Monday, October 27, 2014

Happy 5th Birthday!

It's so crazy that this darling girl is already five years old! She started her day off with requesting to go to a restaurant for breakfast where they surprised her with a giant dinner plate-sized cinnamon roll with a candle in it and sang Happy Birthday to her.

Then she helped decorate for her Frozen birthday party. She had a few requests; balloons, games, and an Elsa dress cake. She has been watching videos about how to make the dress cake on YouTube for months. So we baked her cakes this morning and her Grandma frosted them this afternoon and it turned out pretty great. All of her friends loved it and she was so excited to show it to them. 

As far as how Andria is doing; she has weighed 30lbs for about a year now but she is finally growing taller, which we are all happy about. She still wears 3T pants though so her friends that are younger than her give her some of their favorite clothes when they grow out of them. She loves all of the Disney princesses and she prays every night that we will go back to Disneyland. She has a Power Wheels motorcycle that she zooms up and down the sidewalk on and she loves it, in addition to her princess bike which she also loves to ride. She thinks that she is quite independent and she loves to go get the mail by herself, as long as we stand on the sidewalk and watch her do it. She loves going to reading time at the library and she loves preschool. She has learned to write her name and she recognizes most letters and can count to 20. Her favorite thing to do in her downtime is to color and draw. She even takes notepads in the car and sometimes into stores so that she can draw. She has been taking swimming lessons and she can swim underwater for several strokes now. We just had our Ward's Primary Program and her class sang the best and loudest. Andria adores her brother and he is so sweet to her, even though he loves to tease her. All of the neighbor boys are very protective of her and a lot of the older neighbor girls frequently ask to babysit her. Some of them come over just to play with her even when we are here. All of her really good friend's moms adore her because she plays so well with other kids. 

She is just at a really fun age and she is a pretty happy and content little person right now. 


Thursday, October 23, 2014

Frozen Fashionista

This little gal LOVES everything to do with "Frozen"! The other day Andria and her friends were listening to Disney radio while eating lunch at our house. "Let it Go" came on and they all had to run into the living room and dramatically dance and lip sync their little hearts out. It was hilarious and SO cute!! She is "freaking out" (her words) about her upcoming Frozen birthday party.