In one year, Lexie has grown from a toddler into a little girl. We look back at her pictures from her 3rd birthday and she was such a baby. I miss that time, but I'm also so excited at what this sweet child has accomplished in the past year.
She is definitely fearless. After a summer of lessons, she loves the water. She loved diving and jumping into the water. Lexie can hold her breath for a long time. Grace and coordination may not come easily for Lexie, but she makes up for it with her sparkly personality. She was amazing at her first performance on the big stage. Lexie also showed us her focus and determination when she participated in the mini-Olympics at her gym.
Sometimes Lexie can worry us with her quirky behavior and the teacher in me tends to self-diagnose her. One day, I think she has ADHD. Another day, she shows signs of obsessive/compulsive behavior. And I have to just remind myself that she's only 4. Lexie does need certain things to be a certain way. Thumper needs to always have 4 blankets for sleeptime in the right order. Lexie's blankets need to be striped side out, but that's where it stops. Everything else is pretty chaotic, so I'm not worried about those few things that she obsesses about. Lexie is always on the go from the moment she wakes up until she sleeps at night. It can be exhausting, but keeps us on our toes and always has us laughing so hard.
Her memory is amazing. Last summer, Lexie taught herself the sounds of the alphabet just by playing Starfall on the ipad. Her writing improves each day where she writes all of our names from memory and copies words that she sees around the house. She loves to draw and is now adding details to her pictures. She loves to draw the heart on people's bodies and will draw curvy lines to show it beating. I've been bringing home pre-decodable books that I use at the beginning of kindergarten. She now recognizes about 5 sight words and is starting to blend short words like am, mat, sat. There are days that her attention is not there and I think she's not getting it and the next day, she will read the book all by herself.
Lexie is still my skinny bones girl! She just hit the 25 pound mark. She's 36 inches. We have her check-up next month so we'll see if she got bigger. Lexie does wear 4T tops, but bottoms are usually 2T and that's with those adjustable waists. She can sometimes fit into 12 month pants, but they look like shorts on her. I love that her clothes last a long time!
Lexie loves Finding Nemo! That has been our go to Friday night movie. She recites lines from the movie and it's so hilarious because she will act out each part as we watch the movie. We're hoping to get Lexie into a performing arts class. She can hear a song once and will be singing it for days. She also makes up choreography for each song that she hears. Lexie's favorite show is Doc McStuffins and she now loves Sofia the First. We will be going to the Princess lunch with friends this summer and we're hoping that Lexie will dress as Sofia. Right now, she does not want to dress as any of the princesses, even though she loves to watch Tangled.
Lexie is continuing to take tap and ballet classes. She tends to be very lazy during stretching, but enjoys tapping because it's very noisy. We found that she responds differently to different teachers. Her first teacher, although very nice, was very much into form, discipline and learning the proper steps. Lexie was not interested in that at all. She was in time-out many times for not listening or following directions. Her second teacher is more fast paced and Lexie is doing better in that class. Then we went to a make up class that was taught by a male teacher. He was very energetic, the music was upbeat and Lexie was in awe of him. She laughed and smiled and couldn't stop watching him. It was her best class ever! We're changing classes soon!
We can't wait to see what this year has in store for Lexie! We are excited that we will be attending Taiwan ROCks this summer and we'll get to see our friends! And another Disney adventure is in store for us. Happy birthday Lexiebug! Mommy and Daddy love you to the moon!!
