Turning 7...Only Four Years from 11

L turned 7 today, I can hardly believe it. We decorated her door with streamers and balloons that she ran through when she awoke. We also decorated the living room and kitchen.

I made pancakes that said I Heart U and the number 7 for her age along with eggs for her breakfast. She thought it was really cool.

For dinner she had macaroni and cheese, fish sticks, bbq chicken, broccoli and cucumber slices. She wanted donuts for her dessert.

After dessert, she opened her presents from us, her grandmas and her auntie. She got quite a haul but her favorite item was the ninja outfit her sister bought for her.

Since her birthday was in the middle of the week we waited until the weekend to have some friends over for a movie night with pizza, popcorn, and cupcakes. We watched Big Hero 6. Her friends brought her a HUGE present! It was a Green Machine and she loves it!

The boy next to L is our future son-in-law.

 

L is now 4'8" tall and is an amazingly bright and active child. She loves to read and is in the accelerated reading group in her class. Her favorite books right now are the Magic Rainbow Fairy series. It's a good thing there are so many different sets because she can go through a seven book series in two days. She also enjoys reading Ivy and Bean, Fairy Realm and Dragon Masters. She is still taking speech at school twice a week for 15 minutes. She only needs it because she talks so fast. Once we get her to self regulate her rate of speech she will be done with speech.
She has tons of energy and loves to do anything outside. She is still taking Taekwondo and really likes it. She loves swimming and wants to take gymnastics as well. She spends a lot of time outside riding bikes or jumping on the trampoline. At school she likes to play basketball at recess.
L is very stubborn and hasn't been listening or following instructions at home lately. When she is asked to put her dirty clothes in the hamper, she takes them to the hamper and drops them on the floor beside it. When we ask her to clean her room, she shoves everything under her bed and into drawers instead of putting things away. She is fighting for her independence right now but doing it in the wrong ways. Unfortunately sometimes us making her conform to our rules causes her to have a mental breakdown. She will cry and scream and cannot be consoled or talked down. She must be left alone until she can relax and let it all go. At that point we are usually able to talk to her and get her to comply with our "demands". I hope one day she will use these tools for good:)