ANNA

 

 

Since Anna is 4 now, I thought I would write a little about "who" she is and "what" she likes to do.

She loves anything fine motor, something also very different than the boys. They never liked to write or color and certainly not at 3 and 4. Anna can cut anything out almost perfectly and can write letters. She can spell and write her name, too and a bunch of words. It really suprised us one day last month when she was going around the house and could spell and write words like mom, dad, Logan, up, cup, in, out, etc. Most of the kindergarten type words...she can figure them out. She will probably be reading before her next birthday since she already knows so many words. Her preschool does not work on anything like this, so she must have just picked it up on her own. She came to me and wanted to be the teacher and I was suprised what she knew. Her favorite thing is making pictures and putting them into envelopes. Then she asks me to spell her friends names and she writes down the letters. She is always coming up with something crafty.

Anytime we hear water running in our house we start to wonder what Anna is getting into OR has gotten into. Tonight was one of those moments. Actually those moments are a daily occurence in our house at least 2-3 times a day. She loves water. She has also taken a liking to my scrapbook area. I FINALLY cleaned it up and it looks to neat and inviting to Anna. I have tons of stamps, stickers, papers, etc. She has even had enough room to do her puzzles. Anna is an amazing puzzle girl. She loves doing them and it is a rare time when she actually sits still long enough. She can do the 63 piece puzzles with no trouble and has moved onto the 100 piece puzzles. She can't start one and then leave. She gets almost obsessed about finishing it. The boys were never into puzzles, so this is new to me.

Anna also loves changing her clothes a million times a day. Most of the time she just wants to be half naked, but comes up with a TON of Pippi Longstocking combinations throughout the day. She kept wearing her swimsuits this week and today I told her it was just too cold to do that. So, she decided to just put her suit on over her clothes.

What can't Anna do? Well, she cannot sit still.....She really can't. If she is doing any of the above here at home, she can be independent forever. She will do anything here for the longest time. She has a terrible time paying attention adn sitting still at preschool. At gymnastics, she can't seem to go from station to station stay on task from one thing to another. Drives her gymnastics teacher crazy, I am sure, but he is very good and is really working on it with Anna. He doesn't want her to wear her glasses, so that could be a TINY bit of the problem.

Back to the water running.....Anna had gotten into the stamp pad and stamped her hand. The ink was everywhere, but her tiny handprint was ohhhhh sooo cute. She had also made the ladybug picture on her own. I thought that was a wonderful set of ladybug's since I can't draw anything! She just comes up with these things to do. I think I will have her draw some ladybugs for her room and frame them. That would be cute. So, it was hard to get mad at her when she was obviously creating a masterpiece. That is how she and Brandon are alike. They are both very crafty.

That is Anna in a nutshell. I am so blessed to have 3 wonderful kids. Yes, they drove me a little batty this week since they were sick, but they really are 3 great kids. They each have such wonderful and unique personalities.