Laneah at 4 1/2 years

I can't believe it has been half a year already and Laneah is 4 1/2. This little girl is full of adventure and curiosity. She reminds me a lot of Ariel from the Little Mermaid. This is what has been happening in the life of Laneah:


*She got a new bike to ride around and she loves showing it off. 

*My favorite thing she says right now is "Super Rooper". She will say things like "that's super rooper cool mom!"

*She likes taking pictures on my iphone and sometimes we get some cute shots in there. 

*She likes to talk with characters in books rather than read them. She will bring me a Barbie book and say, "mom, I want to talk to Barbie" which means I get to be Barbie while Laneah talks about everything under the sun. She is a chatterbox. 

*Laneah knows several sight words and is working on sounding out words that she doesn't know. She can also spell about 6 words. I think she would know more but she really doesn't care for reading and so we don't get a lot of practice time. 

*She finished soccer and was thrilled it was over. She threw her hands in the air and yelled "yes! yes! yes!"while punching the air when she found out there was no more soccer. She told me to never sign her up for anything that made her run again. lol. 

*We had family pictures done so Laneah had her first visit to a salon to do her hair with her Aunt Jen. Jen has done her hair before, but never at the salon. Laneah liked it at first but got a little antsy and bored at the end. She did good though. 

*This little princess loves princesses and she loves to pretend to get married so when we went to the Disney store and this Cinderella wedding dress was on clearance I couldn't resist getting it for her. She is so excited to go to Disney World next month. 

*Laneah has been doing really well with her swimming. She is jumping off into the deep end (with floaties still, but that's ok) and then swims to the other side of the pool. She mostly needs to work on floating. 

*My friend Melissa and I took our girls to see Brave, the newest Disney movie. The princess in the movie is Scottish and has a thick accent. Ever since Laneah has seen the movie, she pretends she is Princess Merida all the time and I get to play various characters from the movie. Once time while I was playing Merida's mother, the Queen, and she said to me "mom, look out the witch is going to cast a spell on you" and I replied "only because you asked her too" and she said "But mom! I had to change my feet! (while looking at her feet) " In the movie Merida says "I have to change my fate" but the combination of the accent and the fact that Laneah does not know what fate means, lead her to conclude that the whole point of the movie was about feet. I could not stop laughing. 

*Laneah is very musically inclined. She loves singing, dancing and all instruments. Her newest obsession is turn tables. She takes the cd player out of Brooklyn's room, opens the top and scratches a cd around and calls it her turn tables. 

Laneah continues to be a little spit fire and she really challenges me but she has such a good little heart and I really do love her.