Height: 39"
Clothing size: 4T/5T
Shoe size: about a 10 depending on the brand
Favorite shows: Fairytale Forest, Home
Favorite books: books by Sandra Boynton, Once Upon a Time (a change-the-story book by Nick Sharratt)
Favorite things she says:
sprink-e-your = sprinkler
Miyo = Mario
Jassin = Jackson
Micaewa = Micaela
Hopsital = hospital
Sanks = thanks
Sowwy Mom, I accident. I accident. = She accidentally did something
Do you want to eat my stinky feets?? as she shoves her foot in your face
Wama Wama Red Pojama = Llama Llama Red Pajama (one of her favorite books)
I sinkin = I'm thinking
Miscellanous:
"School" Stuff:
She doesn't seem motivated to learn like Jackson is, so I don't push things on her. At her age, Jackson loved it when I made Montessori activities for him. Mika doesn't seem to care about that stuff. Jackson is really into academic work and Mika is on the creative side. She loves to sing, dance, and paint. She got to take ballet and tap this summer and loved it, so she'll be doing more of those classes in the future.
Sowwy Mom, I accident. I accident. = She accidentally did something
Do you want to eat my stinky feets?? as she shoves her foot in your face
Wama Wama Red Pojama = Llama Llama Red Pajama (one of her favorite books)
I sinkin = I'm thinking
Typical Mika- in her "wedding dress" (her flower girl dress) with the crown on (upside down, but insists on doing it her way when I try to fix it) next to her doll house full of baby dolls.
Miscellanous:
- She likes to look in the mirror and stick her tongue out really far to lick imaginary food while making loud slurping noises. I think this has something to do with that dog thing from Snapchat.
- I like to snuggle with her when I tuck her in. She'll stroke my hair and say, "You're my sweet gwirl" like I say to her sometimes.
- This girl is fearless. She enjoys zip-lining and jumping from really tall places. She would ride crazy adult roller coasters if she could.
- She is so sneaky. If the house is silent, it's probably because she's drawing on herself with markers, eating candy, drawing on the walls, playing in the sink with fifty pumps of soap, etc. I caught her one day putting on my mascara. It was hard to put on the stern mom voice because I was actually really impressed that a three-year-old with no mirror managed to put it on that well.
- I feel like being around Mika is like being around a drunk college kid all day. I'll go upstairs to go to bed and I'll find her passed out in the hallway holding a plastic hamburger. She'll say random things like, "I wish my skin was paper."
Mika at the vanity table in Pottery Barn Kids combing her hair with a fork.
"School" Stuff:
- I don't make her sit down and do any formal work/workbooks. I have my dining room set up as a mini preschool room with lots of educational toys and she picks and chooses what she wants to do. She loves to play with her dolls, play with the play kitchen, and pretend to be a baby. It is so sweet to watch her nurturing personality when she plays with dolls and real infants.
- Math: She can say numbers up to 49 and then she gets caught in a loop from 30-49. She can count out objects up to about 10. She likes using the play cash register and playing with the coins in their coin jar. I also bought her number rocks and counting bears and she loves those. Sometimes she plays games like Hi-Ho! Cherry-o and Unicorn Glitterluck and we work on counting with those.
- Reading: I don't know which letters she knows. I don't really "test" her like I did Jackson. I would guess that she knows half the alphabet.
- Fine motor: I don't make her do workbooks. She likes to "write" her name and words on paper and draw. She likes to "write" people letters and mail them. Her scissor skills are really good. She can follow lines and likes to cut paper into confetti.
- Science: She loves science activities that I do with Jackson. Her favorite is baking soda and vinegar.
- Art: She loves painting and asks to do it every day.
- Music: She loves listening to music and singing. She uses the set of kids' musical instruments that I bought.
- Spanish and French: She watches DVDs in the car, not actually sure how much she gets out of that. I'm not great at teaching this stuff.
We are doing "homeschool preschool" this year, but she's going to an actual preschool next year.
She doesn't seem motivated to learn like Jackson is, so I don't push things on her. At her age, Jackson loved it when I made Montessori activities for him. Mika doesn't seem to care about that stuff. Jackson is really into academic work and Mika is on the creative side. She loves to sing, dance, and paint. She got to take ballet and tap this summer and loved it, so she'll be doing more of those classes in the future.
She wasn't happy I was in the room and got really shy :(
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