Laneah at 3 and 1/2

(This post is a week late, sorry, I have been really busy and therefore behind on my blogging)


An Interview with Laneah: 
her answers are in pink


What is your favorite color?
pink
What is your favorite animal?
camel (so random!)
What is your favorite letter?
L
What is your favorite food?
Chick Fil-A
What is your favorite candy?
Starburst
What is your favorite book?
Barbie Mermaid
What is your favorite song?
Ariel Song and 'I am a Child of God'
What is something easy for you to do?
Play
What is something hard for you to do?
Clean (a very honest assessment right there:)
What does Brooklyn like to do?
play with kitty


Laneahisms:


*"ladies and gentleman..." She says this when she plays games where she likes to announce people. One of the games she uses it with is when she plays princesses. She will yell "ladies and gentleman...Belle and Aurora"!

*She calls sun screen "sunspray" because we use the spray kind.


*I am not sure where she learned it but "poo poo" is probably her favorite word right now. She thinks it is so funny, I tell her not to say it because it is a potty word, but I think I am going to have to start putting her in time out for it since she still says it all the time.


*Since she speaks so well, most of the things that she says that are funny aren't just mispronunciations, but funny phrases that she says. I need to be better at writing them down because she cracks me up daily, but I only remember one right now. Laneah had just finished painting on her easel and her hands were covered in paint. I told her she needed to go wash her hands and she replied "no thanks mom, I want to be an artist".

New and Current Things:


*Laneah is pretty good at spelling her name. I will ask her to spell it and if she gets stuck I will spell it up to the point where she is at. She gets stuck after "n" a lot so I will say what is after "n" and she will yell "o" because in the alphabet that is true. So I have to tell her that I meant in her name and spell "L-A-N, what's next"? She is getting much better at writing her name and is just beginning to be interested in writing letters. 


* Ever since she took gymnastics, she wants to stop and do "the balance beam" when she sees something that looks like one. We have a lot of wooden beams that people use for their gardens in our area and Laneah and her friends think they are balance beams and walk on them all the time.

She is still best friends with our neighbors. Ezra and Laneah have a special bond I guess since they share the same birthday. They fight like sisters and love like sisters.

*Laneah has had so much fun this summer catching lightning bugs. I bought her this cute bug catching set from Target and she wants to get the lighting bugs every night. Here she is holding a lightning bug.

*More things to love about the summer : pools, sprinklers, slip-n-slides, and more and more water. She still is scared to go underwater but is getting better about having water in her face. If she had her way, we would be at the pool every day. We have always had Jason's grandma's pool to go to in the summer but this year she didn't open the pool:( It stinks but at least we have our next beach trip coming up.

*Just recently she has started to love Barbie; the dolls, the books and the movies. She even likes to pretend that she is Barbie. Here she is reading her new Barbie books.

*She likes to take showers now instead of baths, but we have a detachable shower head that we use, she doesn't just go under the shower and wash her self. Hopefully soon though:) After she shower we play the hokey pokey game to get on the lotion and she loves it. What used to be a chore is now fun. Now if only I could find a similar game for brushing her hair.....

* One of her favorite pretend games is a face painting station. She has her friend or me or whoever, sit in a chair (the station) and she will give the options which are always "butterflies, cheetahs, zebras, and Montys (our cat). Then she will pretend to paint that person's face or arm depending on what they want.


*She is obsessed with Ritas & Chick Fil-A. She asks multiple times a day to go to these two places. 


*Laneah still changes multiple times a day and hates having her hair done. If I succeed in getting her hair done, it is only a matter of time before she pulls it out. 

*She is a busy little bee. She always needs to be doing something or going somewhere; it is exhausting. We will have been gone all day doing fun things and as soon as we get home she will say something like "I want to go to ____" or "I'm bored, what are we doing"?

*She loves animals as most kids do, but she doesn't mind if animals get close. She loves puppy kisses especially.

 Laneah is smart and beautiful and so full of energy and life. She can't wait to turn 4 and to go to preschool. We love this little princess.