Four and a half.

My girl, you are four and a half today. Of course I only remembered this last night before bed and wrote it down so as not to miss it. You had no idea but were delighted about this "new" age when I told you. You have been doing four and a half year old stuff all day, like cleaning off the table after lunch (and you didn't even use the whole bottle!), and making me stand you in the closet where we "measure" you kids, to see if you are now taller. Well, by golly, you are! It isn't a real scientific measurement, of course, but it's also not impossible that you've grown in a, um, month, dear.

At four and a half, you

go through paper at an alarming rate

go through tape almost as fast

love to create

use your art box every single day

love books (today we read Emily and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish)

write your letters so sweetly

still choose blue as your favorite color

watch movies every Saturday and Sunday morning (this weekend: Pocohontas and Because of Winn-Dixie)

wear mostly 5T

love to snuggle or rock with me

eat pizza every Friday night

love Muffin Tin Monday

have gorgeous curls

have an ouchie on the bottom of your foot

go to bed by eight

wake up by eight

usually sleep later than Fisher

sleep with 5+ friends at night (currently: Baby Cow, Bear, Lily Kafina, Dog, Azzie, Laila)

love to dance (especially to: "Shake Sonora" or "Move it")

love music (especially the Shrek soundtrack, the Mary Poppins soundtrack, Elizabeth Mitchell, and all the songs on your "Happy Travels" CD)

make stuff daily

consider Carter and Canton your best friends

are so incredibly, immensely LOVED.