25 Things about Averhy

Even though the “25 Things” is something that I usually wouldn’t do, I’ve learned a lot about my friends on Facebook that I wouldn’t have known otherwise… and since this blog is my scrapbook for the girls, I thought I’d write down 25 things about each of them right now, that I want to remember forever! So here are Averhy’s 25 things:

1. She is learning to read and write!  Her handwriting is pretty good, and she can sound out lots of simple words with occasional help – but only when she asks for it.

2. Averhy usually wakes up once every night, usually with a bad dream. She doesn’t have night terrors as much anymore, but still bad dreams that require some consoling.

3. She loves her preschool class at Judah Christian, and this week was her “All About Me” week.  Unfortunately, she was sick today and missed the last day of her special week.  I don’t think she noticed though!

4. She enjoys playing games on the computer, especially nickjr.com and occasionally pbskids.org.

5. We just finished reading Roald Dahl’s “The Witches” – thanks Amanda! – and she really liked it. Now we’re reading “The BFG”.

6. Averhy has an amazing memory for music. We listen to the soundtrack of “Enchanted” often in the car, and she can identify which instrumental part of the CD goes with which part of the movie.

7.  She is still a really good eater, but still does not like raw tomatoes (or large chunks of cooked tomatoes in chili, spaghetti, etc.).

8. If you ask, her favorite color is usually “all the colors of the rainbow”, although last week she said “silver”.

9. Averhy generally does a GREAT job of getting along with Eden and being patient with her little sister.  I’m so thankful for this.

10. She has always struggled with staying in bed at bedtime.  A few weeks ago, she came out of her room after we put her to bed, just to clarify with us that “It’s okay to get out of bed if I have to go potty, OR if I have to throw up.”

11. She really doesn’t mind throwing up when she’s sick, probably because whenever she gets sick, she usually throws up… but she’s such a good patient when she is sick!

12. A week ago, she was playing in the basement and spinning herself around in a chair… so much so, that she came upstairs and threw up about 15 minutes later! Ugh!

13. Averhy’s best friends are Lizzie and Addi.  She plays really well with each of them, but when all three get together, it doesn’t go quite so smoothly!

14. Once a week, Averhy and Eden go to Addi’s house for the afternoon (while I work) – I think this has been great for them!

15. Averhy likes picking out her own clothes, and humors me when I require her to wear matching clothes if we’re going out in public… but she prefers wearing mismatched clothes (or dress-ups) around the house.

16. Until recently, she was VERY picky about how her pants would feel – jeans were totally out of the picture.  (Now she likes her jeans, thank goodness!)

17. She has always been particular about how her socks feel on her feet… she can easily be brought to tears in frustration if her socks “aren’t right”.

18. She says “band-aige” instead of “bandaid”.

19. She says “Inurbana” instead of “Urbana”.

20. She sings almost constantly, including songs she has heard and “original compositions”.

21. She likes being barefoot all the time – just like her dad.

22. When she’s concentrating really hard, she scrunches her lips – just like her dad.

23. Averhy wants to be a character at Disney World when she is older – so much so that she was crying because all the princesses are already at Disney World, and they’d have to make up a new princess character for her and she didn’t think they’d do that… (I explained how it works, and now she’s okay with it, especially if her aunt Meri can pull some strings…)

24. She is totally a girlie-girl… dress-up, music, princesses, the works…

25. Unfortunately, at this point she’s not the most athletic kid – just like her mom!