Neely

Neely is at such a fun age.  She says and does the funniest things, and has plenty of personality.  

She's pretty opinionated.  She loves purple, and gets SO excited when she sees a purple car.  One day we were driving and Jess told her "Look Neely, there's a purple truck!"  She looked bored and said "I don't WIKE purple twucks.  I onwy wike purple cars."  Another day a song played on the radio and she said "This is the worst song anybody could wike."

In the mornings she stumbles out of her room with bedhead and sleepy eyes, and will tell me "Good morning, mama" with her voice still all crackly and sleepy sounding.  So cute.

 

 She's also quite a feisty one.  She is a little bit sensitive, so if we are unhappy with her it bothers her, but she tries to act like it doesn't.  (This was one day when she was upset with us and was going to run away to Aivree's house once she got brave enough to hop off the wall)  Aivree is one of her favorite people.

The only person who never makes her mad, though, is Reed.

 

Her best buddy is Cason, and they play together all the time.  She can be pretty bossy with him, but she also adores him and wants him to be happy.   One morning while we ate, he was telling me about his bad dream the night before, and Neely started patting his head and comforting him while she ate.  Haha.

 

She and Paige already have typical sisterly fights a lot, but there are a lot of sweet moments between them too.  

One day they were taking care of their babies together and Paige asked her if she wanted to feed her baby "by bottle or breast".  Haha.  The wording cracked me up.

 Neely LOVES Frozen and constantly pretends to be Elsa, wandering around the house singing "Let it Go", sometimes wearing her queenly "cloak".

 

 She's always singing the songs from the movies, and doing very dramatic dances, always with a big finish.  One of her favorite new things is when she kind of whisper sings, and I pretend to not know where the beautiful tune is coming from, and whip my head around searching for the source, and saying something like "Huh?  Where is that beautiful song coming from?" She always starts laughing, does it a few more times, and then finally says "it's ME!"

One day the three big kids were acting out one of the final scenes-when Anna jumps in front of Elsa to protect her from Hans, and freezes just at the right time.  Neely was so happy they wanted to play Frozen.

She's a sweet, cuddly girl, which I love.  This is a highly unflattering picture of me, but she's pretty cute in it, so oh well.

She really likes drawing and coloring.  Lately robot factories are our thing.  I just cut out a bunch of shapes from glittery foam and construction paper, and give them markers and googly eyes and buttons and glue.  Then they create robots.  

I love this one and her long blonde locks.

She's imaginative, and one day after Cassie left from her last visit, she said "Cassie gave me this makeup." and started applying her tape dispenser blush with a key.

She has a gift for making everyday things extra fun.  She walks around humming and singing, and is never bored. 

She's started getting her own dates with us.  One night she asked me if we could have "a fwashwight date".  Ha.  I had no idea what that meant, but we just went outside and walked around shining our flashlights at things and talking about it.  It was pretty fun actually.

She's our little honey.