6

Where do I start with our six year old Leila.  Oh she has grown so much this year, not so much in height but in maturity.  She is still full of opinions and stubbornness but she is much more  reasonable.

Things Leila loves: Leila loves school and is just thriving there.  She says her favorite things are art, PE and media class.  She does so well with structure and routine and that is just what school has given her. She loves reading, I love finding her reading to her brothers or listening to her read in bed after I have tucked her in.  It makes me so happy that she has a love for books, not that it is a surprise she has loved them since she was a baby. She loves to bug her brothers, she loves to make faces at them, tease them, and make annoying sounds at them.  She loves to play with friends, as soon as she gets home from school she is asking to have a friend over.  She loves helping me cook and bake.  She loves doing art projects and crafting.  She loves puzzles and playing games, right now her favorite games are Busy Town and Headbanz, and Rhyming wars.  She loves gymnastics and if you know Leila you know that is no surprise.  She's always jumping and flipping and cartwheeling around our house and now she looks forward to every Monday for her class.

Things she dislikes: Leila hates being told what to do, she dislikes doing her chores especially when I tell her to do them.  She dislikes juice, milk and soda, she only drinks water.  She dislikes not getting her way, she dislikes not having plans or activities scheduled, and she dislikes when she doesn't get to be the boss.  She loves school but dislikes being rushed in the morning, she wants time to shower, get her hair done, eat breakfast and watch a little PBS kids which means we have to get up extra early to make sure she gets to the bus stop by 7:15.  She dislikes running errands especially to Costco, so its nice that she is in school so we can run most of the errands without her if I do have to take her its like pulling teeth to get her to go.  She dislikes being the shortest kid in her Kindergarten class, she keeps asking when she is going to grow.  And she dislikes not having a wiggly tooth, she really wants to loose a tooth like all of her friends.

Leila  brings the perfect  mix to our family,  she definitely keeps us on our toes.  She is great helper and tries to entertain her brothers and play games with them when I'm busy.

We celebrated her birthday with our family on Friday February 1st.  I went and had lunch with her that day at school and then when she got home we opened presents and went out to dinner.  She picked Culver's because she loves Cheeseburgers and ice cream.

She had been begging for a hula hoop and jump rope for quite some time.  She loves to play with them but it will be nice when the weather is warmer and she can use them outside.