4 years + 7 months

 

It has been another busy month for Emily as she finished preschool and probably attended her last MOPS and MMO (her new preschool schedule will interfere in the fall).  She is ready for summer, though!

Here are some of the interesting tidbits from the last month:

• Dirs had another birthday (ironically the day before Lincoln's) and is now 14.  Maybe going that quickly through the tween years isn't such a bad thing. ;o)
• Emily has another "new girl" named Brecken because Dirs is reportedly currently on vacation in Mexico.
• During the month of May, Emily temporarily changed her favorite color from pink to black because she was a bit disappointed that the color of the month at preschool was black instead of pink.  The book Purplicious may have had a little to do with it, too.  However, she has since changed back to pink again.
• Emily's new favorite pajamas are her pink and black Hello, Kitty shirt & capris.  However, she usually wears some kind of crazy combination of the many sets of pajamas in her drawer.  She rarely matches at bedtime.
• Emily has only grown 1/2" since her birthday.  I don't think she's gained much weight, either.  Her feet are definitely the same size as last fall.  This is actually quite convenient, because many of the clothes purchased at the end of last summer still fit.
• Her latest little habit has been an annoying lip smack as she says, "Um, [smack] excuse me" every time she has something to say.  She also swishes her spit and makes other weird noises with her mouth and throat.  Drives me nuts.
• Emily has become quite ruthless while playing Sorry!, so I don't feel bad beating her most of the time.  Her primary goal is usually chasing down your pawns to knock them off the board.  This oftentimes distracts her enough that I come from behind to win.  She always wants to play with Daddy before bedtime, but for some reason it usually ends badly.  She has a tendency to either get silly and start really cheating or just want to quit as soon as she thinks she's going to lose. 
• Emily's favorite new show on PBS Kids Go! is Wild Kratts.  She pretends to talk to Martin & Chris on the phone.
• Emily has inherited her vocal volume from my dad's side of the family.  The DeJong's are infamous for talking very loudly.  At family gatherings you can tell who are the blood relatives and who married in based solely on volume levels.  I am completely guilty of this, too.  I could never figure out how other girls could talk on the phone in the hallways of the college dorms and you couldn't hear a word they were saying as you walked right by them.  These days I find myself asking Emily to speak softer and not yell directly in my ear.  Yikes!