Adelie is officially eight years old. She currently weighs 49.5 lbs (19th percentile) and is 50" tall (41st percentile). She is wearing her size 7/8 and 8 clothes and size 13 or size 1 shoes. Adelie is in 2nd grade in Mrs. Khattar's class. She attends Stage Kids and Broadway Dance class, performing in Moana, Jr., Showstoppers, and Aladdin, Jr. this past year. She takes piano lessons and singing lessons. She was selected for the STEAM program before school one day each week and is getting ready to resume tumbling. Adelie goes to bed around 8:15 on school nights and a little later on week-end nights. It tends to take Adelie a little while to fall asleep at night after we've put her to bed. She struggles to get up for school around 7:15 and prefers to sleep in on week-ends until around 8:00 or so.
Likes: Adelie enjoys singing, dancing, tumbling, swimming, and playing outside. When outside, she enjoys riding her roller skates, bike, and scooter. She also really enjoys her spin hopper jump rope. Adelie loves to do crafts, making just about anything out of paper and tape. She also loves to create with things she finds in our recycling or in the craft drawers. She enjoys drawing, writing, and reading. Some of Adelie's favorite toys include small figurines and Hatchimals. She also enjoys playing with stuffed animals, American Girl dolls, and my old Cabbage Patch doll. Briggs and Adelie make up games to play together like house, school, and spy camp. Putting on singing shows, dancing shows, tumbling shows, and plays are activities that Adelie enjoys doing with her siblings.
Adelie is a voracious reader. Her current favorite series is the Rescue Princesses, but she also just finished the first Harry Potter book, which she really enjoyed. She loves any opportunity to watch a movie or a TV show, generally going along with whatever Briggs or Staley pick. She enjoys both animated and live action movies and is the least "scared" by various parts of movies of all my kids. However, she does not like sad movies or sad parts of movies. Adelie enjoys having her own special time with others, whether that's parents, grandparents, friends, or cousins.
Dislikes: Adelie is very sensitive and does not disappointing people, feeling left out, or getting in trouble. She does not like homework, things that she thinks are going to be difficult, wearing shoes and socks, or sad parts of movies. Adelie can get sassy or upset about being asked to do things before she is ready like wake up, clean up, do homework, or practice her piano. She does not like being rushed when trying to leave the house. She does not like spiders or bugs or bad spots on food. And she really does not like when things are "not fair."
Skills: Adelie is very coordinated and flexible. She rides her bike well, is learning to do roller skates, can go for a long time with her spin hopper jump rope, and does great with her scooter. She has taught herself a number of new tumbling tricks over this past year and can do a back walkover and front walkover on her own. She can also do the splints, cartwheels, roundoffs, back bends, and kick overs. Adelie swims well underwater and is getting better at doing the front crawl stroke.
Adelie is very artistic. She draws well, writes in cursive, and is very good at making things out of random craft supplies. Adelie has almost finished her first set of piano books and is learning to play simple songs that incorporate both her right and left hand.
Adelie is independent with her showers, dressing, brushing her teeth, and doing her hair with simple pony tails or braids. She helps with things around the house and does her weekly chores (although not always cheerily). Adelie is very bright. She does well in school with her latest standardized tests showing her in the 96th percentile for reading and the 73rd percentile in math.
Personality: Adelie is very sweet and kind. She is very thoughtful and generous. She loves to give compliments, make gifts for people, and use her money for others. She is always taking money out of her piggy bank to get gifts for other people or to give to St. Jude. Adelie is very in tune to how other people feel, always trying to cheer people up when she knows they are down. She is sensitive as well, getting upset when she feels like she has disappointed someone or when she feels excluded.
Adelie is also very funny. She loves to make people laugh, often turning to inappropriate means to get a laugh like shaking her booty or engaging in potty talk. Adelie likes to be included with others so that sometimes means she is more willing to go along with things others are doing, even if she knows she shouldn't. Impulse control and thinking through her actions are still works in progress. Adelie can have a sassy side if things are not going her way and tends to be my child who whines the most.
Adelie has a true heart for God. Her prayers are sincere, her questions deep, and her desire to live for Jesus evident. I just love her sweet, kind, sincere, sensitive heart that balances out her funny, sassy side.
