Four and a half.

Eva Kate, you are 4 1/2 years old! Well you've been 4 1/2 for a while....so what's new with you?

First, you are loving school. We do home school two days a week and then you go to your preschool one day a week. You love it! You love your friends, your teacher, and all the parts of your day. The other day at school you were given the "Honesty" character award, and we were so proud of you! It has been so cool seeing your little friendships develop over the past 6 months. The other day I asked you about your friends and you kept naming so many kids that you like to play with. You are so social, just like you've always been. You call all of your closest friends your "sisters" and "brothers." You know all your letter sounds and have started reading just a tiny bit. You rock at rhyming words and putting word sounds together! You can count by 1's to about 55 (although you ALWAYS forget 15) and you've learned to count by 10's to 100 which you think is so cool.

You are the best sister to Jensen. You like to make sure he has his blanket and you help keep him safe. Watching the two of you play together is one of the best things in the world. You are also your daddy's little girl. You keep him on his toes by asking him to play tag or hide and seek or have dance parties every afternoon the second he walks in the door.

Favorite conversation with you:
Eva: When am I going to get my powers?
Me: What powers?
Eva: Magical powers. Like Elsa.
Me: I don't know. I can't just give you magical powers.
Eva: It's okay, I can pray about it. God can do anything.
*** I was CRACKING up. At least you get that in the big picture, God CAN do anything. I love your heart.

You enjoy spending lots of weekends with your grandparents. You like to walk the dogs with Baba, go to Northpark with Mamy, and feed the ducks or go on wagon rides with Nana and Papa.


Favorite conversation with you:
Eva: When am I going to get my powers?
Me: What powers?
Eva: Magical powers. Like Elsa.
Me: I don't know. I can't just give you magical powers.
Eva: It's okay, I can pray about it. God can do anything.
*** I was CRACKING up. At least you get that in the big picture, God CAN do anything. I love your heart.

You enjoy spending lots of weekends with your grandparents. You like to walk the dogs with Baba, go to Northpark with Mamy, and feed the ducks or go on wagon rides with Nana and Papa.

Your favorite things to do at home are to paint, draw with markers, play games as a family, get iPad time, do puzzles, play Barbies, play pretend kitchen/restaurant and ride your bike.  

Every night at bedtime we read books, and then you want me or Daddy to tell you a story from our life and sing you a song. Sometimes I am so exhausted by this point, but I need to cherish that you are asking us to share more of who we are with you. I want to use this time to really tell you stories that are important from my life.

I love you the perfect way you are, Eva Kate.
love, Mama