a milestone diary of marlows fifth year

FOUR YEARS AND A MONTH (OCTOBER)

you are a cheeky charlie

super chatty right before bed and wearing an eye mask to bed at night

so creative

learning the words to your favourite disney songs and singing them is one of our favourite things

really patient with your sister

Four years and two months (November)

very particular about the pale blue night light

love to play with water

kind towards your little sister

singing all the time, especially the good morning song at the top of your lungs and the sound of music soundtrack

so many questions about ‘war’ and the bombed out church

drawing pictures every day; often when I come to pick you up at pre - prep you are colouring

dry overnight and we finally ditched the nappies completely!

Four years and three months (December)

you have the cheekiest laugh

you love playing the ‘elsa and anna game’ with us and role-playing when we go for walks anywhere, and you are very keen to be the ‘winner’ when we race..

every christmas craft we have done has somehow ended up looking like a miniature elsa

you were a snowflake on stage in the grace family church

we took you into the bombed out church finally

you love purple mini rolls and blue rice krispy marshmallow treats

you only popped three items on your christmas list for santa and one of them was a library book you repeatedly take out

you wear your lindt ‘jingle bell’ daily and erupt into song often.

Four years and four months (January)

you no longer like mini rolls

(or most foods)

your birthday is many many months away but you keep asking when it will be… and adding things to your wish list! its very sweet

Four years and five months (February)

you started doing four special questions before bed with daddy

suddenly OBSESSED with peter rabbit and lily

you have SO many hiding places i can no longer keep track…

you are so wonderful and helpful with your baby sister. such a bond

Four years and six months (march)

you had your second haircut this month

you love listening to stories on your tony box and creating your own

drawing, painting, art, art, art. you are ALWAYS asking us if you can ‘draw a picture’

we regressed a little in the wet bed department….

appetite is mouse-like

i let you bring the garden chairs indoors for a couple of weeks and you ate all your meals on your ‘garden chair’ in front of the tv

Four years and seven months (April)

you love your new patent black school shoes (with hearts) SO MUCH you wore them to bed on the first night and you reach for them every day

mastering more tricky words

you love pulling your high chair into the kitchen to help dad

muddy magic potions in the garden

we are all listening to my little pony’s sunny … on repeat

dry nights again after that blip and two lots of antibiotics

Four years and eight months (May)

you build pretty incredible magnet tile castles

constantly evolving as an artist, drawing houses and butterflies and hearts

forwards rolls

protective over your sweet baby sister

favourite shoes of the month are your unicorn crocs

unicorn MAD

often sleeping right through the night on your own

trickster!

went in a ‘cajoozie’ for the first time

Four years and nine months (June)

you feel so special when we let you stay up later than your baby sister

so excited for ‘holidays’

sometimes you giggle in your sleep

staying up every single night late on holidays to play the ‘dice game’ … you have named the game “potato”

BIG love for the big pool in nerja

sleeping the morning away

jumping over waves and collecting rocks

Four years and ten months (July)

you basically ate nothing.. for two whole weeks on holidays

‘im really sorry to tell you this but….’

‘literally’

youd love an ‘ambulant’ for your birthday like princess sofia

trouble maker, you love telling fibs at the moment

watching sofia the great after pre-prep

coming home from holiday club with a bag full of pictures drawn by you; rainbows, elsas and castles

Four years and eleven months (August)

being dad’s tail…. or walking boots

so much giggling

protective over your baby sister (but also equally a wind up merchant)

singing all the words to songs by listening to specific disney songs on repeat

telling fibs

being c-h-e-e-k-y

drawing and colouring in

‘baby dora’ made a reappearance

you request ‘face strokies’ to fall asleep every night

‘daddy i zipped my coat up all by my own’

getting yourself dressed in a morning and trying to brush your own teeth

Five years young!

you had your first day of school and you were SOOOOO EXCITED!

when we take your photo you always tilt your head to the side

smiling with your mouth closed (just like elsa)

your birthday list seems to get longer and longer by the minute

you insisted on wearing a dress for your birthday party

smallest appetite ever

will only drink oj in the house