Kaelyn has become quite the young lady. She is usually so polite to people we meet and is still as boisturous and talkative as she always has been. She loves all things Star Wars, High School Musical, and movie oriented. I'm constantly amazed at how much she knows and how quickly she learns. She LOVES math. So much, in fact, that we have to save it for the end of the "school day" as a reward for doing all of her other school work. She is slowly but surely starting to read. I KNOW she can read more than she gives herself credit for. Mostly she lacks the confidence and motivation to just do it. So, we're trying to set aside some time that she has to sit and read books. She'll find the motivation somewhere. And once she's ready I'm sure she'll be reading up a storm. She is SO tall. People constantly think she is older than she is - Jeff and I do too sometimes. She still wants "long hair" but we are convinced that her hair will NOT grow past her shoulders. Considering we haven't significantly cut it since she was three I think we have a good argument that it will never be long. She is definately bordering between being a little girl and becoming a "tween". Sometimes she really wants to get down on the floor and play with some of Cooper's baby toys, but sometimes she wants nothing to do with them and thinks they are all boring. She still loves dressing up, building forts, and doing puzzles. She has also recently discovered board games and all things "crafty" which has led to some fun times while Cooper naps. It seems like just yesterday that she was Cooper's age and toddling around. Where does the time go?
One of the things we did for Kaelyn's birthday was to give her a "big girl room". Truthfully, it was time for Cooper to move into a bigger bed and we wanted to give him Kaelyn's old twin bed and move her into a double bed so when she has friends spend the night they have room to both sleep in her bed. So, after only 4 1/2 years in this house we painted over the plaid wall in her room.
Jeff did NOT like that we painted over this wall as it took us so long to paint it in the first place. But, in Kaelyn's words, "I'm not four years old anymore". She wanted a beach themed room. So we decided to paint two walls blue (water) and two walls tan (sand). Thankfully, we found a great comforter with both of those colors in it. We still have a few pictures to put up and a small shelf that will go over her closet to hold all her shells and beach whatnots. But I think you'll all agree that it looks a lot more grown up.
We moved Cooper into his twin bed too and suprisingly he has been doing pretty well going to sleep by himself at naptimes and bedtime. We'll see how it continues! Here's a picture of Coop in his new bed. :)
