It's long, filled with information that only a mother really wants to remember, and is over-loaded with pictures. Consider yourself warned.
Adelie is still my tall and skinny girl, measuring 46" (64th percentile) and 43 lbs (39th percentile.) She wears her 6/6X clothes and size 11 shoes. Adelie is in Kindergarten in Mrs. Doty's class. Over the past year, she has participated in t-ball and basketball through the park district. She goes to Stage Kids and was in Lion King, Jr. and Annie, Jr. so far this year with Madagascar, Jr. coming up next month. Adelie is currently taking gymnastics class, swimming lessons, and goes to Kids Connection at church on Wednesday nights. Adelie sleeps about 11-12 hours at night, going to bed around 8 and waking up between 7 and 8 in the morning. She has still only lost her two bottom middle teeth.
Love her smile!
Likes: Adelie has a wide variety of things she likes. She is very active and loves riding her scooter, hanging upside down, and climbing on furniture. She loves to swim, although prefers to spend most of her time under the water. (Hence the swimming lessons since she is very confident in the water but can only swim underwater. Breathing is important too.) Although Adelie enjoys being active, she also LOVES drawing, writing, and doing crafts. We go through reams of printer paper and she always gets excited about new notebooks because she is constantly writing, drawing, and creating. (I love her phonetic Kindergarten spelling!)
My crafty girl
Adelie enjoys playing American Girl dolls with Staley, stuffed animals with Briggs, and Barbies with Grammie, but more of her play these days is imaginary or craft related rather than with toys. She enjoys playing school, hotel, spy camp, and putting on plays with her siblings. She also likes taking pictures with her new camera. Adelie enjoys being read to, but is resistant to reading on her own (although she is getting much better at it even though she balks at practicing at home.)
Although Adelie doesn't loves working on reading skills at home, she loves being read to.
Mermaids are still Adelie's favorite thing ever. Adelie is very social and always wants to be included in friend or cousin activities. She loves spending time with the neighborhood kids and is always asking to have play dates with friends. She also gets very sad when Staley is invited to a friend activity that she is not invited to. Adelie plays with a wide variety of kids at church, school, and in the neighborhood, but Aizlee (from church and her class at school) and William (from school and the neighborhood) are two that she asks to do things with the most. She also loves spending time with her cousins and her siblings.
Sibling love...and goofiness
(Not really sure what they were doing with this pose.)
We don't watch TV or many movies, but Adelie is pretty happy to watch anything we put on. She likes "bigger kid movies" like American Girl movies and The Greatest Showman, but is also happy to watch Paw Patrol or Dora as well. Given the choice, she often picks out one of the Little Mermaid movies. She is my most screen oriented child and, although we keep our home life primarily screen free, she jumps at any chance to do anything on a screen. (My phone, Uma's tablets, the TV at the doctor's office, pretending to talk/text/take pictures on pretend phones, scrolling through the hundreds of pictures she's already taken on her camera...) Although she generally finds at least one thing to complain about at every meal, Adelie is generally a good eater. Her favorite food groups are fruit, bread, and sweets. Frequent requests include pancakes, waffles, fish sticks, chicken nuggets, meatballs, and corndogs. Adelie is not very picky when it comes to clothes, but prefers things with mermaids and sparkles.
She also likes to dress in her fancy dresses and accessories
Dislikes: Adelie has a very sensitive heart and does not like getting in trouble, disappointing people, hurting other's feelings, or being left out. She is not a persistent or goal-oriented child and generally resists trying things that she thinks are going to be hard. Although she can now ride a two wheeled bike, she prefers to do her scooter. Although she is getting so much better at reading, she always gets upset when I ask her to do it. When given the choice between activities, she always defers to easier ones or ones she knows she can do. She does not like homework, wearing socks and shoes, most main dishes, and being told to use the bathroom.
Life is better when you are barefoot.
Skills: Adelie is a coordinated child. She is very flexible and likes to do the splits and back bends. She can swim underwater and ride a two wheeled bike with a little help to get going. Adelie loves to draw and write and does well with both, although she doesn't always take her time to make her writing as neat as she can.
Oh so flexible
Adelie is independent with getting dressed, brushing her teeth, brushing her hair, going to the bathroom, and washing herself in the shower. Because she tends to be in a hurry and rush through tasks, she does need some reminders, supervision, and/or assistance to complete these tasks thoroughly. We face the same difficulties when she is completing jobs at home like cleaning up or doing her chores. Can she do them? Yes. Does she always do them thoroughly or well? Not always.
Obviously she rushed through shaving on this day. :)
Adelie is a bright little girl. She does well in school with her standardized tests at school putting her in the 79th percentile for math and the 90th percentile for reading. Although she prefers not to spend her time working on math or reading at home, she obviously picks up these concepts quickly and easily. She is reading simple books, phonetically spelling words for writing, and doing simple addition and subtraction problems.
My smart little girl
Personality: Adelie has great social skills. She is a very good friend and gets along well with everyone, whether they are older or younger, boys or girls. She gives heart-felt compliments, loves to make or give things to people, and is generally happy to go along with what other's want to play. She'll build fairy houses with the neighbor girl, play "hunting" with her little boy friends, dig in the dirt for worms, play dolls with Staley and her friends, or dress up to be in a play. Whatever other people want to do, Adelie is usually game. Since she is more of a follower with other kids, that also means that she is less likely to follow the rules or think through her actions if everyone else is doing it. Thinking through her actions remains a work in progress. Adelie loves to make people laugh, so she is my child who will do silly things or act inappropriately if she thinks it will amuse others. However, she is truly funny and often does make us laugh with her shenanigans.
Yep. That's my girl!
Adelie is really fun, but also has a sweet, sensitive, gentle heart that makes her very compassionate, loving, and kind. She is thoughtful and generous and truly a joy to be around.
Life with Adelie is just super!
Love my big 6 year old!!
