's 2 gazillion degrees outside! :-) One day at quiet time, she quietly worked a huge hole in one of them, so I've not seen the mittens much lately.
- She's very, very, VERY much into the Cat in the H@t knows a lot about that from PBS k!ds. She loves to watch this show. And she loves to be the cat. To the extent that she often has to refer to herself (and wants us to refer to her) as "the cat"...or "this cat". Its hilarious...and frustrating at the same time! Of course, that also means that she likes to wear a "tie bow" (aka bow tie). She wears the one she got at christmas ALL THE TIME, but its starting to look "sad" (aka the sides don't stand up like they used to). So, now we've branched out and sometimes like to use a shoelace tied in a bow. For the longest time, she also had to have a tail, but lately that hasn't been as necessary (thank goodness!)
- She has 3 very best "friends": Polly (the parrot puppet she got from her play therapist b/c she played with it at every session & was a special toy to her), Buggy (her ladybug pillow pet), and of course Bops (her sheep). Life CANNOT go on without her friends.
- She can read at least upper first grade level words. At least. She's sounding out words like "hazardous," "elephant," "bicycle" and "trumpet" without even having trouble. However, we were reading a book the other morning and "custodian" tripped her up a little bit, but she came really close in her attempt. However, I'm fairly certain that's well beyond first grade!
- She's very much into counting by tens right now. Forwards and backwards.
- Writing. The girl will be my note writer. I was in class last week and I came home to find 8-10 notes from her spread all over my bed as a "surprise!" from her. She loves to draw pictures, too.
- She's sleeping better...and later. Today she slept until after 7am!
- Her favorite colors are purple and pink.
- She's swimming. She's figured out how to swim on her own. We've told her to shovel water (paddle) and kick, but otherwise, she's done it herself. She's been working on holding her breath under water in the bathtub for some time. We've been spending a lot of time at the pool, and she learned to "take the plunge" and is now officially swimming. Its still very basic, and she still needs lots of practice to improve, but she's doing it.
- She's taught herself to whistle. Its not very loud, but she does it before she's going to sleep and when she wakes up in the morning. She also likes to do it to try to get your attention.
- Logic. The girl is scary smart logically. Of course the fact that dad likes to show this stuff and "play" these types of games...and because she is so dang smart she's picking up on them....doesn't help! She's beginning to have logically conversations. I'm afraid of what she's going to be able to do as a teenager..at which point conversations will go like this in our house: me to Dad: "This is YOUR FAULT! You created this by teaching her how to do this when she was 5!" Dad: "why is this MY fault?" me: "ha! Don't even try that one!" :-)
- Here's an example of her being smart beyond her age. The other day at supper we had baked beans, so Dad said to me, the girls could have "weans & beenies" (aka beans & weenies) for lunch the next day. Megan pauses and says, beans & hot dogs? I looked at Dad, raised my eyebrows, smiled. The girl scares me. No one has ever told her that word play "secret" that he likes do. Dang we could be in t-r-o-u-b-l-e!
- She's not really into dresses although she seems to be selecting more of her skorts this year to wear. When she does wear a dress (and she does wear them to church), she likes to see if its a twirly dress. She's not into girly things, she much prefers throwing the football, t-ball, sticks, dirt and other not-so-"girly" things.
- She's going to be my athlete. I've started jogging and she frequently wants to go jogging with me. So, she'll jog with me to the end of the street and back. She does pretty well. We got her some pretty good quality shoes this year and I think that will help her, too, if she does run with me more.
Megan is VERY excited about kindergarten starting in just a week. Mom's not so excited to see her little girl grow up! Where has the last 4 years gone????
