Some things we want to remember about Darcy at 5:
- 3 ft. 9 1/2 inches tall. She is in the 93 percentile for height. She is one tall girl!
- She talks almost non-stop all day long. She always has something to say. She hates when she can't quite hear a conversation. She always needs to know what people are saying and she loves to add her to sense.
- She loves to sing. She can carry a tune really well for a five year old and she picks us the words to songs so fast.
- She loves playing with friends. A get together with a friend is so exciting for her.
- She is a passionate soul. Things are either really amazing and wonderful or really horrible. (A beautiful sunset? That can just about take her over the top! And no one was as excited about Ezra's potty training successes as she was.) Thankfully she tends to be on the happy side of things the majority of the time.
- She is starting to read small words which is really exciting for us all. She loves having us read to her.
- She loves to draw, and color, and write, and work on her little crafts.
- She is excited to start school at the end of this month. She is especially excited about riding the bus.
- She is just a great helper for me and she loves her brothers. It is a little bit a challenge for me to figure out how much to have her help because she starts to think she is in charge of the world.
- She LOVES family home evening! It cracks us up how excited she gets when she realizes it's Monday. It is the highlight of her week.
- She has grown leaps and bounds with some of her worries. She used to be so afraid of motorcycles and now she loves to go for rides and smiles and laughs and squeals the whole time. She also used to be worried on the boat. Now she requests that we go boating and even loves to tube. She used to be so freaked out about going to her class at church that she would cry until she threw up. Now she walks off to her class whether I'm paying attention or not. She loves her teacher and her friends there. She soaks up the lessons and loves singing time. She used to be too afraid to put her head underwater. After two weeks of swimming lessons she will go down and get the rings from the bottom of the pool, float on her back, so down a slide by herself, and is working on a couple different strokes. This girl amazes me and when I think of how far she's come I am so so proud of her!
Ashley and my mom put together a scavenger hunt for Darcy to find her present from them.
Becky and Neil got Darcy this microphone for her birthday. I am pretty sure this toy was made for this girl!! She is using it as I type this. She talks and sings in it all day long. Right now she is pretending we are all at primary and I'm pretty sure she is the primary president from the sounds of things. :) This picture is her singing a frozen song at her party.
Matthew was especially enjoying Darcy's song and had to break it down for a minute.
I thought this picture of Darcy smiling at Ezra while he had his turn singing his favorite "Jingle Bells" was so cute.
Blowing out her candles
The party ended with some fun in the water.
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