Lydia - the delightful girl who wanted and apple and banana on her ice cream birthday cake!
Lydia - the adventurous, yet wise and tenacious in trying new things girl who got ice skates for her birthday to use at her ice skating lessons.
Lydia - the loyal friend to all, who brought two friends to see the Nutcracker with her as her special birthday treat.
Lydia, the loving daughter and total family girl who comes up to us with arms open wide and says, "Hug" and then gives us one of her big hugs.
Lydia, the silly and quick-witted one who never misses a beat with a quick response to her brother's antics.
Other Lydia-isms from this year: one time she had a scratch on her head and she said "hey mommy, I'm like Harry Potter." She likes to make chicken sounds and many a times I have thought she was just off in her own world not paying attention when I ask her something and she's making these noises but then she says, "that's chicken for 'yes mommy.'"
Lydia is super smart too. Lydia is now reading chapter books and often surprises us with the big words she can read. Over the holidays Dylan said to Lydia, "I'll give you $5 if you can tell me what 11 plus a 11 is." She surprised us all when she said 22. Of course we made Dylan give her the $5 even though he tried to get out of it. There have been many times when Lydia quietly says the correct answer to something that you're not expecting her to know and we say "what?" and then she gets all embarrassed and won't repeat it. While Lydia still gets embarrassed when she realizes people are watching her, she is getting better and better about her shyness. She is able to stand in front of the whole school and (albeit quietly) give answers to her teacher's or the head of school's questions. Most of her friends' moms have now actually heard her talk...:) She's never been embarrassed to talk to kids, just adults.
Lydia is super loyal to her older brother and still enjoys spending a lot of time with him. She still likes to do art projects. She played baseball with Vienna Little League last spring and is signed up to play softball this spring. Lydia started taking piano lessons this year and is great about practicing. Lydia spent 5 days at PA Grandma's house this year by herself and went to Moms and Tots with me in July. She performed in her second dance recital but is now taking a year off from dance.
Lydia now weighs 48 lbs (she gained 4 lbs this year) and is 45.5 inches tall (over 2.5 inches over last year). She still sucks her thumb but we are seeing improvement!
Lydia still loves penguins and says that she wants to rescue penguins when she grows up and live in Antarctica. We ask her what she is going to save them from and she said people and seals. WE LOVE OUR LYDIA!
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