happy birthday, sophie!
Sophie turns 5 today. Wow!
I asked her if there was anything she remembered learning as a four year old, anything that marked being four for her, and she came up with this amazing list. The year Sophie was four she learned how to:
- post on a horse and hold the reins with one hand
- count to 100
- snap her fingers
- whistle
- swing on the swing without me pushing her
- write her name, and Luc’s name, and my name, and Daddy’s name
- make oatmeal
- swing [hand over hand] on the monkeybars
- do a cartwheel, and a backwards roll
- walk a log on her toes
- play Go-fish….
And then she ran off to do something else, done with my lists. I could add a hundred more things, but I love that these are the things she thought of. Here she is a few days ago, in the last days of being four, hanging out in the yurt:
She is so cool.
Category: kiddo life
Happiest of birthday wishes to the coolest five-year-old on the planet.
Oh my gosh, that is a picture to fall in love with!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Sophie says thank you, David and Cathy!
Just sat and read through your blog, one end to the other. I’m so very happy that I stumbled upon a blog that linked to this blog. I adore what you’ve been doing, how you’re encouraging your children to be themselves and still living in a realistic world.
Happy birthday to your little girl, Sophie, and may you continue to have a wonderful time.
What a fabulous birthday picture of Shopie in the big hat – just priceless!!