I'm way late posting this one... but Lyndi turned 5 on the 16th! 5! I reminisce every year on her birthday. She was the girl who made me a mom. I still can't believe some of the things that she is doing already. She was born with more brainpower and maturity than most adults I know, especially me! ;)
This year for her birthday we celebrated a few days early because Tyler flew out to Utah and was gone on her real birthday. She picked out a strawberry cake and put yellow frosting on it and decorated it herself, complete with a half melted Ariel candle on top haha. She kept asking when her friends were going to come over and what we were going to do for her birthday, but I decided I'm not the mom who does parties every year for every single child, so we are doing every other year for now. So this year was just a family party, to which she proclaimed "This party is not as fun as my party with my friends last year." Haha! She had a candlelight dinner (compliments of Tyler's creativity) with Ramen Stir-fry and grapes for dinner, then we opened presents and Emerie was NOT happy about not being able to open anything or take away Lyndi's toys haha. Then we sang to her and ate cake! Happy birthday to this little girl.
This girl is so "old". She is so much more mature and thoughtful than most kids her age and I've seen it ever since she was a baby. Emerie will throw a tantrum because Lyndi's playing with her own toys and she will just hand them over in order to stop the conflict haha. We get mad at her sometimes for doing it, because Emerie needs to learn not to throw tantrums... but Lyndi does it anyway. She's so funny!
She learned to read this summer and it's been so fun to listen to her in the car or at the store, yesterday she sounded out "Blueberry Smoothie"! Her world is opening up for her. She got a little lego set for Christmas and she was reading the "destructions" (instructions, I can't get her to say that yet).
She seems to catch on to my panic and stress and will just jump in and do things for me without me even asking! She will go in her room and clean it up or fold laundry or something and then have me close my eyes and she'll show me the "surprise" she did for me. It's so sweet! A lot of times Tyler and I feel bad getting mad at her when she does something bad because she's good and perfectly obedient 90% of the time.
A few other sweet and cute things she does. She asks these deep and thought provoking questions that I'm not sure how to answer, but makes me think we're on the right track in teaching her things, although no credit can probably even go to us, because that's just how she is. She uses these huge words in random conversation, perfectly placed, it's so amazing to me. She gives me hugs that are so gentle because she doesn't want to hurt the baby :). She will have us do family prayer on the couch so I don't have to go kneel down on the floor. She will sing Emerie songs at night when she's crying. She draws pictures of me and Tyler with a big heart over our heads. She asked a few weeks ago while I was eating dinner how the baby knows when to open his mouth when I'm eating. That one made us laugh for a while. She has named him Hercules, Arthur, and all kinds of other names. She may be disappointed when she finds out it's not any of those names. She has the sweetest disposition!
Happy birthday to my "old soul"! We love her so much and are glad we've had her for 5 years, looking forward to many more!
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